@q Moto G has always been my go to Android test device. Not utterly unusable, but crap enough you get the true £30/month including the phone Android user experience.
Periodic reminder that EU did not mandate cookie popups.
Cookie popups are yet another example of malicious complience by an industry that wants to use and abuse data about us all.
@PurpleJillybeans @catsalad so many different types of horrified face, it’s like looking at clouds.
@anon_opin this feels like a thing that could have been said to one specific person rather than the entire internet.
Thinking for some reason today of all the horror stories I was told about Eastern European socialist countries to characterise them as rapidly failing states.
"Systems and products never worked, despite all the glowing propaganda; people just shrugged and accepted it."
"Jobs and contracts were granted based on who you knew, not what you knew."
"Friends and family of the party could get whatever they liked, everyone else struggled even to get housing, food, and essentials."
"Unbiased reporting was nonexistent; the media just printed endless propaganda."
"You could be grabbed off the street by police for saying the wrong thing."
@sophie that “do not reverse in flight” sign has amused me. “Do not reverse in flight. You will fall out of the sky.”
(I guess it’s actually for some specific component rather than suggesting you might slam the whole plane in reverse without thinking)
Overheard at airport from airline staff : “sir, that is AI and AI is a liar”
@maartje possibly it avoids ID conflicts? Statistically it’s unlikely two delivery providers will generate the same hex string within the same 20 minute period.
@maartje yup, my example was awful keyboard bashing, delivery order numbers are almost universally hexidecimal.
@maartje I assume one of them started that way and then everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
@maartje curiously this seems to be universal across restaurants and delivery providers across the UK. Most places you’ll see drivers coming in and asking for “3jc” or whatever, which is always the last few characters of a delivery ID.
@rolenthedeep regrettably if the companies making those operating systems did that they’d become utilities rather than scrappy tech startups, and that would mean the line would have to stop going up.
@adamantichrist @fesshole because it looks a little bit like boobs. It’s the closest this guy will get to seeing any on account of the fact he doesn’t speak to his wife.
When they run out of Toy Story characters will Debian switch to a rolling release model?
@an0key I didn’t, on account of it kind of almost working. God I hate that printer.
@an0key the thing that annoys me is that kind of works just enough that I feel bad chucking it out and getting one which actually works.
@an0key you’d have to pay me to take another of those. I give it at best a 30% success rate on printing what you ask it to on the first attempt. My 3D printer is more reliable.
Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
@pikesley what’s an attacker going to do though? Fill it with irrelevant junk so you can’t find anything in it?