ChaoticEntropy

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

Can confirm. ^^’

Though I am just going to resign on Monday and give myself the push.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

That would be the dream, but it hasn’t panned out, and my long notice period is hampering me. I’m not going to continue slogging it out here indefinitely, and I don’t need to.

I don’t need any additional anxiety to discourage me from getting out of this before I just burn out and am in a worse position.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

I went from doer to manager, even though I’m now expected to do and manage… it isn’t enjoyable.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

It’s contractual, I’m going to serve my notice period.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

Thanks, it’s the culmination of a lot of thought and a previous attempt by my manager and I to rework things to make it better but hasn’t really worked out. Onwards and upwards, I’d still intend to find a job during the 3 months notice period before I’m set loose so ideally I won’t lose the “tempt me away” factor before I get a new gig.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

vanityfair.com/…/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-thing… (it’s 2022, but you can find more up to date summations if you care to look)

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

I was thinking they might have meant SvD (Svenska Dagbladet), who are a news organisation, though I didn’t see any corresponding articles.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

Militaries are doing more with less these days, person-wise, though still with massively inflated budgets. These days you operate a large standing army when you’re worried that your youth might get bored and tear your country up if you don’t keep them busy rather than because you expect to use them in waves of mass infantry rushes.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

I could very well be wrong, but in my eyes the war in Ukraine has shown that having a big standing army to swing around isn’t the magic win button it used to be. Ukraine has been resisting far beyond anyone’s realistic expectation despite being massively outnumbered, doing huge amounts of damage to even Russia’s naval assets (in large part due to drone warfare). Russia thought they were just going to roll over the border and plant a flag in to Zelensky’s head, yet they remain embroiled in a bitter war of attrition with a military that is a fraction of their size. For what they assumed was going to be a simple border dispute, they have had to convert their economy to a “total war” footing. The ramifications of them throwing scores of their young male population in to a meatgrinder are going to be felt for generations to come, even if/when they “win” and occupy Ukraine… and they know it, given their penchant for kidnapping children.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

Errr… okay?

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

What do you mean they aren’t tax deductible?

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

I’m not exactly a millionaire but I’d be willing to leave the UK if it wasn’t such a hassle. It’s been quite a while since I’ve felt any national pride in the things we’re doing or our collective priorities.

The likelihood of having even more overseas parties with massive stakes in our economy, infrastructure, and housing with a somehow greater degree of detachment from their impact doesn’t sound great for anyone.

ChaoticEntropy , 6 days ago

Looks like a Swede crossed the border one time and was immediately murdered by a Norwegian.

ChaoticEntropy , 6 days ago

Being able to look through all of the details of the victims and crimes feels a little ghoulish.

ChaoticEntropy , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Great… so we’re reaffirming that society’s various structures exist purely for the benefit of monied interests, as ever. Any benefit the regular person sees from arrangements is purely coincidental, your rights stop at the point at which a corporation needs them to.

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

“We listened.”

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

Did MS derive any particular benefit from Timeline? It was a lot more localised as far as I recall. Recall seems geared to give them a lot more data that they could monetise.

ChaoticEntropy , 10 days ago

Yeah… regardless of circumstance, that title is some shitty journalism when you editorialise that much.

ChaoticEntropy , 10 days ago

That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.

ChaoticEntropy , 10 days ago

“More than a dozen employees” for Wells Fargo is basically no one.

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

heralding major change

In a good way though, right? Right…?

ChaoticEntropy , 11 days ago

Pretty sure I had some of the 3x last week, though I didn’t finish them. They were pretty spicy yes but also they just didn’t taste very nice, it didn’t seem worth it.

ChaoticEntropy , 11 days ago

It’s okay to not start in your ideal job on day one and to take sideways shifts to get closer to it. I went from phone monkey in a call centre, to a letter monkey, to a software tester, to a software business analyst (all at the same company), to a software product owner, to a software product manager. I gravitated back towards my stronger IT oriented passions over time.

ChaoticEntropy , 11 days ago

Did you remember to clear your cookies and cache?

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

He believes a heavily embedded AI integration on iOS with a 3rd party is a violation of security and privacy… because its not his 3rd party being integrated with.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

Almost feels Borderlandsy.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

Some of the loudest voices in the anti-war movement in Israel have been families of hostages. Considering the track record of their military action, exchanges and peace talks are a far safer way for their family members to be returned, and they are not happy in their loved ones being used as a pretext for a purge of Gaza’s civilian population.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

Bombing of Nuseirat’s busy market area began soon after the raid started at around 11am (9am BST), turning the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, Muhannad Thabet, a 35-year-old resident, told AFP.

“People were screaming – young and old, women and men,” he said. “Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed due to the heavy bombardment and gunfire.”

