Now that’s good trolleyposting

#include <delusion>

Pretty reasonable take IMO

I can see how it can be a useful tool to get people into dev

You need to back that up with real learning though

If you can’t/don’t review and completely understand every line of code you submit to a project yourself, you should not be surprised if the project owner tells you to take a long walk towards the Mariana trench

Oh really? I could have sworn HA was a fair bit later than that

I think I used OpenHAB between about 2013 and 2018, then switched to HA around then after discovering it and reading about it for a couple of weeks.

Must have just had my head in the sand then!

Home assistant continues to be fantastic, I remember it was what felt like fairly recently that all we had was OpenHAB and although it was fine, it was a bit of an uphill struggle to do anything.

“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

I miss the keyboard screen series of Logitech stuff, I held onto my G510 a lot longer than I probably should have and only really retired it for something much nicer to type on around 2020.

If Logitech had released something like their G915 but with the screen, I’d have got it in a heartbeat. Even though game support had long dwindled, it was still good for media player feedback, system stats and IIRC there was a third party way of getting notifications from some sites to show up.

I guess smartphones kinda do most of that better these days… Well excluding the system stats, but that was always the fallback if nothing else was worth showing

Is there an extension to Betteridge’s law of headlines for fact checking right wing governments?

Pretty sure the answer is always “yep, they lied again”

Nope sadly, AI needs GPUs and it makes up the bulk of sales of these chips now.

It would be suicide for any of the companies that could make these processors to not go after the biggest market. The result of a company not doing that would be watching all their competitors grow and advance their products whilst their company’s value drops and products stagnate, possibly to a point that recovery to competitiveness would be hard if not impossible.

I’m good with the ActivityPub threadiverse tyvm

Primary sources tend to disagree

Here’s a study from 2019 about it that backs up my assertion that more is conservative https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/69/2/168/5425470

And of that propaganda being created, that conservative inclined people are most likely to fall for it: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231220330

There seem to be plenty of other papers that more or less reach those same conclusions with a good number of citations, but I can’t find anything really at all on Google Scholar concluding the opposite with a quick search, let alone something also credible.

The closest some papers come is saying that they try groups all over the political spectrum, as their goal is disunity ultimately, but they seemingly don’t really have any kind of continued success with misinforming those groups anywhere near as effectively. They more or less all end up concluding that most of the propaganda targets conservatives, because they’re the ones that fall for it.

Remember every time we find Putin backed propaganda outside of Russia in the wild, it’s nearly always boosting predominantly conservative viewpoints versus anything else.

Outside of their borders they’re more interested in people fighting with each other than anything like coming together. Right wing politics is how they do that

Rustacean or Ferris

Both python and node engineers will be equally offended by the pip/npm one

Angular/react? React folk might just think it’s a variation of the HTML shield, angular folk will just be happy someone has paid attention to them

I’d like that if we end up in a reality where he’s willingly left office alive, one of the first pieces of legislation should be “Trump’s big beautiful bill”: an itemised invoice for the cost of undoing all the bullshit he signed his name on

You’ve reminded me of my favourite one of those that’s probably mostly experienced by British people

On a country or language list I’m either looking for, “United Kingdom” “Great Britain”, “Britain”/“British”, “England”/” English"

Now that’s kinda fair enough, it’s usually UK, so I go to the bottom and start my hunt there.

The big problem comes when the list is ordered by whatever value they’re using to represent the choice, not the text itself, so you get stuff like “United Kingdom” where “Great Britain” should be.

This is not uncommon

I’d say long term, neither of those should be problems

The electricity it uses is not sustainable.

Many EV users also go for solar panels to alleviate energy costs. Also as a country’s electrical grid modernises, it should make use of a greater share of renewables given they’re cheaper than the alternatives now.

It has lots of tracking etc and in some cases remote control.

Slightly less certain, but I’d hope this kind of thing is legislated away at some point. There’s also always customer choice, there will be manufacturers that compete on the privacy angle if enough of us care

The main problem with EVs is it doesn’t solve any of the problems inherent to cars being treated as the main mode of transportation in a given area. Places like that will see EVs as the solution compared to an alternative of investing into better public transit infrastructure.

Infrastructure that is basically inevitable, since we know now that any town/city that eschews anything but car transit will ultimately bankrupt themselves on road maintenance alone.

After a lifetime of being tech support for everyone I know outside of work, I do not relate to this

It’s all just Unicode

You can have emoji as your WiFi network name too

Kinda interesting to see what older devices do when faced with such a network