In your career, have you found a drama free workplace?
alternative post title: how can I grow a thicker skin, so I simply stop caring what my coworkers think or say?...
The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)
A BIPARTISAN SAMPLING of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence following the shooting attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday....
The mud rains of the 19th century (lemmy.world)
TIL: Why News Was So Neutral in the '50s & '60s (youtu.be)
Long but good.
US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI whistleblowers have urged the US financial watchdog to investigate non-disclosure agreements at the startup after claiming the contracts included restrictions such as requiring employees to seek permission before contacting regulators....
Extracting frames from a video with ffmpeg very slow if not using jpeg
I’m trying to extract the frames of a video as individual images but it’s really slow, except when I’m using jpeg. The obvious issue with jpegs is the data loss from the compression, I want the images to be lossless. Extracting them as jpegs manages about 50-70 fps but as pngs it’s only 4 fps and it seems to continue...
Commentator Ed Zitron, provides an in-depth overview of Goldman-Sachs' recent report on the costs, opportunities and risk around AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
While the Goldman-Sachs report was brought up in our community before, I thought this blog post was very well written, while also providing a lot of additional references and helpful material that expands upon the points in the report.
Any tips on dealing with people that don't like you?
40 Weight of Gingerbread - Dom Flemons and David Bragger - Bones and Fiddle (www.youtube.com)
Let's discuss: Age of Empires (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Chips could harvest their own energy using a newly-created alloy (www.techspot.com)
Do any of you shave your eyebrows when your cats die?
Apparently the Egyptians used to do this....
My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024... (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17978313...
stap (lemmy.world)
Application like Simple Booth
I’m having an event and wanted guests to leave a video comment or take a picture like a photo booth. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with a self hosted application I could sync up to provide an easy interface for my guests.
Canada said to have mapped out secret Chinese police operations within its borders, Canadian police raises awareness campaign seeking public assistance (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/14987014...
It's a gift (lemmy.world)
Low usage power saving recommendations request?
I’m new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something....
5x5 top albums of the past month (https://www.last.fm/user/crimeschneck)
Version with album titles:...
I'm beautiful 💩
Why is homebrewing so middle-class, straight, white, male?
While I know this survey is biased, it’s people who watch Brulosophy content and answer surveys, but my own experience backs this up: brulosophy.com/…/2024-general-homebrewer-survey-r…...