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stolid_agnostic,

If it can be made to run via Steam, then they only need to support it as far as getting it installed in Steam. Either Proton or native, it can be made an invisible issue from the user perspective. They have made a choice not to do so.

stolid_agnostic,

If Steam can install on it, then it’s done. The distro doesn’t matter in this case. If Steam’ll install, then you’re done.

stolid_agnostic,

lol why are you simping for them? they made a choice not to do this. they could easily do it with their manpower if they didn’t, you know, keep laying people off in order to maximize profits. You’re also overinflating how difficult it is to make games cross-platform compatible with the tools available today.

stolid_agnostic,

LOL I have no skin in this game. Your comment is pure projection and I think that you have demonstrated precisely what I was arguing.

thenexusofprivacy, (edited ) to privacy
@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange avatar

FISA Section 702 Reauthorization: House GOP leadership pulls dueling FISA bills amid backlash!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/politics/house-gop-leadership-pulls-dueling-fisa-bills/index.html

Instead, a four-month extension is attached to the NDAA -- unless it gets removed. Dozens of civil rights and racial justice groups oppose extending FISA in the NDAA.

If you agree, call your Senators TODAY and with a simple ask: "DO NOT put 702 in the NDAA."

@privacy

stolid_agnostic,

Empathy, as always, is the real problem with the GOP. They are perfectly fine when it’s immigrants, liberals, gays, brown people, etc that suffer these laws. When angry white people get affected, then they are suddenly sad about it and suddenly were the whole time.

stolid_agnostic,

It turns out that the methods used to make soap have gotten more efficient at using up all the base products. You really need sodium hydroxide (lye) and a fat, usually vegetable, but can be animal. You combine and cook it until a chemical reaction called saponification completes, and you have soap. Modern soap is going to have a lot more than just that in it (like color, scent, surfactants, etc.), but that’s the basics.

Back in the day, however, soap was shipped with free lye still floating in it. This is why you’ve always been told not to use soap on cast iron. It’s also going to make your hands very dry. New soap doesn’t have free lye floating around so it’s not so hard on your hands and you CAN actually use it on cast iron, believe it or not.

stolid_agnostic,

Take 1: If I understand correctly, several of them work for the same startup. Frankly, those places are KNOWN to be toxic hellholes because they tend to be run by adulation-seeking narcissists from an upper middle class (entitled) background. Shit rolls downhill and all and your friends may just be picking it up subconsciously and don’t have the ability to really manage the emotions that this is causing. In a phrase: you might end up feeling sorry for them.

Take 2: Are you recently out of high school or recently out of college? Few people really remain friends after this because they get pulled into different directions and their lives change. This causes things to fall apart, but it is nobody’s fault.

Take 3: These people have always been toxic. You didn’t notice it before or didn’t think it was a big deal. Now you notice it and think it is a big deal.

stolid_agnostic,

I’ve done one. Not worth it in my opinion.

stolid_agnostic,

It doesn’t sound like it’s about caring or not. From the article, this situation was put into place originally as a transitional move and was never meant to have lasted for 80 years. Really, it’s just saying that the people in those states have the same rights and responsibilities as any other citizen of India.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to technology
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Are agile scrums an outdated idea?

Here's a video on YouTube making the case for why agile was an innovative methodology when it was first introduced 20 years ago.

However, he argues these days, daily scrums are a waste of time, and many organisations would be better off automating their reporting processes, giving teams more autonomy, and letting people get on with their work:

https://youtu.be/KJ5u_Kui1sU?si=M_VLET7v0wCP4gHq

A few of my thoughts.

First, it's worth noting that many organisations that claim to be "agile" aren't, and many that claim to use agile processes don't.

Just as a refresher, here's the key values and principles from the agile manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

  1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
  3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  4. Responding to change over following a plan
  • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
  • Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
  • Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
  • Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
  • Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
  • The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
  • Working software is the primary measure of progress.
  • Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
  • Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
  • The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
  • At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Your workplace isn't agile if your team is micromanaged from above; if you have a kanban board filled with planning, documentation, and reporting tasks; if your organisation is driven by processes and procedures; if you don't have autonomous cross-functional teams.

Yet in many "agile" organisations, I've noticed that the basic principles of agile are ignored, and what you have is micromanagement through scrums and kanban boards.

And especially outside software development teams, agile tends to just be a hollow buzzword. (I once met a manager at a conference who talked up how agile his business was, and didn't believe me when I said agile was originally a software development methodology — one he revealed he wasn't following the principles of.)

@technology

stolid_agnostic,

I honestly believe that the people who complain about these aren’t using them properly or work for people who don’t know how to use them properly. People have been using some version of the huddle, standup, or SCRUM meeting for a very long time. Whether it’s useful or wasteful is probably more a question about the people who are using them.

stolid_agnostic,

I’m afraid that you lose far more than that just going to and from the bathroom, the coffee machine, or down the hall to your office from whichever door you had to walk into. This is not to say that your calculations are wrong, it’s more a question of whether that is a useful metric.

stolid_agnostic,

I feel like their goal was to dumb it down and that they could have done that without misinformation.

If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it? (kbin.social)

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....

stolid_agnostic,

Do the whole Back to the Future thing and take back a list of lottery winnings, stock picks, etc. Just keep slyly moving things around at the proper times and you’d have no trouble becoming the next Bezos.

stolid_agnostic,

And it’s just theater. They aren’t catching more people because there aren’t more people trying to do things. Instead we make old ladies in wheelchairs take off their diapers for inspection (true story) pat ourselves on the back, and pray to NIMBY Jesus.

stolid_agnostic,

Person self immolated in front of on campus and I felt the heat of the fireball. Then he rolled around on the ground screaming while someone tried spraying him with water, which has the same effect as with grease fire in the kitchen.

stolid_agnostic,

You’re utterly naive. I don’t want to be mean but this is what we want as a country. Guess you never noticed before.

stolid_agnostic,

I did before Google sent me a free Google Home. Before that I played music from a beat up tablet I just kept in the bathroom.

stolid_agnostic,

The economy collapsed about ten years ago and there is no end in sight. People are struggling and desperate. That is how fascism always wins.

stolid_agnostic,

So Sunak is an idiot, got it. He’d have been better off remaining silent, a response was not required.

stolid_agnostic,

Well she at least has the insight to know that her generation of leadership in Europe has screwed up a whole lot. Most politicians can’t do that.

