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- Comment on Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show 2 hours ago:
What a shitty manager and company.
She deserves far better
- Comment on Monke 3 days ago:
Not really…
- Comment on Monke 3 days ago:
Why cut the response?
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 4 days ago:
I didn’t know GC memory cards were hotswappable…
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 4 days ago:
It is funny, a few years ago my YT account got flagged, for 17+ years it worked fine, but suddenly I could not watch age restricted videos, they wanted my ID to verify my age.
However, most videos I watched was not restricted, so I ignored it, and realized something, I just had to wait a month or two and then my YT account was 18, and I suspected they would lift the block at that time.
And, indeed they did, I never sent in any ID or verified in any other way, and it has worked fine for years since then
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 6 days ago:
Because it is not really the idea specifically that you patent, you patent a method of making an idea work.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 6 days ago:
I disagree, patents makes sense for normal citizens, it gives them a legal framework to fight against a company just taking the invention from them without compensation.
As for the 99% vs 1% contribution, remember that it is usually the last 1% of a project that consumes the most time.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 6 days ago:
Ok, so granny got swatted, why?
What was the police told about the situation?
Is there an article about this which explains the cause of this.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 6 days ago:
I disagree, if I spend time and money to figure out how to solve a problem efficiently, why shouldn’t I get to profit from that idea?
The above only applies to hardware patents, software patents however should not extist.
Regardless, if a company are not actively using a patent, as in a product themselves or through licensing, for X years, then the patent should be void.
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 6 days ago:
Yes, that seems to be the accepted term
- Comment on Humanity collapsed 1 week ago:
The ones I have seen have the bubbles connected in pairs and have less air in them.
This gives each air bubble a larger surface area to spread the pressure over, and with a lower pressure over all it means that you have to squeeze both connected bubbles at the same time and harder before they pop
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 1 week ago:
Interesting!
I have wondered about that!
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 1 week ago:
I don’t have the energy to set one up, or to moderate one, but there should be a community called “GeneralInterestClub” or similar, where interesting but not really super useful info like this would be reposted.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 1 week ago:
Gone Home is a lovely game, the story is a bit sad, and parts has a creepy vibe, but it is interesting and well worth a playthrough, it is more similar to Firewatch than Portal.
- Comment on That's clever 1 week ago:
This made me wonder, what is the fuel and oxidizer in a coke/mentos reaction?
To me, it seems like coke is the fuel, and mentos is the oxidizer.
Or would you say that coke is a monopropellant and the mentos is just the igniter?
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 1 week ago:
No need to mess about with modifying the layout, just use the AltGr key as I wrote about earlier.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 1 week ago:
Use the AltGr key!
AltGr is a key on ISO keyboard, it means Alternative Graphic, and when you hold it And press either [ or { you should get the correct glyph.
Note that you won’t see it at first, it waits for the next character and will modify it to include the change, or insert it in front of the next character if the character does not use modifiers.
You can press space after triggering the glyph to just print it separately.
- Comment on Just say no 1 week ago:
Yes, the ability to do that exists.
But you gain far, far more understanding if you write the code yourself.
- Comment on Just say no 1 week ago:
Fair point, I agree completely.
- Comment on Just say no 1 week ago:
I have figured out where my intense dislike of using AI comes from.
My need for control/understanding stuff I create.
I find the idea of giving up knowledge and skills in favor of statistics based chatbot to be repulsive and extremely dangerous.
I am no systems developer, I am an IT guy, I write some Powershell from time to time to automate stuff, I understand the code, if I didn’t, I would not run it on prod.
A huge amount of why normal office workers like using AI, in my opinion, is that they never learned how make even simple scripts which would have helped them in a lot of their tasks.
And now they use AI to make a computer kinda guess what they wanted, but with no way to verify the code before running it.
I honestly can’t understand why companies/governments/institutions believe that a chatbot is better than a skilled and knowledgable developer.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 1 week ago:
Yeah, while perspective is important, this just using people suffering from cancer as bat to stop a slight annoyance.
I have found that in the most cases it is far, far better to simply let the person cry their frustrations out, allowing the built up emotions a safe outlet, then when they have calmed down, start focusing on even the slightest positivity they can work with, after that you can start adding humor to the situation and in that you can add perspective.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 weeks ago:
I can see three options.
- Division, this would divide a lot of groups, and cause a lot of internal rifts.
- Unity, a foreign entity could easily be a powerful unifying force.
- Biological disaster, either through incompetence or ignorance, we or the aliens don’t practice good biohazard containment, spreading infection throughout our world.
- Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac 5 weeks ago:
You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.
The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.
- Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac 5 weeks ago:
That was exactly my point.
- Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac 5 weeks ago:
Ok, so students can select either:
- A computer that they can study, work, (light) game, edit photos, and do much more on, without a digital use by date.
- An admittedly excellent office suite, a collection of games, for a limited time, and an Xbox controller, but only if they buy a specific computer.
Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.
- Comment on Belgium seizes military equipment bound for Israel 5 weeks ago:
Sweet!
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 month ago:
I buy my music track by track on iTunes, I have never got an ad when listening, nor do I have to keep paying for the privilege.
- Comment on Just a scratch 1 month ago:
Why the consulate?
Why not directly to the embassy?
- Comment on Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools 1 month ago:
Google might build the perfect unbreakable crypto, but as long as it remains closed source, I will press X to doubt.
One of the most annoying things about IT is understanding that for the vast majority of users, even if you have the source code, it is absolutely impossible to verify that a specific program is actually running on your hardware and has not been modified.
Your code may be clean, but then you compile it, how do you verify that the compiler doesn’t add secret functions? Ok, so you used an open source compiler, like GCC, but how can you trust the GCC binary, you don’t know how that was compiled.
And so on.
So for your own sanity, you lower your security standard to be able to actually get work done.
It sucks, but the best thing to do is to adopt an increased risk, to a point.
- Comment on If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops? 1 month ago:
Look for the most common model in your area, and get one in the most common color.
Then forget about running, focus on evasion instead.