thesmokingman

@thesmokingman@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all use for CI/CD?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t take me as a GH shill because I’m not. I’m not sure we read the same email given your projects. Actions on GH runners are dropping in cost and there’s a new fractional cost for self-hosted. For the average user, especially those on GH runners, costs are going down. Looking at your repo, you haven’t run anything since July. Your workflow files use GH runners. Nothing in your history suggests you’re leaving the free tier so I don’t get this FUD at all. General Microsoft hate? Fuck yeah. Shitty GH service? Fuck yeah. Plenty of reasons to dunk but this was not one of them. M

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend the Scuf Nomad. It’s a bit more expensive than other options. I think it’s worth it. I play a bunch of games on my phone and can’t be happier. In the past I used GameSir products and think those are pretty rad for budget options.

  I do not recommend SteelSeries at fucking all. They used to ship the Stratus with known issues. Support would actively admit the problem. Sometimes you could get a replacement. Sometimes you couldn’t. I have no idea if their newer products are better; I have stopped buying them since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pete Hines didn’t fucking properly value developers. I don’t buy this shit at fucking all. Mandatory crunch, shitty benefits, and terrible consumer practices were par for the course during his whole tenure. Since I don’t see him out on the union front donating all his fucking blood money this is just a different way of saying “Pete Hines and other executives aren’t making enough money off residuals from a subscription model.” Bethesda (and ZeniMax) was a shitty place to work that conned devs into getting fucked because Bethesda. He can fuck right off with this shit.

  Devs haven’t been properly valued in decades and subscription models are nothing new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the ability of major actors to rewrite history, making these blockchains incredibly centralized and absolutely mutable. If someone with enough clout decides to roll something back, it happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Subscriptions May Get Tougher to Cancel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest issue with this is the “contract” you “sign” when you do pay. Usually there are terms that let companies come after you. See Creative Cloud, Planet Fitness, and other movers in the “fuck you pay me” subscription world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you help me understand which political petitions meant to document real constituent desires don’t require doxxing yourself? I don’t believe I’ve ever participated in any citizens initiative that didn’t require personal information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t follow this argument. In this context, proprietary code is work product that has value to its owner. Often large swathes of said work product is reused across games so the theory is that releasing the work product means your competitors can make your work product. I do not understand how wrapping someone else’s work product in your own work product doesn’t require them to first release their work product.

  Note I don’t necessarily buy the company mindset on proprietary code; I explained here because I don’t understand where you’re coming from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  California is not Colorado nor is it federal. I don’t think you understand the things you’re saying since you don’t seem to grasp, as you put it, the regulations are “often state-specific.” You linked California, not Colorado, which this article is in reference to. Even in the beginning, you didn’t seem to grasp why regulation and some level of understanding about what people should or shouldn’t do is reasonable to have defined. Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US? I’m gonna need to see some statutes there bud. Last I checked there are no federal requirements and as far as I can tell there are only insurance requirements in Colorado at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. What about ride share companies that aren’t Uber or Lyft that don’t have safety programs?
  2. What requirement do Uber or Lyft have to maintain good safety after, say, they own the market?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See‽ Easy explanation. I get it, absolutely reasonable issues, and one of several areas Linux just isn’t great with. “Too many issues to explain here” doesn’t click with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This rings a little hollow to me. Most of the people I know that understand Linux can quickly summarize why they might not use it as their daily driver (eg staying on macOS for graphics/video or staying on Windows for desktop Word/Excel). If you can summarize that quickly, it really makes me wonder if you really understand it. I’m not trying to No True Scotsman my way around it; I really don’t understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.

  You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m somewhat flabbergasted. How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take (do you know how many active users Facebook, Reddit, and X the Everything App still have?)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with everything you’ve said. What I think you’re missing is that some people don’t want to be the best in class. Some people don’t take their work home with them and because employers are not required to give time to grow skills some people will just work the line. If your assumption about labor requires labor to spend their whole life working to be better at getting exploited, you have a lot to learn about the majority of labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.

  A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.

  Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Why?
  2. Are employers legally required to give employees time to grow their skills?
  3. If there is no regulated time for employees to grow their skills, should employees spend their free time growing their work skills?

  You’re using lemmy.world. How much time did you spend deciding that was the place to be? Why did you pick Lemmy over the *bins? How much time have you put into your posting and commenting workflow? How much do you actually know about how ActivityPub works? What tools have you written?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.

