HarkMahlberg

Windows Explorer is set up to ALWAYS show full file extensions, that’s like a basic safety measure that really should be on by default but isn’t

Drives me MAD man. Absolutely MAD.

2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.

I think about this comic often nowadays.

the next 1000x in 4-5 years

At the risk of stating the obvious, Ars is working backwards from this metric to get their headline “double every 6 months.” 2^10 = 1024, to get that number in 5 years means doubling every half-year.

But Google didn’t set incremental 6-month deadlines for 5 years straight, they set a single 5-year deadline. Because in 6 months shareholders can call their bluff quite easily, but in 5 years they’re hoping everyone is A) distracted by some new disaster, or B) there’s a new tech hype cycle they can push. They’re trying to stall the bubble popping by pointing to a nebulous future where they magically scale to infinity, and hoping we all forget that they ever made this claim.

This is the most amazing post I’ve ever seen.

The flip side of that same coin is that, IME, fediverse developers champion data privacy, anonymity, and decentralization. These developers believe that users should never offer that much personal data to one platform, so they build and advocate for platforms that don’t require that data. Building a lowercase-f facebook on the fediverse would betray that foundation.

It’s a Jeep thing.

“No. { Several paragraphs of argument that’s not mutually exclusive }”

Arghh hate that shit. I don’t know why online argumenters love to start with “No and.” I don’t block because of it but man, nobody learns how to have a constructive debate anymore.

Just the ones run by fascists and grifters. RIAA is here because discord is popular and not indexable, not because discord is somehow uniquely suited for facilitating piracy.

I’m not allowed to say “huh, would ya look at that?” Calm down.

100% with you, well put

Sure as shit, there he is, lol

That is why I get tired about the “individual action” suggestion, that I alone could stop using Amazon and hurt their sales, I could de-Google my life and keep my privacy, or recycle plastic and save the ocean, or swear off AI to fuck with Nvidia.

But all that is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people who all readily handed over their lives to these companies and haven’t left (or can’t). And governments who abdicated regulatory authority to them, which have allowed them to run rampant.

They’re still making it so these massive companies have force in my life. I alone can’t do anything about that.

May as well make a new alt, you’ve already burned this one too the ground.

So here’s the hot take I took from his video: yeah, an internet connected dishwasher is dumb, but so is a LAN connected dishwasher. “I don’t want to have to maintain my own app to run this thing, keep this thing secure,” damn straight. That little open source app is probably gonna get abandoned at some point, I don’t want to have to fork it and fix things and patch vulnerabilities. I want a strictly Dumb dishwasher.

The part of that video that makes me empathize with his experience is the fact that Luke took on the same challenge, happened to choose Mint, and had no problem installing Steam. So you run into this catastrophic failure, and even your friend can only tell you “worked on my machine, I don’t know what to tell ya.” Then you search the internet and just keep finding the same instructions you just followed, to the letter. So you share your experience, and then half the Linux community blames you for “not heeding the warnings.”

He’d be unimaginably sad to see the world today.

Nothing lasts forever, especially on the Internet, but I’m happy to say I enjoyed kbin.social for as long as I used it.

Thanks Ernest! Good luck on your recovery and next projects!

understand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays

Our HR software already accounts for federal holidays. When you put in the request for time off, you give it a start and end date on a calendar control, and it calculates the number of hours you plan to use, working around holidays, weekends, even existing PTO requests.

I’m not saying you should buy that software, but I am saying it’s a solved problem… It’s automatic, the user doesn’t need to do anything special.

Now we have other forms that COULD be automatic but AREN’T which causes big issues when people make simple typos… But I don’t see the need to run an energy consuming LLM to implement that feature.

I’m gonna take this comment, blow it up to poster size, and put it in my office, right in front of my webcam so I can watch my boss squint trying to read it.