Brogramming Megathread

[wicked shell]

I think I found something worse than a teams message with just "hello"

"hello gr3at"
"Good morning"
"This is Dave"
"How are you?"

FOUR SEPARATE MESSAGES

[slow solstice]

Noooooo

[wicked shell]

what kills me is how unnecessary the "This is Dave" message is

[iron mulch]

it's an added security check. you can compare it with the name of the person who sent it to you

if Dave says "this is Bob" you know there's a problem :)

[wicked shell]

who is to say Dave isn't the security threat?

[rain matrix]

tbh "This is Dave" is exactly what a threat who isn't Dave would say.

This is Dave. Source: trust me, bro.

[slow solstice]

"this is Dave, I am definitely a human being"

[wicked shell]

"Hello, this is Dave ! Your fellow human coworker ! I am of 43 years ! Please direct me to your space program for dismantling !"

[rain matrix]

You've been randomly selected for a security audit. Please send your SSN and mother's maiden name so that we can continue processing.

[pseudo plinth]

dave’s not here man

[fiery ridge]

HAL 9000 when you ask him for the mission log:

[ornate ferry]

it finally happened

today we had our first vibe coder candidate with a CS degree

[pseudo plinth]

working on WOOYOO:: again

currently the cpu is getting stuck on querying the console language and there's no output on my terminal, so something is bad. guessing it's probably the ancient 10p idc cable between the cpu and sel/slu module, i don't think it's the module since i have two failing in the same way (and i'm using the usb uart that has historically worked on everything)

[pseudo plinth]

lfg

[pseudo plinth]

going through training for the new job and the ai usage policy keeps stressing how you need to double-check things, avoid biases, etc, and that you're responsible for all outputs you use

it just feels so fucking ridiculous, how much time am i really saving if i ask the lie machine and then have to go back and manually verify that the lie machine isn't lying to me

[normal tartan]

-20%, apparently

[ornate ferry]

it feels ridiculous but they have to say it

given I have already had one coworker ask it how to install ssh server and just paste the commands it spat out as root

(the commands, shockingly, did not install or configure ssh server)

[rain matrix]

Welcome to ZomboCom

[vague peak]

I hear everything is possible there

[rain matrix]

I love that that page is still live.

[wicked shell]

holy core memory

[arctic jasper]

I love going back to zombocom every year

the unatainable is unknown there!

[pseudo plinth]

really wish i could have gotten a mac for work, at least i'm in a post-wsl world now

ever tried herding *nix boxen from a windows box without wsl? absolute fucking nightmare, like pulling your own teeth

[ornate ferry]

I'll trade you, I hate my work Mac

locked down to the point I can't remove a kernel coredump so every time I power it on I get the message "your computer shut down because of a serious error"

[arctic jasper]

The future is here https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

[slow solstice]

Good lord

I thought ads at gas pumps were the worst, this is a nightmare lol

[pseudo plinth]

if one of my appliances ever advertises to me in my own home i'm going to pull out my gun and shoot it

not today, satan

[ornate ferry]

I wonder if a USB killer would fry whatever does the ads and leave the rest intact

[wicked shell]

next on the agenda, you must finish the ad before you can open the fridge :)

[rain matrix]

Please drink verification can

[ornate ferry]

also

https://safedep.io/npm-supply-chain-attack-targeting-maintainers/

(no, this is not the attack from last week, this is the attack from this week)

[wicked shell]

"Hello gr3at"
user is typing...
30 minutes later
"Good Morning gr3at"

i'm gonna crash out

[rain matrix]

gr3atj0b, I have a question.

[white sparrow]

now you need to be typing and typing and typing here for half an hour @rain matrix

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2eDcRjSsk

[wicked shell]

I might have an answer

wait did i fall for it

ARE YOU DOING THE THING

I swear if you answer in 30 minutes I'm going to lose my mind

[granite breach]

This is dave

[rain matrix]

How are you today?

[wicked shell]

unironically banned

[pseudo plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/twin-peaks-its-happening-again-gif-9584457

[blazing swan]

https://tenor.com/yrI8.gif

[normal tartan]

I've been having this issue for at least 4~ years and last time I brought it up to discord I had seen reports of it from 3-4 years in the past

Idk if just literally nobody at discord cares as long as they can keep doing useless ui updates or if they're just not allowed to work on it or what lmao

[pseudo plinth]

it's so baffling that they apparently can't even get a fucking intern to look at it lol

the easiest solution is to just allow users to hide blocked messages!

[normal tartan]

I dunno if that would fix it

You can do that with vencord or w/e as is and the only difference is you don't see the blocked messages before your client implodes

What I usually see is that it scrolls back up to try to show old messages rather than a completely empty screen, but if they're far enough back (my guess is like, as far as it takes for the "jump to present" bar to appear) it tries to scroll you forward again to show you current messages and then cycles between those until it dies

Not that I've looked into actual causes or anything

[ornate ferry]

well, I think there's a clear solution to get it fixed

do the work and research to use this to exploit the client

once it becomes a security issue they WILL dedicate time to fixing it

(not that denial of service isn't a valid attack already though)

[ornate ferry]

holy red flag resume

30 (!) different positions in 12 years

[wicked shell]

how tf

[ornate ferry]

I know we generally want to fill positions but damn

I don't think so on this one

their most recent position was "AI/ML Engineer"

with a description of using LLMs to make a React application

(3 months there)

[wicked shell]

i mean if the trend continues, you're going to be looking for someone else again in 4-5 months

[ornate ferry]

yeah

not qualified for our positions anyways

[wicked shell]

at my last place we had a hell of a time finding people remotely qualified for the position on my team

like i get not having a ton of professional tech experience, especially if you're new to the field, but at least half the resumes we got had nothing tech-related. no prior jobs, no education, nothing.

and it wasn't an entry level position

[ornate ferry]

yeah at my last job we got tons of those, for this job at least our recruiters filter those out for me

still many unqualified people but they at least come closer than the 50%ish no relevant experience rate from before

[empty owl]

Prompt Engineer

[ornate ferry]

well yes, but clearly it's more impressive to list a title of "AI/ML Engineer"

[pseudo plinth]

and i thought mine was bad with three layoffs in a row

though i was at each of those positions for at least a year

[ornate ferry]

yeah I wouldn't count that as a red flag (especially if you have other positions where you've stayed multiple years)

plus there's some times where you start a job and immediately realize "this isn't for me"

but if your whole career is hopping constantly...

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, just bad luck in my case :>

[ornate ferry]

I mean 99% of the time who are you gonna lay off? The newest employees

[pseudo plinth]

first time i've seen that

our prod vcenter is at 1.92thz free of 2.68 lol

[vague peak]

I'm wondering what the algorithm will do because of all the comments https://youtu.be/bryeT4MtzDg

^not a stream

[limber tiger]

Hey I’m currently playing in this

[pseudo plinth]

been a few years since i was last a sysadmin, what are people currently using for log management? we used elk back in ~2018 but that's going away here so i can't go there :>

[wicked shell]

elk, splunk, and loki are the biggest ones

there's also graylog but that's more aimed towards SIEM

and i do not recommend solarwinds

[pseudo plinth]

people don't seem to like elk here for whatever reason, i should ask my manager about it

i really like it personally, we built our siem and log monitoring on top of it a few jobs back and i've always used it in my lab

when i'm back in office on monday i'll try and sit down with him for a few because my most obvious question in taking on a log management project is going to be "what are the specific reasons i can't use the tool i like and am comfortable with already"

they may very well have valid reasons, but i'd at least like to know what they are and see if i can address them

[wicked shell]

may be a contract or legal thing, idk

currently running into that with datadog lol

[pseudo plinth]

i do know they've said they need first party support for everything they run but you can get that from elastic, we had a support contract at that job and bothered them a ton

[wicked shell]

huh, weird

[pseudo plinth]

yeah it's some contractual thing i don't fully understand

so it's all rhel and ubuntu and windows here

it might be that customer-facing stuff requires first party support, i'd have to get clarification

it was mentioned offhand at one point over lunch and i went oh huh and kept eating :>

[wicked shell]

why would log management be customer-facing?

[pseudo plinth]

i'm not saying that it would be, just that it could be i'm misremembering

[empty owl]

We use Seq here

logging with Serilog and view live logs with Seq

if that's what you are asking

Running as a Docker container

[arctic jasper]

our company is using splunk. there's a whole team set up just for splunk maintenance. I had to query them a view times to setup some alerts

[wicked shell]

i forgot i made pfsense display the "uh oh stinky" monkey whenever my internet goes down and fails over to my 5G backup

gets me every time

[pseudo plinth]

finally got around to setting up poudriere on my home server

load: 7.42  cmd: sh 10735 [nanslp] 776.74r 1.51u 3.10s 0% 4068k
[pkgbld-local_2025Q3-kokowa] [2025-09-26_20h41m56s] [parallel_build] Queued: 313 Built: 76  Failed: 0   Skipped: 0   Ignored: 0   Fetched: 0   Tobuild: 237  Time: 00:12:57
 ID  TOTAL                       ORIGIN   PKGNAME                PHASE PHASE    TMPFS       CPU% MEM%
[02] 00:03:05 databases/sqlite3@default | sqlite3-3.50.2_1,1     stage 00:00:44 143.23 MiB 99.1% 0.9%
[03] 00:10:31             lang/perl5.40 | perl5-5.40.3_2         build 00:08:50 229.04 MiB 41.4% 0.4%
[06] 00:07:14       devel/gettext-tools | gettext-tools-0.23.1_1 build 00:05:25 215.46 MiB    0% 0.2%
[00:12:58] Logs: /usr/local/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/pkgbld-local_2025Q3-kokowa/2025-09-26_20h41m56s

cpu spends 90% of its time at 75% idle or higher, figure i might as well use it to build packages for the other freebsd hosts in my lab

frees up my desktop to actually do desktop things which is nice

[pseudo plinth]

neat!

