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djehuti ,

Geolocation data isn’t authenticated or in any way secured against spoofing, so this isn’t a security hole. And it’s frequently wrong anyway (I am not now, nor have I ever been, in Ashburn, VA), so using it as the sole authority for “where are you?” and not providing a manual option is simply a bug; sloppy UX at best.

djehuti ,

The only thing i miss from Reddit is being able to gild this comment.

djehuti ,

Thats why I’m not still there!

djehuti ,

And just think, they only have to find 3 more of those clients to pay the CEO!

Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student's gender ‘embarrassed the state’ (apnews.com)

Utah’s Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited a tirade of threats against the girl....

djehuti ,

Am I supposed to eat the burrito, or is Jesus eating the burrito?

Taylor Swift launches legal broadside at a college student who tracks private jets via public data (www.seattletimes.com)

In late December, Swift’s camp hit Jack Sweeney, a junior studying information technology at the University of Central Florida, with a cease-and-desist letter that blamed his automated tracking of her private jet for tipping off stalkers as to her location. In the letter, attorneys from the law firm Venable accused Sweeney of...

djehuti ,

Maybe TayTay should ask the FAA to delay the data.

djehuti ,

Y’all do know what BTU stands for, right?

djehuti ,

Which is why I’ve long said that to solve the US problems we need to remove the tax breaks for company sponsored health insurance. Once that happens I can actually decide which insurance company is the best for me.

That will never happen. Healthcare being tied to employment is what keeps people from quitting shit jobs.

djehuti ,

This Is The Way. My repo includes a setup.sh that uses ansible to setup the links. Clone the repo, run the script: home.

Possible to have different desktop folders for different workspaces?

I am a “messy desk” person and like to have a big open visual space for all the pseudo-temporary files belonging to whatever project I’m working on at a given time. It would be nice to have a workspace specifically dedicated for “work” and still be able to create a fresh one when needed, without having to “put all...

djehuti ,

For the whole enchilada, sudo apt install kde-full

djehuti ,

This has been going on for decades. My dad became a COBOL programmer in 1980ish after taking an aptitude test in answer to a newspaper ad. Y2K consulting was a pretty good gig.

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