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eagerpebble

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Software architect trying to make the world better

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ElleGray, to random
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eagerpebble,
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@ChuckMcManis it's always early in the morning somewhere

ElleGray, to random
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You're about to be sued by

eagerpebble,
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@ElleGray I would not piss off one of the few people to stand up to Disney in a lawsuit and come out in good shape.

parismarx, to tech
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Remember all the times Elon Musk said Tesla is so amazing for the environment? The company is being sued for violating the Clean Air Act hundreds of times in recent years by emitting harmful pollutants from its Fremont factory into nearby neighborhoods.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/tesla-sued-over-air-pollution-from-factory-in-fremont-california.html

eagerpebble,
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@parismarx We have got to find a way to stop people and companies who can rack up 112 air pollution violations in 5 years and be sued by 25 separate local governments for pollution.

It's truly astounding that people who were caught with some marijuana 3 times are in prison for life (and they shouldn't be), but a corporation that is killing people faces no noticeable accountability.

sundogplanets, to random
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One of my classes has their final projects due at 11:59pm tonight and the ramp-up of more and more frantic student emails is really depressing.

They had to choose topics in February and turn in drafts in March, and yet it seems that most of them didn't actually start until today...not that I was any better as an undergrad, but man it hurts to watch!

eagerpebble,
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@sundogplanets or they're still asleep and haven't noticed they missed the deadline yet?

eagerpebble, to random
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Lots of intelligent people talk about through the lens of history and understanding how it's taken over and functioned in the past. That's good and useful.

At the same time, we can see a bunch of small town assholes speed running the authoritarian playbook every day. Case in point: the (unelected) city manager of , Washington. This guy's got it all:

Stirring up hate against a particular demographic? ✅

Using state sponsored violence against those people? ✅

Aggressively attacking political opponents? ✅

Attacking media that is critical of the policies? ✅

Breaking laws and contracts while blaming others for the same? ✅

Hiding information from the public that they have a right to know? ✅

Replacing community-trusted advisors with like-minded, unqualified replacements? ✅

I could go on...but you can also just read about it: https://publicola.com/2024/04/12/burien-city-manager-demands-removal-of-police-chief-who-wont-arrest-people-for-being-homeless/

The point being, we don't even need history to see how this will play out on a national and international scale. It's happening in small towns all over the place at high speed.

eagerpebble,
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It's also worth noting that this town is such a nowhere place, that our local fake news (@TheNeedling) joked that it doesn't even exist.

https://theneedling.com/2023/11/28/new-study-finds-burien-just-fictional-place-we-all-imagined-in-collective-fever-dream/

Vivaldi, (edited ) to random
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🌸 Spring is here, and so are updates with Vivaldi 6.6 on iOS and Android!

For iOS:
Spruce up your browsing with colorful themes, a slick dark mode, even for websites that don't support them, and other fresh updates.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-6-6/

For Android:
Make your Start Page uniquely yours with custom wallpapers and you now get faster webpage translations with Vivaldi Translate! 🎨📱
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-android-6-6/

With Vivaldi 6.6 now available on Desktop, iOS, and Android—we're eager to know what you think and like.

Talk to us, we're listening! 👇🏻

eagerpebble,
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@Vivaldi my tabs view on android is now broken

eagerpebble,
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@Vivaldi I was able to get it working again after clearing cache storage and force stopping.

eagerpebble,
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@Vivaldi I just broke a bunch of stuff at work last week due to unknown dependencies, so I know the feeling. This is the first time I can think of where a Vivaldi update has had any sort of issue, so I can't really complain. We learn and move on!

evacide, to random
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"How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack" is a sentence that plunges me into the deepest, darkest infosec despair.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/awareness/2024/02/how-to-tell-if-your-toothbrush-is-being-used-in-a-ddos-attack

eagerpebble,
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@evacide Whew, that was quite a deep dive into the topic. I'm amazed they were able to express such complex ideas in such a brief format!

hacks4pancakes, to random

Everyone keeps sending me that news article about the German railway trying to hire a DOS and Windows 3.1 expert. You don’t understand- that is my whole job. That’s literally my normal day to day cybersecurity career.

eagerpebble,
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@hacks4pancakes oh yes. My life as an infra engineer using AWS is just repeatedly asking the questions:

  1. You put what in the production account?!
  2. So how much do we REALLY trust AWS?
  3. Why are we giving AWS so much money while we build like we're running on a server under our desk?
Em0nM4stodon, to privacy

People Who Hire People 💼​:

Please I implore you,
do not require candidates create an account to apply for an open position.