At least one wave of heavy airstrikes was launched to secure the passage of the three men, who had been held together. Argamani was rescued alone, from a separate location.

Not. Discriminate. Enough.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

I’m not having a great time with DisplayLink driver support, personally. Various applications I use with mixed levels of support too, along with missing out on Windows specific GPU features.

This has been my most successful round of Linux adoption, but there are still niggling issues and confusion. The biggest difficulty is that my accumulated support knowledge of like 20 years is useless and I am relearning basic issue identification and resolution processes.

The internet being a raging dumpster fire, support is kind of patchy on more niche topics. All the good, useful discussions are largely happening behind closed doors at this point on everyone’s Discords and whatnot.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

I’ll say it. Cats have bad work ethic.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

I’m going to try to take this in the spirit that it was provided, but you’re using a lot of "…"s, and a lot of implications that what I’m saying is obvious, for a person trying to provide earnest assistance. I wasn’t requesting technical support or expressing surprise at these things, I was merely expressing that these were the things I was generally encountering difficulty with my transition to Linux as a daily driver.

The DisplayLink driver for instance is running, and basically functional, but ends up running slowly, with distortions, and instability. It also isn’t signed, so my plan to still run Secure Boot with the distro I’m using alongside Windows is out (without a lot of faff), but that largely won’t matter excusing some specific work setups that I don’t currently have to worry about. Having useful AMD specific driver level tools on Windows that don’t exist in Linux isn’t a surprise, it is a discouragement.

Forum content and non-Reddit content are a pain to locate, especially when you don’t know how to frame your problem in Linux syntax, as you say. Communities are either open but in specific places that I will never find without already knowing about it, or happening in places that aren’t accessible without having already joined, like the Discord of the specific software I need guidance on. My experience has been that there is basic info and there is advanced info out there, but intermediate info that lets you bridge the gap is a challenge to locate, especially with subtle differences in certain steps that are distro/package manager specific. Yet I press on.

ChaoticEntropy , 17 days ago

That’s the real sticking point for me, it is a problem for my desire to transition to Linux as a daily driver.

ChaoticEntropy , 17 days ago

Bitwarden is too functional and too affordable for me to really consider moving.

ChaoticEntropy , 17 days ago

No… we’re good…

ChaoticEntropy , 17 days ago

“It works fine if you follow a 10 stage guide filled with terminal commands to configure it properly, which describes commands that are different in your distro.”

Cool.

ChaoticEntropy , 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

What possible reason would he have to do that…? If he wins, he gets off scot free. If he loses then he’ll claim that he won and is being suppressed for political reasons and then get of scot free.

ChaoticEntropy , 21 days ago

He won’t need to, it’ll be his “independent” department of justice calling the shots. Sessions and Barr did everything in their power, without committing actual explicit crimes, to keep Trump happy while they were in charge.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

Heh. That’s cute. Pissing off players by cutting them off from their games has been going sooo well for them.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

If someone wants to use a vibrator that consumes an entire city’s worth of yearly energy consumption each day then I’d say that they shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Making excessive energy consumption prohibitively expensive goes some way towards discouraging this at least.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

Right, so the imperative to consume less power inspired the innovation needed to make it ultimately viable in the long term. Rather than people being left to consume infinite resources without a care in the world. Let’s hope that the imperative to be efficient and not use all resources all the time inspires this to also becoming viably efficient rather than regulators/officials just allowing it to spin out of control.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

Did I say at some stage that I just want a flat, nuanceless ban on industries? I answered a hypothetical posed about individual’s personal consumption.

AI needs reigning in for so many different reasons, energy consumption or otherwise. Its utility to society is more than counterbalanced by the dangers that it and its unregulated expansion poses to that same society. If nothing else, government and industry bodies to catch up with it and impose appropriate standards.

ChaoticEntropy , 26 days ago

Oh good… janky oversold systems that do a lot of automation on a very shaky basis are also having high impacts when screwing up.

Also “Facewatch” is such an awful sounding company.

ChaoticEntropy , 26 days ago

Who the fuck wants this…? Besides the company raking in venture capital money.

ChaoticEntropy , 1 month ago

If that’s what you’re trying to express then I kind of feel like you miswrote your comment. You want them to focus on browser features but not continue to add features? You don’t feel like there’s any room for confusion there?

ChaoticEntropy , 1 month ago

It’s not you. It’s ridiculous that they’re this indignant.

ChaoticEntropy , 1 month ago

The proportion of good content to bad content has taken a steep nosedive to be sure.

ChaoticEntropy , 1 month ago

If by “forgiveness” you mean an avoidance of legal liability, sure. :P

ChaoticEntropy , 1 month ago

A small subset of the electorate sure, made fearful… by grifters, agenda led news, and arms manufacturers who want to sell them guns.