[ornate ferry]

I didn't know this was a thing, neat

[pseudo plinth]

i've known about poudriere for a few years but never got around to setting it up, it's very useful

it's pretty neat under the hood, it uses the freebsd jail subsystem to provide each and every build a fresh, clean build environment

it's essentially designed to automate all of the tedious parts of running a package repo

[pseudo plinth]

got frustrated by desktop linux for the last time

time to join the ranks of the true greybeards

[pseudo plinth]

thinking of picking up another three of these for an elk stack

currently have one running my internal build server, i like it a lot

[empty owl]

on friday my manager asked if I would help out with the product security team even tho I have no experience with that

and now it looks like my work has tripled lmao

[slow solstice]

Oops lol

[rain matrix]

Well at least it'll be nice to get triple the pay.

... right?

[empty owl]

i am definitely getting a promotion + raise

idk about triple tho...

[rain matrix]

Better than nothing (which seems to be the standard)

[wicked shell]

huge project my team has been working on for 8 months just got completely cancelled because our legal team couldn't come to an agreement with the vendor :)

[normal tartan]

Did twitch sub emotes break on discord for anyone else?

I'm subbed to fir for another 2~ weeks but discord randomly stopped letting me use his emotes, refresh did nothing lol

[vale isle]

Emotes haven't broken for me in that way but Discord mobile has been showing emotes to people I'm not subbed to. Like Chrism, it shows I have access to all of his emotes, including tier 2 and tier 3, even though I'm not subbed.

Tapping on them doesn't do anything.

[normal tartan]

Hmm, it seems to just be the most common list that's broken, if I manually search for them or select them through fir_'s server it works

[pseudo plinth]

one thing i'm having to get used to at this new job: sometimes meetings just start whenever

got one scheduled for 8:15, joined at 8:15? nah you're 7 minutes late actually

just got a notification that one starts in 15 minutes? 30 seconds later the organizer joins and it starts

[slow solstice]

That is... A strange culture lol

I join meetings the minute they start, or one minute before

[wicked shell]

meeting scheduled for 1:00, i join at 1:00 lol

[pseudo plinth]

i keep getting blindsided by it but it hasn’t been an issue yet

sometimes they start early and wait for people but a few times i’ve joined at the designated start time and landed in the middle of an ongoing discussion

very strange!

[iron mulch]

hopefully it's like my current job, I have a few co-workers who like to start meetings early just to shoot the breeze with whoever else is also early

we're not expected to show up until the time the calendar says, and the meeting never starts early unless everyone just happens to be there

[wicked shell]

if someone tries to call me out for being late to a meeting when i show up exactly on time, i hit them with the "sorry, the meeting said it started at 1:00 on my calendar" (or whatever time it was scheduled for)

[pseudo plinth]

yeah if it ever comes up i’m just gonna say “i joined at the scheduled time, if i’m meant to join earlier the invite should reflect that”

[arctic jasper]

it's "show up when the meeting says it starts" at my job, but a lot of the time people show up early and just chat about whatever

[slow solstice]

So...my partner installed a new drive in my pc and we installed Windows 11, I am completely unable to log into my Microsoft account on this pc to activate Windows, AND we can't even buy a key from Microsoft's site, it gives an error. You'd think they would allocate more resources or something when Windows 10 is close to end of life and everyone is upgrading??

Mainly I'm super annoyed because I can't customize anything and the taskbar is this awful color lmao

[rain matrix]

Just be sure you don't accidentally google windows massgrave or anything like that

[iron mulch]

yeah, that would be horrible

[pseudo plinth]

wow, someone has discovered and is trying to restore a fully transistorized mainframe computer from 1962 https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/philco-transac-s2000-model-211-212.1254722/

that's one hell of an operator panel

[wicked shell]

those old mainframes are pure art

[empty owl]

customer is seeing massive delays when trying to retrieve images through our API. I've investigated and told them for weeks that there are no issues on the application side, and it must be related to their NAS

they FINALLY said that they see issues with the NAS lol

like 6 weeks of this

[pseudo plinth]

ooh, pretty https://www.ebay.com/itm/286859999866

it'll go for good money

thankfully there's an imsai 8080 replica you can build for less than several thousands of dollars

[thorn aurora]

Gas or pass

[empty owl]

GAS

[vale isle]

Taking a desktop computer apart for the first time, an OptiPlex 7010 that I got for free from a friend a while ago

Terrible picture

It has an Intel Core i5-3470 and 4 gigs of DDR3 ram

[wicked shell]

would make a good home NAS

[pseudo plinth]

put freebsd on it and learn zfs

[vale isle]

I'm mainly setting this up for my brother because his computer is a really old Chromebook, I'm not gonna do that to him lmao

I am installing Mint though

[vale isle]

One of my friends at college was offering to give me some ram, I might take him up on his offer if he's still offering it

4 gigs of ram is torture

[iron mulch]

both dimms of ram in one channel

[vale isle]

That's what it came like

I don't know much about this stuff, I'm very new to it :P

[normal tartan]

They're labeled 2-4, so it might be meant to work that way?

Although I guess with the coloured tabs probably not

[vale isle]

I found this old laptop my mom used to use until either my brother or I broke the screen many many years ago

Someday I would like to get the screen repaired

It would be my first Pentium computer

[rain matrix]

Yeah the RAM will likely work better if it's in slots 1 & 2.

[vale isle]

I did do that and it seems to be a bit faster

[rain matrix]

Theoretically the difference is that it lets the processor access half the RAM using each of two lanes, instead of having to access all of it over one lane.

[vale isle]

Connected it to the monitor I've been using with the optiplex, the time was a bit off when I booted it up

Steve be like

[empty owl]

just wrote powershell for 3 hours straight to close out the work week

I hate that I've gotten fairly good at powershell

[wicked shell]

it's a disgusting language to look at but works really well at what it's intended for

like if you glance at it quickly it can be easily confused for PHP lol

[inner flicker]

How accurate do you guys think this is? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unity_juniordeveloper-unitydeveloper-gamedevcareers-activity-7382475089562275840-E-Th?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADYmimkBbw16XN00Y7YBJqODCkKmEfO2348

I know the salary part at least isn't, I have never heard of anyone with less than 2 years of professional work experience and has a salary of 60k or more

[iron mulch]

salary depends quite a bit on where you live

[inner flicker]

True

[iron mulch]

$60K is not enough to make it in the bay area, but comfortable for 1 person and barely enough for 2 where I am

[inner flicker]

But entry level 98k average is insane

[iron mulch]

midpoint != average

and potentially != median

[inner flicker]

Oh it says mid point oh yeah

[empty owl]

I think the skills and responsibilities sections look pretty good

Although unfortunately I think nowadays they’d expect a junior to have full proficiency with Unity day 1 lol

[inner flicker]

Yeah

Add fullstack on top of that

[vale isle]

Jailbroke my Kindle

[twilit crest]

hmm is it legal to write it like that in a report lol

[vale isle]

Would anyone be able to help me search for a graphics card for my computer?

Computer is an OptiPlex 7010 DT with a Core i5-3470. The manual says the PCIe x16 slot's maximum wattage is 50w and the maximum length is 16.765x6.89 inches.
Manual is here: https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/smb/merchandizing/en/Documents/OptiPlex_7010_Technical_Guidebook_1.pdf

I had been looking at the GTX 1650 until I saw the maximum wattage was 50w

[vale isle]

-# I know very little about GPUs, I was just told that they often get additional power from their own cables :P

Its a learning experience though

[vague peak]

Do you see any power connectors coming out of the PSU with yellow and black wires that aren't plugged into anything?

[wicked shell]

half-width OEM desktops usually don't have extra power connectors, but it's definitely worth checking

if it doesn't, there's really only one option currently, and that's the Intel ARC A310 ECO

[vague peak]

I've seen people get lucky and you can replace the PSU if you want something else

[wicked shell]

found this reddit post, apparently the PSU in the 7010 DT model is a standard TFX form factor, so it can be easily upgraded to one with a PCIe power connector

https://www.reddit.com/r/SleepingOptiplex/comments/lvyzng/dont_see_many_dt_models_so_heres_mine_with_newly/

it's the exact same model Coby linked

[vale isle]

I will check when I get home later

[vague peak]

Oh if it's not ATX then it's not something you could take with you if you want to PC of Theseus it eventually into a bigger system

[wicked shell]

yeah, nothing besides GPU and drives would be salvageable to a new PC

and even then you'd probably want to replace the GPU, since pretty much any low-profile GPU will be less powerful than a full-size GPU

[vale isle]

Any GPU is better than the HD 2500 graphics the i5-3470 has :P

[wicked shell]

true lol

[wicked shell]

looks like the PSU swap will be simple and pretty cheap from what I'm finding

can get a 400W from a brand I've actually heard of for <$40 on Amazon

the hard part will be finding a low-profile GPU that won't be a total waste with the other specs of the system

like yeah there's a low-profile RTX 3050, but the majority of that performance will be wasted due to the CPU bottleneck and the PCIe slot being limited to 3.0

but at the same time, a used low-profile GTX 1650 is only $15 cheaper than a new low-profile RTX 3050, so....

there's also the 1050ti, but that's nearly a 10 year old card at this point

[blazing swan]

Some Intel Arc GPUs are also low-profile PCIe power only

[wicked shell]

oh yeah there's a low profile A380, forgot about that one

[ornate ferry]

Do NOT be so sure about this, other Optiplex machines I have have nonstandard pins to the motherboard

I had to buy a conversion connector for a normal PSU to the mobo

gonna go see what model the box I'm thinking of is

[wicked shell]

I've had to do that to one too, but I'm pretty confident the one in the reddit post is the exact same as the model in the manual Coby linked

[ornate ferry]

OK mine is an Optiplex 7060 SFF (D11S004)

[wicked shell]

there weren't many variations of 7010's with 3rd-gen Intel processors

especially not major revisions

[ornate ferry]

fair, it's very possible his is different

I just don't put it past Dell to go proprietary everything

[wicked shell]

oh for sure

but also SFF and DT are different form factors

[ornate ferry]

as for my box I had a 1650 low profile which fit and a RX 6400 which also fit

I thought he had a minitower PC, which would be like mine

[wicked shell]

DT is still half-width, but a larger PC overall

[ornate ferry]

which is separate from the really small ones where you just would never be able to fit a GPU

[ornate ferry]

@vale isle I'll sell you my 1650 LP for the cost of shipping, but verify the dimensions will fit first

ahh OK that is much larger then

[wicked shell]

i had a 9010 SFF at one point, and it could only fit a single-slot low-profile GPU due to clearance issues with the PSU

but that's a whole different generation of PC lol

[normal tartan]

You can almost certainly find a case that supports ATX size boards and TFX PSU mounting points

There's no difference other than the physical dimensions of the PSU, afaik? Like the cabling is all the same on the motherboard/gpu/cpu side to my knowledge

It would certainly limit options though

[vale isle]

I'm just looking for now. I have no money at the moment because I haven't been able to land a job yet, but if you're still offering in the future I might be interested

Thanks though!

[wicked shell]

in this specific instance with the 7010 DT, the motherboard is mATX, but it does have two annoying proprietary connectors: the case fan and the CPU fan.

newer OEM desktops are way more proprietary, with some ethically questionable decisions like soldering memory directly to the motherboard lol

but yeah, Coby's computer would work with a standard ATX case and PSU as you said

may have to do some weird stuff like taping down the intrusion detection sensor, but that's not a deal-breaker imo

[normal tartan]

I was talking specifically about the difference between TFX and ATX PSUs - as far as I know the only difference fundamentally is the form factor itself, so the only difficulty would be finding a case that supports TFX PSU mounting which is plausible if annoying.

Proprietary garbage is another thing entirely, yeah, lol

I might've misunderstood what cole was talking about though, maybe they meant the motherboard in which case gg

[pseudo plinth]

systemd-resolved has unilaterally decided at some point that it just doesn't want to use the search domains i have configured

i really hope i get the chance to meet poettering in person someday just so i can tell him what a dumb piece of shit hack he is to his face

this is why i prefer the bsds, over there having pulseaudio and avahi under your belt and then going "hey i have an idea for a new initsystem" would result in nearly everyone telling you to fuck off

[wicked shell]

not sure if it's fully related to your issue, but i ran into a similar problem with some RHEL7-based appliances at work. if you're not using glibc-2.17-222.el7 or newer, systemd-resoved has a limit of 6 search domains and/or a total of 256 characters.

which is vile for large environments

source: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/58028

[lean vault]

n+1 redundant hot standby nut

[wicked shell]

"hot standby nut" was my nickname in college

[trim badge]

Anyone have any Linux Distro recommendations? I haven't used anything except Debian for a few years, so I'm not up to date on the stuff the kids are using these days. Currently eyeing Solus and CachyOS, but I'm curious what y'all's favorite distros are

Also before someone says to use BSD instead, cause I know that's coming, I don't wanna

[ornate ferry]

if you want something very easy to use and Windows-like I'll recommend Mint

[white sparrow]

I've been on slackware since the mid 90s

can't say it's "up to date" or "the stuff kids are using these days" though KEKW

I heard Nobara Linux is supposed to be decent for newcomers who are looking to replace windows and maybe want to game some

[vale isle]

Friend at college gave me an 8 gig stick of DDR3 and now my computer has 12 gigs

It's actually usable now

Aside from having Intel HD 2500 graphics

[trim badge]

I have a decent amount of Linux experience - back in HS I tried a handful of distros (and made my own really crappy one), and used RHEL7 for work for a year. But I'll check it out. Easy is always good

I don't care much for gaming support rn. I had developed an addiction, so I just uninstalled them all, so for the time being thats not an issue.

Maybe I should try something without systemd. I think I've only ever used systemd

[pseudo plinth]

debian is the only good linux imo

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCujAQtdfQ

[trim badge]

I keep seeing people finally realize that. Meanwhile I've been saying it for years.

[pseudo plinth]

ye, nice to see

it's a shame but this can really only happen in america where the regulatory state is rotting in a ditch somewhere

these folks are job creators, don't ya know

[trim badge]

It's really frustrating. Nvidia has no reason to be the most valuable public company in the world.

But hey, I'm up 40% in the market this year so that's nice at least.

[pseudo plinth]

it's a calvinball economy, tesla's value is based on literally nothing now considering they can't sell cars to half the country and a decent chunk of the other half think electric cars are gay

[trim badge]

Can't wait for the recession

[pseudo plinth]

time to get back into lockpicking

[rain matrix]

I got evicted from the dorms my first semester in college for using their doors to practice lockpicking.

[trim badge]

I had a lock picking set in my backpack I'd use to get in when I forgot my key lol

Management looked at me weird a couple times, but they knew it was my room they saw me lock picking so they didn't really care

[empty owl]

my freshman year of college we had to register the MAC of each individual device and we had a limit of like 3

So i put my own router in and cloned the MAC for every device I was using

IT was not happy with me

[pseudo plinth]

rule #1 of locksport, only pick locks you own or have permission to pick :P

easiest way to avoid legal trouble

i seem to have lost all of my mechanical sensitivity for this, was able to get the 410 loto into a false set but that's as far as i got. gotta keep practicing

[white sparrow]

you're single-pin picking? LPL always makes it seem like a jiggler is the better idea for master locks

[slow solstice]

My cousin learned to pick locks around the same time, primarily because he kept losing his bike lock keys

[rain matrix]

I won't claim to have been sensible at 18.

[rain matrix]

It does come in handy. I made this out of some pipe from my mom's shed one time when I was locked out.

[pseudo plinth]

well yeah, it's more satisfying that way

also, you can't rake open the lotos (at least not the 410 and s32), they're more pick-resistant than master's lower tier locks

[rain matrix]

Felt like making a fire cube

Will probably try to stick a battery in it so it's portable.

[rain matrix]

Showed it down a touch and added better sparks.

[vague peak]

Seeing these two posts made me imagine a raysfire cube mode

[blazing swan]

the only fire cube I have

[rugged ivy]

The fun times with hard drive migration. The good news is once this is done, I'll go from 1TB of backup HDD to 8TB of backup HDD.

[iron mulch]

https://bsky.app/profile/was.tl/post/3m3qskpuqbs2m

Eric Wastl (@was.tl)

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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Bluesky · Oct 22, 2025, 2:32 AM

[lean vault]

spotted myself in the latest LGR video in the background 😛

[rain matrix]

This you?

[lean vault]

I will say it is at around 7m40s

[wicked shell]

still not used to bald LGR

[lean vault]

same

I don't watch his videos that often though

[wicked shell]

yeah same, i used to watch him all the time but he stopped showing up in my algo

[lean vault]

Seeing him at the event in person was the first time I saw him after he started shaving his head

[normal tartan]

I have no idea why but I opened up the video, looked at the time you mentioned and went "bro I have no idea what this person looks like what am I doing"

It's entirely my fault but what a strange waste of my time lmao

[lean vault]

[wicked shell]

Mooing looks like this:

[lean vault]

a few people here would probably recognize me, gr3at being one of them

[slow solstice]

I am pretty sure I've seen a Mooing face reveal before

[fiery ridge]

isnt your twitter your face

[vale isle]

I've seen Mooing's face a bunch of times

[lean vault]

probably.. but it's probably also from 10 years ago 😛

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg

[lean vault]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA

Similar genre of abusing a device that wasn't meant to produce sound to make music. But also video 🙂

[wicked shell]

guy on team takes over POC of a new platform
have meeting with the platform vendor
guy doesn't show up
bruh

[ornate ferry]

Just follow the advice of health experts

[wicked shell]

god i wish

makes me think of this ideal career path

[arctic jasper]

the dream...

[empty owl]

Me

[wicked shell]

tbf if they were working at Microsoft in 2001, they were probably making BANK by the end

[wicked shell]

i'll never understand other teams that think they can lie to avoid doing work lol
as if my team doesn't have full visibility into their entire stack

"your DB server is frequently running out of memory, and queries are timing out"
"raise the timeout threshold then"
".... how about you fix your server instead??"
"we don't have any memory available to allocate to the VM"
"the physical host only has 20% of its memory allocated."
an hour later
"hey we need an alert blackout window so we can increase the memory on our DB servers"

[pseudo plinth]

less than 10 minutes into this video and i already want to take a header off the roof of the detroit mariott https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q

[pseudo plinth]

[empty owl]

I'm doing like 4 jobs at work at this point

so talked to my boss today to get him to tell everyone to leave me alone and let me get my shit done

and find someone else to do all the other stuff because I can't be the only person in the entire organization who knows this

and if I am, then that's a huge problem but not MY problem

[slow solstice]

I am reaching that point too, mainly because we still don't have a direct manager

Job security though

[empty owl]

yeah this is what i've been telling myself but it's untenable

we are going to miss every deadline and no chance am I gonna take the blame

they wanted to outsource development for our new product line and rely on simulators

who woulda thunk that once someone sits down in front of the actual hardware it doesn't work!

[slow solstice]

I am a master of avoiding setting deadlines lmao

Can't miss a deadline if you don't set one

A bit harder in large projects though

[empty owl]

ya we have purchase orders we gotta fulfill

[thorn aurora]

Anyone decent at photoshop mind cleaning something up for me? These plans for work look particularly futuristic and I would love cleaned up digital copies. Thank you in advance if you decide to help

[arctic jasper]

it's finally getting cold again so I can wear comfy socks

[blazing swan]

For like printing out in poster size?

