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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide is just awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You might laugh, but the first time I made Lebanese-style yoghurt (the one with mint and cucumbers), I simply added salt in the same amount I would have added sugar for a sweet yoghurt. Needless to say, I couldn’t eat it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally not a bubble. At all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …though I’d like to add that, in the original post, ‘at work’ == ‘at someone else’s company’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, thanks for the insights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is (almost) exactly the opposite: I’d argue that any of those non-specialists can be replaced at any time with other non-specialists (best case scenario), or with bootlickers, nutjobs and yay-sayers (worst case scenario). In other words, you shouldn’t aspire to be the one your boss delegates every shitty piece of ‘work’ he can think of, rather, to be THE one everyone else in the company has to wait for if they want X or Y done.

• Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work.
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨10⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have ZERO sympathy for companies whose services are affected by this. Because seriously, fuck Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …and 99,99% of middle managers ‘’‘working’‘’ in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I’m an abused goose!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got this ad and uh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me that, at least according to Wikipedia, one of the biggest allies of the ‘Aryan Brotherhood’ US prison gang is none other than… the Mexican mafia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual footage of real life events⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought not being able to use it’s and its correctly was bad enough…until I saw people confusing those and does in the wild…wtf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet it tastes like cheetos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If chickens are modern dinosaurs some dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone here in the mood for a tasty, crispy, roasted Compsognathus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say ‘change banks’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t. There are viable, open source alternatives for 99% of the software/services we use. The fact that people are not aware of it is already like half of the real problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually fell into that trap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't those into bondage and S/M called "leatherosexuals"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Monday, but I already know what the ‘best thing I’ve read all week’ is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hospitals are dangerous for children, the elderly and immuno-compromised patients not because of risk of contagion, but because the bacteria that have survived the aggressive chemicals hospital surfaces are cleaned with are the strongest ones (shamelessly plagiarised from my 8th-grade chemistry teacher).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, coupled with the fact that firewalls are protocol-agnostic. You can, for instance, use ‘port https’ in your Packet Filter config instead of ‘port 443’, but that simply means that PF will block/pass traffic to whatever service is bound to that particular port, and NOT https connections in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally I understand it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No matter how old I get, I still find it weird thinking, even for a nanosecond, that for me to exist my parents and grandparents had to do THAT kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's a fun game.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Little Dick Sunshine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The absolute WORST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once in the plane and I asked the flight attendant to please bring me some water. I wanted to swallow an Omega 3 gel cap. Thinking she wouldn’t be long (I didn’t fly often back then), I put it in my mouth. It was only a couple of minutes, but the flavour of that thing dissolving is still on my top 5 of the most disgusting things I’ve ever tasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shortbreadius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that I bought all my machines used (and mostly on sale), and that not one of them is general purpose, id est, I bought each piece of hardware with a (more or less) concrete idea of what would be its use case. For example, my machine acting as a file server is way bigger and faster than my desktop, and I have a 20-year-old machine with very modest specs whose only purpose is being a dumb client for all the bigger servers. I develop programs in one machine and surf the internet and watch videos on the other. I have no use case for VMs besides the Logical Domains I setup in one of my SPARC hosts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that learning to socialise, and the so-called social intelligence that comes with it, is THE killer argument for schools and against homeschooling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I somehow blissfully missed that. WTF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting and very true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You misspelled ‘a composite portrait of all human rights-respecting Israhelli politicians’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Paypal AND Thiel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was watching Farenheit 9/11 the other day. I quickly realised that, with the Orange Maggot’s ominous shadow casting over every other bad president anywhere ever, it has been very easy (for people not living in Iraq and Afghanistan) to forget what a giant, bloody, stinky asshole this ‘man’ was and how much damage he caused.