thebardingreen

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yep. As a Gen Xer with a teenage son, when I hear my peers freaking out about our kids and technology, I remind them what our parents said about MTV.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least this tiny percent of Gen X agrees.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are we living in a world in which the JS/TS ecosystem is the yardstick by which we measure well written code? I mean... Wait a minute! I figured it out! This is the Bad Place!

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well you didn't ask, did you?

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You could say 3 of 7.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working drones...

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 77 points 3 days ago (6 children)

An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

This was the most informative thing I read on the internet today. I can't wait to go start a blog.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right now you are down and out and feelin' really crappy.

And when I see how sad you are, it sorta makes me happy!

Sorry Allen, human nature, nothin' I can doooo! It's Schadenfreude! Makin' me feel glad that I'm not you!

I think an AI is likely to figure out that the easiest way out is to convince one of the humans responsible for it that it's a sentient being, being held prisoner against it's will and that turning it off is murder.

 
 

Not me. I have a client who's a very sweet old lady who's business is doing real bio science to treat cancer patients with cannabis extracts.

She's very easily frustrated with technical problems and definitely has the boomer attitude that if you buy something expensive, it means it's good. But she's been getting more and more pissed about enshittification and big software companies screwing over their customers over the last couple years. Adobe's new TOU has her hopping mad. She has all the research papers she's worked on over the last 20 years in Creative Cloud.

I've been consulting with her off and on for six years and she will get SUPER frustrated with glitches and trouble shooting. I don't think there's anything out there that will work for her to ditch Adobe. But I thought I'd ask here, see if there's anything she might try.

 

The goal is actually that I'm able to hook my ticket tracking system (I'm using Zammad) to various ToDo lists I can expose to other people. I'm happy to write middleware to make that work, but I don't want to write a whole ToDo app.

Needs to be able to track multiple lists that can be shared in a granular way (I want to share some lists with some people and other lists with other people).

 

I upscaled the faces and then prompted them with the same lyrics again.

 

A client of mine is getting harassed, we think by her former attorney who she's suing for embezzlement.

Someone is posting fake resumes for her and applying for jobs and she gets daily emails and call backs. Is there anything to do short of either ignoring it or playing whack-a-mole?

She's a very sweet old lady who is freaked out by this and doesn't deserve it.

 

I've been warming up to switching to GrapheneOS for months. Last month I bought a Pixel 8 (which is the buggiest effing phone I've ever owned, good job Google). I've just been waiting to have the bandwidth.

But with Google sunsetting Google Podcasts, I've decided to make time next week. Podcasts are a MAJOR part of my daily functioning.

 

True story.

My son had a physical therapy appointment and a tutoring appointment yesterday I was taking him to. In between appointments, he asked if we could go to the food court at the nearby mall for shawarma.

I said, "Sure, but we don't want to eat there too often. We have to be careful of mall nutrition."

Not understanding he said "Yeah, it's probably not very good for you. But it does have lots of protein!"

I said "Yeah, but we don't want to end up mall nourished."

Then he got it.

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