@mattblaze @malwarejake a little inside baseball: they prompt that way because that popup isn’t the review request. That’s the pre-review request, if you say no it’s all you’ll see, if you say yes they’ll then pop the OS review request dialogue having pre-filtered anyone who was going to leave a bad review. Yes, that’s as shady as it sounds.
I need to non-urgently speak to a GP. I can use the online booking (I do not have a registration code), NHS eConsult (has no further capacity for today), or I can join a phone queue at 8am delaying people with actual urgent conditions. Someone make this make sense?
Oh come on Apple. I’ll tolerate your autocorrection of Apple product names to fit your brand standards to a degree but “freeform” is approximately never going to be the user talking about your Miro-esque software nobody has ever used in anger.
I’ll never not be amused by the fact GitHub hide a bunch of stuff under Developer Settings. As opposed to all those other settings which are just about things like git repositories and Docker image management.
Next achievement to unlock: voluntarily dismounting the wall from more than a few centimetres up. For now I’ll just keep falling off and eventually accept it’s fine.
Fuck yes. After a year of bouldering and occasionally getting on an auto-belay and deciding I don’t trust the thing to catch me I just topped three 30’ walls. Downclimbed two of them, powered out and slipped on the way down the third, which had exactly the result I’d been hoping for: loudly shouting fuck and then being gently carried to the ground from halfway up.
I’ve spent the last 45 minutes idly reading the internet in the cafe because I can’t quite face it yet.
All services except the ones I want to use should shut down when the average temperature goes above 25c. Anyone unavoidably still working because I want to use their service gets double time.
I have made it as far as walking to the gym and already feel like I’m melting. Now working up the energy to actually get on some walls.
@herdingdata the press once again unable to see past today’s headlines and extrapolate to some real analysis. (See also: the six monthly cycle of “energy prices have been cut/raised, see how it will affect your annual bill”… not at all, because the cycle will happen again when winter arrives)
@pikesley it’s a sign of my ongoing trauma from the e-commerce era of my career that I can identify what software they’re using from that URL.
@fesshole given this is Fesshole I can only assume channel stuffing is some form of fetish.
Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires and the very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling and blocking NYC traffic.
This is what happens when you elect a mayor for the people, not the corporations. We need more of this.
@fesshole I’ve always wondered whether the cleaning staff turn off any alarms that have been set while turning a room over.
I am moving to a usage-based billing
Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.
@kunsi if you’ve got a soda stream handy it’s dangerously drinkable when carbonated.
… more at https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/ for those interested.
I have received what I hope is a very exciting email (I’m currently 80% sure it’s very exciting and would really like the follow up to be replied to l).
@nikitonsky “Resigned to the fact I have once again gone deep enough into my savings that I’ll have to sell my soul for a few months before I can once again quit and follow my true dream of living in a yurt”.
@jackeric it feels like cargo culting to me. People no longer know what hashtags were for, not least because they’re being spammed to the point of uselessness on most platforms but they see people using them and feel they must as well.
@jackeric it’s completely #baffling behaviour. Not #only is it useless because #nobody is searching for those tags, it makes the post borderline #unreadable.