GroteStreet

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GroteStreet,

Go wash your mouth with some SOAP.

GroteStreet,

They seem to still be alive, as at 5 months ago

(Apologies for the Reddit link. It’s the most recent proof of life I could find)

GroteStreet,

That is good life advice.

I hammered into my elderly parents that if they ever get a call/text from their “bank”, “tax department”, “insurance”, or literally anything - ask for a case number and hang up. Then call the number listed on the official website.

Now they’re telling everyone they know about it. Good on them.

GroteStreet,

Some of it may be, but the fact that the LTS versions (20.04 & 22.04) are downloaded overwhelmingly more than the others seem to indicate it’s more intentional.

OSS Notetaking App: Notesnook (notesnook.com)

Just wanted to share my experience with notesnook as a daily note taking and information organizer app. The free tier is fairly barebones but you can use it for simple stuff, but I’ll say that the paid $50 per year tier is really nice. I’m surprised at the polish and feature set for a OSS project from 2019 but it’s also...

GroteStreet,

Nothing much. What’s up with you?

GroteStreet,

I just want you to know, seeing these cranky little beauties just made my miserable day a little brighter. Thank you.

GroteStreet,

You may get a better answer if you follow the suggestion in the comment at the bottom of your source:

// - Ask our friendly community members if you need help: lemmy.world/c/perchance

The syntax is specific to Perchance, a website that 99% of the general public have never heard of.

GroteStreet,

I don’t know where you are, but painter’s tape (or masking tape) comes in all sorts of colours. Including white.

GroteStreet,

HTML is not trying to accomplish a task but specifically displaying stuff on the screen.

But what if my task is to display stuff on the screen?

GroteStreet,

The way I normally do it is the following. Strip the sleeve further back than you need (say, an inch). Untwist the 8 cores and separate them.

Arrange them in the right order (the extra length makes this easy) Flatten, pack them together, and pinch with your thumb and forefinger near the base.

Without letting go of the pinch, use your free hand to cut them to the correct length. Now that you have them flat between your fingers in the right order, it should be pretty straightforward to slide them into the connector.

GroteStreet,

Here’s the announcement from perthchat.org

GroteStreet,

she’ll be right… @lemmy.nz

Checks out.

GroteStreet,

Not Toyotas

GroteStreet,

My neighbour was freaking out when she saw in the local newspaper that burglaries in our town had increased by 100%

I pointed out that we had 2 burglaries this year, compared to the 1 last year…

GroteStreet,

This article is prime “SelfAwareWolves” material…

Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife. There almost seems to be a global compact to control the narrative, a propaganda war powered by today’s digital technology.

GroteStreet,

Gun culture, car culture, sports culture, political culture… /s, kinda

GroteStreet,

Other than desktop pwa, what features do the other browsers have that aren’t available as a Firefox plugin?

GroteStreet,

It’s literally the only result if you search for “organic”

GroteStreet,

See, now I’m curious about the best mayo 4 years ago. Are you sure you’re not just astroturfing for Big Mayo?

GroteStreet,

The og Opera was so good and innovative. Would’ve paid for it (when it was still ad-supported), were I not a poor student at the time.

When they became yet another chromium skin with no soul, I moved fully to FF. Now Vivaldi is my second browser alongside FF.

GroteStreet,

shocked! who could seen that coming?

Someone using old.reddit who can still see the sidebar warning?

GroteStreet,

Mmyeah, 67 copies stolen to be sold, plus a stolen handgun found during the raid. Snitching isn’t cool, but those charges go beyond “not cool”.

… began uploading listings for additional copies of the game, including the coveted Constellation Edition complete with a custom-made NASA-punk space watch

That is a pretty sweet watch though.

GroteStreet,

Welp, looks like I know what I’m doing while waiting for Starfield.

GroteStreet,

This intrigued me so I tried asking some AI; and in typical AI fashion, they gave me very wrong answers very convincingly.