  • someone wants to learn how to be a designer
  • they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
  • since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
  • occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
  • they get a job that requires Adobe
  • years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
  • the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy

  Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wario64: Borderlands 4 is moving its release date up to September 12th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, respec for a fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wario64: Borderlands 4 is moving its release date up to September 12th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the BL3 “balancing” shenanigans happen again, it would be best to wait a year or two to play BL4 so you know how Randy wants you to play the game and you won’t get frustrated when your single player build gets nerfed into oblivion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a hiring manager, I don’t give a shit about certs. AWS certs, for example, serve primarily as marketing material and free money. Soft skill certs like agile methodology (of which I have several) are equally bullshit in that everything is a pattern not a prescription yet many people miss that and shoot their teams in the foot. There are some security certs I do value, such as CISSP, because they can be required for certain industries and actually do carry some gravitas. Even those, though, aren’t necessarily valuable for the things I actually need my security folks to do.

  I’d say the market is maybe 30/70 split with folks like me and ATS or idiot hiring managers thinking your ability to memorize the specific GCP settings no one uses will actually make you understand why prod blew up. I refuse to get any; I actively support my team getting them as long as they know what they’re getting into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get so many “new” games either through Humble Choice or bundles that patient for me is really just waiting for it to show up there (which might even be within a year of release). Sometimes I’ll buy stuff brand new but there I use my Humble Discount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you understand what “outside my realm of expertise” means. I’m not trolling, so I must be a simpleton. As a simpleton, my general perspective has always been that it should be safe to ask questions about things you don’t understand so you can better understand. In this case, it’s very simple to say “from my uneducated eye, this appears to be a strong source that contradicts; that doesn’t seem to jive with the narrative so can someone help me understand why it doesn’t?” You seem to feel simpletons aren’t allowed to ask questions or grow, so we’re done here. I will take my specialized, domain-specific knowledge (which I’ve forgotten more about than you will probably ever learn) and sit in my simpleton castle knowing that’s all I ever get to know because it’s not okay to ask questions on the internet in a community based on discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m was just hoping for a solid rebuttal, not necessarily a fancy one! If you’re able to explain why the criticisms you mention mean that specific study is bad, that would be great! I’m assuming you’re not from China and mistakenly think wherever you’re from doesn’t suffer from similar issues, meaning we can only trust you as much as the article.

  It would be great to have some citations for that so I can point to things when I get into these discussions! That was part of what I asked for. You seem really passionate about this so you must have that available to help me out. Thanks!

  I’m not sure you read my post if you think I trust any of the studies I linked more than anything else. It might be good to reread it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like someone else linked one of these studies in a different comment while I was writing my own. I don’t feel as crazy now. I don’t care one way or another; I just want to make sure I can respond correctly! I wonder if the emphasis on fluoridated water is itself linked to industry capture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I want someone who knows about these things to respond to this 2012 metastudy that ties naturally fluoridated groundwater to neurological problems. I have used this the past decade to say “well the science is unclear;” I found it back then (2013 at the latest) when I was trying to disprove a crank and really questioned my shit. There was a(n unrelated?) follow up later that questioned the benefits. Since this is very far from my area of expertise, I’m not championing these; I just want to understand why they’re wrong or at least don’t matter in the discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman or rootless docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And as long as you don’t need simple access to most features such as volumes. The podman implementation on not Linux leaves quite a bit to be desired for anyone trying to do more than just run a binary wrapped in a container. I’m not throwing shade because it’s FOSS and anything is better than Docker. Only Docker will work for a production-capable dev environment on not Linux unless podman’s development has exponentially increased in the last year since I tried to move a shop to podman on not Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman or rootless docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you’re on Linux, podman is superior and will do all of the things you’re asking about. If you need to also support Windows or Mac, Docker is the only thing that will work (although people have told me Rancher isn’t bad now for a couple of years).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I bring new software into my organization through two methods:

  1. Someone has used it before
  2. We are reasonably confident in our ability to use existing staff, possibly with a new expert hire or consultation

  It’s pretty rare for a large org to do completely net new software. Training is usually a big deal if that happens. Massive layoffs are also a possibility (see enterprises being dumb about containers). Smaller orgs tend not to have this problem. If they do you can usually tell in an interview and just not go there. Devs are constantly experimenting with net new shit (current libs don’t do the thing; gotta find new libs). Again, smart leaders are open to this.

  In general, staffing is a huge part of any of these decisions. You might not see the convo but it is most likely happening.