Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Vendor support person: “you’ll see a slider in your account that enables us to access your data for the purposes of troubleshooting, please enable that and you can disable it when we are done.”

Me: “ok, done.”

Support: “great thank you, I am now able to look at your data so give me one second. I am looking now.”

Me: “Cool. By the way I actually didn’t do the slider because I guessed it probably didn’t do anything.”

.oO I can't make up my mind on whether Pacino is a good name for an AI system. AI Pacino looks great and familiar in a sans-serif font, but it's also a little off, which is just as expected of shitterbots

The thing about that "the papers will disappear if the journals do" article is that they wont and the only reason is piracy.

@charlesroper python devs will appreciate the increased readability of the tab

@CatHat

I'm telling you as someone autistic that you don't own autism.

The most impressive thing about the Steam Deck is that they built a portable Linux device that can be reliably woken from sleep

In the same way as "the cloud is just someone else's computer" - "AI decisions are just someone else's prejudices".

@frescosecco

> "Add 'tests' (for want of a better name,..."

It turns out that vscode-icons (my preferred icon set) recognises the name 'integration' and gives it a nice testing icon. Sold.

integration/suites
integration/helpers/assertions
integration/helpers/fixtures
integration/runner (potentially)

There might be material for a blog post in this.

@carcosa @gerrymcgovern PeerTube sounds like it has some sort of peer to peer built in. So if both my neighbour, and I am watching the same show, the server only has to send the data to one of us.

Or how about we could add a show to our watchlist, and Netflix could multicast once to everyone wanting to see a show this evening. Local buffering.

Remember when we used to wait days or weeks for DVD's to arrive in the mail?

Surely we can wait an hour.

Or just consume less in general.

look ma, I'm going to speak at LibrePlanet this year!
https://libreplanet.org/2024/speakers/#6621
Software enshittification or freedom? It's not a hard choice!
When: Sunday 14:00 - 14:45 EDT (18:00 UTC)
Room: Jupiter -- in-person
See you there?

@Tyranicus

Seriously. The biggest problem with #StarTrek is that when you grow up with it (like I did) you think adults are all going to be good-natured and responsible and highly-skilled. Then when you actually grow up you end up working with Larry the Cable Guy and wondering what you did to deserve this.

fraid I don't know, I only came up with that possibility when asked to briefly look into what it would take to implement it in GCC, where I didn't think it would fit. I figured GDB had the full-program context it would take, unlike GCC, that sees one translation unit at a time, and that was the extent of my involvement. if anything came out of it, I probably wasn't told, but if I was, I forgot. FWIW, I haven't ever interacted with a language server, this was all an exercise of imagination many years ago.

"Small instances are the best, only small instances. Mid sized at most."

Also: and they should have sub-hour 24/7 oncall.

Also Also: and they need to have a sub-hour public response time.

Also also also: they need to hire a comms team

Also also also also: What do you mean those things cost money?

half of any job, including life, is simply showing up and being fully present