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

stolid_agnostic,

I think the point is that it doesn’t matter how you got it, you still have an ethical responsibility to protect PII/PHI.

stolid_agnostic,

LOL I would have definitely tested that one.

stolid_agnostic,

Remember that your cat is small and probably needs far less than you do.

stolid_agnostic,

Not sure what you mean. The economic system is separate from the state.

stolid_agnostic,

When you’re Musk, you’ve never once had to negotiate a single thing in your life. You want something so you throw money at in and sycophants will take care of the rest. This isn’t a question of him not thinking ahead, this is a question of him never having seen real consequences before and not knowing how to act in response.

stolid_agnostic,

Didn’t he end up complaining about services that are available in CA not being in TX?

stolid_agnostic,

Doctor Mike says not to do it, but I have been for years. This started when I got a wax ball that impacted against my eardrum and made me functionally deaf on one side until I could get into an urgent doctor’s appointment. The very next day, the same thing happened on the other side. I knew what was up for the second time and was able to get something from the pharmacy to handle it myself.

As best I can tell, there are two dangers:

  1. Mechanical damage, perhaps caused by accidental means
  2. Leaving bits of cotton behind that can then become infected

For me, I am fine taking this risk and plan to continue doing so daily.

stolid_agnostic,

Now that’s some serious incompetence there, and it’s sad that it took so many cases to figure it out.

stolid_agnostic,

I’m confused, are you suggesting. an adventurous finger tip to keep things really clean or shoving a bunch up there?

stolid_agnostic,

Just get a small teapot and don’t worry about it. Loose leaf tea isn’t any more expensive and allows you to control how strong you are making things.

stolid_agnostic,

Don’t buy brands that use plastic. Paper or loose leaf all the way.

stolid_agnostic,

Classic. Also ew.

Did you know that his family was watching TV in the other room while he did that?

stolid_agnostic,

I was shocked once when my roommate decided that the best way to get the freshly chopped garlic into her pot was to knock the blade side of the knife several times until the garlic fell off.

stolid_agnostic,

Would you believe that there is some browser malware that breaks this and makes you actually have to go to a Google search to get to a website?

stolid_agnostic,

They most certainly learned to use one of those top-cutting types rather then the vertical cutters. Completely different tool and I can see how that would be confusing.

stolid_agnostic,

Having to use a can opener is really a North American thing. The rest of the world moved past that long ago.

stolid_agnostic,

It’s certainly to do with the fact that nobody wants to pay for new machinery when the old ones still work. As things break, I should think that we’ll see more items use pull tabs. FWIW Europe is way ahead of North America on this.

stolid_agnostic,

I have actually heard about the wax getting shoved in, so I know what you are referring to there. I have considered it but still think I’m better of continuing to use them. Everyone is different, though.

Apparently most Asian people don’t actually produce noticeable ear wax, it’s more of a caucasian thing.

stolid_agnostic,

What’s funny is that I got downvoted over that lol.

I saw someone get downvoted into oblivion once for pointing out that a significant number of Asians don’t need deodorant. I think that there are a lot of default-white types who can’t think outside that.

stolid_agnostic,

You had me up till “please don’t kill all the humans”.

stolid_agnostic,

Change “cars” to “personal vehicle” and you’ve got a winner. We still want delivery drivers and taxis and such. What we want to do is avoid the use of a car when it’s unnecessary, and that really leaves those who practice a trade/service and need to transport their tools. Heck, most could probably use a cargo bike.

stolid_agnostic,

LOL nobody said that tomorrow they would be outlawed. People are saying that we can undo the damage that was caused by 70 years of Boomers and their parents who destroyed the world in the name of the open road and “freedom”. It was an aberration and we’ll be returning back to how things were prior.

stolid_agnostic,

Nobody is suggesting that you put a light rail out to the local farm. The urban area will be urban and the rural area will be rural. Where work is needed is connecting up the suburbs and ensuring that you can get to your places of work/school/etc without driving. Some cities never deconstructed themselves for cars (see SF/NYC) and are doing well. Other cities (see Cincinnati, OKC, etc) have room to grow.

stolid_agnostic,

Well based off your own argument, we’re as bad as dolphins lol.

stolid_agnostic,

I ONE TIME bought a Camembert with the plan to bake it. I very seriously thought that something was rotting in my kitchen and actually cleaned out the fridge. When I discovered that it was the cheese, I put the whole thing into a sealed container and the kitchen STILL smelled rotten.

Don’t get me wrong, that baked Camembert was amazing. But not worth the smell lol.

stolid_agnostic,

In fairness, it’s not like you see it at the store all year round to remind you. Maybe get a couple boxes to have throughout the year? It’s certainly on sale right now, or at least will be at the end of December.

stolid_agnostic,

New Star Wars sucks for sure. The originals are much better.

stolid_agnostic,

They’ve aged fine if you don’t expect the effects to be 2023 effects. If you accept that they were top of the line 1978 effects, it won’t bother you at all. What always made me laugh is my mother telling me how they were all dumbfounded, not by laser blasts and cool ship exteriors, but rather the introductory text moving off into infinity. I think she’d have been something like 21 at the time.

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