CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 2 hours ago:
Only stupid people
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 1 day ago:
Mine told everybody “if you have a local office and want to go there fine, otherwise you’re laid off. Also we’re closing a bunch of offices so if you don’t live near one anymore you have to move at your own expense. Otherwise you’re laid off. Also no job guarantee even if you do move, we might lay you off the next day. Hey why is morale in the toilet?”
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 2 days ago:
Ahahahaha, the executives don’t have to come in to the office.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 2 days ago:
Where I work they are so fucking stupid they are making everyone go back to the office to ‘foster collaboration’ but all the seating is random - you sit somewhere new every day, first come first served. What useful tasks am I going to collaborate on with random people from all different parts of the company sitting around me each day? It shows that the executives are just fucking liars and aren’t willing to tell the truth, which is that they need people spending money in the cities to help with their portfolios. Or they are just doing what everyone else is doing. Or they’re just on a power trip. Or all of the above.
- Comment on "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please! 3 days ago:
An app for attention whores? I don’t see the Linux community building something like that.
As a group we aren’t the most photogenic bunch.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 3 days ago:
Is it? Well let me go hang my head in shame while I read news every. single. day. of the scummy illegal shit the corpos are getting away with.
Amazon can die in a fire for all I care.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 3 days ago:
Radarr and Sonarr. Look them up and stop giving Amazon money.
- Comment on A question about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [Spoilers] 4 days ago:
Oh boy, have I got uncomfortable news for you about how nature works…
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 5 days ago:
Take your angry hormones outside kid. We’re trying to have a friendly discussion here.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 5 days ago:
Crack encryption from the mid 70’s? If there even is any on the Voyager command signal, I couldn’t find a reference to any. But if there is, I’d think modern computers are up to the task.
They’d also either need to be able to generate incredibly strong radio waves through space
My guess is that THIS is the actual security feature.
Not to mention… who would even want to? There’s nothing to gain except slight infamy, if you could even prove you were behind it.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 days ago:
That’s not been my experience. I’ve been using DDG for years, and when I first switched I would occasionally have to go find something on Google instead. That slowly fell off as the years went by because going to Google and getting better search results became rarer and rarer. It’s to the point now where I don’t even do it, unless I need to look at something on street view.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. But I know Microsoft can do better, because they used to before they gutted their documentation team. That’s only one symptom I’ve seen of their recent decline though.
Lately I’ve had support engineers answering support cases with stuff they clearly got from Copilot or ChatGPT because they do things like giving me PowerShell cmdlets to run with parameters that don’t even exist and never have. I even recently had one engineer argue with me and tell me I didn’t run the command correctly when I pointed out to him that he gave me incorrect syntax, parameters that don’t exist, so I had fixed it and ran what was really needed to get the data he was after. I got the case reassigned to an engineer who didn’t have his head up his ass. But it’s not a great sign.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This confusion is Microsoft’s fault because they’re being incredibly vague about the whole thing. Of course people are going to freak out when the only thing they have to go on is “Windows devices might face VPN connection failures” which is less than useless information. They might as well have said “Between 0 and 100 percent of your remote users may suddenly be unable to work for reasons we can’t or won’t tell you”
Which protocols are affected? In what circumstances? Is this specific to certain software or hardware? WHAT DID YOU FIND? TALK TO US. etc etc
But Microsoft’s documentation has been in a death spiral for a decade now and it’s just going to keep getting worse. We bitch at our account manager regularly about all the problems we find with it.
- Comment on Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game! 1 week ago:
This whole thread smells like an ad.
- Comment on A sign of late stage capitalism? 1 week ago:
- Comment on LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 1 week ago:
That sounds awesome.
- Comment on Can’t stand it when they do that 1 week ago:
So you’re the one in my way when I’m shopping in a hurry!!!
- Comment on I lost mine 1 week ago:
One fell out of my dryer today.
I haven’t used one in over a year. Quite perplexing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Tell him you’re shy but you like him and would like to meet him.
