EvilKiru

@EvilKiru@techhub.social

Born in Iceland. Live in the US. Computer geek. #tfr

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Why do you follow me?

EvilKiru,

@RickiTarr I thought I was following you when I voted on your poll, but that was just an illusion from how often you are boosted into my timeline, so I immediately followed you to correct my mistake of not having followed you long ago and to make my vote true (nice, foster community)

Skepticat, to random
@Skepticat@mstdn.social avatar

"You go first."
👀

EvilKiru,

@Skepticat Interfering with the welding robot may cause loss of limbs or inhalation of molten metal or lethal gases?

GottaLaff, to tesla
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

EvilKiru,

@GottaLaff At least the Democracy Docket news was uplifting!

lauren, to random
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

Boiled down to its essential components, the continuing plot line of the "Resident Alien" TV series is that the planet Earth is saved from destruction at the hands of extraterrestrials by ... pizza. Works for me.

EvilKiru,

@lauren Nanu, Nanu!

paigerduty, to random
@paigerduty@hachyderm.io avatar

geez I had no idea the feedback loop for mobile was so wonky

"When apps crash on iOS, the crash will not be reported until the app is relaunched."

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/03/25/why-you-may-be-dropping-key-mobile-data-from-your-observability-solution/

EvilKiru,

@paigerduty Our attempt to avoid that problem involves our desktop program checking on launch to see if the version currently available for download is > the version you just ran, in which case it downloads the new installer in the background, so as long as you don't try to do the same thing that crashed it earlier, it pops up a dialog the next time you return to the main screen, asking if you would like to go ahead and install the new version.

And if you did manage to get to the point where the program crashed again, then when you restart it again, it checks to see if it managed to download the new installer before the crash, and asks you if you would like to go ahead and install the just downloaded program update!

It works most of the time, except when someone thinks that setup should finish instantly, so they go back to the desktop and double-click the program icon, and then don't notice when the installer eventually fails because it can't replace the running program file...

alda, to wordpress
@alda@topspicy.social avatar

Here is the structure of a How-To article:

[An introduction with a bunch of crap written by Chat-GPT]

[An initial example using the built-in plugin/theme editor, demonstrating the author's disregard to best practices and urging others to be unprofessional]

[A screenshot of some scary-looking PHP code]

[A section claiming how difficult and technically involved the previous step was, suggesting there's an alternative]

[A plug for the author's plugin that does the thing you want]

EvilKiru,

@alda to me, all PHP code is scary-looking. After all, PHP seems to have been the most widely hacked web-facing computer language on the planet with attackers rarely needing to trick someone into downloading and running exploit code to initiate an attack, due to how many PHP packages had configuration files that were world-writable by default and all an attacker needed to know was the widely known path to such "secret" files, which was why our web server log files were always chock-full of failed script-kiddie exploit attempts.

GottaLaff, to legal
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Hey McBrainSpurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

Via Klasfeld:

News

In the civil fraud case, Justice Engoron issues an order detailing retired Judge Barbara Jones' tasks monitoring the Organization, including by issuing quarterly reports and advising him of any violations.

The order https://documentcloud.org/documents/24493285-monitorship-order-3212024

Added, via Pagliery:

The Manhattan DA decries what it calls Donald Trump's "ongoing bombardment" of last-minute court filings before his Stormy Daniels trial.

EvilKiru,

@GottaLaff That was a perfect pairing of music video to news item!

selzero, to random
@selzero@syzito.xyz avatar

Fill in the blanks.

I am often mistaken as ______, because ______

I'll go first.

I'm often mistaken as an adult, because I happen to have been born half a century ago.

EvilKiru,

@Thebratdragon @selzero I'm often mistaken for a human, despite having a Resident Alien card!

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

https://youtube.com/shorts/NIvkzhylUfU?si=jsr4NXlD3tvxtyR1

Is this true though, Neurodivergents?

EvilKiru,

@zakalwe @hosford42 @mkarliner @RickiTarr @courtcan There are times I find myself yelling at my brain to stop dredging up some random embarrasing moment from when I was 7! C'mon, your my brain, stop working against me!

jwz, to random
@jwz@mastodon.social avatar

Is there any way to disable alt text in the web interface? I'm so sick of having a big block of text pop up and obscure the picture I'm looking at just because I did not carefully thread my mouse through the little channel between the image and the scroll bar.

A thousand curses upon whoever thought, "ooooh, I know, I'll just copy the ALT attribute to the TITLE attribute, those are the same, right?"

EvilKiru,

@jwz I just hit Esc to close the pop-up when that happens.

