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bus_factor,

Season 5 of Suits has therapy as a big theme.

bus_factor,

When discussing the results of court proceedings what matters is the actual law, not what you think should be the law.

bus_factor,

Looks like the company is www.winterwinds.io, but they do not appear to have any open job listings at the moment. I assume this is an older screenshot.

bus_factor,

If they’re a good enough fit, the company might hire them despite not having any open positions. It happened to me once.

bus_factor,

I read that he paid it down a while ago, but kept going with all sorts of weird movies because he was enjoying it. I guess he’s finally had his fill.

bus_factor,

It’s not a paradox to them. They’re supporting Israel going to war not because they like Jews, but because they think it’s going to trigger the second coming of Christ.

theguardian.com/…/us-evangelical-christians-israe…

bus_factor,

Just open the main page of archive.org and paste the URL into the search field, and you’ll see all the copies they have archived.

bus_factor,

If Joe Rogan and Seth Rogen had a child

bus_factor,

This was the norm in Portugal when I visited in 2010 at least. In my childhood theater in rural Norway there was always an intermission as well, because they didn’t have dual projectors. Hot-swapping projectors was the only way to avoid one in the analog film days, as we all learned from Fight Club.

bus_factor,

His videos about the project are an adventure in themselves.

bus_factor,

I’m not saying it’s unrelatable, I’m saying the videos are interesting to watch. The amount of stuff that man created on his own is nothing short of impressive, and the way he talks about it is intriguing. Most of the videos are equal parts impressive and weird, and they’re worth a watch even if you’ll never try the OS.

bus_factor,

I got banned from some sub for calling out people on their shit in some post on the front page. I didn’t even realize what sub I was commenting in. Didn’t matter of course, and my appeal got ghosted.

bus_factor,

You can work it out yourself. 6% is the same as 6/100, so 6% of 50 is (6/100)*50. Then do some algebra and see if you can jiggle it to say (50/100)*6. Then replace 6 and 50 with Greek letters so it looks more convincing.

Opium cultivation declines by 95 per cent in Afghanistan: UN survey (news.un.org)

According to the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2023, released by the agency on Sunday, the supply of opium declined by an estimated 95 per cent, falling from 6,200 tons in 2022 to 333 tons in 2023, corresponding to a fall in the area under cultivation, from 233,000 hectares to just 10,800 hectares over the same period.

bus_factor,

Not very surprising. The Taliban bans opium farming every time they’re in power. Opium farming exploded again after the US invaded Afghanistan, and now that the Taliban is back there’s another crackdown.

bus_factor,

The secret ingredient to get on the front page of Forbes is fraud.

bus_factor,

They’re suggesting that they copied the HTML file, but that the archived one had modified references pointing to archive.org, which they did not notice and therefore didn’t change. So now the file fetches resources from the wrong place.

bus_factor,

As an elder millennial, porn has been prolific longer than you think. Late 90s and early 2000s LAN parties were half playing video games and half copying vast amounts of porn from each other.

bus_factor,

The issue for me isn’t the sex, it’s that the scene is irrelevant to the plot. If the sex is relevant to the plot I don’t mind, but when it’s obviously just slotted in to show tits, that’s annoying because it breaks immersion for me. It makes me think about the agenda behind adding that scene instead of thinking about the story I’m watching.

Obvious product placement is kind of in the same category for me. Like Will Smith in I, Robot spending 5 minutes of the movie super excited about receiving some “vintage 2004 Converse All Stars”. Like, the movie is set in 2035, but you just had to find a way to plug this year’s model of some shoes. Sure, those shoes have looked the same since forever, but the 2004 ones were just something else, man!

bus_factor,

Don Jon (2013) is about a porn addict, so having some sex scenes made sense there.

A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) has a few sex scenes which are hilarious, and they really fit the vibe of the movie.

bus_factor,

It was more mainstream than you’d think in Norway at least. I was easily the nerdiest one at the local one I attended at the time.

bus_factor,

Probably stopped being funny when the third person looking for IT showed up.

bus_factor,

So you’re saying it probably was just some random coworkers who changed it to 404 in the first place? Then IT is probably getting sick of it, too.

bus_factor,

Looks like Johnny Cash to me, and the quote would make sense from him.

Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)

Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....

bus_factor,

Both. It will prevent other sites from seeing some of your data, while giving Google more of your data. Of course Google wants to do this, it gives them a competitive edge. Smells like brewing lawsuits, though.

bus_factor,

Yeah, we saw Microsoft do that with Windows and Internet Explorer back in the day.

bus_factor,

Google also operates in the EU. They’ll probably get a slap on the wrist in the end, but first there will be a widely publicized lawsuit.

Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)

So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...

bus_factor,

Just got my second Brother, the only way I’d switch to a different brand is if they also turn to shit.

bus_factor,

Yeah, our second one was to get color printing as well.

bus_factor,

While potty training, my daughter held her poop for over a week. We had to cave and let her use a diaper, because she was at risk of permanent injuries. Then suddenly one day she decided diapers were for babies and started pooping in the toilet.

bus_factor,

Oh no! I have a hard enough time changing diapers now, can’t imagine how hard it will be when I’m 109 years old!

bus_factor,

Some things got better. The magic variables, the killer feature which popularized PHP and also introduced the most vulnerabilities, has been gone for more than a decade. It’s not nearly as easy to accidentally make a vulnerability now. WordPress is still horrific, though.