[blazing swan]

gotta earn your stripes

[thorn aurora]

nah just digital for wallpapers etc

[rain matrix]

#weekly-schedule message solidified my opinion of #1377057279592894615 message

[lean vault]

Some people really value the lowered fan noise

My current rig has a closed loop system, had never had one before this one. Thankfully it's been working well.

But I don't really care that much about a little fan noise, so

It is nice and quiet under normal operation. It's approaching 4 years old, but I don't have any reason to upgrade at the moment or probably any time soon. Ryzen 5900X

[wicked shell]

my cpu fan noise is drowned out by the GPU fans anyway

[normal tartan]

Just put it in another room tbh

[lean vault]

it's already in a 22U rack at the end of the table and I'm using 5 meter displayport cables.

the cable bundle coming from the rack to the table is pretty chonky 🙂

[thorn aurora]

I love hearing my pc fans. Whir for me, machine

[empty owl]

someone reimaged our test server last night 👍

been told that this is extremely critical work to get done and someone just wipes it out

[empty owl]

Managed to get everything working again. I have never had to word so many stern messages in my career as I have the past 2 weeks

Our processes are so fucked. People just taking our hardware and wiping out test servers without saying anything

[wicked shell]

question for anybody with residential fiber internet (or know a decent bit about it)... what equipment would i probably need in order to use my own router instead of the eWaste the ISP provides? wondering what intermediate equipment i would need to get before the install appointment on wednesday. i've only ever had cable internet so the fiber game is all new to me lol

[pseudo plinth]

most fiber isps don’t allow you to terminate your own fiber and instead give you an ont which you then hang your router/firewall’s wan port off of

[iron mulch]

yeah, verizon gave me an ONT which has an ethernet port

[pseudo plinth]

if you can terminate your own connection you need something similar, unifi sell something i think

[wicked shell]

oh nice, didn't know about an ONT. when i signed up there was a "modem/router combo" that i couldn't unselect, so i wasn't sure if the fiber connection went straight into that or not.

but it doesn't really make sense for fiber to have a "modem" now that i think about it lol

[vague peak]

The ONT is a modem

[wicked shell]

fair

yeah if i can get the WAN into ethernet that's really all i need

[vague peak]

Yeah even if they force a router on you you might be able to just use your own anyway if they haven't locked it

[slow solstice]

Yeah we had a router given to us that was not suitable for our house, so we used our own. Nothing was locked down

[wicked shell]

nice, good to know

thanks everyone

[white sparrow]

can't say how it is in the US, but here in sweden fiber is commonly used with a so called "stadsnät" (city wide networks) and there the operator of the network is mandated to be neutral in which ISP we sign up with so we can literally just connect with any ISP through the fiber, the only thing the network operator provides is the ONT, then if we want, we can get a router from whatever ISP we select

[wicked shell]

the US has a bit of a mix of everything. Some ISPs provide "last mile" infrastructure, so the main lines between cities are shared lines between multiple ISPs. Others will have their own dedicated lines. Some towns will even have their own co-op ISP and don't have any private ISP coverage available at all.

unfortunately that opens up ISPs to having a monopoly in some areas, like my town until this new fiber ISP came in

and some towns like the one my grandparents live in can only get DSL in the year 2025

[pseudo plinth]

anyone worked with red hat satellite? trying to figure out if the list of OSes i can restrict content to is limited to what the current version of satellite supports, i want to configure RHEL10 repos for RHEL10 hosts only but the list only goes up to RHEL9 even though i've manually added an operating system in the hosts section

i know our version of satellite doesn't explicitly support RHEL10 but we aren't really keen on upgrading unless we have to

[wicked shell]

tomorrow is the big day, i get fiber installed

[wicked shell]

regarding the jewel heist last month lol

[white sparrow]

not even a 0 in place of the o

[pseudo plinth]

someone found a complete v4 unix tape https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115504720323483804

[empty owl]

weeeee layoffs incoming

[rich gyro]

this is more of a tech complaint, but for whatever reason, we weren't able to open up a programme in uni on some pcs, actually the majority of them even
it seemed very random where the programme would open and where it wouldn't
there's no direct tech support anymore, only the general help desk where the Prof could send a ticket and they might reply by Tuesday to fix it in a few weeks 😭
none of us know wtf happened or why it didn't work and the error just said "general error" and went away too fast to click on it properly to maybe read the proper error reason

it's actually quite funny cuz the prof wanted to show it to us to be like "memoq is so much easier to use than the dinosaur trados, but a lot of my clients actually force me to use the latter so I'm stuck with it"

[ornate ferry]

run it in a debugger and see what exception you get (if it's crashing)

[wicked shell]

could also record the screen in slow-mo with your phone to read the full error

[rich gyro]

it's not opening to begin with

it's really strange

iirc someone managed to get the full error report and it said missing admin privileges or something

[rugged ivy]

Chat, I'm going to try something dumb and see if it works (my aerospace mind is screaming at me to try it)

That is replace my scoop I have on my intake to prevent stuff from falling in up top and put one on that can take a 140mm fan with the idea of creating a positive pressure environment inside the case.

[thorn aurora]

yo pip on chrome desktop just got a massive upgrade, love to see it

[wicked shell]

oh you mean picture-in-picture, i thought you meant the python package manager

[vague peak]

I didn't realize this until you sent this message

[chrome ledge]

The Wifi chip/modual that came with my prebuilt gaming PC is actual fucking dogshit

The speeds are very inconsistent, but I got 40Mbps Download and 34Mbps Upload

for shits and giggles I used the usb Wifi tethering on my z fold 3...

I got 280Mbps download and 115Mbps upload

Hinted we have a 1 gig speed plan, but my room is the farthest away from the router

But still, I don't care

[white sparrow]

to be fair to the built-in chip, maybe its antennae are in a bad spot that's shielded and if you rearranged the locations of things it might work better, but ... there's a reason people tend to prefer wired ethernet on a desktop

[pseudo plinth]

huh, not the response i was expecting

[empty owl]

time to find out about layoffs

[empty owl]

looks like first week of dec. I will know

oh but we're making a dedicated sustaining team, which is exactly my role rn so maybe this is good for me?

[arctic jasper]

during the holidays is gonna be rough. best of luck to ya!

[slow solstice]

Yeesh, why does it seem like so many companies do that

Like at least wait until the new year

[wicked shell]

if my company is doing layoffs, the last thing i want them to do is announce the announcement date. fucking rip the band-aid off immediately and don't make me lose sleep over it.

[empty owl]

yeah it's real shitty

[lean vault]

everything about the fiscal year

not about employees' wellbeing

and about the advance notice, they have to:

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees.

[empty owl]

Yeah but we got an announcement of an announcement

[wicked shell]

this might be the worst API documentation of all time

that's it, that's the entire thing

no explanations, just two methods

and the best part is

there are 4 more methods NOT IN THE DOCUMENTATION

[vague peak]

Was this page helpful?

[ornate ferry]

oh man it's like the old IDA Pro API docs

though I guess those did give you the type of each parameter and the return type

[wicked shell]

idk why we pay so much for this damn platform

it's based on Zope 2

which reached end of security support in 2020

everything is python 2

[pseudo plinth]

i'm sorry they what

[pseudo plinth]

great lil video, made me smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDcgvy9LdU

[pseudo plinth]

oh the joys of being a linux sysadmin

make backup of fstab
make changes to new version of fstab
doesn't work, put the old fstab back in place
reboot
system doesn't boot

ggwp guess i'll just drop dead

[arctic jasper]

friends are nice

[pseudo plinth]

turns out i'm fucking stupid

forgot that a lot of ansible utilities operate on the host running the playbook, so when i created a backup of the fstab i was actually creating a backup of the fstab from the playbook host rather than the target

thankfully that left the original fstab in a good state but when i rebooted the host i got confused because it looked wrong and copied the "backup" in its place

oh well

no harm no foul

[ornate ferry]

rip massgrave (at least the KMS activation, TSForge still works)

[pseudo plinth]

as part of my lisp evangelism i'm finally getting around to evalureading conrad barski's land of lisp and i'm pretty impressed so far http://landoflisp.com/

generally my recommendation for folks interested in lisp is to start with sussman and abelson's structure and interpretation of computer programs if they need a bit of dev background and then move on to touretzky's gentle introduction to symbolic computation (or just jump right into that if they've been writing code for a while) but both of those are a little dry, land of lisp has a relaxed tone that i think serves the subject matter really well

it also has an endearingly goofy music video so there's a few points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc

[empty owl]

"While this isn’t the time for a large celebration (so we have postponed earlier planned dinner), we recognize the importance of being together and supporting one another.
We’ll keep it casual—there may even be pizza! Please join in person if you are around the LOCATION office."

loooooooooooool

[arctic jasper]

omw to null Island

[slow solstice]

Classic corporate pizza party

[empty owl]

this is in relation to impending layoffs lmao

[ornate ferry]

there may be pizza

[wicked shell]

the pizza of impending financial ruin

[slow solstice]

I somehow skipped the "may" the first time I read it lol that's so much worse

[granite breach]

“May even”

[empty owl]

It’s such an insulting message lol

I was gonna go in while on PTO this week just for the dinner fo show my face

But they don’t get jack shit from me now

[wicked shell]

cloudflare outage

[pseudo plinth]

as long as the vcfed forums are up i'm fine

[slow solstice]

We aren't usually impacted by cloudflare outages somehow

[iron mulch]

apparently thunderbird's "please donate" page is on cloudflare

[rain matrix]

Dang, haven't heard "thunderbird" in a long time. I think I last used it in '06

[slow solstice]

Wow same actually lol, back when email clients were a thing I used outside of work

[pseudo plinth]

lol, so we use CIS benchmarks pretty heavily here and i am surprised to discover that as of this writing there are still no CIS benchmarks for RHEL10 which was released in may of this year

did i miss CIS getting gutted? did someone decide infosec is too woke?

we're trying to move RHEL10 into GA but we literally cannot without a hardening setup due to compliance obligations

[vale isle]

I used Thunderbird a bit when I first switched to Linux, but when I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint I just didn't care about it anymore

[arctic jasper]

I'm using thunderbird currently. It works!

