Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 1 week ago:
Crab men, half crab half man
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Agile was the cool new thing years back and has been abused and misused and now, pretty much every dev company force it on their team but do whatever the fuck they want.
Agile should have a lot of traditional project management but doesn’t because it became the MBA wet dream of metrics. And when metrics become the target, people will do whatever they need to do to meet the metrics instead of actually progressing the project.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
My hot take : lots of projects would benefit from a traditional project management cycle instead of trying to force Agile on every projects.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
Make something free for it then? The stuff is open and the license makes it so that it stays that way legally (though, in real life, it’s different but that’s another discussion) and any and all other contributions made to the project stays open source.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 5 weeks ago:
Palantir could refuse to accept the mandate and the money, but they didn’t. So the governments are evil, and so is Palantir
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a social media after all, and we have to assume that what we write is public.
Lemmy is great because many instances allow people to create accounts without an email, so you can create burner accounts if you want.
This isn’t an oversight. If you aren’t comfortable with the coversations you are participating in or the upvote/downvote you make, you either don’t participate or you create a burner account for that.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 1 month ago:
I know that already, I’m fine with what I said.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 1 month ago:
My comment was misguided because it didn’t take the US social context into account.
You can’t say it, but I can though.
Categorising Palestine Action as a terrorist group is ultra dumb.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 month ago:
Same, and I use portainer to manage my docker compose stacks.
I can bring down a container without bringing down the whole stack of services.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 1 month ago:
No we shouldn’t. Anyone can create an instance and scrape whatever data.
Assume that all the posts and comment you make are public and linked to your real identity and don’t say things you wouldn’t say in person.
It’s a pretty simple concept.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
The cat is out of the bag and long gone.
People got used to the simplicity of centralized services, and corpos made great efforts to make everything 1-click.
So when the average users need to do more than 1-click, they won’t use the software.
It would help if anti-trust laws were applied and these mega-corpos got broken in a thousand pieces. Centralized monolith services would have a harder time to thrive and give space to federation/decentralization.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 1 month ago:
Boring is ok for 95% of the things.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 months ago:
It is how its done today.
Every semi-big or big corpos gamble their money trying to be the one coming on top and capture the market.
So it is not surprising to see that.
- Comment on Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat 2 months ago:
You forgot to take into account that the company management will line their pockets and that it worth to destroy the habitat of every fucking living thing.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 months ago:
Bring back community servers, so the developers can keep their official servers and people that want to play on community servers can do that do.
It’s a solved problem that publishers tells you is hard to do in the name of money.
Don’t look harder into it.
- Comment on How do I get started designing and making and/or acquiring my own pcb? 2 months ago:
Not OP you are replying to, but make your own library of parts and footprint, and back it up.
Nothing worst than finding a library online with the part you need only to find that the footprint is not the right one for whatever reason when you ordered the pcb.
It takes more time, but once you have one or two projects under the belt, you will already have 90% of the parts and only need to do a few parts.
When doing your own footprints, if you have the part with you, print the new footprint in the original size on a printer, as they will appear on the PCB, and put the part on the footprint to see if it makes sense. You will see right away if you have a glaring issue with the footprint.
Spend a few hours double, triple checking your PCB design before fab . It takes a lot less time to do that than debugging the hardware. It will reduce your costs, especially as a hobbyist where you aren’t paid by the hour.
If you need a batch order, order prototypes first. A lower volume first will be a bit more expensive, but buying 50+ borked PCB will be a bitch to fix.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 2 months ago:
I got the meaning of it as well, but I recoiled a bit in my chair when I read the meme.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 2 months ago:
That’s you and me being old.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
I had a rough morning and your comment made it worst.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 months ago:
In GrapheneOS, Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Absolutely. Fuck payment processors
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.
Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 2 months ago:
The Excel Spreadsheet is sacrosanct. A bean counter predicted that you should make more money than last year, and if you don’t, you are worthless.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 3 months ago:
Games as a service could work. The issue is that making money isn’t enough. You need to be making more money every year and bean counters have hijacked games as a way to squeeze as much money as possible from players.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 3 months ago:
Every AI company CEO/C-suite is gambling that they won’t be left holding the bag.
Either AI fails and CEO/C-Suite made their money already, or AI succeeds and they carved an early lead in the market and gamble even more.
Workers are only there to build the biggest stack of chips possible before it gets cashed out.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 months ago:
With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 3 months ago:
I have had the same 15ish friends for more than 20 years and we live in different cities, a few hours away from each other.
We don’t see each other frequently because of the distance, but we usually spend weekends together and it feels like we have not missed a beat since the last time we saw each other.
I think it is natural to have more than 10 close friends, it is like having a small community, but modern life made it very hard to keep close friends like that. And it sucks.