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gsuberland, 6 months ago to random

UEFI getting owned by the vendor logo parser code is extremely on brand.

Tons of time and effort put into securing platform stuff and it gets popped anyway because execs want the laptop to show the user a Lenovo logo for 3 seconds on boot even though it's already printed right there on the fucking laptop.

solderandchaos, 7 months ago to edutooters

Do you consider yourself a data scientist of any variety? Maybe it makes up a bit of your job, maybe it’s all of it, but if you went to school in the UK and can spare quarter of an hour to reflect on a few things it would be hugely appreciated.

Link here: https://lborocmc.fra1.qualtrics.com/ife/form/SV_7PdY9nlUCvITTw2

#datascience #data
@edutooters @academicchatter

gsuberland, 8 months ago to random

the EU privacy regulators are going ham on adtech folks right now, it's fuckin' glorious.

"users must consent before you can target ads at them or track them in any way"
"ok but what if-"
"DID WE FUCKING STUTTER"

malwaretech, 9 months ago to random

Got a question because I'm useless at business. I get a lot of emails from companies asking me to do webinars, interviews, be a podcast guest, etc. They never mention any payment (not just no payment amount, but no mention of it being paid at all). Then when I don't reply, they follow up later with "btw we can pay you" and it's always phrased like they simply forgot to mention that in the initial email. I understand me being responsible for negotiating my rate, but having to negotiate getting paid at all? Is this the norm or is this just unserious companies trying to see first if I'll work for free and I'm better to just not engage at all with them at all?

dangoodin, 9 months ago to random

This is awesome! Full text search has come to Mastodon, and it's being rolled out in a responsible way.

I know full text search is a hot-button issue. For journalists, researchers and many others, FTS is essential. Plenty of others have good reason to keep their content unsearchable.

If you're in the latter category, you don't need to take any action. Your toots will remain unsearchable just as they were before.

For the rest, please manually change the default so your toots will be searchable. This will address a major shortcoming that has kept a huge number of fedi holdouts from joining.

To do that, go to Preferences > Public Profile and select the Privacy and Reach tab. Then check the Include public posts in search results.

*** Edit: sorry, my initial post told y'all to click the wrong box. Fixed.

gsuberland, 9 months ago to random

hello I would like to talk to you about your blahaj's extended warranty

gsuberland, 9 months ago to random

ADHD people: switching between things very quickly.

also ADHD people: tasks must be challenging enough to be engaging, but not so challenging that it triggers frustration intolerance.

... this is literally impedance matching.

thephd, 9 months ago to random

I think the worst part about raising a kid is that there's no moment where I have any amount of consistent focus. Just constantly obliterated. I was working on something before this all kicked off, but fuck if I even remember what the fuck I was doing before Emergency #43895325 happened.

ZachWeinersmith, 9 months ago to random

So I watched The Dark Crystal with the 9 year old last night and it's always disappointing how weak of a movie it is. I found it only makes sense if you assume Henson just had lots of ideas for cool scenes with advanced puppets and then just loosely strung together a plot with vaguely fantasy-sounding dialog.

malwaretech, 10 months ago to random

Would love to know the rational behind posting travel content = becoming a Republican. 😆

ketmorco, 10 months ago to actuallyautistic

@anomalon @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic if the goal is to get me to take the trash out, try:

> The trash needs to be taken out. When can you take it out by?

I can answer "yes" to, "will you take the trash out" and sincerely mean it - just on a far different timeline than you were thinking. Or just answer yes because what I'm doing is taking all my mental cycles and "yes" gets you to leave me alone.

"When will you..." Is direct and also gives me the opportunity to decide what works best

kennwhite, 10 months ago to random

Seriously, WTF College Board?

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

gsuberland, 10 months ago to random

nods wisely

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Hm. Although I believe that this is actually a feature I have specifically, personally requested (break off hashtags at end and put them underneath post specially formatted), the reason I was hoping for this feature was so separating the hashtags from the post content would make them less prominent, where this actually makes them more prominent than if the feature did not exist, actually much more prominent, so I don't think I'm going to start using hashtags…

cstross, 10 months ago to random

Why we [might] need fusion power:

a) Shipping. Big container ships can't be sail-powered (the largest sailing ships ever are about 1% of the size we'd need). But existing marine nuclear power is a proliferation and/or meltdown risk. If we can make a small fusion reactor, we could make our existing global supply chains carbon-neutral.

b) Continuous industrial processes that can't survive a power glitch, much less nighttime on a windless night (no renewables). There are a lot of those.

/1

SusanPotter, 11 months ago to random

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on [email protected].

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript