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Linux nerd and consultant. Sci-fi, comedy, and podcast author. Former Katsucon president, former roller derby bouncer. http://punkwalrus.net/

  • Where did you learn everything you needed to know about online discourse?

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  • Started with online BBS's in the 1980s where you could get kicked off for being a dick (and your phone number banned) but Larry Wall's "rn" for Usenet used to say before every post:

    This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

  • Hawaiians unite to buy back land from billionaire in a move never seen before

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  • The US National Park service frowns on people tossing anything into the volcanos. But the deep, deep ocean has no enforceable jurisdiction.

  • I will have my laptop and be available intermittently

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  • A statement which, in itself, is a generalization.

    In addition, some European countries have more, like Sweden’s legal minimum is 25 paid days per year, with a special rule for new employees hired after August 31 granting only 5 days until the next April. Sick days 1–14: Paid by employer at a minimum of 80% of salary, subject to a deduction, and from Day 15 onward: Compensation provided by the state, typically 80% for 364 days, then 75% up to 550 days, with medical certification and administrative reporting required. https://www.e-days.com/holiday-compliance-guide/emea/sweden

    Even if what you said were true, the "stupid" Europeans have it better than the US.

  • Japan marks highest-ever temperature of 41.2 C in Hyogo

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  • I have endured a Phoenix, Arizona heat at just under 120° F and opening my motel door was like opening an oven to check on something you're baking. Our rental car had to have the AC on for about 3 minutes before sitting in the seats wasn't searingly painful. It took about 5 minute for the steering wheel to be comfortable enough to grip for more than a few seconds.

  • A devious interview (more images in post)

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  • You got me. I think it was because our group was under one contract set of hires (I was an employee, but some of these people were still part of a contract), which is why we weren't let go immediately. But sometimes you get some manager who doesn't want the OLD people, but a FRESH NEW set of people. For example, when the entire QA department was let go an outsourcer, all the documentation we made was thrown out the window because "that was the old way!" And the next major software release was a disaster. And we were going from a 16 bit client (Windows 3.1x based) version to the new 32 bit (Windows 95/98-native) version, and the QA/testing was not really part of the process. "Who are these product testers, and why are they so negative about the product? LOSE 'EM! They only see mistakes, there's no room for that kind of attitude, and it slows the whole release cycle down."

    Corporate stupidity.

  • A devious interview (more images in post)

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  • This is comedy gold. MANY years ago, late 1990s, my department was getting laid off, but due to some contract line items, they gave us 90 days to find a new job within the company and then blacklisted us, which was another bullshit thing. Then someone found in a job hiring seminar in a nearby convention center where our company had a booth. The seminar was free, so a bunch of us went.

    At the booth, we found out that they were interviewing for our jobs (QA testing engineers). Not a surprise, but they got excited when the first few of us were uniquely qualified (duh). But after the third person, that guy didn't hide we still worked for our company. Someone from the HR team panicked when they realized the group of us were CURRENT employees. What made it even funnier was that not only was it the same QA testing jobs they needed to hire for, but the pay was about 20% greater than we were making.

    HR called corporate asking "what do we do???" Corporate said "SHUT THE BOOTH DOWN!!" A very weird reaction. Then we applied to other jobs at the fair, and when we left, the booth was still closed. The next day, those that interviewed got taken into a meeting room and cursed out by management for "that stupid stunt!" We asked, "so why are we being blacklisted?" "You're not being blacklisted!" "Uh... nobody internally will return our calls, and we have found out that they were told not to return our calls due to a leaked email."

    Oof. Oddly enough, i got a new job a few weeks later in the same company. So it kind of worked.

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • This platform became "mature" with less downtime around the Reddit API disaster, and I wanted to support it. I still use Reddit, but I go here first.

  • That's quite the discovery

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  • "I WOULD WALK FIVE HUN DRED MILES AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUN DRED MORE!"

  • Donald Trump's administration deports five migrants to Eswatini

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  • I would imagine that they see your country as small, unable to fight back, and "full of savages." I am SO embarrassed at this administration, they live in some weird childish fantasy land like 1950s cartoons. These are people with huge paintings of cowboys in their offices, like "Custer's Last Fight" by Cassilly Adams, showing Custer somehow fighting off Indians dressed as Zulus (a lot of 19th-century artists sometimes portrayed Plains Indians in "Custer's Last Stand"-style paintings with elements borrowed from Zulu warriors due to ignorance, theatrical flair, or lack of good references). Deporting these people to your country, which is probably seen as "generically Africa" in some undefined manner, "put the savages back with their kind."

    These politicians are a stain on anything good and decent about Americans. Again, on behalf of America, I am deeply sorry this administration is so immature and reckless. Reminds me of this joke from Johnny Dangerously

  • Florida Attorney General warns "weather modification" experiments and "geoengineering" could have played a role in Texas floods

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  • Specialization can breed a narrow limit of scope when it come to general knowledge. Sometimes the best lawyers and surgeons are complete idiots when it comes to falling for things like, say, internet scams. I am not sure if that's what's happening here, but I have known enough assistants of big skilled people that they always say "This guy is a brilliant surgeon, but doesn't know how to cook or even how to shop for his own groceries."

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • All over the map: Barracuda, SkyHawk, Ironwolf, Constellation, Cheetah, etc...

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • Three companies, kept track, but not after I left. It was always funny to me that they bought out Atlas and Maxtor. "Of course they did. Why not dominate the market on shitty drives? lol" I am surprised they hadn't bought Deskstar.

  • Trump Cognitively Declines In Front Of The World During Meet With NATO Leader

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  • "Don't you think he looks tired?"

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • Yeah, but it's Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I'd say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.

  • Who Remember This? We Also Broadcasted It Live To Schoolrooms

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  • It's the "not handling" part that gets us as kids. We knew better. Adults didn't. In my case, I was in high school, but it was on a "Teacher workday, student holiday" we had each semester. I watched it live on NASA TV, which we had on channel UHF 55 in the DC area. Even the voice of mission control delayed about a minute or two. I remember thinking, "THAT didn't look good..." but then they said nothing but normal speed and temp readings, so I thought it was just the angle of the chase plane. Only when the famous "forked cloud" appeared that the announcer said, "we have an apparent major malfunction," or something.

  • Non-Negotiable!

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  • I have nothing to add but "thank you." You really do make a difference. <3

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • I'd compare LLMs to a junior executive. Probably gets the basic stuff right, but check and verify for anything important or complicated. Break tasks down into easier steps.

  • Just wanna sleep in a lil

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  • Uber has been stuck at the same light for like, 20 minutes now. What is he DOING?

  • Which chair you sittin in?

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  • I mean... it depends on body type, I would imagine.

  • Oatmeal

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  • Skyr. Nice, Nordic name.

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    Punkie @lemmy.world

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