[pseudo plinth]

thunderbird is the only mail client that has ever worked the way i want it to

[ornate ferry]

boy oh boy do I love consolidating critical global infrastructure behind a few single points of failure

and no, nobody will learn anything from this outage either

[lean vault]

I've been using Thunderbird since it came into existence, same with Firefox 🙂

yes, Firefox had some painful periods of time in that span of years

I think I briefly used it when it was still named Firebird right before the rename.

Also, found on the door this morning

[blazing swan]

mega jealous

no fiber at my address at all

[lean vault]

none here yet, either, but Cox started offering promotional pricing for my address about a year ago, so I think they knew it was coming 😛

[wicked shell]

i got rid of my fiber after a week

that ISP was so ass

[ornate ferry]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/apples-1991-macintosh-shipped-with-a-bug-that-shouldve-stopped-it-from-booting-but-no-one-ever-knew-because-an-undocumented-cpu-trick-almost-too-crazy-to-be-true-miraculously-made-it-work/

[empty owl]

survived layoffs

[wicked shell]

W

[slow solstice]

Congrats on keeping the job

[pseudo plinth]

freebsd is weird

i love it, but it's always been a little strange to me that memory statistics aren't quite as straightforward as in linux

there are tools that will tell you what you want to know but if you're doing it from whole cloth the way i am you have to futz around with vm sysctls and bitmath

not a huge issue but still a lot of extra work comparatively

[ornate ferry]

https://fixvx.com/0x49fa98/status/1991643885307830283

Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98)

People always talk about how LLMs are eating into the market for junior developers, but this is the first time I have seen an LLM do the work of a principal engineer

QRT: bcardarella
I told Claude to one-shot an integration test against a detailed spec I provided. It went silet for about 30 minutes. I asked how it was going twice and it reassured me it was doing work. Then I asked why it was taking so long:

vxTwitter / fixvx · Nov 20, 2025, 11:04 PM

[pseudo plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMN7k5lr0EM

interesting little historical video

interesting to see that bcbs of michigan ran an h800, i wonder if any of my health data ran through it when i was a kid :>

[chrome ledge]

I love it when windows 11 randomly decides for “auto hide taskbar” to turn itself off

[normal tartan]

Holy ram prices have gone insane recently lmao

I saw gamersnexus had a video talking about it but I didn't realize how much it had gone up

I was vaguely considering upgrading because some of my normal usage is pushing at the boundaries of my 32gb a bit, but it turns out if I upgrade now it will cost more to buy the RAM than it would to buy a new CPU + motherboard to go with it, so I think instead I will just become less lazy and not keep everything open at once when I need to do RAM heavy stuff

[wicked shell]

woah, i didn't realize ram prices were doing that. the 32gb kit i bought at microcenter back in july was $83, now it's $210

that's wild

[lean vault]

Yeah, I'm glad I grabbed what I could for the latest server upgrade. Same with drives.

if drives fail, they can wait out a replacement for a bit, though the HDDs have a small partition in a raidz2 so a second failure would leave it critical.

Hoping there'd at least be a deal sometime for a 20+ TB drive that isn't a desktop or SMR drive. I've been pretty lucky with the ones I've scored so far in the last half decade or so.

[lean vault]

best price per storage right now seems to be the recertified 28TB Exos

Or with the crapshoot of shucking a 26TB external, might get an Exos

[wicked shell]

i swear, every time my mom gets brave and purchases tech on her own, she gets screwed over and tries to hide it

i just found a laptop she purchased from Best Buy a few years ago stuffed away in a drawer

7th gen i3, and not even an SSD

took 20 minutes to boot

apparently she still uses it regularly, so I cloned the drive over to a spare SATA SSD i had laying around, threw in another 8GB stick of memory i took out of a dell mini desktop, and sent her on her way

that laptop is pure e-waste but maybe it will last her until i can get her a new one for christmas lol

[trim badge]

couldve sold that 8gb for like $500 these days

[wicked shell]

Honestly fair lol

I scrapped a bunch of beat up dell minis, and ended up with 20 sticks of LPDDR4 lol

[rain matrix]

Time to hit eBay

[slow solstice]

My FIL recently purchased a $50 "mini computer" from a sketchy Facebook ad because "what's the worst that can happen"

As soon as he started describing where he bought it I was like "let me guess, you got a random piece of junk instead"

< $5 fabric knee brace

I love him, but he doesn't make the best financial decisions lol

[pseudo plinth]

asked for local admin so i could install emacs, manager told me to just use vscode. is this a hate crime

[trim badge]

Better go talk to HR, that's gotta be discrimination

[wicked shell]

my company has a curated "software store" on our computers that lets us install pre-approved software packages without needing admin rights or any assistance. one of the things in the store was Anaconda, so I installed it to have a Python 2 dev environment (for our outdated af software) separate from my Python 3 environment. Got an email from IT Security the next day telling me to uninstall Anaconda because it was "unauthorized software", or face disciplinary action

[thorn aurora]

I was curious about the ddr5 pricing and man am i glad i bought in early

Also, I think I'm going to jump on this deal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNLT17XQ/

[thorn aurora]

I did my research and this is too good to pass up

[pseudo plinth]

yep

any day now for agi

[thorn aurora]

last call

[wicked shell]

there's a cheaper one now

[wicked shell]

https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Radeon-7900XT-Graphics-RX-79TMBABF9/dp/B0BNLSDRKB

slightly cheaper lol

[thorn aurora]

I have seen that one but it's visibly not the same, at least by that product picture

It's on that type of page that companies have where they get so many reviews and stars they keep tacking on new items to keep the reviews and such

I take the better chances of the individual listing but I do risk the 3rd party

[wicked shell]

realistically there's very little difference between the two cards imo

[thorn aurora]

we'll see as long as i get what's advertised, $19 is a small fee i mean it's already $43 in tax too

[wicked shell]

actually nvm the one you bought is factory overclocked

so nvm on the performance thing lol

[thorn aurora]

there's no stock warning now, interesting

[wicked shell]

artificial scarcity

[blazing swan]

[rain matrix]

Just don't set it on fire

[blazing swan]

good thing it's also flame-retardant

[fiery ridge]

what’d you call me

[vale isle]

Took a hard drive out of my old computer and put it into the Optiplex to install Windows 10 on it and I forgot that I had installed KDE Neon on it last year

I only ever used it like once after installing it, that old computer of mine is so bad

[vale isle]

Windows 10 Iot LTSC successfully installed and activated with a product key that I totally got by legal means

[lean vault]

That's running my desktop, media PC, Mac Mini, 6 monitors (but only 3 have signal) and a lot of desktop peripherals.

it's a ~1kWh power station that switches fast enough to act as a UPS

and I have another one in the network closet that has a very similar power draw

hopefully the power outage doesn't outlast them

[lean vault]

it didn't outlast the batteries :3

[iron mulch]

a UPS for my network equipment was the biggest upgrade in terms of quality of life I've purchased in recent memory

[normal tartan]

+2

[chrome ledge]

Not like it really matters a whole lot since I have my iphone, but the latest OneUI (not OneUI 8) auto update on my z fold 3 fucked it up

It was already screwed before, with the inner screen basically dead, but now the outer screen won’t accept touch input, and I can’t use a keyboard and mouse because I need to unlock the phone, but I can’t unlock the phone because I need to put in a password, and I can’t put in a password because the touch screen doesn’t work

I’m gonna try to factory reset it, if this doesn’t work than oh well

I at the very least I’m hoping that I can use a keyboard

Who likes my setup

I just realized that the keyboard is dirty as hell

Day wants to help

Ft. My messy bed

[empty owl]

"Damp help us! One of the services won't start!"

they didn't even have the service installed

like straight up not on the server at all

[ornate ferry]

classic

[rain matrix]

So you're saying that you saved the day

[ornate ferry]

"Helped diagnose and solved critical infrastructure issues, saving the company $x" (x = your company's yearly gross income / time of outage)

[empty owl]

my review is coming up so I'm gonna steal that

[ornate ferry]

if any of the services are external (IE a vendor or someone you contract with) be sure to mention something about improving relations with them

if they're someone who pays you for services, you are the sole person responsible for keeping them paying

[empty owl]

idk if anyone has experience with this or any advice to give

but we had a bunch of turnover in our QA the past year or 2

and the new testers seem completely unwilling to actually learn our products

and when I help them debug stuff and give them suggestions, they want to do a million other things that just waste time instead of listening to me.

and of course when they finally do what I say, it works. Just spent 3 hours in a call this morning dealing with this. Watched the guy fuck around with registry settings for an hour while ignoring my suggestions

[pseudo plinth]

we're doing a big government compliance push at work and every time i hear "fips mode" my brain automatically adds "is the greatest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3NkWnHl9Q

[ornate ferry]

Unfortunately my experience with testers of that caliber required me to write extremely detailed test procedures

in the form of "Test Step | Example Screenshot | Desired Result of Test Step"

with a test step being something VERY small like "Right-Click the Start Menu | Screenshot of mouse over start button | Start Submenu Opens", "Click the Run option | Screenshot of mouse over Run option | Run dialog box opens"

deviations from expected results would point to a Troubleshooting section with detailed steps to resolve common/expected issues

when testers ran into a problem the troubleshooting section got a new table with steps to fix

[empty owl]

unfortunately I do all that already lol

step by step instructions with screenshots and common troubleshooting

they just skip steps and then ask me to fix

might need to start escalating these issues because I can't keep spending like 5 hours a week fixing their fuckups

[ornate ferry]

yeah just escalate it

"these people apparently can't follow simple step-by-step instructions, if we grabbed some monkeys from the local zoo they'd probably get more work done"

or if you want DM me a small portion and I'll offer feedback

[slow solstice]

Yeah I was going to say it sounds like a hiring issue lol, if they can't follow step by step instructions then they aren't fit to be QA folks

[wicked shell]

it's wild how many times i ask myself "how the fuck did this person get their job" because of shit like that

and it's rarely from a lack of experience either, just a complete shitshow of incompetence

[stuck bolt]

the fact that software engineering will never die in the wake of AI, is most simply discernible from the way that the people who campaign for that belief spend their money.

