cybersandwich

cybersandwich, 1 day ago

When I read your post I was expecting something much worse than what you linked to.

It wasn’t really all that bad. Imo, it was 1 or 2 emails too many.

Maybe I’m a little biased because I love the product so much. It’s a fantastic search engine again and all of the AI extras add value and aren’t obnoxious like everyone else’s.

I am still happily paying for kagi even if the CEO emails people that write shitty blogs about them.

cybersandwich, 4 days ago

The article even states this is a thinly veiled ad for some other “method”.

The agile manifesto is fantastic. Scrum can work wonders as a means for providing a framework to hang “agile principles” onto.

Most organizations don’t do “scrum” well or quickly lose sight of the “why” behind it.

Companies are gonna company at the end of the day. Process + bureaucracy + buzzwords + ill-informed management + vendors promises + shit customers/product owners = late projects.

Agile done right, works. The benefit agile has over waterfall(the process it replaced in a lot of places), imo, is that it’s predicated on working software, responding to change and working collaboratively/iteratively.

cybersandwich, 5 days ago

Yea, but they also do some great journalism and if you can, support them.

We don’t have many decent journos these days and they need to eat.

Normalize paying for things that add value to your life.

Also, it’s a bit ironic that people might be concerned about privacy but unwilling to pay for something. The alternative is usually privacy invasive ads/tracking/selling user data.

cybersandwich, 8 days ago

There are certainly very dumb people that support trump. There seems to be a willful ignorance amongst his base. That said, dismissing them all as “dummies” hides the really scary problem: they aren’t necessarily dumb; they are brainwashed.

Imagine if all you heard was how great Trump was, how much he’s accomplished, how badly Democrats want to bring him down, how they are setting him up,that Biden is the reason for these prosecutions, and never hearing any of the facts about the cases or anything remotely negative about Trump.

If you lived your entire life main-lining conservative talk radio, YouTube conservative conspiracy theorists, Fox News, news Maxx…and then have social media magnifying those views by feeding you all the things you already want to Believe (because you’ve been listening to this shit for years). Now Facebook is saying all of your friends think this way too.

Then you have republican “leadership” lying to you or misrepresenting almost everything because they can’t afford to lose their clicks or have news Maxx call them a Democrat plant. They are doing everything they can to stay in power even if it means they have no ethics or values. So they’ll sit there and weasel out of having any sort of backbone against obvious corruption or criminal activity.

And because of all that, people who grew up believing the news wouldn’t straight up lie or that their party has integrity, ethics, and values…they end up believing what they hear. It’s what their friends say on Facebook. It’s a massive groupthink.

When people say it’s like a cult, it truly is. They need to be deprogrammed. You know how hard it is to break people from their religion? That’s how hard it’s going to be to reel back Maga people.

But from their absolutely misguided, misinformed foundation, they are acting rationally. If everything they hear on a daily basis is true, of course they are fired up.

This trick is: how do we reach them? How can we even start reeling them back in?

We need things like this guilty verdict. We need actual leadership in the Republican party to stand up for what’s right and admonish his behavior. A group of them need to do it together so they can’t be picked off like injured gazelle by news outlets whose business is outrage.

cybersandwich, 7 days ago

Yea, I definitely understand what you are saying. I dont get those people either. Its frustrating and even heartbreaking because they are so misled–but are also so easily “misleadable”. Its hard to not fault them for it; its hard not to call them dumb.

I guess historically we called those people “suckers” or “rubes” – which still may not accurately reflect that they can be very smart people (or even critical thinkers) in most other aspects.

cybersandwich, 8 days ago

Thank you for posting the actual numbers. This article is pretty shitty imo. I read it just to see if they even included them (I guess, to their credit, at least they did that).

4,3,5 and 10(even though the govt is reporting 6) over the last 4 years.

So even assuming 10 is correct, using the “more than doubled” almost seems like journalistic malpractice. At best it’s click-bait garbage. Where was the “ICE sees 25% drop in in-custody deaths” article a few years ago?

Should we watch it to see if it’s a broader trend? Yea, probably. Is this necessarily indicative of anything nefarious? No.

There could be (and likely are) legitimate reasons for the increase that have nothing to do with “ICE bad”. Like maybe, people coming in already sick, maybe an older demographic, unvaccinated people, etc etc. or literally just random fucking chance.

cybersandwich, 8 days ago

So basically, you just did more legwork than the journalist that published this article and there isn’t a big story here. Maybe if those 2 deaths come back “omg aliens killed them” we’d have a story.

cybersandwich, 8 days ago

“in custody deaths” means deaths while under the supervision of ICE. That could be detained at an ICE facility or in a hospital “while being detained”.

If you got arrested by your local police for something and were in jail, but got sick so they send you to the hospital (with a cop escort usually)…then you died there. That counts as “in custody”.

So don’t conflate in-custody with “not being sent to hospitals”.

cybersandwich, 10 days ago

I agree with a lot of this sentiment. My goal is to try to “be the change I want to see in the world”.

So I occasionally challenge the dumb group think I see on here. Sometimes it well received but not always.

One thing Ive noticed is how reactionary and un-nuanced a lot of posts are. I guess it makes sense since a majority of the users here self-selected to leave a site in protest. There is a bias towards being “reactionary”.

But the vibe feels off on Lemmy and I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but I certainly don’t feel like a lot of my people are here. Don’t get me wrong, I love hearing different opinions and viewpoints but the way a lot of them are presented here feel very “well ackshually!” or sanctimonious. It’s less like that on mastodon, but still there. Maybe less “fun” and hearted. It’s almost too serious, but even the less serious stuff isn’t as fun/funny.