But the reason PHP is still around is simple: There’s not much competition. mod_php is still by far the most convenient way to run shared hosting. You just install the module, and people can put .php files on their website and it just works. No need to set up FastCGI, some servlet engine, reverse proxy or any of that jazz you need when using python, ruby or node.js.

Sure, if you’re running your own VM somewhere, you can set all that up, but a lot of people are still on cheap, shared hosting, where all they can do is upload files via FTP. The only real scripting language which doesn’t need any server software configured is PHP, so that’s what those hosting providers support.

bus_factor,

Sure, I guess I should have phrased that as “any additional server software beyond the webserver itself”, but it’s kind of a mouthful. And people would still get after me in the comments, because actually, that’s technically true for CGI as well, although the poor performance makes it a no-go for anyone doing anything commercially.

bus_factor,

I may be out of date on node.js. What is the price point for that? I’d imagine they’ll have to fire up a separate interpreter for each customer? I’d expect that to be more expensive.

The point here wasn’t really the user experience, though, but what is cheap and easy to support for a company providing bottom-tier shared hosting.

bus_factor,

vim. Just basic vim, I don’t jazz it up to be all IDE-like. I want my vim to behave exactly like it would if I’m on some random other computer.

If I need autocomplete, ability to jump to the definition of stuff and so forth I use whatever the other people on the project use, which is often vscode these days.

bus_factor,

Most of the configuration I’ve done in vim is to remove whatever someone else did. Like I log in as root on a server and someone put set number in /root/.vimrc. Like having the line number in the bottom right wasn’t enough for you, you need to waste three columns to show numbers for every line on the screen, and now I can’t copy and paste from vim without having to delete three columns from every line? NO.

bus_factor,

Apple does have some open source contributions. One example is CUPS, which was made by Apple and is now used by most modern Linux distros for managing printers. If you want more examples you’ll have to ask someone who actually likes Apple, I’m sure they can think of more.

bus_factor,

While Apple have contributed to WebKit, they did not make it. It started as a fork of KHTML, a KDE project.

bus_factor,

Thanks for the correction!

bus_factor,

Definitely needs to still launch you to the stratosphere if you land at the edge of a jump.

bus_factor, (edited )

Haven’t several open source projects already remastered Quake?

bus_factor,

Outlaws. Where are ya, marshall?

bus_factor,

Norway doesn’t have a minimum wage because the unions don’t want one. They believe having a set minimum wage sets a low anchor for negotiating, and that they can negotiate higher wages without one.

Select industries do have a minimum wage for their specific field, though. And there’s a legal minimum you must pay teens working in summer internships, because they’re not unionized and often get lowballed.

bus_factor,

You can’t really compare US and Norwegian unions apples to apples. They don’t work the same way. In Norway they’re way more mainstream, work closer with the government, and they don’t employ people. There are no “union shops”, and no vote to join a union. You just join one while employed directly with your employer.

You can still negotiate your own compensation, but the union may also negotiate raises for the entire workplace separately (including for non-members). In a way you could say the union negotiates a workplace-specific minimum wage.

The risk of union workers getting fired and replaced with scabs is far less in Norway, because there is much stronger worker protection. These protections apply to everyone, not just the unionized workers, but they were achieved due to unions, years ago.

I don’t think you necessarily can draw any conclusions about strategy for Norwegian unions based on experience with US unions, or vice versa. They’re just different beasts.

Note: Apologies if some of this is mildly incorrect, I have not been directly involved with union work in either country, and so I only have a high-level view of it all. Someone more experienced should be able to give more detailed information about union strategy in either country.

bus_factor,

They’ll just tell you you’re infected with 5G now.

bus_factor,

If you want really good answers, you will need to be more specific about your requirements.

The absolute cheapest as the question is stated is to go dumpster diving for a free hard drive and host it at a friend’s house, but this is likely not what you had in mind.

  • Do you need backups?
  • Does it need to be encrypted at rest?
  • What bandwidth do you need up and down?
  • Is it okay with a monthly bandwidth cap?
  • what latency is okay? Is cold storage where it takes a day or more to fetch the data okay?
bus_factor,

That’s unlikely to perform well enough to be usable at all. You’d at the very least need some sync method which just updates the blocks you wrote to, and that rules out a lot of cheap storage.

You’d be better off with either cloud storage a la Google Drive or Dropbox, either mounted from the remote location or used as storage for a sync-based backup solution. You could have it upload things instantly if it listens for save events in inotify.

bus_factor,

If you put that much trust in users you are in for a rough time. You’d get tons of “forgot password” requests because people expect to fill in every password field they’re presented with. If you ask them what mode of auth they used, they don’t know. Heck, I consider myself fairly on top of things, and I don’t always remember how I authenticated to some site I rarely visit.

Most users would rather wait for an extra page load than deal with any of the above.

bus_factor,

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, most users don’t remember what they used when they created the account, particularly if it’s something they don’t use often. It’s also cumbersome to have to input that, especially if you bundle that with an optional password field.

That’s not to say you don’t have a point about leaking that information. Personally I’d be more concerned about leaking the fact that I have an account at all. If this is a concern for you, you are likely not inclined to use the likes of Google Auth or Facebook Auth. You’d be better off using a unique password for each service, store them in some sort of password manager, and rely on the default behavior treating “local account” and “no account” the same in terms of showing you the password field.

Maybe that’s not your preferred behavior, but it does allow you to keep that data private while simultaneously being easier to use for the SSO users.

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