DevDave

I am not sure it’s that easy.

Me too

When I was a kid, we used to have to walk uphill, in snow, somehow both ways, to figure out which voodoo configuration of DMA, IRQ, and free vs high memory settings was needed to be able to play a game.

Anyone know of a jail break for Tesla’s PowerWall?

My understanding is the battery/inverter will go into something like safe mode after a certain number of days of not being able to call home. I haven’t been able to confirm or deny this but I do know Tesla doesn’t like you interacting with the battery directly.

Jesus christ I forgot what dark times those were. Just checked and indeed min memory was 512MB for Half life 2

Goddamn kids these days don’t know how good they got it (ignoring all the other stuff going on right now)

Maybe in the orange box era? Did we even have that much memory back then? /s

7228.16 USD with 2026 prices but don’t forget inflation over the years.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend this is a high security page so if you know how to open it in the steam client, that will be easier.

… with a flannel like that, the first guy could be Canadian for all we know though the symbols in the back ground make we wonder if perhaps Pakistani-Canadian?

There is a premade meal delivery service with possibly the best product right now on the market. Unfortunately after I did a deep dive on them to figure out why their customer service sucked so much, I found the head of their “customer experience” had liked/heart emoji’d these two AI companies.

After telling my experience to another dev, they noticed an advert by an AI company boasting how they provided an service for them.

For tech savy people, the heart of the problem is because they used the user email address as the primary key in multiple places. So not only a varchar primary key but a natural one to boot! Not even a drop in the bucket but they lost ~10K USD of revenue for what should have been a 1 minute begin; update... SQL command by the DBA. Though the large amounts of AI makes me think they fucked themselves on that too. Another reason I suspect that; they had a data breach at the start of the month but haven’t made a public statement or warned their customers. Might not even know, might not know how it happened, and how much was stolen.

Near the bottom of the list of the saddest things I saw last year was a video clip of an “every day” major Musk fanboy coming to terms that their hero was a wackjob drug addict. It looked like Musk had taken a bit too much MDMA, Ketamine, or some amount of both as he was having these spastic episodes of body shakes and eye rolls during the middle of the interview. Mysteriously difficult to find the video clip now.

Anti-Trust is some bullshit invented by damn socialist commies to keep the money from trickling down. \s

I thought TMobile bought Mint?

~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn’t about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.

Another incident, I almost sat down next to these fuckwits but I am thankfully out of frame https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That’s the best you can do.

just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s

Identity management and security.

So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David’s fighting over this handle. It’s hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle “First!” with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don’t type anything here I wouldn’t say out loud in public.

The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.

This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That’s when the first big change to the “Hot” algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.

Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev’s at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon’s. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don’t think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.

I often wonder if that is the reason Reddit dropped it, to make controlling and influencing the user base easier? A joke example, seeing +100 to -99 votes regarding the sacrilege or glory of pineapple on pizza is a lot different then just +1 or -1

Reddit’s shadow ban system is another part of why I don’t trust them. Plenty of times I’ve seen posts where metadata says there are multiple comments but instead its empty without even the [deleted by reddit] trail. Could be just their distributed database taking its sweet ass time to become consistent or maybe those people are on some sort of shit list?

For myself I know I keep saying something that results in me getting some extra attention from an LLM because I keep getting sub 30 second instant bans and warnings for ambiguous comments that sound threatening but aren’t. I lost a 20 year old account because of the comment “We should never have killed that fucking bear” being determined as advocating violence.

Indeed this is an overly solved problem. Personally I prefer ReplayGain for music and some video-audio productions while compression is great for making voices clearer. Thinking about adverts, compression would likely be the winner for making it less jarring decibel wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain - works fairly well for audio. I imagine some sort of mean average would be good enough for balancing a movie’s loudness to the adverts.

I remember Reddit used to have the ability to show both upvote and downvotes. I miss that feature.