Anthropic, the company that makes claude and boldly claims that "90% of code will be written by LLMs in 6 months", just spent millions of dollars to acquire Bun, a javascript runtime, as a property alongside their core engineering team.

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

If, as they themselves say, "most code will be written by AI in 6 months and you can use AI to do in two weeks what entire teams do in years", why didn't they make their own bun?

why did they essentially buy out an engineering team to still work on something that will remain freely available, including their future work on it?

Don't believe anyone saying that AI will take programmers' jobs. They don't believe it either.

[trim badge]

But you don't understand, we're gonna get AGI any day now, we just need more graphics cards

[lean vault]

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

[wicked shell]

So yeah that's not good at all, wtf

[lean vault]

They're shutting down the Crucial brand and focusing on the higher margin enterprise stuff

They'll probably sell to Sony, etc, for consumer devices

but the PC market is gonna continue to suck for some time :/

[wicked shell]

Several manufacturers have diverted their supply lines to enterprise products, but a huge brand like Crucial completely being phased out by Micron is wild

[trim badge]

RAM hasn't reached it's high yet then

Or maybe is more appropriate

[wicked shell]

Definitely not, I'm so glad I upgraded before shit hit the fan

I paid $83 for a 32gb GSkill kit that's nearly $400 now

[lean vault]

my last RAM order, since I knew they were going up

now the going rate is $250-$400 for one stick (vs $100 per stick back then)

[marble sparrow]

allowing me free access to the discord bot api is too much power. CHAOS TIME

if you say normal you get a normal emoji. Baby's first discord bot frfr

(bot isn't in this server)

[limber tiger]

That’s really funny

[wicked shell]

I love that lol

[normal tartan]

Do you think it would still work if properly dried out or would that fuck it up too much

[ornate ferry]

nah it's fucked I think

[wicked shell]

Gotta put it in rice I think

[pseudo plinth]

acid would eat away at the traces and solder joints pretty quick i think

[wicked shell]

That's quitter talk

[lean vault]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html

[white sparrow]

someone told me that had been debunked, but they didn't give any further information so I dunno if it's true or not!

[lean vault]

Some source said they refused the typical longer term contract (which is what the headline is based on) but agreed on one for more money and shorter term.

[lean vault]

https://fixupx.com/Jaku/status/1990145425752371536

Jaku 🐀🐀🐀🐀 (@Jaku)

It's funny how back in the early Internet days you'd get a warning about viewing a site over a secure connection. Now we jump though so many hoops when it's not.

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[vague peak]

How it feels to read #rays-subs-main : https://youtu.be/EeHHw03H52w

[normal tartan]

https://i.imgur.com/nzZ6hkJ.png lol

Kinda crazy these are all real wordle boards though

[thorn aurora]

holy shit!!

[normal tartan]

Why did I get a ping from a "silent" message lol

Discord/10

[lean vault]

it shouldn't have made a noise :3

but it ought to have created a red dot

[normal tartan]

I don't have sounds on anyway that's unhinged behaviour

[lean vault]

I don't either

[normal tartan]

If a piece of technology makes a noise at me I did not explicitly ask it to make and it isn't an emergency, bad things happen

[lean vault]

my microwave oven cannot be muted (but at least I'm not forced to set the clock, unlike my oven)

my air fryer really likes to beep, a lot

phone and desktop messenger apps are set not to make noise. I'm much happier since I did that. And I live alone.

[normal tartan]

I think the only noise anything in my house makes without me pressing a button or w/e is my phone when it gets an amber alert, because it's too much of a pain to mute them lol

[lean vault]

some locales tend to use mobile amber alerts way more often than others

[normal tartan]

+2

[wicked shell]

friend went to microcenter today

that would have been an entire PC last month

like a GOOD one

[thorn aurora]

insane

[normal tartan]

Holy shit

[empty owl]

anyone know why on win10 my windows explorer slows down and cranks cpu

like the start menu doesnt work. can't search or anything. I restart explorer through taskmgr and it's back to normal

[ornate ferry]

oh you may have the same messed up situation I had

check if the AppX svchost is constantly crashing, if so disable that service

no more store/UWP apps but you'll go back to normal

if that doesn't work try setting a process mitigation policy on explorer to disable extension points

[lean vault]

Just FYI to everyone, phishing emails trying to steal Google accounts are going around that look like they're coming from Google themselves. The From address is [email protected] which is apparently a possible sender when projects on GCP generate mail events. Rephrased, it looks like anyone with a Google Cloud account can generate an email that appears to come from google.com and it will pass SPF/DKIM.

Please stay vigilant.

I reported one, included the entire email with headers, and got this back within 60 seconds.

Thanks, AI.

[arctic jasper]

Just what I would expect from google lmao

[trim badge]

I started at a new internship about 4 weeks ago, as an information security analyst. Obviously requires a lot of provisioning for specific tools and permissions right - so day one, my boss requests all such permissions on my behalf. A week later I have about a quarter of them. Can't get any work done with only those tools. Two weeks later, the same story. Three weeks later, I can start working on all the boring stuff with my permissions I've finally been granted after much heckling. Keep in mind I'm calling the internal support people once or twice a week and telling them to do their job, and if they can't, get whoever can to do it. Anyways, I'm still missing my most important permissions almost a month later, and I don't think they realize I can read their internal ticket (because I do have permissions for that lol). Apparently, they got an error while trying to provision. However, when checking the error status, it would say there was no error. They escalated to the engineer who was over it, who was on leave for a week (keep in mind this is two weeks ago that was mentioned), and no one but the helpless support people have even added anything to my ticket except for comments saying "yeah, he called again today and I told him I'd try to keep him updated".

TLDR: I'm pissed cause apparently only one person can fix my issue, and they were on leave, and now they're back (supposedly) and still aren't fixing it, so I can't do my job, and it's a complete waste of my time, and I'm about to crash out.

Sorry for the wall of text

[slow solstice]

Yeahhh some places are shit at getting permissions set up, my first job out of college took like 2 months

[trim badge]

Yeah. You'd think a billion dollar organization with thousands of employees would have it figured out, but apparently not

[empty owl]

chatgpt, please give this user access

[normal tartan]

I think the most maddening thing I've been seeing recently on social media is people who don't even bother trying to answer a question themselves

There'll be some question about history or whatever and the only response it'll have is somebody who said "I asked chatgpt and this it what it told me"

And then it's just a straight copy/paste, not even using it as a starting point for checking anything

[pseudo plinth]

i dunno that that really even makes me upset anymore, just depressed

too many people who just don't want to think for themselves

[normal tartan]

I don't use social media (other than Discord, I guess) much so it's not something I see much

I'm sure I'll agree in a year or two

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, i stopped using twitter once the nazi bought it and i rarely ever log into bsky

[slow solstice]

Funnily enough, my current company which is also the smallest company I've worked for was the fastest at getting my permissions set up

We're pretty good about getting things ready before people start

[wicked shell]

i hate when i see people use google's AI search response as a source for anything

like, that's not a fkn source dude

that shit's wrong all the time

[ornate ferry]

Escalate, if you can. Get your boss involved.

[trim badge]

He's involved too lol (which makes it just that much more frustrating they aren't fixing it). He's actually being very helpful and has spent a lot of time trying to get stuff working for me.

[pseudo plinth]

nothing you can really do then, i would enjoy getting paid to not work while you can :D

[ornate ferry]

yeah, welcome to the working world lol

sometimes you're just blocked by stuff out of your control

[pseudo plinth]

yeah my first step is always to involve my manager if i'm blocked in what i feel is an unreasonable way but once they're aware i just kind of pop it out of my mental stack

[trim badge]

Fr, I hate it when I see people do it in arguments. "Chatgpt gave me evidence to support my viewpoint, thus it must be true". If you can't come up with an argument yourself, then you're probably wrong, or at the minimum, shouldn't be so adamant and sure of your opinion you're arguing with randos online about it.

[trim badge]

I read the entire Princess Bride Book during my last shift, which I quite enjoyed.

[ornate ferry]

here's something to help you in your interpersonal interactions, since the phrase "mental stack" reminded me of it

most people have a mental stack, most people's stacks have room for about 3 spaces

in a single interaction, you can push 3 things on there

(note that for purposes of this, an entire meeting counts as an "interaction")

when you push additional things on, you get stack corruption

the last 2 items on the stack will merge into one corrupted entry, then your new thing gets pushed on

and yes, this is the most nerdy/autistic way to describe the concept of "don't overload people with too much information"

[trim badge]

I've never heard that before, I'll keep it in mind though. Appreciate the advice.

[pseudo plinth]

watching one of my favorite videos again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhHNVguMWo

busco quadnary...

