I’ll start. Not to toot my own horn but I feel I’m at least partially responsible for getting a friend to see the value of romantic love, which she managed to find!
Think about how you have treated both strangers and people you know to answer this question accurately. e.g.: If you say you like people but constantly avoid talking or doing any activity with other people do you actually like people?
Read a book recently about demographic ‘replacement rates’ and how low it was in South Korea and Japan (as well as a LOT of other countries, including in Europe).
Author pointed at Canada as a success story of reversing the trend. Offered an example of how immigrants, especially those who could start businesses or were educated could help with the demographic issue without impacting the economy.
But you have to first get around the xenophobia issue. A minister standing up and pulling the proverbial fire alarm is a first step.
Getting back surgery (and fixing the problem, instead of, like, not ever being able to walk again). Then getting the green light at work so I can start work on a project I’ve proposed. And lastly, getting one of my side projects past the finish line.
So robbers rob a bank and take hostages. Then when nobody shows up or cares, the robbers call the feds to report the bank management for not having made a bigger fuss. The real victims aren’t the bank or the hostages. It’s the poor, ignored bank robbers.
Designing some custom labels for when I start bottling before Christmas, so I finally have to get around to coming up with names. The cherry has had its name since before I even started it, as well as a tagline and description. So cherry is set. Need to come up with something along the same lines for the blueberry and the mixed...
Yikes! Have two of those 2TB drives for archiving. Been afraid to plug them in until a firmware update. If it’s a hardware problem, that makes it even worse.
I am fully aware of what vpn services to use and not. I am not using Express VPN, I am simply doing research for a master thesis, when I came across these results from Express VPN. If you have any ideas or corrections, please let me know why a VPN provider would need to have access to these permissions....
There are Bluetooth FIDO security keys out there for 2FA, like: thetis.io/products/fido2-ble-security-key. Some implementations can also use a phone, running an app via BLE. Not sure if they use it, but that could be one reason it’s asking for that permission.
Camera permission may be needed for scanning QRCodes to set up 2FA.
IRL, local foodbanks, MSF, school, and environmental causes. My wife and in-laws, we pretty much just gift each other donations to charities we each like for holidays and birthdays. Other than an odd book here and there, none of us want more stuff to clutter and toss into landfills.
So far our oldest kid is heading the same way. Lectured us when our 20-yo fridge leaked and we had to get a new one. Asked why we couldn’t just fix it and keep using it :-)
I’ve been struggling with a rather complex shell script, and it’s becoming apparent that Bash might not be the best choice for this particular task. While I usually gravitate towards statically typed languages like Go or Rust, I’ve noticed that many people recommend alternative languages such as Lua or Python for scripting...
You can create quick and dirty CLIs, invoke shell commands, and have all of python available for things like parsing config files, getting and setting environment variables, and making remote REST calls.
So long story short I’ve worked with proprietary software X for a long time, and specifically I do a lot of work investigating the SQL database for software X. Writing custom reports, making queries to find problems, the like....
Blogging and knowledge sharing, plus a little bit of marketing of posts will get you noticed. If possible, also give talks at Meetups or conferences.
Articles that require arcane knowledge, but shows demonstrable value (saves customers time, money, improves /dev experience) will set you up as the authority. You can also do tutorials, walkthroughs comparison posts (x vs y).
Next step is to contact company X and share your posts, and see if they need professional service help. If the product is early stage, they can probably handle the work in-house. If the product is medium mature and has traction with enterprise, there’s a good chance they can’t handle all the customer demand and will send them your way just to keep the customer happy. If you get to that stage, may want to keep an eye out for other devs you can bring in on larger projects.
Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?...
Not-so-secret of Reddit success (vs other link aggregators) was that they allowed NSFW content. Set up a separate opt-in corner of Fediverse to post that stuff and a big chunk of reddit will migrate over.
Another day, another product joining the Google graveyard. On the upside, this time it's not a messaging app.
From The Verge:
"You might remember Google had a $5,000 Jamboard whiteboarding meeting room display — well, that’s also discontinued. The Jamboard hardware will no longer receive software updates on September 30th, 2024, and its license subscriptions will expire the same day.
"Then users will have until December 31st, 2024, to back up Jam their files, and on that date, Google will cut off access and begin permanently deleting files."
Pity the schools, universities, and businesses that paid Google $5000 for a "smart" whiteboard, only to now be told their files will be deleted.
Brewery in San Francisco, meeting a friend. We had both been careful and masked up. Ordered a round and went to the far end. Unmasked to drink and chat. Bartender comes over and asks if we want another round. We say yes. He brings it over. Nobody’s masked at this point.
Next day, I get a scratchy throat. Tested positive. My friend, thankfully, dodged the bullet.
Is this the same Shadrack Tucker White that studied practical, non-indoctrinary, apoliticial fields such as… checks notes… “Economics” and “Politicial Science” from a public university?
Hopefully, they place their servers at 2x the historical peak floodpoint. Or set up standby zones in different geographies in case there’s a power or network outage.
The cloud isn’t just for storage or compute. There are a number of managed services that let you build a full application by snapping together lego building blocks.
For example, pop together a REST API handler, an auth service, a few functions-as-a-service, a database, and a storage service. Then add a static website server. Throw a CDN in front. You got yourself a dynamic application service that can be accessed globally for a few pennies and can scale up and down without you doing anything. Add multi-zone support and auto-DNS failover and you’ve got a production quality scalable, resilient back-end, for both web and mobile. When it’s not being used, it costs very little and when it goes big, hopefully it means you’re doing well. Wrap it all in an infrastructures-as-code script and you can bring all this up in 30m.
