NocturnalEngineer
@NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just twitter and a zoom clone right?
- Comment on My cat lives in a bigger house than I do. 4 weeks ago:
Explains why insects are always trying enter - must feel like a mansion!
- Comment on Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again 5 weeks ago:
The inquiry has already shown their method of data collection was flawed, the core systems had critical bugs compromising data integrity, and the processes for data validation were non-existant. Every time they audited a post master they were always basing it off the horizon reports.
As far as I’m aware, they can’t even advise what happens to all the money they forced the post masters to “pay back”.
They seems to have a shitty culture of treating the post masters like criminals unless proven innocent, and still believe they’re the victims of their own flawed software.
- Comment on Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather 5 weeks ago:
There’s only 1,336 operational solar farms as of Sep 2024… So would be marginal at best. Certainly generating a lot less CO2 than if the land was developed into anything else.
- Comment on Consume Saddam 1 month ago:
Well technically he is now…
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 months ago:
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
- Comment on Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch 4 months ago:
Why? Its hardware is dog shit.
- Comment on Two students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free 5 months ago:
Wait, are CSC Service Works paying for the electric, laundry detergent, etc… or is this just a convoluted way of leasing the use of a washing machine?
- Comment on Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men 6 months ago:
Like most of my work’s processes… Shit goes in, shit comes out…
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
Using a password manager would avoid this. Everyone should ideally use unique passwords per service, that way a single account can’t compromise the others.
The loss of personal data however is fricking annoying. If a company has no legitimate reason, I avoid signing up to them.
Looking at you Nvidia, Razar, etc…
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 7 months ago:
Execs don’t give a shit. They simply double down on the false cause fallacy instead. A no long would they ever admit they fucked up.
The company I work last year went through a run of redundancies, claiming AI and system improvements were the cause. Before this point we were growing (slowly) year on year. Just not growing fast enough for the shareholders.
They cut too deep, shit is falling apart, and we’re loosing bids to competitors. Now they’ve doubled down on AI, claiming blindness to the systems issues they created, and just made an employee’s “Can Do” attitude a performance goal.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Unless some exec has a meltdown and demands them to revert the site
- Comment on So this is what my upstairs neighbor has been doing all morning 8 months ago:
Horniness & Sexual Frustration
- Comment on McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure 8 months ago:
Didn’t you hear? The future is the cloud!
Why host stuff locally when you can host it on someone else’s computer, and have fun, exciting, and completely foreseeable failures like this…
The internet is now just AWS, Azure, GCP and Cloudflare.
- Comment on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots 8 months ago:
I don’t know… In America they’re currently rolling back rights for women, inserted religion into supreme court decisions, and are seriously debating a second term of Trump.
None of that makes any fucking sense. If it requires elaborate mental hoops, they’ll find it.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 8 months ago:
It’s such a stupid name! Everytime it’s mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the “X” context.
And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what’s the fucking point of the rebrand?
- Comment on Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says 8 months ago:
Cross-contamination is always a risk in shared factories, hence why “May contain” needs to exist - they’re listing known allergens the factory is handling. The vegan / vegetarian labelling supports a dietary choice rather than allergy advise.
As the article highlights, “free-from” labelling has more stringent controls and requirements to eliminate cross-contamination. The “free-from” products labels people should be seeking if they require it to be allergen-free.
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 8 months ago:
If it was a human agent, surely they would still liable?
They’re an agent of the company. They’re acting on behalf of the company, in accordance to their policy and procedures. It then becomes a training issue if they were providing incorrect information?
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 9 months ago:
Honestly surprised Sable was able to get settlements from Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks. They’re not small names in the industry.
It was only Cloudflare’s legal strategy which managed to invalidate the patents.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 10 months ago:
Personally I’m noticing the opposite.
I tend to do a lot of technical-related searches. I’m finding I’m getting consistently better results from DuckDuckGo / Bing – what I’m looking for is usually available on the first page without having to faff around.
With Google however, it was drawing parallels to what I’m looking for but not what I explicitly queried. I had to either enable verbose search, or manipulate the search to look for specific words. Even then what I was looking for was in the 3-4 page.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 10 months ago:
I never had an issue with YT’s 1-2 skipable ads at the beginning, or even the banner ad. But they got greedy.
The midrolls and the unskipable ads was the trigger point for me.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 10 months ago:
They don’t care. It’s about control and real estate.
- Comment on Yummy 10 months ago:
All the foods I adore contains dairy. I’ve yet to find substitutes which doesn’t suck.
I tolerate my intolerance… All the tummy ache is worth.
- Comment on Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets 10 months ago:
The cost of retraining their pilots would bite into their profits.
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 10 months ago:
They’re getting away with shady shit now, via the unencrypted channels, hiding behind qualified immunity and get away with literal murder.
The question should be how successful is it holding the police accountable based solely on their radio communications. I’d imagine the answer is “not fucking likely”.
- Comment on That escalated quickly 😬 10 months ago:
You’re in an abusive relationship with Duolingo. Support is available.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
Podman ftw!
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 11 months ago:
Never knew it was illegal in the UK. Didn’t surprise me though to learn it was Margaret Thatcher who outlawed it again in the 80s.
- Comment on My whole night is booked now 11 months ago:
Roblox_oof.mp3 is a masterpiece.
- Comment on Admit it there are some bangers. 1 year ago:
Everytime I listen to “Status Report”, I start grinning like a cheshire cat.