corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 2 days ago:
It doesn’t plug directly into the wall
That’s a huge deal: it stays out of the way and it’s a complete unit.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 2 days ago:
If you can find a hass replacement for the Echo Flex, I will name my firstborn after you.
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 3 days ago:
Think of all the kids who grew up without a computer and now they have no idea how they work and can’t do basic tasks.
Hi there. Didn’t have a computer until the 12th grade.
In the 30 years I’ve been working with Linux professionally, some of it was at a distro, working to secure it, and also Unix. I’ve managed an ungodly number of computer hosts, and I took over and maintained a somewhat well-known security tool I’m not gonna name. Lately I do automation: mgmtConfig when I can, Ansible if they pay me so much I can forget just how amazingly bad it is.
I was getting paid for Linux work long before I got a cell phone.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 4 days ago:
a different software
When software is used as a noun, it’s a mass noun and not countable. This is like “a email”, which is as wrong as “y’all” in a wedding vow.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 4 days ago:
I’d just get banned from that too ;-)
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 4 days ago:
Holy crap am I glad someone piped up.
You know how much I don’t care about Toyota when I’m talking about Hyundai? You know much I really don’t care about piefed’s features when this is not about piefed?
Thank you.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 4 days ago:
Control is never just outsourced; it’s also abdicated through that outsourcing.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 4 days ago:
Most style guides and standards accept either spelling, especially when writing for general audiences.
Not everywhere is America.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 4 days ago:
that
*who
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 5 days ago:
comms
Communications?
- Comment on The feature I want most from my next phone is to screen voicemails that mention improving my Google search results (or other keywords that indicate spam) 5 days ago:
I bet if you didn’t apply for a loan, then you’d also know the announcement of a loan approval is crap.
- Comment on The feature I want most from my next phone is to screen voicemails that mention improving my Google search results (or other keywords that indicate spam) 5 days ago:
Voicemail? I wasn’t sure we still did that.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 1 week ago:
To install gitlab:
- Yum install omnibus-gitlab
Done.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 1 week ago:
Most importantly, we need to stop mistaking novelty for innovation and complexity for progress.
Innovation isn’t just creating new features or functionality. In fact, most I’d argue is taking existing features or functions and delivering them for substantially less cost/effort.
… /results.
- Comment on Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster 1 week ago:
shutdown
Hey SJVN! When you see someone making an obvious spelling mistake, you use [sic] to show you’re leaving the mistake as-is.
Thanks!
- Comment on Upgrading Paperless-ngx several revisions behind 1 week ago:
fallback
That’s the noun. For the verb, it’s “fall back”, with a space.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
watch shows with subtitles as it helps with understanding some British accents
If you’ve seen subtitles lately, they used to be pretty bad but now they’re horrible. The mess up on what’s being said a LOT.
Also they spell like a primary drop-out: till, your/you’re, etc.
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 1 week ago:
wait! Groundhog day meets Home Alone.
Getting Kevin on the plane is a misstep because we need him to chase off the robbers and the old man.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 1 week ago:
Again, they were running dev tools in prod.
That’s a mistake so dumb, it’s actually in the ISO that tells you how not to be a fuck up.
You don’t run your dev tools in prod.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 week ago:
After 6 months you’d have enough to retire to Vietnam. Another 6 and you’d have enough to pay yourself a low salary forever.
Another 6 and you’d fund a small house in a smaller town where you can retire, and another 6 and you’d be dead from stress.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 1 week ago:
Throwing food away because capitalism
Nope.
Throwing away food because lawsuits
Litigation over food poisoning? Now we can’t officially let anyone have anything remotely stale because the organization bears the weight of any blowback and your job is at risk. So if you enjoy eating, they need you to ensure others can’t.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
2 day wfh allowance
So
- staff has to locate nearby
- new applicants must be nearby
- everyone needs a car
- the office doesn’t offset any of this
- but 2 days you get to be home and productive. Woo!
Someone needs to be fired. Pick the guy who talks about ‘organic conversations’, as if water cooler chat and constant interruptions are the true medium for knowledge sharing, or the sexist git who forces Linda to shop for office clothing where Gavin skates with khaki and a polo, and raise the average EQ with a quick meeting.
This is why when I interview - I do it to keep that skill up - I tell them their starting wage will be based on a the rent of a 2bd flat within 10min walking of the location I’m ordered to work. Gross pay needs to be triple your rent, right ? But that spreadsheet - it includes on-call rates and a penalty for Ansible or outlook - is another topic.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
Fun fact: open-plan layouts have been ruled sexist in the UK.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 week ago:
Soviet Bloc Block Housing
Yep, 35 storeys and 400 units of plain beige whatever.
But you’re missing the value of the modern mixed-use building. They just finished one nearby and it’s insane:
- ground-floor light commercial - a pizza place, a daycare and I think a pet store in there so far
- parking is secure and underground, with a loading bay,
- 2 floors of professional - physios and notaries and some ad-hoc wework space
- 30 floors of apartments
- an entire floor of guest space - airBnB units, essentially - and common play-space.
All these pictures are accurate as I remember from the tour:
The units will look more familiar if you’ve been to Northern Europe, but a bit bigger. We looked at a 1150sqft 3bd unit with huge triple-pane windows and - 2024 building code - A/C built-in. If you don’t count a garage - underground parking - the bigger ones are like small ranchers stacked on one another – in concrete, so you don’t notice you have neighbours.
They’re not Bloc blocks; they put a few of these together and they have a small city.
- Comment on Prince Andrew must be seething that Donald Trump gets to chug along like nothing happened. 1 week ago:
The child of your once and future rulers.
- Comment on Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day 1 week ago:
concerning
Or a trend.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
They ran dev tools in prod.
This is so dumb there’s an ISO about it.
- Comment on boyancy 2 weeks ago:
Why does the spelling of bouyancy and manatee change?
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 2 weeks ago:
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it’s the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don’t use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they’d delete my account, I guess, because I don’t use that name there either.
Wheeee.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
Before Trump, the office had an image to uphold.