Candidates often apply to hundreds of places before finding a right fit. Can you imagine having to create a hundred accounts that you will never use after just for that? This is a real data privacy nightmare for them, and for you too!

Please don't.

eagerpebble,
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@Em0nM4stodon Honestly wondering here: is there a platform that does this other than workday? I went through two job searches last year, and workday applications are the only ones I remember making me do this.

For those of us who can exert some influence over our company's recruiting practices, let us know what other platforms suck so we can push back.

eagerpebble,
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@Em0nM4stodon That sucks. I hope you find something soon!

kennwhite, to random

them: aren't you afraid of losing your job to AI?

me: "chatgpt, generate an image of a passenger in a crowded airplane sitting in a middle seat in the last row."

chatgpt:

eagerpebble,
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@kennwhite Why does that one person on the left have the only seatback screen on the plane and why is it so small?

LadyDragonfly, to random

If a cisgender person gets upsetti spaghetti because you used the Latin prefix cis- to describe them, I think the best thing to do is comply with their request and use the Greek synonyms homo- (same) and hetero- (different) instead.

Problemo solved, my homogender buddy.

eagerpebble,
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@johnshirley2024

It's really hard to overstate how little your actions 50+ years ago mean when you are actively arguing with the lived experience of a trans woman on the internet. I honestly can't fathom how tiring this must be for her.

Plenty of cis and straight people have been participating in the joke of the post you are taking issue with. The problem here isn't language or who posted it. The problem is you.

I see from your profile that you're leaving mastodon soon. I suggest you move that date earlier.

parismarx, to random
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Which Mastodon app should I be using?

eagerpebble,
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@parismarx have you tried using the progressive web app? That's what I use on android. It should work on iOS too.

GottaLaff, to random
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US launches airstrike on site in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias https://apnews.com/article/5be245a2927334ad0d78b8ec35fa55b7

eagerpebble,
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@GottaLaff
So much for not turning it into a regional conflict...

briankrebs, to random

One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

eagerpebble,
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@briankrebs Finally! I think it'll also be good for companies that want to support messaging customers over signal.

sundogplanets, to random
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Once again, the sound of scientific discovery isn't "eureka!" it's "WTF?"

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/nasas-lucy-surprises-again-observes-1st-ever-contact-binary-orbiting-asteroid/

eagerpebble,
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@sundogplanets Quick, find a small child name Lucy and use the names of their two favorite stuffies (assuming the names are different...which...well...)!

donni, to random
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Tomorrow is another day, even though we just had a day. Nobody asked for this

eagerpebble,
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@donni
"Annie" is a documentary about an orphan who holds the world hostage by making the sun come up over and over.

tenacity, to random
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Are you wondering why our Flatpak still reads 1.3.1? Well...we forgot to update the version info :/

No worries! If you've updated your Flatpak to the latest version, you will be using 1.3.2.

eagerpebble,
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@tenacity We've all been there.

sundogplanets, to random
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I have a very long zoom meeting this afternoon that I have to do from my campus office, and I remembered to bring knitting needles with me but I FORGOT YARN. So I'm going to be very un-focused during this meeting 😭

eagerpebble,
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@sundogplanets I was effectively working remotely years before the pandemic started. I always ensured that there was a break every hour for long meetings, just like when I was in person. I feel like everyone else forgot about this practice when the pandemic hit. Luckily, I now work at a company that encourages everyone to end meetings 5-10 minutes before the hour or half hour. Still, those long meetings are brutal without regular breaks.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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So when I was in graduate school in 1993 and you wanted to compile a latex manuscript on an IBM 386 processer, you hit the button and went to get a cup of coffee. Five or ten minutes later, it would be done.

These days it happens in the blink of an eye.

So why is it that in 2023 basically every manuscript submission system in existance takes at least 10 minutes to latex a file?

eagerpebble,
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@ct_bergstrom
Because they're still running a couple 386s in the basement?

eagerpebble,
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@tob
Funny story similar to that:

Many, many years ago, Amazon had a system that let customers upload user manuals for items. It stopped working one day. It took weeks or months for someone to notice. It took longer to figure out why. The entire ingestion system was run on some engineer's desktop. When he left, IT took the machine and wiped it.

They decided to just remove the feature instead of trying to fix it.
@ct_bergstrom

sundogplanets, to random
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That was my coldest trick-or-treating so far. My kid's candy actually froze while we were walking around the neighbourhood. problems.

eagerpebble,
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@sundogplanets How do you even do costumes in that cold? Or do you just make it up from house to house...

Dinosaur in a parka
Super hero in a parka
Ghost in a parka
Pirate in a parka

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