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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

  • I see this, "I just can't deal" a lot in younger generations. I do wonder if they have been conditioned to respond like this due to social media overreaction videos and memes.

    Prioritisation is a learned skill. So is communication, that way you can talk to others to determine a task's priority if you can't figure it out yourself.

    Education systems really need a few classes on stuff like this, not just letting everyone experience the disaster of a "group project" for themselves.

  • Oh hey, you can still get views! You just need to open an advertising account with them, and them pay them anywhere between $50-$1000 and they'll then show your one sponsored post to anywhere between 2 and 50 percent of people who like that kind of thing, for anywhere between 3 days and two weeks. Just select how much you want to spend to get that sweet exposure!

    What's that? You want to reach all your friends and followers? For free? Sorry, they don't do that kind of thing anymore.

  • Pfft, amateur.

    If you can't manually adjust ignition timing and air:fuel ratios you can't really drive a car.

  • The problem is that an algorithm defines "less consequential posts" and it doesn't have your best interests at heart, at all.

    I did wonder if posts from friends were deliberately delayed so that you would be guilted into responding to their Big Thing that you didn't see on your feed. Eventually, you'd be trained to keep scrolling to find posts from your friends, and they'd be trained to keep checking for replies days after their Big Thing, thus maximising user engagement and profit.

  • They could have verified that shit!

    There's no "They". There's nobody home. Nobody's looking at this shit, it's all just algorithms and machine learning, there's nobody customer-facing at Google who's job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it's off to the front page of search results it goes.

  • It'll come in handy later on when you're in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.

  • Essentially they pushed so much crap into your feed that your friends got pushed out.

    So then what was the point of posting your current status when your circle might only see it two or three days later?

    The immediacy was lost, and thus so was the usefulness.

  • Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

  • All hail laser.

    No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?

  • Just use one of these tried and tested standard disclaimers from 2012, I'm sure they still have exactly the same legal weight as they did back then, right? That Rome Statute is something to not fuck around with, that's for sure.

    (/s , just in case)


    Hi all. Don't forget today starts the new Instagram rule where they can use your photo Don't forget Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you've ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 9 News talked about the change in Instagram's privacy policy. I do not give Instagram or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Instagram it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Instagram is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste. Wondered why Instagram was so boring!


    Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you've ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook's privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.

    Better to be safe than sorry. An attorney advised us to post this. Good enough for me. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, it will be tacitly understood that you are allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates. I HEREBY STATE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION."


    I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

    NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste

  • Globally they are nothing special in price, performance, reliability, or availability.

    Rivian is only seen as a contender because of the artificially crippled US sandbox that it plays in.

  • AI written update changelog: "✨ Bug fixes and performance improvements! ✨ Best version EVER! 😊 😎 "

  • If you're out on a farm, you fit the intended use case for starlink.

    The issue is that all them city folk see starlink as a way of escaping the locked in municipal ISPs. So they clog up satellite bandwidth when they have fibre/5G/HFC/wireless/xDSL options literally at their front door.

  • Neil's been a bit angry lately, it could have been them.

  • It's worth nothing if it hasn't been graded and placed in a sealed plastic box by a grading company that asserts that grading is awesome and things are worth nothing if they aren't graded.

    (sad \s)

  • Later versions of windows recognise that the device is removable and don't cache writes. From the users point of view the copy dialog box only closes when writes are complete.

  • I've been working on updating all my old software projects lately, and as part of that process I feed the source code into a LLM for review.

    The amount of simple security errors, logic flaws, and code smells that it reveals is quite embarrassing.

    This was all "good functional code" that's been used internally for years. Clearly it worked well enough, but a simple pass through a LLM reviewer made it a lot more robust and secure.

  • Telstra says it is looking into the issue and will share an update once it is fixed.

    Ten bucks says it's due to a software update to core telecommunications infrastructure.

  • That's why they used to restrict signups in certain geographical areas. But then people complained that they couldn't sign up. So here we are.

    1. Googles "PLENOPTY"

    2. Only finds references to their store on Amazon.

    3. Reverse image search shows what looks like the manufacturer in China.

    4. Their website is in Chinese.

    5. You can only order in quantities of 500 and up.

    6. Your country implemented 50 percent tariffs that the company refuses to eat which is baffling as your President said they would.

    7. It will cost you 750 for your microwave poached egg maker, but at least you will have 499 spare ones. Delivery is in 12 weeks.

    8. You return to Amazon and buy it for 3.99.

    9. You get free overnight shipping because you are an Amazon Prime member.

    10. Sweeeeet.