thejodie
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- Comment on Devotion to duty 9 months ago:
This is starting to make sysadmins sound like John Wick.
“And then my son, a few days after his wife died, you steal his 3d printers and smash his fcking Apple 1.” “The sysadmin will come for you, and you will do nothing because you can do nothing,”
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
Stop, Hammer time!
“Go with the flow”, it is said
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
Sadly, it was at most a distant second to IE, until Chrome infected the whole planet.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
I’ve used Firefox for years. It’s always been the underdog imo.
If it ever becomes the top dog, I’ll switch! To the next privacy underdog. More competition is good.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 11 months ago:
Can’t even read the website, as the third modal, the newsletter modal, refuses to close. Yeesh.
- Comment on Squidward 11 months ago:
Me napping to Archspire
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
JF works fine on tons of devices, the ps5 just kind of sucks as a media player.
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 11 months ago:
I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷♂️
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 11 months ago:
Playing against Xero on Nightmare! setting.
- Comment on De omnibus dubitandum 11 months ago:
Most of these h2g2.com/approved_entry/A218882
- Comment on What would you use to remotely support a computer with "LAN" access? 1 year ago:
That’s on me for typing vnc when I meant rdp, but nevertheless it’s true for both.
- Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs 1 year ago:
You might try The Division. There should be a brief trial iirc. It does have loot, but you said you hate buying items too, so it seems like you just dislike gear in general. You aren’t required to manage your gear or loot well to complete the game, you just want to pick up better gear as you level up. There is some skills/tech stuff in there that can take a bit to get used to.
You won’t be OP. You’ll be using cover to stay alive. Some enemies are bullet sponges.
If you’ve ever had to hit the streets somewhere immediately following a natural disaster, it might feel a little eerie or uncanny. At least, it did for me.
- Comment on What would you use to remotely support a computer with "LAN" access? 1 year ago:
I think that screen lock is really only the case in Windows. Most linux vnc servers either run their own completely separate X session or share the console session.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad | An AI-generated version of Scarlett Johansson’s voice appeared in an online ad without her consent. 1 year ago:
There people out there who sound a lot like SJ and you could probably clone their voice a lot cheaper. I worked with one and it was always uncanny.
- Comment on Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens 1 year ago:
Sent to my state representative. Thanks!
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 1 year ago:
This thing just never worked for me. As in, the product was broken in several ways all of the time.
- Comment on "I'll rewrite it later" 1 year ago:
People try to be overachievers by exceeding expectations and then are often late or delivering a broken product.
It’s hard to tell perfectionists not to be perfectionists though.
- Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible 1 year ago:
Sounds like TRRRRRRS
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Or just use PlayOn to record your shows.
We’re all the way back to recording movies from TV with our VCR.
- Comment on Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook 1 year ago:
Notifications get rolled up all the time, if I’ve received a lot of messages in Signal or Teams, I just have one notification in the dropdown for each group, even though I may have “received” 50 notifications from that group.
On emails, reply-chains are prevalent, so I can read the latest one and usually not have to open 20 emails.
I have some services set to email me events, transactions, and notifications, which I don’t need today. However, sometimes these sites go offline, discontinue a product, remove the ability for you to view prior information or contributions, archive old data, change their ToS to something you can’t stand, any number of things that might mean that data is now unreachable to you. So for those emails I just sort them off and they’re archived.
- Comment on Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook 1 year ago:
My stats say my phone gets ~140/day. I definitely ignore 99% of them, just like my 10k+ unread emails.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O 1 year ago:
I got some old celeron N4100 4gb RAM/128gb NVME Thinkpad 11Es for $50ea with the power adapters. With as useful as they’ve been, I’m sold on doing something like that in the future.
- Comment on Easy peasy 1 year ago:
I’ve definitely used WP in that manner as well. At that time there were plugins that would render the pages out to static HTML in object storage. I’m sure there still are, but possibly not the same ones I used.
I just prefer not to use or manage WP whenever possible.
- Comment on Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How good is Asahi now? 1 year ago:
That’s pretty impressive! I hope they can keep up the momentum at Asahi.
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
Sometimes those positions are meant for promoting internal candidates, who obviously sat in, conducting the same interviews in the past. So the difficulty is dialed up to “I am Death incarnate!” levels and they then have scoring data to support their selection of the internal candidate. At a friend’s workplace, they’d opened up a 2-3yr exp position to convert a great intern, and had some great 10+yr exp people apply. My friend said that was a little awkward. Even if Mark Russinovich or Linus Torvalds applied for that job, they still had no chance at getting it. I joked that I might put a resume in his manager’s pile for the creator of the tech stack they were interviewing for, just to hear how that reaction was.
That’s probably not representing even… 5% of these gauntlets, but it might make you feel better. Sometimes, it’s the hiring manager fulfilling the letter but not the spirit of some process, but it means they are frustratingly hard on candidates in the process.
And perhaps, ultimately, you have dodged some bullets.
- Comment on Easy peasy 1 year ago:
There’s a big chunk of sites that have WP running but are mostly just static content, confusingly. If you update the content once a month and disable all comments, maybe another tool could fit better there. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Is there an alternative to Netlimiter software (Windows) on Linux ? 1 year ago:
trickled can help, but it can hit some issues when you get processes that fork other processes. Definitely test your use cases thoroughly - if you find it’s not catching a forked process then just post here with more details. There may just be a configuration change needed in trickled.conf to catch your scenario.
- Comment on A reminder that the Beastie Boys are cannon in the trek universe. 1 year ago:
“No bloody A, B, C, or D.”