[trim badge]

As an autistic nerd, I appreciate nerdy/autistic explanations. Probably the best way you could explain something to me lol

[pseudo plinth]

this comment still gets me too

[empty owl]

I've seen a bunch of AI responses in software related posts/forums lately and I just straight up don't engage with them anymore. If you can't take the time to write about what you did, then you don't understand it to begin with

being able to effectively communicate ideas somehow turned into a "liberal arts school useless degree xDDD" thing

I was kinda like that when I went into college and then I noticed that many of my classmates were functionally illiterate, so I put extra importance into language and soft sciences

[wicked shell]

I firmly believe being a good communicator will advance your career more than any technical prowess

because at the end of the day, the ones signing your paycheck are googling "how do i open a pdf"

[slow solstice]

It really does help, I think that's why I've progressed so quickly, because I communicate well and advocate for myself

I thank my many years of therapy lol

[ornate ferry]

Yup, communication is very important

You can have the best ideas in the world but if you can't communicate them you'll get nowhere

[pseudo plinth]

a few jobs back i was the only ops guy anyone liked interacting with because i went out of my way to actually talk to them and understand their needs/frustrations

one of the managers actually said to me when i moved into the fledgling secteam "you're the only ops guy i liked working with" lol

[wicked shell]

i feel you on that, big time. when i first got hired at my current job, everyone on my team was pretty abrasive to other teams, like everything they asked us to do was a major inconvenience. so pretty much everyone stopped asking us for stuff, which is really bad when your job is infrastructure monitoring lol

i'm the only one left from that original group of 9. now there are 4 of us, and we've regained the trust of the rest of the company, mainly due to positive communication (and actually doing our jobs in a timely manner)

no shit, when i got hired in 2023, we had unfinished requests open from 2019

[empty owl]

woooooo crunch

haven't had to do this in a while

[thorn aurora]

i imagine you guys get a lot of this too

dude, you need to apply the updates

[empty owl]

i deal with this at least once a week

[normal tartan]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-to-halt-SATA-SSD-production-leaker-warns-of-up-to-18-months-of-SSD-price-pressure-worse-than-Micron-ending-consumer-RAM.1184896.0.html

oh joy

No idea how trustworthy this is but more good things to hear lol

[white sparrow]

you know, macs used to do \n\r

[ornate ferry]

but crlf matches more with typewriters

[chrome ledge]

When my windows desktop while in sleep mode does an automatic update at a random ass time during the night/early morning and my monitor lights up my entire bedroom

this didn’t happen right now or anything, but it’s happened many times before

[trim badge]

I did not

That's whack

[rain matrix]

Everyone knows you gotta both return the carriage as well as scroll the paper, and initiating the carriage return first is best because it takes the longest to complete.

[lean vault]

Also, you almost never want to scroll the paper without returning the carriage. so \n alone is a fine way to say CRLF.

[iron mulch]

\r makes for a much easier to write progress indicator than VT100 codes

for n in range(1000):
    print(f'{n}/1000', end='\r')
    # do the needful

[lean vault]

Unless you're dealing with many of the 6502 machines which used \r alone as a newline (or maybe even some other code)

[pseudo plinth]

new pens are ready, at least they look cozy

[wicked shell]

https://tenor.com/view/tired-office-cubicle-bob-parr-the-incredibles-gif-7767100

[pseudo plinth]

much better

[ornate ferry]

I'm saved

had a meeting on Friday I was REALLY not looking forward to, but instead I have a doctor's appointment I scheduled months ago and forgot about

[lean vault]

Gemini is absolutely insane sometimes. I sent it a screenshot of wireshark and it pointed to the exact reason for a connectivity issue that I didn't consider.

some things obscured for privacy. It was a work thing (using work Gemini).

we recently had to set the source bind for other haproxy backends, so we set the default source, but missed that the localhost ones shouldn't have that.

[wicked shell]

Dang, that's handy af

Wish I could use that instead of Copilot lol

[normal tartan]

I hate the way that's written

[wicked shell]

work trip to Vegas appears to be cancelled

[empty owl]

doing work for this prodsec role i've been helping out with

I need to map threat model outputs to security requirements so we have traceability that we implemented and tested it all

there are no security requirements

[wicked shell]

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-plans-heavy-cuts-to-gpu-supply-in-early-2026/

not sure of the trustworthiness of the original source (a report by a chinese publication), but if it's true, what a huge blow to the consumer market

we'll see if nvidia makes a statement before the end of the year

[empty owl]

the plan is to eliminate consumer PCs and get everyone to use cloud processing so they can collect ur data and train their shitty AI models on it 🙂

[chrome ledge]

What the fuck

yes, the galaxy S7 from almost 10 years ago has 3.5 Exabytes of storage

[inner flicker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWx769t1JKg Linus, the creator of Linux doing an interview, he has a take on AI at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGHrDnPxwI This later link is the one where he talks about the AI only

[pseudo plinth]

still strange to me that you still can't assign a value as part of global variable definition in python

i'm sure they have their reasons but

global foo = "bar"

reads a fair bit more cleanly than

global foo
foo = "bar"

i remember wondering why you couldn't do this back in high school when we were using python 2.4 or something

[lean vault]

C mindset 🙂

[pseudo plinth]

it's not bad, just a little inelegant

[lean vault]

I wonder if Python made globals clunky to discourage their use 😉

[pseudo plinth]

could very well be but i don't particularly feel like refactoring right now

python is still bash to me in a lot of ways, it's a hammer and i hit nails with it

[lean vault]

I didn't get into python besides tweaking scripts until after 2's hard deprecation

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, i did python in high school and then when i got into the working world i realized i could do basically everything i needed to do in bash

so for around a decade i really only spoke bash

i'm an ops guy so i didn't really need anything else

[lean vault]

maybe I should refactor my first python project, but I feel like I could still do it better after I learn more things 😛

even though I know it would be much more elegant now.

it works though. It's kludgy, it runs, it's useful. Refactoring wouldn't improve its utility. It would only make the code prettier.

[wicked shell]

i learned python on my own after college, now it's pretty much all i use lol

[lean vault]

https://github.com/mooinglemur/zsmtool/ is that project

[pseudo plinth]

python is all i use for work, because i don’t want to leave behind unmaintainable lisp code

[wicked shell]

as someone who spent 4+ years at his last job maintaining uncommented Perl 4 scripts with variable names such as t and w, thank you for taking future employees into consideration lmao

[pseudo plinth]

:>>

[lean vault]

I can respect that perl 4 code still runs in modern interpreters for the most part.

which is also why I had so much ire for PHP which would break old code.

[pseudo plinth]

yeah, perl is a cool language, i have no ill will towards it

i've always wanted to try learning it again but limited bandwidth

[empty owl]

all my homies hate PHP

I've had multiple calls at work where our service people will be like "we upgraded PHP on customer server and now the website doesn't work"

yeah you can't just upgrade PHP without doing regression testing

[rain matrix]

I also think that PHP is the worst language and am sad that it's my only option when I need server-side code.

[ornate ferry]

poor java servlets, nobody knows about them

[pseudo plinth]

https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-vice-city/

[thorn aurora]

Bit of a blast from the past back in the days when they did it right

[chrome ledge]

Can I use copilot on it

[arctic jasper]

i'm basic (:8080)

[lean vault]

I think 3000 is pretty common

[iron mulch]

if you don't use :6969 are you even a millenial?

[pseudo plinth]

i use 6969 for my znc server

generally i just use 8080 for http-alt and 8443 for https-alt because they're listed that way in /etc/services and it's hardcoded into my memory after over a decade in ops

[empty owl]

8080 master race

[trim badge]

I use 9999

Easy to remember

[wicked shell]

:42069

[thorn aurora]

I use this (https://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=6969) website to make sure I use a port with no known/reported issues 👍stay safe yall

[pseudo plinth]

they can poke at my box all they want, i'm running freebsd and there's no bt client on it

[thorn aurora]

Sry i trust u thats just the example port bc funny number

[lean vault]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/ISO8601/comments/1pv0rdv/merry_20251225t000000z_to_those_who_celebrate_it/

[wicked shell]

traded about 800ft of cat6 cable to a friend for a dell mini pc
it's a lot more modern and powerful than i was expecting, so i'd hate for it to go to waste
9th-gen i7 vPro, 16gb DDR4
didn't have storage so i threw in a 128gb sata ssd i had laying around
it's a "shredded" pc so i can't really sell it
idk what to use it for lol

[blazing swan]

TV media PC?

Host for VPN/Home Assistant/game server etc

[wicked shell]

i've got a plex server and an android tv on everything
i suppose i could use it as a retro emulator box in my bedroom

[blazing swan]

Sounds like you don't have a use for it. I'll take it off your hands

[wicked shell]

lol i'll find some use for it for sure

i could always give the markovs dedicated hardware

[ornate ferry]

install batocera, use as emulator box

[vale isle]

just figured out that I could set a custom boot path so that my laptop boots into Mint automatically without me having to go into the boot menu

ever since I broke the boot manager for Windows 10 (getting close to 2 years ago now) my laptop would boot loop and I would just press esc > F9 > ubuntu to get into Mint but now I don't need to

[pseudo plinth]

hm, apparently the free rhel developer subscription gets you rhel for 16 machines

guess i'll try a rhel workstation

[pseudo plinth]

huh, i somehow missed this in the changelog for 15.0-RELEASE. neat!

that's actually very cool because i'm jailing {postgres,my}sql on this host and i don't need a traditional jail for either, just a service jail with r/w access to a zfs dataset and access from my /24

[ornate ferry]

neat, is the jailing just automatic or do you actually need to configure it?

