purplemonkeymad

@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the drive. Glass or other ceramics were used at some point, but anything that is not magnetic should work. As long as it can be made completely flat and will withstand the spin speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give them props that they are going to refund owners for the bit they can, I would have expected most stores so to go “oh well! we have been ordered to remove it, sucks to be you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The printed sheets on the wall looks a bit too good as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saving it for what? If they are not using it anyway it’s not going to get used later either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey it’s getting better! They recently worked hard for months to add the very niche and almost never used feature of adding a shared mailbox’s folder to your favourites! I mean, with features like that you should expect the dev time to be long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually looks like an anti removal screw. The inner edges of the plus are sloped, but only in the direction to unscrew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and added.

  Although it would have been nice if I could “upgrade” from email based 2step instead of having to disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always use info@ and then whatever domain I’m visiting. If they want to send emails to it, then they best be putting up with it themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that many people want to buy Windows Enterprise, which they typically want you to also buy a support contract for.

  Unless you pirated it, but I don’t think telling people to “just run this pirate code” is that good of an idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps she only used an extra core, GB or so on her friends’ servers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was the auto complete in visual studio not a “trained” set before the llm craze kicked off? Would not surprise me if they decided to include that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ui team probably not connected to milage cheating team. This is the kind of thing you can’t do test cases for, so unexpected “bugs” will get out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming from a technical side, I don’t think that would be difficult. It’s not like you would have to hand control of the subdomain over to them, DNS verification codes can just be given to those who’s control the domain, they are public information. But that’s just my opinion.

  Thanks for the info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was the point of the domain verification for your handle? That way you can be verified as you have the same handle as your official website or business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no ,no. You roll out a wildly overreaching implementation so everyone one is upset, that way you can release a just mostly overreaching version and everyone thinks it’s better than what you tried last time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PC for the Game, Laptop for Satisfactory Modeller, tablet for wiki, and a paper notepad and pen for writing down numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that I think more people misunderstand is temperature Vs heat Vs something feeling hot/cold. One is a property, one is energy, and the other is the transfer of energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it not part of the entertainment pack? I do remember spending so long on it and just never getting past one of the levels, turns out there was a platform that required a spring to get to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We swapped out a gas for induction, it’s amazing to be able to put the temp down below very hot. Also very responsive to power changes, and can wipe clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Office is not supported on those platforms at all so won’t make a difference to your support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use parameters, that way data and queries are separate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still use the full screen tab groups feature that they removed from the core. I don’t like scrolling tabs, so I can just hit a button and click on the exact tab I want. I do probably have too many tabs open tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had a blackberry, but gained a hatred of them. Not for anything the phone was, but at how bad at software they were. The blackberry software to allow them to read emails from the company mail server was an over bloated, buggy and slow POS. It would forever break and the solution was always to remove and re-add it which would take a day and disrupt email for everyone.

  But some CEO “needed” to use a blackberry as it looked corporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  * Something breaks *

  Why do we have all these IT people? Nothing works!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this new? Reddit gold gave you access to the subreddit that only gold members could access. It didn’t have anything good in it as everyone would rather have a larger reach.

  If he intends to convert an existing sub to it, he will quickly find how much people are happy to more to a new sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like those 6, but was not the mnemonic that was advertised around me. In general the order follows the life cycle of the minerals, so reduce is first as it means you dig up less. Reuse/repair is after it has been dug up, so less goes to disposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that repair is part of re-use, since you are allowing it to be used again. So would be part of the second r. The first r is reduce, which would boil down to: if you already have one, don’t buy another. It’s more effective to not need the resources in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone agrees on an exact time, typically the viability of the fetus outside of the womb is the consideration.

  This would mean a baby that would be just premature wouldn’t be aborted. As you move back the viability would end up varying for each pregnancy, which is why after a set point doctors are involved. They then make a medical judgement balancing the viability and safety to the carrier.

  So there is no hard date. The insistence on getting one simplifies a complicated issue where nuance is important.

  I’ve noticed that a lot of anti-abortion laws target doctors, specifically to make the fuzzy nature of the cuttoff difficult.