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amos, to random
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Heads up: if your work is protected under a CC-BY license (free to use with attribution), AI companies will feel free to use it to train their models.

wiredog,
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@amos @fluffy

Yeah, I kind of assumed that. But the people using it appropriately make it worth it.

carnage4life, to random
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Unfortunately, tech companies hiring bootcamp graduates and treating them as equivalent to a college hire was a zero interest rate phenomenon.

wiredog,
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@ike @carnage4life

Cheapest is going to your local community college and then finish off at a state university.

ucblockhead, to random
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Often when reading books written in the past we excuse all sorts of misogynist crap because the writers were "of their time".

I just reread "Dune" for the first time since my teen years. One thing that struck me was that the female characters were strong, and there was little male gaze.

Another similar work of SF from the same period that similarly would raise no eyebrows today was H Beam Piper's "Omnilingual".

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead

A lot of Piper’s work has fairly strong female characters.

ifnotnowboston, to random
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“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away.” -Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

AOC testifying in the House today 3/22/24

wiredog,
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@ifnotnowboston @jsundman

She’s talking about Sudan?

robpegoraro, to random
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Hype cycle meets rinse cycle: does my dishwasher really need a mobile app?

Years later than you might have expected, given my line of work, I've finally hit the dubious milestone of owning a major appliance with its own Internet Protocol address and mobile app--the Bosch dishwasher we procured as part of an overdue and immensely-appreciated kitchen renovation. I didn't pick this 300-series SHE53C85N model because of that connected-home possibility. (I try not to use…

http://robpegoraro.com/2024/03/16/hype-cycle-meets-rinse-cycle-does-my-dishwasher-really-need-a-mobile-app/

wiredog,
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@robpegoraro

“Pairing the dishwasher with my phone took three tries,”

I LOLed. Explain that to yourself of 20 years ago.

obvioustroll, to random
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Just went and ordered a new mirrorless camera to replace my 10+ years old Olympus PN-2 and Nikon D5300.

I spent a week researching, got advice on reddit, then waited a week to make sure I really wanted to do it.

The gating function was that I'm taking some family to Longwood Gardens in April and I want to have the best camera possible for taking pictures of dragonflies and waterlilies.

Now I'm twitching as I wait for delivery.

wiredog,
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@obvioustroll

The adapter just puts the back of the lens as far from the sensor as it would be on a slr.

I have a Z6ii. If you’re into artistic lenses the LensBaby ones are fun.

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😔 that is not nice. In, IT industry experience is becoming more a liability than an asset.

wiredog,
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@nixCraft @briankrebs

This is not new though.

carnage4life, to random
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The EU decided to create a bunch of laws to penalize and make it easier to fine US big tech companies with the Biden administration’s stance being “we don’t like them either.”

This is one of the few policy successes of the leftists on Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/07/eu-digital-markets-act-biden-dma/

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

The need to stay close to the EU wrt Ukraine has as much to do with that as any pressure from the left.

carnage4life, to random
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A common sign a software project is going to fail is when it has too many people working on it.

If that is unintuitive to you, consider the image below. This is why some companies are finding themselves to be more instead of less productive after layoffs.

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

That’s been known for decades. Heck, it’s right in the title of “The Mythical Man Month”

Stacky, to random
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Son is student of the month!!

Which led to an interesting conversation about how only the A++ students get recognized and the A+ and below students are pretty much ignored (note: son considers himself an A- student)

wiredog,
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@Stacky Man, I was happy to be a c+.

wiredog, to random
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“IF YOU EVER looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

wiredog, to random
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Looks like they moved it outside the paywall.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/29/lgbtq-gun-owners-are-breaching-the-right-wing-arms-bubble/

wiredog,
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@jimgon @obvioustroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Rifle_Association

wiredog, to random
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Hey! If you’re having trouble staying awake this might help!

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelwhelan.bsky.social/post/3kmopivvi232z

jimgon, to random
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Current temp is 52F and dropping to 23F over the next eight hours. Winds blowing at 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. This is going to be a heck of a night.

wiredog,
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@jimgon

Winds are howling here in Reston. Here’s hoping a tree doesn’t get dropped on the house…

jimgon, to random
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We needed a new car. I’m processing through how fucking expensive these things are now.

wiredog,
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@jimgon @marvin @ucblockhead Which one?

gzt, to random
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A wise Russian told me over twenty years ago that, "Normal, well-balanced people do not post on web-logs."

wiredog,
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@Stacky @gzt

Just another rediculus myth propogated by slashbots!

wiredog,
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@Stacky @gzt

Man, getting that one past auto-carrot took some effort.

wiredog, to random
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@Stacky

More KitchenAid talk.

Modern appliances are rarely built to last. They could learn something from the KitchenAid stand mixer. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/kitchenaid-stand-mixer-durability/677524/?gift=lXYKxj_TVbvBJumoueZhMGhVEVFWAzdznnls_YUKo6g

gzt, to random
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the temptation of the pawn shop bass increases: sign on the window saying SALE 20% OFF EVERYTHING

wiredog,
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@gzt DO IT!

gzt, to random
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Lol no reddit I'm not buying in to your IPO

wiredog,
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@jimgon @Stacky @obvioustroll @gzt

Adulting is overrated.

wiredog,
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@obvioustroll @jimgon @Stacky @gzt

It’s been too cold for me to ride regularly here. Except for the days it’s been too wet.

scalzi, to random
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Me answering a phone call on my smart watch:

Seconds 0 - 10: I can have a phone call on my watch! Which is on my wrist! This is amazing! I am living in the future for sure!

Seconds 10 - : Holding my arm in this position is super uncomfortable and I look like a huge dork! Who ever thought this was a good idea?

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead @scalzi

I don’t have a smart watch. I have a Timex that I don’t need to put on my glasses to tell time.

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead @scalzi

I work in a scif, and a smartwatch is another thing I’d have to remember to leave at home on workdays.

carnage4life, to random
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Funimation told users they’d be able to stream videos “forever with some restrictions” and it turns out those restrictions include its parent company, Sony, buying a similar company called Crunchyroll then shutting down their service as redundant.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

And this is (another) reason why I buy physical media.

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