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micka190

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  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

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  • Either 0 difference from digital or worse due to skipping/bad record quality. Rap records are especially bad and I stopped buying them.

    Personally, I buy them because my internet is unreliable, it makes for some nice decoration and it's nice to actually own something in 2024 (especially since Spotify keeps deleting random artists/songs from my playlists).

  • Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch

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  • Digg still exists but it’s a shadow if its former self and nobody cares about it

    As far as I'm concerned, so is Reddit. The only reason to go there anymore is for Q&A that get SEO spammed on Google. All the communities I was a part of either died after they changed the API (the only people left are the lurkers and low-effort posters) or had their mods replaced by boot lickers who immediately proceeded to not moderate the subs (which made them dead or full of spam).

    But hey, now it sure looks like Reddit is alive and well! Just look at all those ads, bots, AI replies, totally legit user posts!

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  • No, and everyone keeps recommending extensions and hacky workarounds. Wish Mozilla would gets its head out of its ass and just add a damn button that runs the firefox -p [profile] command in the browser itself so we wouldn't need to use keep a desktop shortcut instead.

  • Is rpi still the single board go-to?

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  • I've had an RPI3 running for 7+ years (currently running Home Assistant on it). Still uses the original SD card that shipped with it, too. These things are durable and reliable as hell, as far as I'm concerned.

  • So far left you get your guns back.

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  • Because American media keeps pushing the idea that the Democrats are "the left" and because Democrats oppose guns because the Republicans promote them, they equate owning a gun with being a part of "the right".

  • Shiiieeettt.......

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  • It’s not that we want to ignore warnings.

    Speak for yourself, I promise you the team I work on actively ignores warnings and doesn't even want to solve them as they pop-up. Being told you can't compare doubles (because of precision loss) and ignoring it is on the developer and isn't even that hard to fix. Most of our warnings come from shit like that.

    Like, I get it. It's probably not worth it to hunt down every "unused variable" warning (especially in an API where we used to have a variable for it and we don't use it anymore and we don't want to break the existing API so we just leave it there), but there's things that are just trivial to fix when you're working on code that's right next to it.

  • Shiiieeettt.......

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  • Oh yeah, I'm genuinely about to hand-in my resignation as soon as I find another job over this kind of shit. I keep being told that the business is really trying to clean-up its act when it comes to coding practices, but they keep putting some of the most incompetent people I've ever worked with in charge of shit (because they do promotions based on years of experience instead of actual actionable experience). It's awful.

  • Shiiieeettt.......

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  • First thing I do on my projects is enable warnings as errors and increase my warning levels when reasonable.

    Unfortunately, the same can't be said on the projects I work on at work. Drives me crazy that we get likes 300+ warnings whenever we run the app and that we can't change it because "they're just warnings*.

  • Bluesky federation goes live

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  • We had a thing a while back on Lemmy where a bunch of semi-popular instances (including lemmy.world, though they seem to have rolled that back) all defederated from instances that mentioned piracy. I don't have a problem with piracy. I want to talk about piracy.

    If Lemmy ran on a system like Bluesky's, I wouldn't have needed to consider making a new account on another instance just because me and the admins disagree on what we want to see on Lemmy.

    I get your point, I just think It's a matter of preference, at the end of the day.

  • ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here?

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  • "Gentlemen, it's come to our attention that every one who could pay to use our product is paying to use our product. Unfortunately, it also means we're no longer growing infinitely like we promised the shareholders we would. How do we fix this?"

    The infinite growth mindset is so fucking stupid. Like, you're still making an insane amount of money, what's the fucking problem?

  • Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike

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  • They've been advertising this price hike for a while now. We've cancelled ours. Got the last "Hey, are you super duper sure you want to cancel?" email yesterday. Fuck 'em.

  • Single-Page Application

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  • you won’t get table layout as we had in dark ages of Html

  • Single-Page Application

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  • I kind of get it.

    • No images is because they want it to work in a plaintext environment.
    • No tables because you just know someone is going to use it to format stuff that isn't tabular data, though I guess there isn't a way to actually render tabular data either...

  • Single-Page Application

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  • motherfuckingwebsite is pretty old at this point. I remember seeing it on Reddit like 10 years ago. Parallax was all the rage back then, when we called "hero" images "jumbotrons" (because Bootstrap called it that, I think?)

  • YouTube now suggests new content by colour

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  • Things I wish YouTube would let me do:

    • See dislikes
    • Disable Shorts (uBlock lets me filter them out, at least)
      • At the very least let me control the fucking volume on Shorts instead of muting/unmuting them only if you're going to force them down my throat (seriously, it makes the entire video format unwatchable on Desktop because every fucking Short video is so god damned loud)
    • Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video (I do this thing where I'm about to pause a video and hold down the click until they're done talking and this change is just so fucking stupid, I don't understand who needs to hold down left click to fast-forward)
    • Actually block channels I'm not interested in
    • Block videos based on keywords
    • Recommend videos based on the one I'm currently watching if my watch history is disabled
      • Seriously, since disabling it YouTube does nothing but recommend "trending" crap that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm watching

    If they'd implement even half of that, my user experience would shoot up through the roof. But, you know, they couldn't give a rat's ass about user experience.

  • "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pl

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  • My dad accidentally bought 2 chargers a few weeks ago. He tried refunding it, and what do you know, the company fired their support staff and replaced them with chat bot AIs. Anyway, the AI looked at his order and helpfully told him he had already returned the product and it had already been refunded so there was nothing left to do.

    It kept doing this to him every time he tried to return the second charger, and there wasn't any other way to contact them on their site, so he ended-up leaving a 1-star review on their site complaining about the issue. Then an actual person contacted him to get it sorted-out.

    This whole AI trend is so fucking stupid.

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  • Maybe, but Safari has a dogshit UI and I much prefer Firefox over it. I despise the fact that they don't let other browsers use their extensions, though (even though they're forced to reskin Safari). I'd install AdGuard on Firefox if I could.

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  • Same. Overall, I'm happy with my iPhone, but not having an actual browser with an actual ad blocker (uBlock Origins) is really painful. I've had to live with ProtonVPN's ad blocking, but that only prevents sites from loading, it doesn't hide the actual ad links...

  • Why docker

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  • I find it makes my life easier, personally, because I can set up and tear down environments I’m playing with easily.

    Same here. I self-host a bunch of dev tools for my personal toy projects, and I decided to migrate from Drone CI to Woodpecker CI this week. Didn't have to worry about uninstalling anything, learning what commands I need to start/stop/restart Woodpecker properly, etc. I just commented-out my Drone CI/Runner services from my docker-compose file, added the Woodpecker stuff, pointed it to my Gitea variables and ran docker compose up -d.

    If my server ever crashes, I can just copy it over and start from scratch.