iknowitwheniseeit
@iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
Is it? Almost every time I use it I end up hitting a bug or missing feature. Just last week I was trying to get Word in Office365 to keep some lines together. I followed the instructions from Microsoft’s help and it didn’t work. Last month I was trying to get “slide M of N” on the bottom of PowerPoint in Office365, but apparently getting the N is just not supported.
LibreOffice almost always works for me, far more often than Microsoft Office.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 days ago:
I put a tl;dr sentence or two at the top of any e-mail more than a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes for those too.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 days ago:
I run my own email and I have to say I wouldn’t recommend it.
The biggest hassle is dealing with either Spamhaus or Microsoft, who apparently at random decide to put my IPs on blacklist, and who provide hurdles to working around this (for Spamhaus) or just say “no” (for Microsoft).
- Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app 5 days ago:
I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
A huge portion of the Netherlands works part time by choice. So, yes, many people voluntarily waive parts of their salary.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
I’d take that power.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 week ago:
“It is important to note that since Mark Kennedy’s deployment there has been enormous change in undercover policing, both in the Met and nationally, and I want to be clear that this case in no way reflects modern-day undercover policing.”
Press X to doubt.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 2 weeks ago:
Good episode for sure. Well… most 99% Invisible episodes are good!
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 3 weeks ago:
Can you? When all businesses start using AI for customer interaction…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 3 weeks ago:
I use Edge on Linux for working with Microsoft stuff on my corporate laptop. For everything else I use Firefox there. Privacy preserved, basically.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 weeks ago:
I just use
restic.I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 3 weeks ago:
The 1980s were before the DMCA. In those days if you bought an expensive piece of electronics both seller and buyer expected that you owned it.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.
A VPN won’t help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.
So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that’s the idea.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 4 weeks ago:
From the link you provide:
In 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram’s data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a “troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired.” She wrote that “only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter”.[26][27] She described her findings as “an unexpected outcome” that “leaves social psychology in a difficult situation.”[28]
I mean, maybe it shouldn’t have been done?
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 5 weeks ago:
Charge your phone! 😉
- Comment on Although i love it 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact:
Broccoli and cauliflower (and more), “are all actually varieties of the same species, Brassica oleracea: cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, Chinese broccoli, and collard greens.”
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
Reading this made me wonder if I was having a stroke, because it seems like English but I don’t recognize so many of the words. 👴
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Caves of Qud. I don’t even like it much, but for some reason I can’t stop.
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 1 month ago:
It’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
My point is that if your variable can be
Nonethen you need the same pattern for the length check.So for the Pythonic version:
if (foo is not None) and not foo: ...
For the explicit length check:
if (foo is not None) and (len(foo) == 0): ...
Honestly you’re probably better off using type hints and catching such things with static checks and not adding the
Nonecheck. - Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
You’d need to explicitly check for None if using the len() construct as well, so this doesn’t change the point of the article.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
My ad blocker has blocked all pictures on this article, so I can’t say. 😄
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
We’ve had a similar ban in the Netherlands for a year or two now. Mobile phones were already not allowed in classes. Kids seem to have survived.
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 months ago:
Forgotten as usual. 😉
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 2 months ago:
Debt is not a force of nature. Money is owed to someone.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 months ago:
A set of guiding principles from and all-knowing God is not what religion is. Maybe it’s what Abrahamic religions are, but there were religions before them and other religions even today.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 months ago:
I don’t think banning is a good answer. My own preferred solution is mandatory religious education. Once you learn about all of the religions of the world the idea that any of them could possibly be correct about either the nature of reality or deciding what is right becomes clearly absurd.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 months ago:
I looked a few years ago when a friend of my partner got a Tesla a few years ago. Picking a color cost like €2000 or so.
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 2 months ago:
I always look on itch.io and GoG first!
- Comment on Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% 3 months ago:
$1 per month is expensive? 🤣