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ocdtrekkie

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Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

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campuscodi, to random
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ocdtrekkie,
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@campuscodi This is where I am with Android. Probably macOS too, but, stranger things have happened.

JenMsft, to random
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Chaotic neutral: Don't use bookmarks. Keep every browser tab you've ever used and needed open until you are done with it

ocdtrekkie,
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@JenMsft I think this is what... people do. I don't understand it. I neither retain tabs nor bookmarks: I let autocomplete find URLs I've visited before.

QasimRashid, to random
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It's not just Republicans in states like like New Hampshire & Missouri who are trying to protect child marriage.

The United States has a child marriage epidemic, and it's worse than you think.

My recent OpEd: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/america-has-a-child-marriage-epidemicand

ocdtrekkie,
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@QasimRashid That's just embarrassing. The number of things you have to be 18 to do in comparison is just wild.

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Trying to convert a Sqlite database into a mysql database is a certified nightmare. I had no idea... for some reason I thought it was going to be trivial :(

ocdtrekkie,
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@frigginglorious I am sure you have a good reason but also I have to ask... why you would want to.

ocdtrekkie,
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@frigginglorious Hahaha oh no, not MediaWiki! I am actually amidst the opposite move, trying to restore an old bare metal MediaWiki into a Sandstorm grain for long-term archival. There is no good way to do this. Particularly since MediaWiki has no good import/export and upgrades are only supported like two versions at a time.

...This is why there are two different MediaWiki packages for Sandstorm now, and also why I chose to just copy every page into the new grain manually.

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It's incredible watching the politicians who told Israel to "do whatever you have to do" including "drop nukes" on Gaza, then vote for tens of billions in arms for Israel as they knowingly bombed civilians, even to the point that Biden admitted it violated international law, suddenly clutch their pearls that the ICC is enforcing international law.

Suddenly "law and order" and "international rules based order" need not apply. smh

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@QasimRashid I mean, the US is not exactly well-known for recognizing the Hague to begin with. The law applies to thee but not to mee has been sort of our go-to approach, unfortunately.

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Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24074314/google-now-offers-web-search

ocdtrekkie,
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@verge Create the problem and then offer to solve the problem.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

ocdtrekkie,
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@mcc I can't wait until StackOverflow learns about GDPR.

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    ocdtrekkie,
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    @BoscoZebra @dansup @evan @cwebber @thisismissem @Claire @lanodan @trwnh @grishka @smallcircles @deadsuperhero That's an incredibly poor way of looking at it. Bad social media is responsible for Trump's election, the rise of the alt-right, etc. Social media has insane amounts of impact on the world, and these folks are doing it to make the world better instead of make profit at any cost.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @BoscoZebra @dansup @evan @cwebber @thisismissem @Claire @lanodan @trwnh @grishka @smallcircles @deadsuperhero The developers building the fediverse are saving the world in the way they know how.

    GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    Like @Quinnypig, I’d love if Google went on the record about what happened with this one.

    https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

    Tl;dr is an entire org got wiped, and they’re trying to suggest it’s some kind of Google Cloud issue as the cause.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @GossiTheDog The other fun fact is that a bunch of these companies have like 100,000 employees, and they get really upset if you point out on HN or the like that they are stanning their employer.

    I have been accused of "doxxing" for merely pointing out a guy loudly justifying why Google was the best at everything was a manager on their Ads team.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @ainmosni @GossiTheDog Yep, one of my favorite "shills Google on HN in his free time" guys got laid off by them last year, and I had a good laugh about it.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @ainmosni @GossiTheDog The free on-site amenities and events are huge. It's not just about keeping you on campus, it's about tying your whole life to the company. A few of the people I have argued with the loudest were "Googler with Googler spouse" which is just... absolute corporate success. The entire family is company-owned.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @ainmosni @GossiTheDog There's nothing inherently wrong, of course, with meeting your spouse at work, but it happens so much more often in these companies because the employee's entire social circle is the company.

    indivisibleteam, to random
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    Exactly six months from right now, the first polls will be closing in the 2024 election.

