patterfloof

@patterfloof@meow.social

// manchester // europe // hired geek // aws // python // php // alopex lagopus // leftist furry // he/him

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nixCraft, to random
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It is that time of year again. I need to do obligatory post 🎄

patterfloof,

@nixCraft

elaterite, to random
@elaterite@fosstodon.org avatar

Our society is broken.

At CES, I read everything is "AI"--confirming my suspicion that AI is all about marketing and not about intelligence, especially in the consumer.

Among the "AI" products on display are: AI pillows, AI vacuum cleaners, AI refrigerators, AI bird feeders, AI shoes, AI belts, AI dog bowls, AI baby strollers, AI plant pots, AI mirrors, AI baby cry translators, AI BBQs, AI toothbrushes, and so on. Oy.

patterfloof,

@elaterite I'm not saying there's a right time & place for a series of large EMP blasts

BUT

patterfloof, to random

the fediverse

rootsworks, to firefox

While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.

It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.

patterfloof,

@rootsworks well, this is a wonderful classic :)

lexd0g, to random
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so under apple's new rules, if you make a free app, distributed on a third party platform, and it gets 1.5 million yearly downloads in the EU, you still have to pay apple €250k/year

between this and apple being able to notarize third party apps, i'm not sure how this doesn't violate the DMA

patterfloof,

@lexd0g ah, the inconvenience charge, they've been doing similar things with apple repair kits, making the option available but setting things so nobody will want to use it

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/27/self-service-repair-iphone-massiive-kit/

lowqualityfacts, to random
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This blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

patterfloof,

@lowqualityfacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BxWKuntYFQ

NatSecGeek, to random

If your search engine allows exact term searches, but insists on sprinkling in "improvements" after processing the "exact" term - I hate you. I hate you so so much

patterfloof,

@NatSecGeek I also wish search engines recognised that "zero results" is just as valid as 100 matching, both better than "here's some random things you might like"

scy, to random
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I just saw someone rant about "people writing shell scripts" and, no hard feelings, but I have yet to find a mainstream programming language that allows me to build streaming data pipelines as efficiently and effortlessly as a shell script.

Sure it's not typesafe and can be hard to read and it's easy to build a clever solution that you yourself won't be able to understand anymore in three months…

…and that's when it dawned on me that this is how Perl programmers must have felt 15 years ago.

patterfloof,

@scy I used to write perl (then shifted to php for work reasons) and there's still times a shell script, piping a few commands together would be sinmpler than pulling out a full programming language

Clygro, to random
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I think I have found the ultimate disc drive, 30 quid though and I don't have the money yet (I think I get paid next week thankfully)

patterfloof,

@yassie_j @itzzenext @Clygro oh my, all the sigils & fits an internal bay (do they still make pc cases for those?)

patterfloof, to random

it'd be great if you could CW part of a toot

[whole paragrahphs of safe text]

[brief sentence of CW]

[the CW'd bit]

patterfloof, to random

#snep posting hours https://imgur.com/gallery/gUyAJx1

Bard, to random

Cause no trouble.

Glory to Arstotska.

patterfloof,

@Bard

tilton, to random
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My pizza box is trying to guilt trip me into recycling it, but we’re not allowed to recycle pizza boxes here. I must regretfully slide it into the trash.

patterfloof,

@faoluin @tilton going with the parcels that can't be recycled 'cos they're covered in tape :/

patterfloof, to random

New years reminder: make sure you enable "2 factor authentication" on any sites you use it'll be under the security settings (if supported)

makes it so you need your phone with you to login, not just a simple, single password, so keeps other people out of your account

patterfloof, to random

I need to slap one of our managers with a dictionary. If we need to spread some information around, apparently we need to "socialise that information". What, it needs to seize the means of production, or become accustomed to living among people? It is not a worker or a cat.

yassie_j, to random
@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone avatar

Ugh some fucking idiot support worker found my internal email address and emailed me directly instead of using the shared inbox

And then shared that with a client??????

Jesus Christ

Some people genuinely have their intestines connected directly to their skulls

patterfloof,

@yassie_j brb, setting up an autoreply filter of "mailbox does not exist"

patterfloof, to random

Bussing through Monton & damn, that's a lot of pubs

patterfloof,

@Doveux that fits, it's like a place to go out if you don't want the full Manchester nightlife

patterfloof, (edited ) to random

bought a new hi-fi at the weekend & pleasantly surprised that wiring speakers is still "here's some loose wire ends, prod them in & screw the contacts down

Denon CD, bluetooth & radio unit. Probably never going to use the CD as they're all on spotify/tidal etc, but WFH music without linking work laptops to spotify :)

patterfloof, to random

watching Ran & while I can't keep track of everyone, I'm enjoying the jester

patterfloof,

he's a sleeper character, feels like he'll become something

Ninji, to random
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tired: looking at Confluence to learn how things work in the MMO you work on

wired: looking at the source code

inspired: looking at the player-maintained wiki

patterfloof,

@Ninji I'm sorry you have to touch confluence, the only "wiki" worse than fandom

patterfloof, to random

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112031993850794874 and this is still more valid than AI

patterfloof, to random

and nothing of value was lost https://meow.social/deck/@raymondpert@mstdn.social/112048593568370277

(well, except for the the vast amounts of water & power consumed & CO2 produced by these virtual trading cards)

patterfloof, to random

royal mail weirdness. using their "print at home postage & address labels", which I've done before for the odd family gift

but this time it's either free collection from my house by the postie or 16p extra for me to walk 10 minutes down the road to the one remaining post office in this town

patterfloof,

@wesgeorge @NoLifeKing @leo @cstross it's nuts though, you can run full GUI linux programs in WSL & work is very picky about what software's allowed in windows but WSL's very much "use any program in there, we don't care"

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