To host all that in-house, you would have to buy a lot of equipment, stage it, manage it, add cooling, electricity, security patches, upgrades, security, etc. Now you have part of your business just doing all this instead of focusing on what you do best. I won’t bother going into the tax implications of capex vs opex.
This, is what the cloud sales people call ‘undifferentiated heavy lifting.’ There are reasons to have on-prem hardware. For a lot of applications though, it makes more sense to let someone else take care of all that infrastructure cruft.
I’m looking for a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t need dust bags and gets its power from the wall socket with a cord. The suction power has high priority for me...
Asked a vacuum repair person after the Hoover died which one was the best. He recommended Miele. First one (canary yellow canister) lasted 18 years. Second one (green canister) is 5 years old and still going strong. Both with HEPA filters. Damn near pulls up the floorboards.
The problem a lot of people have with it is in Steps 1 and 2.
Step 1: download an app. There are so many now, it’s hard to tell them apart and decide which one is better or worse. The official mobile one is OK for most, but there are half a dozen others and no easy way to pick one over the other.
Step 2: Create an account. Turns out that decision is where people get stuck the most. Which server should they choose? One based on their interests, their location, where other exiles from their previous social network went, or go for a big one like mastodon.social? And since you can create more than one on a different server, should you create more than one before you get going? So many decisions.
Finally, let’s say you’ve gone through both steps and are finally on. How do you get followers, or decide who to follow?
Itt’s all good once you’ve jumped in, gone through a week of confusion, missed all the people you used to follow because they’re too scared to leave and FOMO. Then you realize following a hashtag is a good thing, but it brings in a lot of people spamming it (try following #press to get news) so now you have to start muting accounts.
Now put yourself in the shoes of an old auntie fed up with the crap on other sites and how they can navigate all this.
Until the onboarding experience – from zero to where you’re enjoying the experience and not feeling like every step is a potential cowpie – is streamlined, people will keep saying it’s hard.
I’m a big fan, btw, and have pretty much cut out all other social networks, but I don’t think my auntie would enjoy it quite as much.
What's something you've done that you're proud of?
I’ll start. Not to toot my own horn but I feel I’m at least partially responsible for getting a friend to see the value of romantic love, which she managed to find!
What do you miss the most from the 90s?
For me it’s holding a VHS in the store and looking at the cover.
Three bedrule apartment, great view (feddit.de)
Do you like or dislike people in general? Why?
Think about how you have treated both strangers and people you know to answer this question accurately. e.g.: If you say you like people but constantly avoid talking or doing any activity with other people do you actually like people?
South Korea on brink of ‘extinction’ unless embraces immigration, says minister (www.telegraph.co.uk)
GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in. (github.com)
Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub's VP of Developer Relations:...
What are you looking forward to in 2024?
What’s the most positive experience you’ve had on Lemmy / Kbin / Fediverse so far?
Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Need some (kinda dirty joke) names for my mead. Any ideas?
Designing some custom labels for when I start bottling before Christmas, so I finally have to get around to coming up with names. The cherry has had its name since before I even started it, as well as a tagline and description. So cherry is set. Need to come up with something along the same lines for the blueberry and the mixed...
SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
In what world does a VPN need access to Camera and Bluetooth? (i.imgur.com)
I am fully aware of what vpn services to use and not. I am not using Express VPN, I am simply doing research for a master thesis, when I came across these results from Express VPN. If you have any ideas or corrections, please let me know why a VPN provider would need to have access to these permissions....
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100+ researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash?
I’ve been struggling with a rather complex shell script, and it’s becoming apparent that Bash might not be the best choice for this particular task. While I usually gravitate towards statically typed languages like Go or Rust, I’ve noticed that many people recommend alternative languages such as Lua or Python for scripting...
What the !#@% is a Passkey? (www.eff.org)
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What are you most looking forward to?
An amazing 40x40 inch art piece made entirely out of cigar bands by a prisoner circa 1909. (lemmy.world)
Credit: The Vinyl Dinosaur...
How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software?
So long story short I’ve worked with proprietary software X for a long time, and specifically I do a lot of work investigating the SQL database for software X. Writing custom reports, making queries to find problems, the like....
Stellantis Diversity Groups Mobilize to Provide Scab Labor at Auto Parts Plants (theintercept.com)
What purpose would this be used for? (files.catbox.moe)
I found it at the dollar store.
What's a movie you enjoyed so much in theaters you saw it multiple times there?
Personally, The Rocky Horror Picture Show....
How dare you ask this? Was it just to get into a programming memes page? (suppo.fi)
The audacity to do such a thing…
How can we boost Lemmy membership?
Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?...
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money (www.theverge.com)
Lemmings who know where/when they contracted COVID, how long after your exposure did you become symptomatic?
Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.
What is an event that changed how you view the world?
Which is your favorite Lemmy app?
Auditor says several college majors indoctrinate students and should be defunded (abcnews.go.com)
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings (world.hey.com)
ANTI-UNITY STRATEGY (lemmy.world)
twitter.com/monsterprom/…/1702442081170383355?t=L…
If an alien civilization were to visit Earth, what movie would you pick to show them in order to give them a summary of what mankind is all about?
What's the best vacuum cleaner in your opinion?
I’m looking for a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t need dust bags and gets its power from the wall socket with a cord. The suction power has high priority for me...
God damn them all. (lemmy.world)
An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) (www.staygrounded.online)
PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
Porn age verification law is unconstitutional, says judge (www.theverge.com)