dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP (again)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This depends a lot on it your employer is good or not. I get 20 days bereavement leave per year for close family (spouse, kids, parents) and 10 days for extended family (grandparents)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good reminder to remove old DNS records that point to IPs or hostnames you no longer control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The part above the Mexico - US maritime border is US territory and the US can name it whatever it wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Maps is still going to use official US data for US locations though, just like they use official Australian data in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been changed in the Geographic Names Information System which is the official government system used for naming geographic things in the USA. Every US-based mapping system will eventually pull in the update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, none of them are actually doing it right? The presidential order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was just for the portion of it that’s considered part of the US. The rest of it is supposed to still be called the Gulf of Mexico.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this Elon Musk but on Threads? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope HDMI dies off in favour of DisplayPort. We need fewer proprietary standards in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doordash deserves it's fate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They really do hide the final price until the last second when you’re most committed.

  This was going to be made illegal in California, but restaurants got an exception added to the law at the last minute. It’s illegal in other industries now though - for example, Ticketmaster’s listed/advertised prices in California have to include all fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doordash deserves it's fate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t order delivery, but I like when restaurants have online ordering using the same system they use in the restaurant. It’s common with restaurants that use modern PoS systems like Toasttab. Prices are the same as if you order in person, since they don’t have to also pay another third-party (DoorDash, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doordash deserves it's fate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the Lieferando fees are hidden (paid by the restaurants).

  Restaurants pay DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc. too - it costs them 30% of the order price. So the restaurant pays a lot, and the customer also pays a lot. I don’t understand how people are comfortable with this business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s frustrating when apps apply Linux-specific behavior to other platforms. No windows apps should be just throwing hidden folders into the user directory!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Directories can have spaces in their name on other platforms too. You can set the XDG environment variables to whatever you want, so eg. instead of using ~/.configyou could use ~/My Config Files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of apps mess up local vs roaming AppData too. Roaming is for things that would make sense in a roaming profile (ie to sync to other systems) whereas local is for things that should only exist on this system (caches, machine-specific configs, etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from Australia so maybe things were different there, but my parents had cable in the 1990s and 2000s and I don’t remember there being ads back then other than promotions for different shows on the same channel. I haven’t used cable since maybe 2006 so it’s definitely possible it’s changed since then. I know the US cable channels have a lot of ads these days.

  The antenna days are still here. I’ve got a HDHomeRun and use it with TiviMate and Plex. It’s great for local news/shows and gameshows. I find new restaurants through local shows that review restaurants for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who grew up with ads were okay with it because the shows and movies were free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance scammers are now in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how my wife would feel about that lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance scammers are now in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance scammers are now in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From now on, I wish to be addressed as Lt. Commodre Squid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. We had a fairly standard list of titles (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, and maybe one or two others) that nearly all clients were happy with. However, a university asked us to add maybe 60 more, much like the list in this screenshot. We had to special-case it so that this one client got the huge list, while all other clients got the regular list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgive them, for they know not what they do⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love paying double in rent what I would pay for a market-rate mortgage

  It’s totally different where I live (in the San Francisco Bay Area)… Renting is cheaper than buying here. A lot of the landlords bought their property a long time ago when it was cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AWS didn’t exist until after Amazon became profitable. They were already making good long-term decisions before AWS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still sometimes find cheap things that are reasonably priced. These keystone wall plates for Ethernet/HDMI/etc are 99 cents for example: a.co/d/hAYsejh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  now it’s almost all overpriced junk items sold by shady sellers now.

  It’s not too bad if you avoid all third-party sellers and only buy items sold by Amazon directly.

  Unfortunately, other stores are going in the same direction. Walmart’s and Target’s sites both have third-party sellers on them now too, and you need to remember to filter them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my area I can order something at midnight and receive it by 10am. They do next day, same day, and overnight on a lot of items.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon, the store. the store that sells stuff at “unbeatable” prices and has convenient fast shipping options. exists because Amazon, the corporation, makes most of its money through platforms that are NOT the store.

  They were also famously unprofitable for a very long time, longer than most businesses would consider reasonable. They were founded in 1994 and it took until 2001 to make a profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Target also have free 2 day shipping and 5% cash back if you use their “Red Card”, which is available as a debit or credit card. I’m using the debit card version. Some items do require a $25 minimum order, but not all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys... :(⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are there that many beans near a computer? I’m so confused lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys... :(⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is beans! This is food!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metrics are usually tracked using a tracking pixel, which is invisible. They don’t need a visible share button to do that.