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

If you can't handle the prelude, you're going to have a very hard time with the main act.

EvilKiru,

@StillIRise1963 Would that be the accord?

EvilKiru,

@SrRochardBunson @StillIRise1963
I climbed a mountain, looking for insight, but my passport was rejected by civic border control at the top of the ridgeline, which freed a pilot to get me the jazz out of there.

jensimmons, to random
@jensimmons@front-end.social avatar

I’m seeing a concerning trend of webpages that are designed for dark mode only. They present light-text-on-a-dark-background all the time. There is no light mode. No respecting the user’s preference.

I literally cannot read white text on dark backgrounds. At least not more than a few words worth. It’s weird to slowly have more and more of the web become unusable to me.

Do better.

It’s super easy to provide both. We should all provide both.

EvilKiru,

@jensimmons I tried enabling dark mode in Edge a while back due to light mode making it hard for me to read sites, but from what I recall, it didn't work, didn't work on all light mode sites, or is no longer included. I found the Sauron extension, which works in both Edge and Chrome to make most sites readable, with white text on a darkened background. I run it on all my Windows computers. Without it, the brightness is too high. Reducing my monitor's brightness does nothing to make light mode sites easier to read for me.

paigerduty, to random
@paigerduty@hachyderm.io avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    EvilKiru,

    @paigerduty What else could possibly be? 😆

    GossiTheDog, to random
    @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    EvilKiru,

    @skorkr @GossiTheDog It's very engaging and was worth the watch to me (I watched it last week). I suggest opening it in a new tab, where you can proceed to watch it in bite-sized chunks and then return to it later, if you don't want to watch it all at once.

    alda, to random
    @alda@topspicy.social avatar

    Wait — do Americans register their party affiliation with the government?

    EvilKiru,

    @_jv_ @alda some, but not all states, ask your party affiliation when you register to vote, but from what I understand that's mainly to prevent you from voting in the other party's primary election and you do not have to declare your party affiliation to vote in the actual election.

    lauren, to random
    @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

    A joke mostly lost to time:

    "Wow, this sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!"
    "It's not! It's VO5!"
    "UGH ..."

    EvilKiru,

    @n1vux @lauren I remember that my dad used VO5 back in the late 60s.

    EvilKiru,

    @n1vux @lauren and the green Skin Bracer aftershave by Mennen, which required a Google search for green aftershave to reveal the brand name.

    EvilKiru,

    @lauren @n1vux Yes, for men's body wash, with the gimmick being that it's so good that all the women want to use it too!

    EvilKiru,

    @lauren @n1vux because the sting from the slap cancels out the sting from the aftershave's alcohol content.

    EvilKiru,

    @n1vux @lauren It even stings after using a brand new electric triple-head Norelco.

    erictopol, to random
    @erictopol@mstdn.social avatar

    Vaccination after Covid infection leads to substantial expansion of CD8+ T cells

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01692-x

    EvilKiru,

    @erictopol Am I correct in taking this to mean that it's never too late to get vaccinated, because even if someone puts off getting vaccinated until after getting infected, it still boosts their chance of surviving? [Edited to change "I'm" to "Am" as the first word.]

    GossiTheDog, to random
    @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    EvilKiru,

    @GossiTheDog Based on watching an ongoing playthrough series by Many a True Nerd on YouTube, all of that stuff is still in Starfield, if you play in Hardcore survival mode. edit: Corrected the Youtube channel name.

    Edent, (edited ) to random
    @Edent@mastodon.social avatar

    Could you please help me find some folklore?

    The Brothers Grimm recorded the story "Der süße Brei" about a magic porridge pot.
    When instructed, it produces food until told to stop. One day, the owner forgets the magic word and the village is engulfed in porridge.

    If you are NOT German or English-speaking, does your culture have a similar cautionary tale?
    If so, what foodstuff is it about?

    Thanks gang, boosts appreciated.

    EvilKiru,

    @Edent Icelandic hafragrautur (porridge), but it's almost certainly from the same source that the Brothers Grimm collected their story from, if not from a translation of their stories.

    est, to random
    @est@emily.news avatar

    what the fuck is a security "response"

    am i being punk'd

    EvilKiru,

    @est A small security update that was also released for iOS (Apple Watch didn't need it, apparently).

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • InstantRegret
  • mdbf
  • ethstaker
  • magazineikmin
  • normalnudes
  • rosin
  • thenastyranch
  • Youngstown
  • osvaldo12
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • Durango
  • everett
  • cubers
  • provamag3
  • tester
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tacticalgear
  • megavids
  • Leos
  • modclub
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •