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HeyJoe , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

The comments are weird. How often do you even see this? I feel like I remember it once and hit don’t switch and thats it. Not sure why you keep getting it, but I also don’t use edge so maybe that is why. I would imagine if there is a way to stop it it’s in settings somewhere or possibly a local group policy maybe.

DaniloT ,

I saw this exact popup yesterday, I remember seeing something similar to it before but it has been quite a while. The thing is, this single popup broke my computer entirely, I was playing a game and it jumped in front of the game, immediately stole the games inputs and I couldn’t even pause it. Then clicking don’t switch did absolutely nothing and the popup remained there, and any attempt to forcefully close the popup failed. Also, I was streaming at the time to my tv, and attempting to use any system related screen is blocked (and this popup counts as a system settings screen!), So it just crashed the entire thing while I was trying to dismiss or close it. I was stuck and couldn’t even reboot, had to hold the button and lose any progress I had in the game.

So yeah, I would be very interested in not letting this happen again as well.

HeyJoe ,

Now that is a crazy story and can understand being really annoyed if that happened! I definitely have had my share of wtf moments on Windows as well so I get it.

inlandempire , to memes in agile is far left too. I will die on this hill
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I’m curious about your agile theory now !

manicdave OP ,

It’s half way to self management.

Software exists in a world that kind of exists outside of property. Cynics like to think that Agile got big because as some kind of fad because the kids love it, but the reality is that fully hierarchical models just cannot keep up with self organising teams.

The old model - the model that most of the rest of the world of work still uses - simply cannot compete on a level playing field where the means of production (a cheap computer) are available to all. A landowner can stop you building your own house, but Microsoft can’t really stop you building your own software, so they still have to put in work to collect rent.

Imagine what we could accomplish as a species if the goals and distribution of resources were also decided democratically.

087008001234 ,

Thank you for everything you said in the back half! In regards to the first idea – do you think agile is half way to self-management because of its attributes, or because it is something to get people making software in a structured capacity? I live in a world of bad agiles and agile cynics, and so I wonder if I am missing some nuance you may have intended. I guess I ask because I agree with everything you have said but don’t see agile methodology as being important to spreading this message myself.

manicdave OP ,

My point isn’t actually about the software.

Agile is a limited form of workplace democracy that succeeded because the usual forms of disciplining workers couldn’t be enforced to stop it. It’s taken off in software because the outlay for software is so low that people can just quit their jobs and start a rival project with preferable working conditions. It’s stuck around because it’s significantly more effective than dictat.

I have problems with agile too. A lot of the “ceremonies” seem more like cult rituals and bad practices are often assumed to be self justifying when they should be interrogated. (I once had a bust up in the office because I insisted in creating a future proof test framework instead of writing just what’s needed at the time. I was overruled and I’m still mad about it).

So I guess my point isn’t even about the specific agile practices either.

The point is that workers are able to self manage when they’re allowed to, and agile has accidentally proven this to be the case. Other work places should adopt some of these ideas. And these ideas should be pushed further, into business decisions and HR and management. And physical communities etc. all the way up to actual government.

space_comrade ,

Interesting perspective, never really looked at it like that, I’ve always just interacted with the corporatized bullshit implementations of Agile.

It seems Agile really did have a kernel of worker self management in it but the original people behind it didn’t have the right ideological framework to realize that this is what they’re trying to achieve.

087008001234 ,

Interesting - thank you!

scoutFDT ,

Microsoft can’t stop you from building software… yet.

mindbleach ,

As I’ve been putting it: software is made of labor.

Unfortunately the actual reason Agile got big is that the cult of MBAs saw daily meetings putting scores on estimates and absolutely creamed their slacks.

vga ,

268% higher failure rates, perhaps? :)

www.theregister.com/2024/…/agile_failure_rates/

manicdave OP ,

What is impact engineering though? If it’s it’s just agile while being cognisant of technical debt over MVPs, I don’t know if it’s necessarily that different.

It seems the study was designed to sell a book and I can’t find anything about what that book says. I should probably read it but the bait way it’s being sold makes me resistant to paying to find out.

frezik ,

According to a company trying to sell its Agile replacement.