[pseudo plinth]

there's a minor bit of configuration and not everything is ready for it yet

but compared to setting up a full thin/thick jail it's much less time consuming

[pseudo plinth]

i'm gonna shit a brick

vendor just cancelled our troubleshooting call with no indication as to why

did we not pay you people hundreds of thousands of dollars

am i just fundamentally misunderstanding the relationship here

maybe they're just not that into us

[empty owl]

probably took a call with another client

nice guys finish last again 😔

[slow solstice]

I work for a relatively small company and we have definitely had vendors push us to the side because we were small potatoes vs their other clients

[empty owl]

my company before we got bought out was one of Zoom's first clients

all our meeting rooms were hooked up with Zoom stuff

and then covid happened and they blew up

[ornate ferry]

reminder to not lie on your resume

if you apply to us listing some C experience, I expect you to know what a null-terminated string is

[white sparrow]

wait what

how can someone not even know that and claim to have C experience

[ornate ferry]

exactly

(they worked on some smaller C++ programs in college apparently)

so I could see only knowing like STL classes

[wicked shell]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHL75H_VEM

[ornate ferry]

dereferencing null is perfectly valid if you allocate memory there 🙂

[wicked shell]

ngl i haven't touched C or C++ in so long i had to look up all this shit again

plus i wasn't a good student to begin with

[rain matrix]

C my beloved. I was playing with this today (it's running a sand simulation and will be an hourglass timer)

[trim badge]

Lol yesterday my sister (mechanical engineer) made a comment that C and C++ were basically the same. I had to explain to her the difference between a procedural language and an object oriented one. She only ever really uses python, and even then only for scripting, but I guess it's fairly common to think they're almost the same if all you know about them is what you were taught in your classes.

[empty owl]

I've always preferred C over C++

[swift flint]

i prefer hi-c myself

[white sparrow]

what about some Holy C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS#HolyC

[granite breach]

Awesome

[arctic jasper]

Everyone always goin off about holy c. Where's unholy c? Where's devilish c?

[wicked shell]

c--

object-oriented x86 assembly

[trim badge]

Im gonna create a fork of C++ called ++C, and the only difference will be that the syntax for a pre-increment and post-increment operator will be swapped

[wicked shell]

make it require curly quotes like “ ” and ‘ ’

[wicked shell]

unrelated, i figured out a good use for this dell mini
gonna use it as a Tdarr node to encode my whole media library (and future files) to H.265
intel QSV is pretty solid at it
should greatly reduce disk usage

[ornate ferry]

For ++C objects, also reverse the storage of members (so your vtable pointer will be last in memory) and padding (an 8-byte field on x64 gets 7 bytes of padding, a 1-byte field gets no padding)

[pseudo plinth]

joke's on you, i'm a macos user so it does that by default

[wicked shell]

breaking from standards to be ✨ quirky ✨

[pseudo plinth]

for the vast majority of mac users it's probably fine and i think there's a flag applications can assert to override it

the only time it really bothers me is when i'm copying something from a cms that doesn't convert smart quotes and my shell/repl goes ?

i have it disabled because i don't need or want it myself though

[trim badge]

Yeah, but if they used standard quotes, it would be fine for all users

As long as you can disable it I don't have a problem with it though

I hate when a useless "feature" is added that you can't disable cough cough google banana in messages

[wicked shell]

Forced adoption is gross in most circumstances

I say "most" because there have been some recent examples that have made sense, like making RCS the default messaging format instead of SMS/MMS

And even then it's not "forced", because it can be disabled lol

[trim badge]

I think it's fine after a certain amount of time - for example, you couldn't expect Microsoft to foot the cost to keep Windows 7 secure forever. But something like a disable feature for a single button would be of negligible cost, and take about 10 minutes to implement (if you ignore the bureaucratic overhead processes that slow everything down)

So I think I'd tend to agree with your statement

[chrome ledge]

updates nvidia drivers

computer barely goes to sleep when i press the power button

https://tenor.com/view/gato-withrock-gif-27341353

[lean vault]

A cross-platform emulator I maintain has been fine for some time on MacOS, but now rounded corners are mandatory on macOS for apps when compiled on modern systems. On Windows it can still be hinted away, but now stuff gets cut off the bottom left/right corners.

it's a C app, so most of the cross-platform widget libraries would require C++ifying it. Right now the entire window surface is just an SDL window to draw the framebuffer onto, no menu bar, no status bar.

There's a fork of the emu that is less maintained that has been made C++, and uses Dear ImGui for all of its widgets. More and more now, I'm thinking about trying to merge the two projects. Unfortunately the fork doesn't build on macOS right now, so that would have to be solved in order for it to be considered.

[wicked shell]

rounded corners to be ✨ quirky ✨

i was wondering if that GUI change would impact cross-platform applications when my work mac updated

[pseudo plinth]

at what point is it acceptable for ui/ux designers to do their jobs?

rounded corners fit the macos design philosophy, they're well within their rights to say "if you don't do this your content will display incorrectly" (which i am absolutely certain they did!)

this isn't windows, it's not their mandate to maintain backwards compatibility with 30 year old applications because they might be running some critical system somewhere

i'm sorry but while i think a lot of criticism of apple is valid and even warranted i think a lot of times people just want to hate apple because it's (still) the trendy thing to do

[wicked shell]

a mandatory hard cutover to a new ui/ux design standard with only 3 months prior notice is not something i can defend, sorry

and i like my mac

[pseudo plinth]

there's a difference between having an issue with how something was implemented and knocking the fact that it exists at all

[wicked shell]

not here to argue :)

[pseudo plinth]

that's fine but say the thing you actually mean

otherwise it comes across as just bashing designers for doing the thing they were hired to do

[swift flint]

gr3at holding himself back from an argument because his true power would topple at least 3 democracies and give every person on earth a free 20 piece chicken mcnugget mhm

[arctic jasper]

https://ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows/

[normal tartan]

Okay but like I could go for some mcnuggets so that's pretty selfish gr3at 😔

[swift flint]

[pseudo plinth]

not really sure there's a winning argument to be made there in that context but hey maybe i'm just a moron who doesn't know anything

i'm only coming up on 20 years in this industry i guess i'm just clueless

still wet behind the ears and all

[vale isle]

I was given a Framework by a friend yesterday

[wicked shell]

oh shit, that's a HUGE upgrade from what you had, right?

[vale isle]

very big upgrade indeed

[wicked shell]

sick, congrats!!

[vale isle]

thanks

my friend has been thanked many many times since I got it

[wicked shell]

yeah that's one hell of a gift, frameworks aren't cheap by any means, especially with those specs

that's like a top-tier workstation, minus the dedicated GPU lol

[vale isle]

he upgraded to the Framework 16 so he gave me his old 13

[wicked shell]

gah, i love 13" laptops so much lol

[vale isle]

this was what I had before (forgot I set a custom ascii image for fastfetch)

[wicked shell]

oh damn, yeah 3rd gen i5 to ryzen 7000 series is an insane jump lmao

[vale isle]

[wicked shell]

like a 15 year upgrade if i'm not mistaken lmao

[vale isle]

that laptop was made in 2014

[wicked shell]

so a 12 year upgrade

close enough lmao

[vale isle]

hehe

[wicked shell]

still, the performance difference should be night and day

[vale isle]

Twitch actually works properly

after I installed the right codecs

and I can get over 100 fps in Minecraft without any mods

I'm excited to be able to play a bunch of games at more than the lowest settings

[wicked shell]

yeah the 780M is no slouch for integrated graphics

[vale isle]

the 3:2 aspect ratio is something I still have to get used to

[wicked shell]

huh, didn't even notice that bit

hey, at least you have a lot more real estate to use

[vale isle]

[normal tartan]

I can't tell if my laptop randomly decided to get better, firefox updated and fixed something, or if youtube got off their ass to fix their platform

But pages are actually loading near instantly on my laptop now it's crazy

It used to take 20-30 seconds to even load my sub page, and videos would pause for 5-10 seconds at best before doing anything

[lean vault]

New machine, and first machine I've had where I've chosen to keep running Wayland after testing it, since KDE Plasma 6 seems to work well with my habits.

and being able to have different scaling factors on different monitors is very nice

also hi from AGDQ :3

gonna try a third external monitor tomorrow

(I didn't have an HDMI cable on me at that moment)

[vale isle]

definitely wouldn't have had room in my bag if I had taken the one you offered

[lean vault]

I have the two portables. But for HDMI was gonna use one that was set up in that room. If there's another one that has a displayport input, I might try to connect that one too. 😛

no idea if there's a limit or what it is. it might be 4 total

and hey, it's not X11 anymore so maybe the total canvas size limit might not apply, or whatever that is

[vague peak]

Tearing always bothered me so I switched as soon as the nvidia driver worked well enough on it

[lean vault]

this laptop has the mux in it to switch between integrated and discrete graphics on a per application basis, and even that seems to work well with it

[vague peak]

is that the thing they brand as optimus?

[lean vault]

yeah

Unlike most laptops that have it, this one will let you boot with the discrete GPU as primary

[vague peak]

very nice to have the option in case of getting nvidia'd

[lean vault]

neat tool :3

[wicked shell]

dang who gave you shell access to a fighter jet??
||f16||

[lean vault]

the third external monitor worked without issue when testing

KDE seems to have the concept that I'm used to of primary display when there are two monitors

when there's 3 or more, it seems to be an ordered list of priorities and the laptop display always seems to go to the bottom when I have a new monitor configuration

and the one at the top of the list gets the taskbar ("task manager")

[iron mulch]

https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/issues/593 this is a truly wild issue in practice

I'm writing a tool to get all of the PDF documents stored in database tables (long story...) and put them somewhere more sensible and got bit by this issue

I figured since there's no ordering or search criteria, it would be fastest to just do the framework equivalent of select * from table and await foreach through it

got a 10x(!) speedup by bringing my own thread pool with each thread doing repeated queries of select * from table where Id=$1 using sync apis

[empty owl]

jeeeez

that's a nasty one

[wicked shell]

https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidia-is-reportedly-bringing-back-2021s-rtx-3060-gpu-because-ai-is-eating-all-of-the-newer-cards-194241706.html