Scrubbles

@ scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech

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Little bit of everything!
Avid Swiftie (come join us at !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech )
Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)
Sci-fi
I live for 90s TV sitcoms

Scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7d ago

It is illegal to show anything like that while the car is in gear.

However, it's completely fine as soon as you turn it on, or are sitting parked, or in aux mode.

1w ago

Typical day with AI

I'm forced to use it at work and my token usage is monitored. Here was yesterday:

Build things thing, but remember: DO NOT DO THE THING.

Sure thing! I'll build out and I will not do the thing

WTF YOU DID THE THING

You're absolutely right, I did the thing even though you explicitly told me not to do the thing

I wonder if they will have metrics for how many times I've all caps sworn at it.

1w ago

Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office

Tech companies "move fast and break things". Their answers would be "What standards, we're not in the movie industry, we're a 'tech' company"

1w ago

A major Windows 11 UI redesign is coming, Microsoft is dumping legacy code for WinUI

We're what, 14 years past when they should have done that? Windows 8 introduced the new UI style, and then Windows 10 was their chance to cement it. You can't even blame compatibility, Microsoft's own controls were all behind the legacy UIs. You can tell they were pushed and rushed out the door when nothing was ready.

At this point their UI has been so hacked and slashed that the fact that it compiles is a shock to me.

1w ago

AI will make people work more, but they’ll be happy about it, Sam Altman says

Yeah they truly automated the best part of my role. Now it's monitoring Claude sessions and more meetings.

I'm planning an exit, can't be tomorrow or next year, but 5-10 years if this continues. I think they're going to see an exodus of senior talent over the next decade.

1w ago

FTC sues Hims & Hers for sending user health info to Meta, Snap

The FTC doing something good?

1w ago

Pentagon Photo Shows AI Agent Being Asked to Help ‘Create a War’

While true, if you've ever been in a bullshit marketing video you'll know that marketing is the stupidest team ever.

Just pretend like you're working!

1w ago

Is life really as awful as politics and the Internet make it out to be?

Yes and no.

Yes, in that it does and will affect you, and you do need to take an interest. You need to vote in every election you can, you need to stay involved, you need to make a stand. Without that we will lose everything we care about. Those in power have shown that they are happy to chip away at things, but as soon as any opposition is shown they start backing down.

No, in that your life is your own, and you can't let politics dictate your life. As someone with a ton of anxiety, I cannot read the news daily, I do not subscribe to the news communities, I have to stay away from it. I choose to live my life and make the most of it, living day to day. My family and friends are the most important to me, and I spend my time enjoying them. I came very close to crumpling into a deep depression due to the news, and then got help. It was a hard lesson in learning I cannot personally change everything, and I cannot hold myself responsible for everything that has happened.

Confused? Good. It's a personal journey, you have to pick and choose yourself, and draw your own lines and figure out where your responsibility is and when you've done your part. I stay educated, I know what's happening, I know who I'm voting for, I know when to stand up. That does not mean I need to stay glued to my computer and doomscroll. You'll have to draw your own line.

1w ago

Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?

Just holding up images of memes outside

1w ago

Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?

Yeah Lemmy is the last place before I just go hang out in parks and be outside

1w ago

Some folks may need this

that's the civilized way

2w ago

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

Yeah they claim it's safe because it's through their store, but isn't this a direct path to a supply chain attack? One app using electron has one bad npm dependency and it auto installs and updates on every machine? This seems like a security nightmare scenario.

Bu hey marketing gets to put their shit in front of everyone's eyes so who cares.

2w ago

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

Yeah this was a significant non answer. "We want to sound like we're doing something without doing anything"

2w ago

sadge

Its one of those moments which just makes you really happy to be here

2w ago

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.

Yeah no shit. This was the plan all along. Big tech wanted to flood the market with too much talent so they could lower pay for engineers. This was always the plan.

They never gave two shits about women in coding, or inner city coding caml's. They wanted mass cheap labor.

The cherry on top is right as that labor was coming out they got a double whammy of AI too.

2w ago

Waymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: report

fair

2w ago

Waymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: report

They also park in bike lanes and pedestrian areas so I'm not holding my breath.

That being said, yeah I'm not surprised either. Riding the bus looking at drivers I'll say a solid, very solid 1/4 minimum are doing something with their phones.

2w ago

Self-Host Weekly (24 July 2026)

Yeah, I'm hopeful that changes. I know big projects require stronger leadership, but watching the comments on things made me feel like smaller OSS devs were like me and felt discouraged from helping out.

2w ago

What can Lemmy instance owners see about you?