Prox ,

What a shit measure. A key idea is to fail fast and fail often, as this leads to faster growth through more frequent (re)assessment.

SW companies only care about profit. If failure rate is 268% higher but profit is simultaneously 10% higher, then Agile is the better choice.

lorty ,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s much better to deliver useless projects afterall.

Fades ,

The goddamn article you yourself posted as the proof mentions how it’s an ad right at the top

Even though the research commissioned by consultancy Engprax could be seen as a thinly veiled plug for Impact Engineering methodology, it feeds into the suspicion that the Agile Manifesto might not be all it’s cracked up to be

Fades ,

Why the space before the punctuation

inlandempire ,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

French typing rules

Fades ,

Neat! Never knew

inlandempire ,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

Yeah haha it’s really weird and I tend to switch between the “normal” way and the “french” way without noticing. Basically in french the rule is that if your symbol is “tall” ( ! , ? , brackets, semicolon, I think dashes as well…) it needs to be preceded by a space

transientpunk , to memes in When it tickles just right
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

This was the meme I was remembering

titter , to casualuk in How I (US) make tea when my British friend comes over to visit

To be fair it’s better than my process for making tea for myself.

Tea bag, sugar, cold water all go into a mug and into the microwave for three minutes. I forget about it for roughly an hour, then drink it as is.

MadBob ,

That’s not tea. That’s an insult to those who came before us.

ParsnipWitch ,
pirat ,

You could give it another short spin after the hour has passed.

What I usually do (for ~4 cups) is boiling 1,1 liters of water in a kettle, filling a teabag with 3-4 teaspoons of tea, rinsing the thermo bottle with the 0,1 liter of water, brewing the tea, then forgetting about it for 15-30 min, suddenly exclaiming “Oh, the tea!” (but in my own language) which, to me at least, is funny because (short story long) I once ordered a bunch of free Christian bumper stickers online, which I, long ago, before I even had this habit of forgetting the brewing bottle, had cut out into different words and letters of said christian bumper stickers and stuck onto the thermo bottle, reading (exactly) “Oh, the tea!”.

On a sidenote, no matter how long I usually forget it while it’s brewing, it’s always still too hot - and even never too strong. Pure Earl Grey - no milk, no sugar!

001 , to casualuk in How I (US) make tea when my British friend comes over to visit

This all sounds about right, except maybe wiping your unwashed genitals around the rim of the cup before you start. Other than that, spot on.

AdamHenry ,

What better way to start off the day than getting your eight essential vitamins on.

MooseBoys , to nostupidquestions in Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?

Definitely less secure, but way more convenient. Security for residential door locks doesn’t really matter that much though; thieves are unlikely to try to pick your lock or use some smart-device exploit to access your home - they’ll just smash a window.

xavier666 ,

Security 101 : If it’s convinient for you, it’s convinient for the attacker as well.

SomeKindaName ,

Ssh keys are pretty damn convenient.

NotYourSocialWorker ,

Agreed, most of home security is to try and make your neighbours a more tempting target than you. The ethical choice is to do it by making your home a bit more difficult to break into though I guess you could “debuff” the neighbours as well 😉

MargotRobbie , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

But I actually prefer Bing over Google nowadays…

Also, at least they pay me for my data.

figaro ,

I’ve been using bing for the past 6 months or so, ever since the chat gpt integration.

In 6 months, I’ve earned enough points to get a $5 taco bell gift certificate.

Overall, the quality of results that I get are… Not as good as google. I find myself frequently re-searching things on Google because I actually do not find what I’m looking for on bing. And then on Google, the perfect result is the first or second listing.

Now, Google is integrating bard into searches. Sometimes it sucks, yes. But it is basically just as good as the bing chat gpt thing. So… Yeah. I’m going to go back to Google search soon.

MargotRobbie ,

Bing is better for images and videos I feel, and the search quality is better unless you are looking for a very specific term.

Tangent5280 ,

Images and Video, you say? 😏

FleetingTit ,

turns off safe search

normonator ,

I’m switching from Google now because the results have become unusably bad. They should’ve waited until bard was at least mildly useful.

Blacklisting sites from Google isn’t enough to keep it usable anymore.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Why are you using the search engine still instead of Bing AI directly?

figaro ,

For more conversational things that require more up-to-date knowledge and things that I need to verify the facts/sources for, I’ll use bing ai. It’s actually quite good for that.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

I like how it references it’s sources.

Though I’ve pretty much replaced everything but image searches with it, it parses the data really well and gets the most relevant stuff.

Plus they just hooked it up to DALLE2 so you can feed it images and ask for it to take it as inspiration for other works.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/442c1112-e510-4c39-ad24-b076e8a65279.png

I fed a couple of Simon stalenhag’s works and asked it to generate a new cover for No Man’s Sky (Stalenhag made the OG one) based on his style but with oil painting. This was one of the outputs.

It’s really cool how fast it’s come around to be integrated with the rest of the environment. Can’t wait to see what they do next with it. I have a feeling Microsoft and Google will make commercial offerings for personal AI models that will be trained on company data and you’ll be able to use it without worrying if you’re exfiltrating data to OpenAI by using it.

figaro ,

Oh man that’s such a cool image! And yeah, its super cool what they are doing. I’m excited for DALLE2 to improve to the level of midjourney haha, but even now its pretty great!

And yeah I agree with you on the direction its going. Specialized models are definitely where its going to go.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t seen much of mid-journey, is it pretty photorealistic?

figaro ,

Oh dude, its really freakin good. Its like, 2 generations past DALLE2 at this point. If you are interested in AI art stuff, I recommend checking it out!

gsb , to casualuk in just took this photo of my cat watching the football.....the table is freaking me out, its perfectly matching the floor.

Thought you were talking about the table the cat was on and was confused. Then I was confused why there was stuff on the floor until I realized that was the table you’re talking about. Now I’m confused about the fridge. Never seen one in there living room/lounge.

rich OP ,

Not the lounge - this is the kitchen/dining room/second lounge. Just has a TV in it.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

But why is the fridge so far from the cooking and prep surfaces? That would drive me insane.

rich OP ,

Dunno, not my decision!

Psaldorn ,
@Psaldorn@lemmy.world avatar

I’m over here wondering why the second cat on the table got excluded

SamsonSeinfelder , to mildlyinfuriating in Well, at least they know they are annoying...

I wish I could toggle a switch natively in firefox (without a fishy extension) to set a flag, that sites have to respect/follow. Cookie banner are only the frontend result of something that could be implemented in software. In the same way as the EU can make everyone follow these rules or get fined, they could extend the rules to acknowledge my set flag automatically in the browser or get fined. Maybe in the future… I can’t believe my children will still have to click deny on every website in the year 2030.

slazer2au ,

There is consent-o-matic for Firefox which will answer these for you to say reject everything. It is run by a team in a Danish University.

SamsonSeinfelder ,

Do you know why it is so badly reviewed? 4.3 is not that high. I skimmed the reviews and saw some people say it only works 30% of the time and another said it “does not work in FF but in Brave” (so relatively sure its just a astroturfing comment). I see they have a github, so I could go the way of reading the JS code and package it myself into a extension somehow that never updates, but that is easier said than done.

I really wish there were more ways to trust extensions. There are so many shady extensions who update in the background and insert malicious code on a later state when they gained track, that it is really hard for me to trust any of them. Eespecially when those Extension ask for nothing less than all my data on all my visited websites. For this reason I really would like to see this implemented natively in FF and not via an extension. Extensions are good for edge cases. The GDPR consent request is not an edge case. It is something everyone has to click several times a day. This is screaming for a permanent solution.

gkd ,
@gkd@lemmy.ml avatar

I think I just saw a post earlier where someone noticed in the latest Android FF nightly there was an option for this built in. Maybe it will be available for desktop soon (or maybe it already is?)

Edit: oh look the guy below talked about it and you replied 🫣

odium ,

Firefox nightly (the beta version of firefox) has been testing a native cookie denier. So we will probably get it soon.