Er, I mean, tell your friend to say that.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s where we differ. My feelings aren’t affected by what impact it has on them, hurtful, helpful, or neutral. I just don’t want them around because they ruin everything they touch. Why give them a chance here? You don’t have to wait for a problem to appear before you start working to prevent it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting that. I think I even read through it when it was posted as it seems awfully familiar. I was wondering if the issue had been more recently revisited though.
It does kinda bother me that lemmy.world admins don’t just flat out say “screw Meta”, but it’s their choice.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yikes! That’s not great, if true, but it seems like no evidence was provided.
I wouldn’t want to be in the business of refuting baseless allegations hurled at me either, so I don’t regard their silence as incriminating.
At the same time, where there’s smoke there’s usually fire so I’ll be paying more attention now. I would hate to have to leave the instance after all the time I’ve spent here, but if any evidence pops up showing that lemmy.world wants to play nice with Meta then that’s what I’ll have to do.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Have the admins of lemmy.world ever given a reason for this decision?
I would very much like to see Meta kneecapped in the Fediverse. They are a blight on the world that needs to be dealt with.
- Comment on Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam? 1 week ago:
I also recently switched to Linux on my main PC which is also my gaming PC. I tried Mint first but had too many hardware issues, mostly related to motherboard audio chip. Manjaro was next and it resolved my hardware issues but I didn’t like the package manager. Third was openSUSE Tumbleweed and that one stuck. Been using it for several weeks now and I love it.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 weeks ago:
This is troubling. I’ve been using ASUS motherboards for a very long time. I haven’t noticed any problems in the last 3 systems I built, but I also usually go for the workstation type motherboards instead of gaming motherboards, so I can use ECC RAM and dispense with the LED bling I don’t need or want. I wonder if they are still putting enough effort into the business/workstation stuff that it’s not having too many quality issues yet. I hope they can turn this around, because the list of quality PC parts manufacturers is growing smaller all the time.
- Comment on Does wb get any money from sales of adult swim published games on steam? 2 weeks ago:
There are Adult Swim games?!?! Off to search and see what’s out there…
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 2 weeks ago:
It’s bursty; I tend to do a lot of work on stuff when I do a hardware upgrade, but otherwise it’s set it and forget it for the most part. The only servers I pay any significant attention to in terms of frequent maintenance and security checks are the MTAs in the DMZ for my email. Nothing else is exposed to the internet for inbound traffic except a game server VM that’s segregated (credential-wise and network-wise) from everything else, so if it does get compromised it would be a very minimal danger to the rest of my network. Everything either has automated updates, or for servers I want more control over I manually update them when the mood strikes me or a big vulnerability that affects my software hits the news.
TL;DR If you averaged it over a year, I maybe spend 30-60 minutes a week on self hosting maintenance tasks for 4 physical servers and about 20 VM’s.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 weeks ago:
I used to post comments like this on Reddit. I’m an expert in PowerShell, group policy, and Windows enterprise management in general. Point being I know how to do all that stuff. Over 99% of Windows users do not. But I completely decrapified my Win10 install and was mostly happy with it.
When it was time to go to Win11 I realized all this effort is just Stockholm Syndrome. I shouldn’t have to protect myself from the maker of my OS. And it’s clearly getting worse so why put in the continual effort?
Moved to Tumbleweed a month ago on my main home PC. Microsoft is just my day job again, and I feel so much relief not having to be on guard for whatever shady shit they pull next.
- Comment on End of coding? Microsoft framework makes devs AI supervisors 3 weeks ago:
I write automation code for devops stuff. I’ve tried to use ChatGPT several times for code, and it has never produced anything of even mild complexity that would work without modification. It loves to hallucinate functions, methods, and parameters that don’t exist.
It’s very good for helping point you in the right direction, especially for people just learning. But at the level it’s at now (and all the articles saying we’re already seeing diminishing returns with LLMs) it won’t be replacing any but the worst coders out there any time soon.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 4 weeks ago:
shrug that’s their problem not mine