Gpt4 is convinced it was Vermeer’s “Art of Painting”, and gave a very verbose - but completely wrong - description of how the woman was directing the painter’s arm. The BingGPT version even gave me links… to websites with completely unrelated paintings.

Google bard insists it was Goya’s “The Double Portrait”, and gave a very detailed analysis and critique of the painting. It’s very convincing, except for the fact that I couldn’t find a painting by that name by Goya…

So I’m sorry I couldn’t be of much help. I just found the whole thing amusing.

GroteStreet,

Somehow the model that Bing uses is extremely aggressive in gaslighting you. It would be funny if it wasn’t so reminiscent of some of the most abusive relationships I’ve seen irl…

GroteStreet,

La Porchetta - weren’t they involved with the mob too at some point? There’s one near me; never seen anyone visit. I swear it’s a front…

GroteStreet,

Bonus: they also work great on Android!

Is it me, or the hive mind mentality has come over here as well?

I’ve posted some controversial stuff, and I understand why I would be getting down voted for that. But I see some of my posts and comments are in the negatives for seemingly no reason at all? I don’t really care about the karma because I can’t see it anyway, but I’m worried that comments and posts here are gonna get...

GroteStreet,

bro

I thought we were done with this shit a decade ago, when the internet became so ubiquitous that even my grandmother started using forums and posting on Reddit.

GroteStreet,

Yup. I’ve seen a few of these threads, and our Australian store always looks almost identical to the German one.

I’m starting to wonder if Google is confusing us with Austria.

Why would my parents always enter the BIOS when booting when I was younger

Basically around the 2000s we had a WinXP computer and each time I wanted to use it, either my mom or my dad had to turn it on. However they had to strike the key to enter the BIOS. Everytime when booting the PC. Then they would exit the BIOS and so Windows XP would boot normally....

GroteStreet,

“Let us just change the boot order so you can play in your shitty OS, and not our secure Gentoo drive”

GroteStreet,

That was a common issue.

It still is, but it was too!

OpenTracks is an open source sport tracking application for Android that completely respects your privacy: Almost a Strava alternative (beehaw.org)

Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations along your way with pictures. The app keeps recorded statistics in great detail for analysis....

GroteStreet,

Or think of it as “convenience fee” for the people who can’t use F-Droid.

If my friend, who thinks I’m IT support since I majored computer science, asks me which tracker they should use - I would just tell them to pay the $4 for OpenTracks.

GroteStreet,

I read the title 10 times and was still confused until I saw your comment. And I’m not even dyslexic.

Or am i…?

GroteStreet,

I think we inadvertently have given x.org the hug of death in the past few days… I don’t think their server have seen so many people link to it at once.

GroteStreet,

Joe “windmills are utterly offensive” Hockey

As much as I dislike the man, credit where credit is due, I guess. Then again, it was probably the idea of some mid-level employee whose name will be lost in history.

Wife's boss is on a power trip. Is this legal?

My wife works in a restaurant, and the power-tripping manager has instituted a new policy where all shift changes must be approved by management. I think that is reasonable enough, but they’re also asking the originally-scheduled employee why they are switching shifts, then approving or denying based on the answer....

GroteStreet,

It’s like a “special military operations”, in the workplace!

GroteStreet,

You can still do it through Linux, if you know the right commands…

GroteStreet,

Oh that’s not uncommon in the industry. Especially when dealing with legacy code.

Personal best was 40k lines in a file called misc.c containing all the global functions that don’t fit anywhere else.

Runner up was the one where each developer dumped their miscellaneous functions in their own files, so they don’t have to deal with merge conflicts. Which means we had x1.c, x2.c, x3.c … etc.

GroteStreet,

I was kinda hoping you were gonna finish that first sentence with “in a java applet”. Cause that would’ve been awesome.

GroteStreet,

the frog was boilng for some time now

Interestingly, the frogs are actually smarter than humans. Research has shown that they will start attempting to escape as soon as it gets too warm, no matter how slow you boil them.

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