SamsonSeinfelder ,

This is the best thing I heard all day. Thank you!

lemann ,

This was a thing already, it was called Do-Not-Track

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/…/DNT

Firefox tied it in to their existing Tracking Protection. Not sure how or if Chrome implemented it. Websites ignored the flag as you’d sadly expect, so it’s been deprecated

oktoberpaard ,

That’s slightly different and more often than not completely ignored. This is a better alternative: feddit.nl/comment/1153941.

oktoberpaard ,

That already exist: …mozilla.org/…/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/. There is also a flag to enable it in the GUI (to let it appear in the settings).

AlternativeEmphasis , to lemmyshitpost in Media cares little for immigrants.

I am fully willing to admit half the reason it's so popular on the news is the novelty of it. A submarine goes missing, possibly sunk, near the Titanic? The truth is the accidents iwth immigrants and migrants happen so often that most of the media doesn't really care about it so much any more. But it used to, I remember seeing stuff about bodies washing up on the shores of Italy. When it was novel is was more popular and 'sold' well so it was reported on. i guarantee you if subs went missing anywhere near as often in the future you would not see as much about it. That's just how the media works these days, it's unfortunate.

Billionaires or not I don't envy them and if they can be saved I hope they will be. Especially the young guy there with his father.

General_Effort , to memes in agile is far left too. I will die on this hill

But it’s not “from each according to his ability”. FOSS is what people feel like contributing. And it’s not “to each according to their need”. It’s take it or leave it, unless someone feels like fulfilling requests.

Traditionally, the slogan meant a duty to work. Contributing what you feel like is just charity.

Capitalism, at its core, is private control of the capital. Copyright law turns code into intellectual property/capital. I’ve read the argument that copyleft requires strong copyrights. That argument implicitly makes copyleft a feature of capitalism. You know how rich people or corporations sometimes donate large sums to get their name on something, EG a hospital wing? That’s not so different from a FOSS license that requires attribution.

settoloki , to casualuk in Share your cuppa

I like how you are brave enough to post this online. Takes guts.

RobotToaster , to android in What to put on new phone?
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  • Revanced: removes ads from youtube
  • zedge: ringtones and stuff
  • c:geo: geocaching
  • signal: messaging
  • firefox: browser
possiblylinux127 ,

More like Newpipe, Libretube, Simplex chat and Mull.

(Go to F-droid as it is better long term)

TheGrandNagus ,

If you like NewPipe, there’s also Tubular, a fork of NewPipe with sponsorblock integration.

wingsfortheirsmiles ,

How’s Mull’s stability recently? I prefer it over Firefox too but switched back six months ago due to bugs cropping up here and there

possiblylinux127 ,

I’ve never had an issue but your milage may vary.

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Revanced works with youtube music too. I hate big brother but he’s pretty good at knowing my music taste ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Psychodelic ,

I’m surprised no one uses DNS66. Is there’s an alternative that’s better?

limerod ,

Better is subjective but the last time I had tried it (2022) I switched to personaldnsfilter. It’s available on both Fdroid and playstore.

neidu2 , (edited ) to casualuk in Imagine having to live in a different country where you didn't get push notifications about what's going on up the king's bum

Don’t worry. Thanks to Ground News I’m up speed on royal rectal insertions. For only the price of a cup of coffee you too can get instant and unbiased updates on the Kussy.

EDIT: Yes, that means “King’s boy pussy”

BaroqueInMind ,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

I really cannot wait for CRISPR injections I can self administer to induce targeted damage to my brain in order to forget the things I read sometimes.

neidu2 ,

I choose to believe you’re reacting to the advert for Ground News and not the allusions to royal rogering.

BaroqueInMind ,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

I read the word "kussy" and my brain deciphered it as "king (charles) boy pussy" and I'm now looking for some bleach to drink.

threelonmusketeers ,

Wait, my brain did the same thing. Is that not what it means?

Megaphauna , to internetfuneral in The end of the world is nigh

Anyone remember playing bamboozle?

flamingmongoose ,

FUCK YES

JadenSmith ,

When I was a kid I used to play this all the time! Looked forward to new ones.

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