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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I even have my phone upside down in my pocket so the charging port is facing up.

  This is probably the difference, people who put their phone in with the port facing down in their pocket have lots of opportunity to pickup lint as the phone is going into the pocket on the way down, and then also as you’re moving, any lint collected in the bottom of your pocket can enter the port. Unless you have super baggy pants, debris won’t be randomly entering your pocket from the top and getting into the charging port if you have the phone upside down with the charging port facing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The United States changed about 15-20 years ago to always be after Halloween, so that kids can trick-or-treat longer and people will have to buy more candy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My friends missed a wedding ceremony because of this, showed up an hour late and were very confused. I guess people who live right next to a timezone border turn off the automatic updates on their phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Unicode adopted it in 2010, Gmail had added it in 2008 to their email client: medium.com/…/10th-anniversary-of-the-poop-emoji-a…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reactions like this work in closed ecosystems (Whatsapp / Facebook) where everyone is on the same client or via open standards that is baked into the spec of the protocol. E-Mail has neither of these, which is why it’s so egregious that a whole email is being sent with 4-16 bytes of actual content itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, seems like investment in Energy sector has had the biggest increase over the last 5 years. Don’t invest in the guy mining for gold, invest in the guy selling pick axes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like the right answer. Also, if there is an incident and your personal insurance is involved, you might be hit with higher premiums for years, and would have a case to have your employer to have the increase be reimbursed.

  The cost of the rental car avoids a lot of bureaucratic headache on both sides that could last years if something were to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Mother's Love" (Gris)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gris is an amazing game. Love the soundtrack too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was pretty evident the second they named their company over the tool used by The Dark Lord Sauron and Saruman to spy on the actions of others from Lord of the Rings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think this is the best analogy, but the point being is brand loyalty can only go so far. Like if you’re going to run out of gas in the next 20 miles and there isn’t an Exxon station within 100 miles, do you just pass all other gas stations and have your employees break down on the side of the road?

  I just can’t imagine any actual competitors to AWS would impose such restrictions on their employees that put them in a worse position to do their jobs, so it’s a bit silly that it’s coming from Walmart, when they don’t compete in that space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally, I understand that, but seemed to be an extreme measure they are inflicting on their employees that doesn’t really change anything. It’d be like if ExxonMobil didn’t allow their employees with company cars to fill up at a Chevron station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ancestry.com and findagrave.com are kinda the funniest examples that could be picked from the sites being affected today. Obviously there’s the parallels of AWS being dead today, but I also can’t imagine there would be a lot of updates to those sites that not being active on there for some amount of time would miss out on some timely update. I totally hate being in the grove when something out of my control impedes my workflow, don’t get me wrong, and can totally see how the outages would be annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so much vendor lock in with AWS, migrating to another provider over an outage even lasting 24h would be a tough sell. This isn’t unique to AWS either, each of the cloud vendors have their own lock in and their own problems. If you had the money you could run in multiple clouds, but for most businesses who were only running in a single region, I can’t imagine they’d choose this option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, about 10 years ago, the company I worked for migrated to AWS, and I managed the transition. We planned everything meticulously so that there would be no downtime, and used it as excuse to fix a lot of tech debt. No one was supposed to even notice the cutover, and when we did it, I expected the only feedback to be that things seemed faster and were working as expected. A few hours later, we get a complaint from an Account Manager for Walmart that they can’t access the platform at all. There was a lot of confusion and back and forth, turns out their IT department had an allow list or something in the corporate DNS to not resolve to AWS owned IPs unless approved. We eventually got them to add our domain to their allowlist, but it seemed insane that they would spend the effort to implement and maintain that level of control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it is for everyone, right???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might not be as far (just past act 1), but I haven’t felt the need to grind rosaries (yet). A bunch of times I’d be exploring for an hour and notice I have like 500+ rosaries, and then I get them made into strands till I have to spend them. I don’t think I’ve seen anything on sale for more than 800 rosaries, Maybe it’s different later in the game but at least in the beginning of the game, it doesn’t feel like a chore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just checked my old account again, and all edited content is still there, with “Fuck u/spez” appearing as the top comment in some posts that are like 12 years old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if earth just gets pulled away from the sun a little we are screwed.

  I get what you’re saying, but had to laugh at the use of “a little” here. The goldilocks zone in the solar system is roughly the between the orbits of Venus and Mars, and we’re almost right in the middle of it, so “a little” is like 150 million km.

  I would imagine that the first issue we would experience would be that the moon would be pulled out of Earth’s orbit first and then we lose the ocean tides and the stable tilt of the earth. It would probably get worse from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “There comes a time when the risk of doing nothing becomes the greatest risk of all”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the sentiment but not the price. You can find commercial ones of this size for almost half the price. Ex. a.co/d/63aVKxp

  Personally I don’t need it to be fully bezelless, so if that’s not a deal breaker, there are less expensive options available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aged like milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just sad that this means they’re going to have to kill off Clyde in South Park now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK that if they have kids, that doesn’t give them more votes. The kids can’t vote until they’re 18.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to memorize it really, just have to generalize the position of the minute hand past the last round number. Is it about 40% between the 2 and the 3, then that’s a 12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s excessive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this, the .zip file extension is widely known, and now that it’s also a TLD, it can be confusing for some people. There’s no technical vulnerability, but the existence of .zip TLD just gives more ammo for phishing. For example, someone could register a domain name recent-bank-statements[.]zip (without brackets) and then have a subdomain for chase.com and send someone a link to https://chase.com.recent-bank-statements/[.]zip to “Download your bank statements”. If you’re not looking closely, you might not realize there is a . instead of a / and think that this link would go to chase.com When the site initiates a download of a zip file, you might trust the contents thinking it came from Chase and not a malicious link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Publisher Nexon has now made a statement addressing the situation, saying the ads were submitted by users as part of a ‘TikTok Creative Challenge’, which TikTok describes as an “official creator monetization program that turns your creativity into cash by creating UGC-style ads for your favorite brands”.

  “All submitted videos are verified through TikTok’s system to check copyright violations before they are approved as advertising content. However, we have become aware of cases where the circumstances surrounding the production of certain submitted videos appear inappropriate. Thus, we are conducting a thorough joint investigation with TikTok to determine the facts.

  How could they not see this coming? Of course this will be gamed and abused. This is what happens when you fire your marketing department and outsource it to TikTok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The short story i’ve heard it explained was that prior to the 1960’s when logarithm tables were the only option, if what you were calculating was not in the table, you rounded the measurements up so that the material or whatever was stronger, and you knew it would really hold the weight to be certain. Depending on how much rounding up happened during the design, this created lots of redundancy and strength, but was more expensive since you generally had to use more materials. With CAD, you could more easily model and calculate all the loads and optimize the design and material costs for the expected lifetime of the product, building, or whatever. This saved money and was preferred by bean counters, and resulted in designs lasting just enough, rather than older designs which sometimes seemed indestructible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the context of this picture??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about AI Slop is it’s overuse of in a list header, it kills it for me. I used to use emojis all the time like a run off sentence and put more thought into it, but now it’s just ruined.