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jabroni_salad

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Just as Sisyphus is bound to his stone, so too am I bound to these Servicenow tickets.
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jabroni_salad··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
It would be nice if that was all they were, but evidently a software update can render the fridge unable to run, so it is clearly much more. These things have transitioned from IT to OT.
jabroni_salad··on iPhone Duo
The fedex driver that delivers to my office is still maining one of these. Its so cool.
jabroni_salad··on iPhone Duo
My z fold 8 is actually smaller than my old Xperia Z 3 Compact despite technically having a bigger screen. I would buy a device this size that doesnt unfold, even.
jabroni_salad··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
I checked their site and it looks like a write-up hasnt appeared yet. They did a good one for their GPU black market story so hopefully they didnt just forget :)
jabroni_salad··on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Fandom also refused to give back the wowwiki.com domain. A mistake to ever let them manage it.
jabroni_salad··on Audacity 4.0
there is also the janko keyboard. It looks a little scary but you can play in any key using the same hand shape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard

jabroni_salad··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Looking at TFA, they are moving it to a venue where selling off the gold can happen quickly. This kind of thing was not necessary for the USA's approach to funding the War on Terror because we decided on a really innovative combo of Taking On Debt and also Just Not Accounting For Things which will surely have no consequence later on.
jabroni_salad··on Playa Phone
If your impression is from social media, you will mainly be seeing those who love posting themselves on social media.
jabroni_salad··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
this domain doesnt have an mx record at all
jabroni_salad··on Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'
I feel like it is actually payment pages where I see these kinds of bouncers the most, though. click fraud is inefficient, but payment fraud can actually ruin a business.
jabroni_salad··on Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'
Advertisers should be grateful I even skimmed the subject line
jabroni_salad··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's only anecdotal but for every site that rejects my personal domain they accept a fastmail.com alias just fine.
jabroni_salad··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
the subdomain addressing is interesting but not really portable. Personally I only use it for things that I would be okay using a 10minutemail for, and I use plus addressing for anything that would be more permanent.
jabroni_salad··on My Ten Years in No Man's Sky
Im having trouble zooming on the image but I'm pretty sure benq has the only 3:2 desktop display on the market that isn't a graphics tablet.

You should also look at the LG Dualup if this kinda thing interests you.

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

jabroni_salad··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Yes, and put a search bar that loses focus to some piece of crap I dont care about after I enter 3 characters, and some hotkeys that navigate me to a different page when I accidentally activate them because I thought I was going to put text in the search field.

youtube people I know you are in here. Fix your stupid PIP thing.

jabroni_salad··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
At some point facebook has switched gears to be more about public/semipublic forums and marketplace. If you wanted the old facebook that was for your immediate family/friends/acquaintances then it isnt really relevant anymore compared to group texts.

I just gave FB a few screenlengths of scrolling. There was one post from a family member and about 20 from people I am not friends with and groups I do not follow. I used to use an extension to get rid of that extra stuff (Purity) but at some point I stopped fighting it and stopped visiting too.

jabroni_salad··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
I was gonna say, this is every time the gang feels like firing up a round of Uno.
jabroni_salad··on Elevators
This was fun to read and play with but I'd like to see it with different usage patterns, too.

The simulator seems to have passengers spawning on a random floor and then transiting to a different random floor. But for where I work, the trips are pretty much always from the lobby to a floor, or from a floor to the lobby. Nobody goes inbetween floors except maybe the cleaners.

jabroni_salad··on KOReader
I have no idea but users seem to like it despite all the ghosting.

The reason I use koreader is because it can sync my progress on disparate devices. I have a normal sized kobo and also a phone sized viwoods eink device.

jabroni_salad··on Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?
I consult on the topic of technology for non-technology companies (think like a hydraulic piston manufacturer or something. They consume software in order to create something else.)

Basically if the technical leaders at such companies fail to shoehorn AI in somewhere, they will have to find a way to demonstrate to their board of directors that they are keeping up to date and not allowing the business to settle in to abandonware. The guys selling the software also have a similar problem -- industrial abandonware whose development team was laid off 12 years ago is for sale right now and you have to be careful not to accidentally spend a million dollars on it. Something that has AI bolted on, even in an insignificant capacity, is more likely to have present day relevance.

jabroni_salad··on VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool
Vulnhunter isn't that exciting but if you scroll down their feed you'll see "guide to common rust errors" which... also isn't very exciting. I think they just need to publish something every week.

fwiw I have seen good whitepapers from them. A while back I used one about their IVR to get exec buy in for re-doing my company's IVR into something a lot better.

jabroni_salad··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Every single day I miss my slider switch. They kept the notification LED longer than most others too.
jabroni_salad··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
Sure, but I would have agreed with you 10 years ago too. We were in the throes of making really fat assets that weak computers couldn't load quickly.
jabroni_salad··on 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC
A little catch with consoles is that they are often lacking forward and backward compatibility. That isn't really a problem with PC.
jabroni_salad··on Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration
I like peeping at other people's skills but it is unclear to me what/where the claimed 60+ skills are actually located. Compound Engineering conveys a few but nowhere near 60.
jabroni_salad··on County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'
The text of the article indicates that the county government sent this message to all government facilities, but I suppose that doesn't make for quite as sexy a headline and a public school is technically a government facility.

I appreciate 404 media's mission but isn't there enough stupid shit existing naturally in the world for them to illuminate that we don't need to do this?

jabroni_salad··on The disappearance of Japan's animators
Those titles are a result of the webnovel -> lightnovel pipeline. Users won't click unless they like the concept so authors started to just put the tagline directly in the title.
jabroni_salad··on The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That's Taking over the Internet
A lot of design is kind of rote and boilerplate and has been for ages.

The original cliparts were paper books. Designers would clip out the pictures they want, glue them to their master document, and then run it through a photocopier. Then later we had the big hero web templates and stock images. Even though every person involved has an excellent camera in their pocket, the thought of using it was unbearable compared to just downloading a stock image. Then we got canva which was basically the perfection of cliparts and stock images.

Now we have AI web design. It's just the newest step of the least exciting 'something needs to exist but its form is mostly without value' category of "content", which is itself a category so devoid of meaning that nobody doing it even bothers to give themselves the title of 'designer' or 'writer' or 'illustrator', instead self labeling as 'content creator'.

For what it's worth though, I find AI designs to be mostly okay? They aren't exciting but at least the ultra low contrast design era is finally over and I can finally have usable scrollbars and easily find the login button on most websites now.

jabroni_salad··on GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents
deepseek's direct API is super loosey goosey about caching. On multiple occasions I have gotten cache hits resuming a session from the previous day.
jabroni_salad··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
Glad they spent half the article on the a-pillar issue. As a recent recipient of a bit of back pain I'd be real happy if my next car didn't require me to try and peer around those things at every intersection.
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