corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldbt keep reading. The comma splices and run-on sentences were breaking my brain. I’m sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid Career Marine Biology⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  think it through dummy.

  Pacifier or mannequin? What kind of dummy are you thinking it through?

  (The comma splice didn’t have the same potential)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  vibe coding

  Dear wired: the word is Slopping. With slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies should just cut out the middle man and pay me to watch their ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised at how little they paid to annoy specifically you that one time. And each time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of “http-slash-slash-backslash-eacape” and the joke that it’s OJ’s home page URL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No need to look up how to do a clean install.

  The suggestion you don’t know that enterprise OSes have been doing clean installs and removals of a product and all its dependencies for 25 years as a critical test before issuing said packages suggests you’re working around too many problems without solving them.

  We did devops by pxe-based kickstart and then simple package updates before devops was even a word. It still does better than Ansible does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still container crutches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dependency hell is self-inflicted, but sparkle-junkie devs are complicit: it’s their fault they don’t know of long-term-support enterprise OSes and don’t use one as a primary port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on container crutches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.

  There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.

  Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which case are you using for the hot swap trays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Moist, as in “moist oily ointment.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can wait until someone else than Zuck® offers something better.

  We said that about the Portal. The successor to the PortalTV isn’t going to replace the units I have in the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It’s like Michel/Michelle/Michael, if the anglo form derived not from the Hebrew but the French form; and badly: Meekul (which isn’t bad by itself, but is just uncanny-valley weird).

  To make matters worse, the discordant form is popular in some famous boomer/X vocalists; so I commiserate with Sade, a local clerk, and we get to eye-roll in unison about it.

  Bah. It’s not peak-discordant (imagine a ‘Moy-KELLE’ that isn’t a Michaela), so it’s no significant source of stress; just a footnote . But enough about boring me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fracking methane should be excluded. It’s 80 times worse for the environment than even CO2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich mobile app sync V2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are products that will let you back up onto your buddy’s free space and vice-versa, but the simplest pricy thing you can do is to drop a NAS at a friend’s place and set up a VPN.

  But maybe the monthly fee is okay for now. Maybe consider proton for files instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then once they are here

  They don’t ask questions, so you don’t need to continue. They just drag people away, it seems. They scoop up a dozen kiwis a month, which means your even your non-kiwi pasty-white self gets none of the privilege you’re counting on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No conclusive evidence linking acetaminophen to autism, says Health Canada in rebuke to Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay! We like the bit of science we do, and I’m glad if it’s getting some trust.

  Honestly, I think America will soon just ignore the federal CDC and move to heed the California CDC as the sole source of actual medical guidance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My birthname is anglicized French. The English form is well-known. I hate it. I cope. No one’s gonna get it right.

• ⁨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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t host on containers because I used to do OS security for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former world leaders call for fossil fuel taxes to fund global climate action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Our Carbon Benefit has been a tax-and-lift programme featuring heavily in national polling for the better part of a decade.

  It’s a fossil fuel tax. It was pitched by a leader in power. “Always”? I think not.

  Plot twist: the demented flatlanders were weaponized by their USA oil-barons via our conservative party, and it’s probably gonna be a memory after next election.

  The earth won’t be fixed before I die. For some people that means they don’t support anything to blunt or (please god) revert the damage because they’re selfish. These are the people you’re voting against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to survive by eating only through your ass? (Serious.)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t be pure ass

  So, half-assed, you say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  test it in production!

  …at great cost to each.

  Remember, though: apple is a hardware company. They win when you buy it. They only fix it enough so you’ll buy the next one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came for this chestnut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you use non violent communication at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s charming to call some new communication style ‘non-violent’, as if it’s the first.

  I learned to update in quick language in the army. I learned to argue a point in New Jersey.

  In NJ, when I worked there, the staff of geniuses were incredibly passionate about doing a thing the best and right way. Sometimes the best route to achieving that wasn’t obvious ans a discussion would ensue. These would be obvious verbal heroism by the nerds in residence, but they only never argued the facts and the options; never the people.

  It was effective and only sometimes needed a decision from above, and when everyone was done they didn’t hate each other.

  I just don’t see where “I feel …” isn’t just slowing us down when time is short. But, if your environment has a surplus of time, then I hope you’ll see benefit from this idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But dood. Put a USPS fishbowl-connected car on the end with a sorter working inside and prepping for each stop, and watch FedEx sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a simple ask

  Remember, when you’re off the car lot, the word is ‘request’ or ‘question’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.

  It’s funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn’t have been far worse. It’s an art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have argued with him. He can tend to throw up flippant back-hands, but his prepared arguments are good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not protesting a Canadian mining project it’s a Canadian’s mining project.

  Please keep it straight. Our rich assholes are not polite.