corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  🇨🇦 we approved 'em here. And they’re being made her now, too.

  I’d say come visit in October, but maybe don’t fly in those big aluminum petri dishes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  usecases

  Not a word, my dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use for music library streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ppl

  I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:

  it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

  I mean, this is always excellent.

  Too often - you’ll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP’s case. And to them it must sound like “if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you’re gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure.”

  Considering OP’s situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here – Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.

  Now, I’m not sure you’re not replying to a comment that says the same thing …just, not as well. Still good advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I spoke with Mr Baumel, socially for instance, on a few occasions.

  He carries on two conversations actively, about completely unrelated subjects, and can speak with authority on any of them in turn. And he’s listening to another conversation so if economics of late Sumeria or gauges of railways in Europe vs China get boring to him, he can ditch one and talk about artwork of early Iceland as vikings adapted their style with the change in local materials; or something.

  It’s dizzying to hear. He’s just not on our level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Practice Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

  Popular isn’t always better. See: Betamax/VHS, Blu-ray vs HDDVD, skype/MSSkype, everything vs Teams, everything vs Outlook, everything vs Azure. Ansible is accessible like DUPLO is accessible, man, and with the payola like Blu-ray got and the pressuring like what shot systemd into the frame, of course it would appeal to the C-suite.

  Throwing a few-thousand at Ansible/AAP and the jagged edges pop out – and we have a team of three that is dedicated to Nagios and AAP. And it’s never not glacially slow – orders of magnitude slower than absolutely everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Practice Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  have to learn MCL’s weird syntax

  You skewer two apps for syntax, but not Ansible’s fucking YAML? Dood. I’m building out a layered declarative config at the day-job, and it’s just page after page with python’s indentation fixation and powershell’s bipolar expressions. This is better for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Practice Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ansible is next on my list of things to learn.

  Ansible is y2k tech brought to you in 2010. Its workarounds for its many problems bring problems of their own. I’d recommend mgmtconfig, but it’s a deep pool if you’re just getting into it. Try Chef(cinc.sh) or saltstack, but keep mgmtconfig on the radar when you want to switch from 2010 tech to 2020 tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good excuse to lay off without paying unemployment while power-tripping. That’s all these kinds of things usually are about.

  You know who will be the slowest to adopt any Ai assistance? Senior devs. You know who this guy just fired? Senior devs. If you want to know the people you never want to fire, I have news for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  everyday

  “every day”, if you mean ‘daily’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  None. I give my spot to someone who wouldn’t waste it.

  I can’t speak on their level, and I’m okay with that. I’ve worked around some absolutely amazing geniuses in my career and I’m happy to be the worker bees in the arrangement. I’m no slouch, and I’ve done my own share of really cool stuff, but I wouldn’t waste such an opportunity on me.

  Give it to the Steve Baumels, the Tomas Bartas and the Jeff Linds of the world, the unsung bright spots in our tech march forward.

  I’ll save everyone a spot at lunch and try to get in on the group photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Infrastructure alone to Bungalow jungle is never cost-effective: as Detroit learned, it never pays for itself with property tax.

  I say we jack the property tax on low-dense residential to properly reflect a 20-year amortization and all the operating expenses of the infrastructure used, all the way back to City Hall, so that it does pay for itself (and the farther out, the more expensive to fix, the more expensive the tax).

  At the same time, the city will

  • wreck a park (wait for it)
  • put up 40 storeys of mixed use
  • offer to buy the shitty bungalows around the building, with an option to buy into ready condo space
  • same for businesses, because #mixed-use
  • use adjacent bungalow space for central square. Start with transit station underneath
  • build 7 more towers
  • offer same buy-up to adjacent bungalows
  • surround with greenspace and one really ineffective laneway to connect garages under building with roadway out there
  • begin offering more incentives for bungalow people to give up their home for agri space and move into mixed-use
  • repeat until city is transformed to efficient walkable oases linked by transit

  People think they can’t do apartments, but I’m sure a spacious 1200sqft place planned with an eye to sight-lines isn’t what they’re thinking. We love our (smaller) apartment near the mixed-use block that sprung up , and everything we need is within that block. From daycares and pet stores to restaurants and coffee-shops and take-out, and gyms (plural) and insurers and a market and a chemist and an insurer and a physio… it’s endless, and they’re still building out more commercial space.

  But you have to build the new space, properly configured with GOOD (rail) transit, before you can get people out of their cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI Spend,

  It’s okay to say [spending] when the OOP forgets how to English, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PClinuxOS is a far derivative of redhat via Mandriva, itself Conectiva and Mandrake, both of them RHL (not RHEL) forks.

  And it’s free of Systemd. And it’s rolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran sysvinit on a 4mb daily-driver machine forever. That’s not a flex; that’s just a comparison for bloat since sysvinit wasn’t using but a tiny portion of that. What the hell can lennart’s cancer offer at the cost of at least 5x the ram used by an entire OS and apps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that would require that level [of] lightness for a distro

  Goal Of Least Fuckery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow.

  It’s

  • built bad
  • … by the uncooperative
  • … for the wrong reasons
  • incredibly frail
  • indivisible
  • a logically incomplete and unsound replacement for everything it supplants
  • the poster-child for bad ideas pushed into the mainstream with browbeating and gaslighting
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope gitLAB can pick up some more staff from the MS layoffs and get help with some long-standing issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Run a traceroute like traceroute cnn com
  2. Kill that by ctrl-c at the third line.
  3. Ping that third IP address.

  Don’t try to ping UK.battle.net or your numbers will be skewed by everything in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And, in doing so, they’ve set the market price at that value for the service they advertise, which is more than they deliver already.

  When Ai enters the Valley of Discontent, the price it can set for what it actually offers will be even less than it is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad-blocking is as legal as a lock on the door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let openvpn get a swelled head. Itself it was just a Bender project (“I’m gonna write vtun better; with hookers and beer!”) anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello-ooo Klarna!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why LLMs can't really build software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vibe coding

  The term for that is actually ‘slopping’. Kthx ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clamdalf!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  anymore

  \sigh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now. Solarwinds is marketed as a monitoring app. The security backdoor thing was entirely unintentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s not often a choice.

  But I include and discuss a 4% penalty when making wage calculations in an interview.

  Even though Office, OneDrive, Teams, Ansible, Jira and Confluence are different toxic apps/websites, it’s still the same “shit tool stack” penalty, one hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gitlab just said

  …git is federated

  If you read it again, you may find I said gitlab and not just git.

  And we won’t talk about how git’s decentralization is nothing like the concept of federation as it’s being used in this entire discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A Mob boss and a monarchy are functionally the same are they not?

  Completely; but only if you compare the worst monarchy with the best mafia. In short. It’s a lot of cherry-picking. It’s very whataboutist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I switch position more now that I’m at home. I’ll more likely do it when I’m tired, as they taught us in the army.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Relative to 2016-dollars, wages have gone down.

  But that’s not the watches’ fault.