Hacker news feels better. Almost reminds me of old school reddit or even forums.

I think the fediverse and Lemmy would have been better if it was designed where each “subreddit”/channel was an instance. Basically federate the small communities but don’t make a bunch of small “reddits” where it’s fragmented and watered down.

There could be hubs with curated channels or apps that let you curate channels but each channel is effectively independent.

Anyway, I don’t know that that would even fix the vibe problem with the fediverse but I think it would help communities grow, evolve, and mature better.

cybersandwich, 10 days ago

I don’t watch much TV anymore. Actually I’ve probably watched less than an hour of actual TV this year.

Watching that clip of Noem was shocking. She says nothing. Answers nothing. When she is obviously backed in a corner she says she “doesn’t answer hypotheticals” and starts talking about an open border. Obviously South Dakota a land locked, non-border state is very concerned about this.

The reporter did okay, but she should have pressed even harder to push back against all of the lies. But the whole questioning around the jurors and if she would have decided the same way (after already getting her to basically say the jurors decided correctly with the information they had) she even accidentally admitted the evidence was overwhelmingly lop sided because uh…of course it was.

Anyway, that was brilliant from the host.

cybersandwich, 11 days ago

It’s literally the Biden admin. They’ve made it a huge priority and followed through.

People knock Biden, but he’s been consistently doing this stuff across the government. It’s refreshing.

cybersandwich, 12 days ago

Where are these docs? No one ever links to them or says where you can find them

cybersandwich, 13 days ago

You know what makes my Linux distribution perfect? My windows partition that I can switch to quickly.

cybersandwich, 13 days ago

This might help:

bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263166

cybersandwich, 13 days ago

I had the same experience. Ecosia and ddg just didn’t give great results.

Kagi is the one that replaced Google for me. It’s pretty incredible.

Yes it’s paid. Yes it’s worth it. No, not everyone is emotionally ready to pay for search.

cybersandwich, 13 days ago

Alt-f4 is a hotkey built-in to the latest windows patch that disables all non-microsoft trackers.

cybersandwich, 14 days ago

It’s fucking Missouri, so I’m sure the warrant for his arrest will be issued shortly. Those idiots have to have a law against paying for others school lunch debt.

cybersandwich, 14 days ago

It’s pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they’ll kill it soon!

cybersandwich, 14 days ago

The article doesn’t do a great job of explaining why. It almost seems intentional imo.

“Fiber optic cables are used to provide necessary communications to substations and other vital equipment, helping to modernize grid operations and improve outage response. This real-time visibility and control are essential for integrating renewable energy sources into the grid, as they allow for better management and coordination of these resources.”

“important for ensuring that the generated solar power can be efficiently and safely integrated into the broader electrical grid, complying with industry standards and maintaining system stability” from the dominion energy website. So take that for what you will.

It sounds like they use fiber for controlling grid ops and they don’t think that what Hawaii and New York are doing has been robustly tested.

And in the case of Hawaii, I don’t know that I’d use them as a benchmark for something like this. Their grid(s) aren’t connected to each other (each island is separate) so they are much smaller. They probably don’t even have the same level of grid mgmt needs that Virginia does.

That said, $150-250k for laying fiber seems high but that’s not really my area of expertise. Maybe that’s reasonable.

cybersandwich, 14 days ago

MacOS.

It’s the middle ground between windows and Linux imo.

It’s unix-y enough to give you tons of flexibility with the terminal. Homebrew is one of the better package management systems out there. Iterm2 is the best terminal emulator I’ve used.

You get access to most popular software still and the hardware is unmatched.

It’s more expensive and less flexible in terms of OS customization though and you basically can’t game on it. I think there are some good tiling window managers for it though.

cybersandwich, 20 days ago

It’d really be great if journalists even attempted “educating” readers or providing meaningful context. But then again, would it get this kind of traction?

The interesting story here is that interest rates are raised to SLOW spending and encourage saving. The interest rates spiked to CURB inflation. It has worked, despite most journalists seeming keenness for it not to, for the most part. If consumers and businesses reduce their spending due to higher costs of borrowing, this will bring down prices over time, aligning with the Fed’s inflation targets.

No one explains this to the average person, ever. Ironically, the story here should be consumers are spending money even when saving it should be incentivized because they can’t afford not to… because of profiteering by large companies, grocery chains, etc as well as stagnate wages for the past few decades. This means that inflation will creep up faster than it should because of demand-driven inflation. This makes the problem worse for low-income earners.

It seems to me that THAT type of inflation might require less of an “interest rate adjustment fix”, and more of a wage adjustment fix. Even potentially a regulatory fix to go after price gougers.

cybersandwich, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)

Once you have it, it’s a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.

cybersandwich, 25 days ago

completed an approximately 90-minute holding pattern before safely returning to and landing in Makassar.

Lol wtf!? I get that it was past the point of no return and had to commit to take off but a 90 min wait to land again seems insane.

cybersandwich, 25 days ago

Carry a gun on your face. Problem solved

cybersandwich, 25 days ago

This doesn’t look like his house, but he defended it so it must be.

He lives up the road from me (I only found out when roe got fucked and a swat team and 3 dozen police were camped out in front of his house).

That said, his excuse could be somewhat valid. People can get dumb with their yard signs up here. The MAGA crowd are a very small minority up here and most people aren’t shy about “counter signage” (eg BLM, pride flags, Biden signs).

If his wife was butthurt about signs hurting her feelings, maybe she did this in protest.

Also, and I hate that I’m defending this piece of shit, but flipping a flag upside down isn’t a “stop the steal” specific sign of protest. People do it for all sorts of reasons.

I’m not willing to “give” them this symbol/protest.