killeronthecorner
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Warning of almost 20 years of pay stagnation 8 months ago:
But didn’t the BoE say that we were all very rude and uncouth for taking payrises while the economy was mending?
It’s almost like they’re a bunch of self serving cantankerous old fucks with no grasp on how real people live or function in society.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 8 months ago:
This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:
- Use their app and pay with your data via invasive tracking and advertising.
- Pay for a third party app that pays them for API access.
The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.
- Comment on [troubleshooting] Adhesion issue 8 months ago:
- Try increasing hotend temp for first few layers and hotbed temp throughout
- Try moving z closer for first layer
- Repeat both of above in small increments
- Comment on rule 8 months ago:
nothing purrsonal kit
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 8 months ago:
Great, now I have to worry about this every time I order a curry
- Comment on UK inflation remains unchanged at 4% 9 months ago:
Can I see a single fucking example of food prices dropping?
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
As a software user, you can either care about your privacy or not. Caring about your privacy and not either vetting what you’re planning to use or checking that someone else has before using it, is akin to sticking your hand in a fire to find out if it’s hot.
Taking that analogy further, malicious open source software is kind of like a burning building. It only takes one person to raise the flag for it to spread pretty quickly through social media or other means. The whole community doesn’t need to acknowledge the fire for something to be done about it.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
That they leak information? I work in commercial software development and I have to do a lot of open source security reviews. The answer is: virtually none.
Private, closed-source software on the other hand… If it could sniff your farts and send the smell to advertisers, it would; in almost all cases.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
The app is open source so you can review the not-leaking-your-information that it does yourself.
Windows on the other hand …
- Comment on RelaGit: First Beta Release now available to download. 9 months ago:
It depends on your intent. If you’re doing it to keep history clean and linear in the long term, it’s a huge waste of time as it gets splatted into a single squashed merge commit. It also makes it difficult for reviewers to rereview your changes as GitHub/Lab can’t calculate the diff because you keep moving the goalposts with force pushes.
If you’re doing it for cleanliness on your local branch then I guess that’s fine, but I find it anti-social in a multi participant repo.
- Comment on Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. 9 months ago:
That’s the one, and you’re right, it is currently a rebrand but ultimately the same product.
I think having separate apps is the wrong way to go for their “integrate everything in one place” philosophy, over the longer term. I’m eager to see what they do with it next.
- Comment on Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. 9 months ago:
They’ve just done the same with a calendar app that I forget the name of. They then rereleased it under their own brand.
They appear to be on an unspoken mission to challenge Google’s suite of apps, so I’d hazard a guess that email tech is a part of that puzzle (along with calendar)
- Comment on RelaGit: First Beta Release now available to download. 9 months ago:
Agreed. I’ve been trying to explain to someone recently why rebasing and force pushing their feature branch has no benefit when we use a squash commit strategy for merging to main.
Again, tools are not blame, but when combined with a lack of understanding and accumulated “git dogma”, it can be quite disheartening.
- Comment on RelaGit: First Beta Release now available to download. 9 months ago:
Same. I’ve also grown very weary of having to dig people out of git messes they’ve made with sourcetree and the likes.
Visual clients aren’t to blame for that, but they contribute. So many times I’ve asked “and what git commands did that run?” only to receive a dumb state as a reply.
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 9 months ago:
I think it’s exactly that. They are targeted at bootstrapping projects and prototyping and are, frankly, very good at that job.
What’s more surprising is that they aren’t that much more than the big three.
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 9 months ago:
Not sure on your use case, but I’ve been using Hetzner for a while and it does what it says on the tin.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
I just wanna chat over the internet using some sort of relay. If only there were a solution.
- Comment on Me after I got fired 9 months ago:
Yes you’re correct, this was the point I was making.
- Comment on Me after I got fired 9 months ago:
rand will be called every time true is used, which could be hundreds of times for all we know
- Comment on The fediverse, explained 9 months ago:
The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.
NO. NO, NO, NO.
That isn’t what it fucking is at all! It’s not another open standard for five companies to abuse until they’re the only sound that you can hear because they’re drowning everything out.
I know they’re trying to appeal to the layman but, I dunno, try harder maybe?
Not everything in life is about posturing and followers. The best parts of the fediverse are anonymous and unadulterated by corporate interests and having advertising rammed down your throat every 5 seconds. that’s what killed the open web.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 9 months ago:
The case for one - do you want a case without _Dynamic Flex_©®™ compatibility like some commoner?
I would have previous said a folding lightning cable connector, but the EU have saved me the bother.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 9 months ago:
Did you say folding phone? Ew
I think you’ll find it’s the new iPhone 17 with dynamic flex technology and that Tim Cook will repeatedly say on stage that this has “never been done before”.
- Comment on Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It 9 months ago:
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
- Comment on Eight million UK households to get £299 cost of living payments from Tuesday 9 months ago:
Piss in the ocean after the rate went up last month. I almost feel bad for the people who are actively into poverty but will somehow still vote tory at the next election. When was that again? We’re waiting Rish
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 9 months ago:
That album is absolutely killer and I’ve loved BN since I heard Try Honesty many moons ago.
That said … They have been singing about how young people need to fight the system while having one of the most corporate images I can think of for bands in their category.
Watching a 40 year old man dance around an arena in VANs and Atticus hoodies while telling contemporary youth that their generation is a “fucking joke” is peak cringe to me.
Still love the music though. Wish he’d do more heartbreak songs, they’re his forte.
- Comment on Tell me your Best Software Haiku 9 months ago:
You win
- Comment on ServerClip - Tool for copying contents of a file over various ssh connections. 9 months ago:
It creates an ssh tunnel and then sends the file over http, so … literally no advantage.
Worse in every way, actually.
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
Which part of that isn’t true
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
Ad based search engines make almost $300 a year off their users
What disingenuous phrasing.
I’d be up for using a product like this, but their popcorn pricing and snark is really off-putting, so I’ll never be using this service.
- Comment on Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce 9 months ago:
Yes the markets love stagnation. I bet the investors who bought during the pandemic are thrilled!
Lay offs must be the start of the journey, right?