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fasterthanlime, 1 day ago to random

good morning

pwaring, 14 days ago to random

Pondering getting a robot voice app for my phone to get past the voice recognition systems that companies use to identify / route you which obviously haven't been trained on regional accents (e.g. 'please say your postcode').

ramsey, 15 days ago to random

What’s up with 19.2 fl oz beer cans? I mean, I like the size, but it’s not an even amount of anything. It equates to 567.81 ml.

Yes, I know American units are wonky, but sometimes they’re weird because they actually equal to an even metric number. For example, they sell 16.9 fl oz water bottles because that’s a half liter.

So, what gives on the 19.2 fl oz / 567.81 ml measurement for these tall cans?

fasterthanlime, 25 days ago to random

After months of Just Trying To Get Our Respective Divorce Lawyers To Do Their Goddamn Job, my future ex-wife and I are signing the divorce tomorrow at 2PM (according to mine) or maybe 9AM (according to hers), who knows, wish us luck 💖

ngons, 1 month ago to random

Crescent vortex tiling

#Tiling #MathArt #MathsArt #Hexagon #Geometry

fasterthanlime, 1 month ago to random

i'm against capital punishment except for people who DON'T have their phones set to "silent" in public places

pwaring, 1 month ago to email

TIL: Something which I suspected for ages (and is really annoying) but have finally found the answer to, is that @thunderbird global searches are faceted and try to find close matches:

"Most of the time this is a very useful feature, but there is no way to disable it if you want an exact match"

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_-_Thunderbird#Global_Search

#thunderbird #email

OndrejMirtes, 2 months ago to random

Never trust a test you haven’t seen fail first.

pwaring, 4 months ago to golang

TIL: Go doesn't support heredocs, unlike PHP (and other languages). You can create raw strings with backticks, but they retain indentation within the string (heredocs in PHP can be made not to). There are GitHub issues proposing it, which quickly descend into endless arguments over how things should be done (e.g. one guy insists that no one should write SQL queries in their code).

Fortunately someone has written a module:

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/MakeNowJust/heredoc

#golang

dangoodin, 6 months ago to random

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

eclectech, 6 months ago to photography

It's amazing how quickly fungi appears. Yesterday there were a few scattered around this wooden planter in the garden, today it was fully surrounded. LOADS of them.

Fortunately they are very friendly, and hope you all have a lovely day.

#sillyScribbles #photography #fungi #fungiFriday #silly #drawing #gardening

grumpygamer, 6 months ago to science

I can now confirm that spit-takes are a real thing and don't only happen in movies.

#science

fasterthanlime, 6 months ago to random

MuseScore is the winner of this week's "UX dark pattern" contest.

If you do nothing, you're not unsubscribed. If you click the button, you're not unsubscribed. You need to uncheck the box then click "Change subscriptions".

Y'all are going to extra-hell for this one.

pwaring, 7 months ago to random

Struggling to understand the advantage of token authentication in web apps today. I have to make a username+password request to gain a time-limited token, which I then use in other requests. So if someone intercepts my token-based requests there's a limited time in which they can use the token.

But I still have to send the username + password repeatedly to the same API to get a token. If someone is intercepting my requests they'll still get the credentials.

pwaring, 8 months ago to random

Does anyone else enjoy working with legacy code and systems? I really like improving them, or working under the constraints (most of the time). It's often more fun than just installing the latest all-singing, all-dancing framework that does everything for me. But clients with old systems say they really struggle to get support.

#LegacyCode

afilina, 8 months ago to random

The new Slack layout is a deal breaker. Now I'm shopping for an alternative. Any suggestions?

I work with multiple clients and contractors for a short duration. This means that easy onboarding is a must. Also, it makes no sense to pay per seat (external Slack users worked well for this).

Should the app manage multiple workspaces, it should under no circumstances try to merge anything to "simplify". It is critical that the separation between workspaces is clear at all times.

pwaring, 8 months ago to random

TIL: My fridge does not make a warning sound if the door is left slightly ajar. Just had to throw away the contents as I'm not sure how long it's been open (enough to make the back freeze up). Luckily as I live by myself that's not a huge amount, but still annoying.

BlindiRL, 8 months ago to random

I just recorded two dwarf fortress tutorials back to back and now I feel like its December again.

catsalad, 8 months ago to random

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ramsey, 8 months ago to random

How do folks take 20-30 minute naps? It takes me at least 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, no matter what’s going on. I would like to learn how to take short naps.

grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

AI is turning out to be a bust unless you're doing ransom scams, creating malware, disrupting elections with fake videos, cheating on test or a publication misleading readers.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/ugly-numbers-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt

ramsey, 8 months ago to random

Is there a way to disable or hide the #PHPUnit deprecations? I have 265 of them for data providers that aren’t static, and I can’t easily switch to static data providers, since many of the data providers call instance methods (i.e., $this). So, it’s going to take me a long time to upgrade my tests so that I can upgrade to PHPUnit 10.