    The work we do over the next six months will determine whether our country keeps building on historic progress or goes back to the fear and chaos of Trump.

    If you can, pitch in to power our organizing to win in November. We rely on grassroots donations and every dollar makes a difference: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stop-trump-again?refcode=mastodon20240505directpost&source=mastodon

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @indivisibleteam I mean these are accurate to aspirational goals but if Biden was able to do half of them he would've done them. If we aren't getting control of Congress we can hold off some of the bad but we aren't actually making any progress.

    mcc, (edited ) to random
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    Programming languages that practice the doctrine of Anattā: C++, C#, Java, JavaScript

    Programming languages that do not practice the doctrine of Anattā: Lua, Ruby, Objective-C, OCaml, Swift, Rust

    Programming languages which are ambiguous with respect to the doctrine of Anattā: Python

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @mcc My prevailing theory when writing PHP is that if I think a pattern should work, it probably does, somehow.

    Viss, to random
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    two whistleblowers have come forward from inside boeing with a lot of stories/intel/material.

    both "suddenly died".

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @Viss Still not sure I buy the story executives would risk a murder charge to avoid a mild slap on the wrist for corporate negligence considering the US will never meaningfully act against Boeing for any reason.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @Viss I mean it's not like the US government needs a company to be squeaky clean to do business with it either. If anything, presumably the forces outside of Boeing would very much like to have leverage over Boeing.

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    You know what I miss? A random Matt Damon cameo in a movie.

    In fact, he should just do cameos.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @atomicpoet If you had Matt Damon money, why would you do anything else? Show up one day, film a single line remark, get paid. Why do all the extra work to star in stuff?

    deadsuperhero, to random
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    Just because someone specializes in something you don’t like doesn’t mean they’re some kind of villain.

    A lawyer specializes in advising and defending AI model creators? Tough titties: somebody has to do that job, and everyone deserves representation in a court of law. It’s better if someone specializes and knows the ins and outs.

    A former Twitter cofounder did business as an angel investor and maybe some VC stuff? Okay, in what capacity? A guy who has repeatedly started companies giving his insights to new startups doesn’t have to be this malicious, predatory thing.

    But no, half of you hear “Masto board has Twitter guy and AI/Blockchain bro”, and the community immediately erupts into hysterics while doing exactly zero research on any of these people.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @deadsuperhero For what it's worth, I don't think it's really ideal to say "shut up unless you can code". Forgejo started as a fork of principles first, and code second.

    But what feels really silly is that the driver here is not bad behavior but baseless speculation of bad behavior.

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    When it comes to gaming, no other company has dropped the ball like Google.

    Chrome OS is basically Linux. They could have invested in Proton and therefore given Chromebook users access to a vast library of PC games that way.

    Instead, they tell Chromebook users to stream games—even though they already shut down Stadia.

    Without Proton support, it’s a bad idea to buy a so-called “gaming” Chromebook.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @atomicpoet Google will never hold any ball but ads. You know what isn't a popular place to show ads? Inside high-end games. Google will only hold onto a technology insofar as it either serves ads or protects their ability to serve ads or removes a competitor's ability to serve ads.

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @atomicpoet I never said they wouldn't pick up the ball. I said they wouldn't hold onto it. ;)

    Sometimes I go back and watch the Stadia commercial for fun. Just imagine the drugs they were on greenlighting this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Wy_pWscsk

    Viss, to random
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    how many more dead whistleblowers is THIS ONE gonna take?

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @Viss I mean any time someone talks "flying car", I just see "scam" anyways. Your most serious outcome is "private jet for billionaires", but it adds the imaginary dream for marketing purposes your average consumer can fly over traffic for the cost of a Toyota Camry.

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    if it wasnt already obvious that many bootcamps are scams..

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @Viss No, I missed that one it seems!

    ocdtrekkie,
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    @Viss I have seen a bunch of tools with those attack maps and I really don't understand the practical purpose. Is it just to make the security analyst feel cool before he goes and looks at grid views of log data all day?

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