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medem

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  • What I don't get is: why exactly is such software so popular ? Does one really need it instead of just swiping twice or thrice to find the app one is looking for?

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  • France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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  • Wexit.

  • Anti-bully measures

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  • He'll very much do something about it: express 'deep concern' and call 'on all parties to respect (inter)national law'.

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  • TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.

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  • For the sake of completeness, YSK there are only two countries in the world that are named after the families that rule them. They have a common border and are both kingdoms: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

  • Divide & Conquer

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  • The book 'Freakomomics' deals, among many others, with the similarities between a corporate giant and a regular criminal organisation. In short, petty criminals risk death or prison for only two reasons: a) they feel they have no other choice and b) they are hoping, one day, to become part of the top members. That's about it. Think about it for a while and the argument is easily transposed to the '''legal''' corporate world, which also explains why middle managers tend to be obedient assholes who, instead of being mad at those exploiting them, exploit their underlings themselves.

  • Any good selfhosted instant messaging?

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  • Prosody (XMPP server). Setup takes an hour at most even if you have never worked with Lua. Easy to interact with (it has a built-in shell), easy on system resources, and easy-to-understand config. Support for groups, E2EE, attachments including videos and voice recordings, among others.

  • One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing

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  • Text book example of "I know what I am doing is stupid, but everyone else is doing it and I'm smarter, so when consequences arrive, they'll affect everyone except me".

  • GitHub Is Down

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  • Replace code written by humans with AI-generated code! They said. It will be fun! They said.

  • What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable?

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  • This, and don't forget to use W3's HTML and CSS validators.

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  • 'If powerful assholes don't find you 'arrogant', it means you're doing something wrong.' - N.N. Taleb.

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  • I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide are just awesome.

  • I thought you cared

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  • On the other hand, most middle managers are unable to actually understand the fact that most employees are motivated more by non-financial stuff. You spend, if you're lucky, A FUCKING THIRD of every workday at work. The whole 'package' must be at least acceptable to the employee or she'll go. It's really that simple.

  • Good call

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  • Um. What? Does anyone actually identify with this? I live in one of the least friendly countries on earth, and I spent a nontrivial amount of time in children's playgrounds in the last couple of years, and I would have very much appreciated it if anyone, ever, started a conversation there.

  • Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger

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  • Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn't make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

  • Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”

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  • Sounds familiar: didn't the AWS outage last month also nuke 3,000+ USD 'smart beds'?

  • Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”

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  • Toilet cameras. Every time I think to myself that humanity's intellectual capacity has hit a new low, reality proves me wrong.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A (poorly written) Shell check if the process was able to write to the production database which in some, not all, cases threw the gem:

    !!!!!!!! SQL ERROR !!!!!!!!!

  • TIL - FBI recommends using an adblocker for security

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  • About a year ago, I read a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto, which was originally published before the big players took over the internet. Every once in a while, I had to put the book away because it was too depressing to read their original theories on how the internet would liberate people, facilitate interactions between customers and companies, connect like-minded hobbyists without any gatekeepers involved and create meaningful relationships between stakeholders. Of course all of those things did indeed happen in one way or another, but 5 companies accounting for at least 80% of internet traffic and consumers being force-fed all that absolutely obnoxious adwords crap everytime they visit any useful website is definitely not what they, or any internet idealist for that matter, had in mind.