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ptz

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Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Would be nice if software in general would just stop suggesting things altogether and let the user decide what they want to say / do.

[Types X]

“Did you mean Y?”

Did I ducking type “Y”? No. I typed X.

Granted, this case seems more like the emoji metadata being mislabeled.

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Now I wonder if “Duck Duck Go” was originally going to be named something else 😆

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You’re focusing too narrowly. Suggestions in general. Software needs to get out of people’s way.

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I’m not talking about iphones specically. I meant software in general.

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It blows my mind that it’s 2024 and I still see links that say “Click HERE” on mainstream websites and in official emails.

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Is that why Windows 11 sucks so much? Like, did they just turn their codebot loose on the repo?

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🎵… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Tequila!🎵

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Is this a new development?

Walmart has been employing the elderly as door greeters for decades. When I worked there (oh god) 20 years ago, I’d always hang out and bullshit with them. Some were cool AF, some were batshit crazy. Either way, it was entertaining.

Before that, I worked at a restaurant where the staff was an even split between teenage stoners and grandma-aged old ladies. Like, you couldn’t write a better odd-couple workplace comedy.

All that is to say that for my entire working life, I’ve worked with (and continue to work with) people that should have retired already.

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That very well may be true. My sample size is limited to the state I live in, and generational and general poverty have likely had their thumbs on the scale here for ages.

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opinion pieces disguised as news articles, light on facts heavy on opinion. People don’t like being told what to do think.

I mean…gestures vaguely at Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, the whole right wing grift circuit and the audience they pander to.

Non-cult members, OTOH, yeah.

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But surely “Sleepy Joe” wasn’t projection, right? lol

Maggie Haberman writes: ‘Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack.’

Maggie Haberman writes: ‘Trump has apparently jolted back awake, noticing the notes his lawyer passed him several minutes ago.’

Reminder that this is a criminal trial and not a civil one like the last few that have been in the news.

Follow the live updates here (unlocked via gift article link)

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Looks fine on the four other UIs I checked (Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite, LemmyUI). Submit a bug to Memmy devs 🤷‍♂️

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That’s the best description of the cybertruck I’ve ever read. Well done.

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This, but sarcastically because we all saw it coming:

Surprised Pikachu

(Or is Surprised Pikachu sarcastic by default?)

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Yup. Bought at the end of 2019, refinanced in late 2020. Currently have a 15 year mortgage at a fixed 2.1% APR. I literally cannot afford to give this up.

It’s less that I want to leave this house, specifically, and more that I just want out of this state. For multiple reasons unrelated to my good mortgage deal, I’m stuck here for the foreseeable future.

On the bright side, I never thought I’d actually own a house so I’ll take the win.

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Nope :)

I think you may be thinking of an ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) where the bank recalculates the interest rate every few years based on the current federal rate (I’m not a money-ologist, but I think that’s the broad strokes of it).

I pay 2.1% APR until it’s paid off or I choose to refinance again (lol, right). The only thing that changes my monthly payment are the stuff paid from escrow (property taxes and homeowners insurance) since those can vary and the bank takes care of those by folding them into my payment amount.

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WV. Not worse, just differently bad.

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Ha, possible. Though I don’t want to be an absentee landlord or deny someone else an affordable home. Would definitely sell :)

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Why aren’t you linking to the actual article? Reuters is, at most, soft paywalled after like 10 articles or so (and is incredibly easy to bypass). They also do extremely good work and deserve the clicks.

Nowhere in that alternate frontend does it link to the original story, so how is one to trust it (or the admin running that) is not tampering with the article?

Please consider just linking to the original source and letting people decide for themselves if they want to get it from elsewhere.

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Ugh! This is why we can’t we have nice things.

Send these idiots to 5th grade science class, and don’t let them out until they pass with at least a C.

We had a fairly popular game show here called Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, and collectively, the answer is apparently “no, we’re not”.

Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)

The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....

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https://tesseract.dubvee.org/image_proxy/dubvee.org/pictrs/image/8030d417-061b-4074-969d-4005bd55a3af.webp

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Yeah, I stopped with that line of thought ages ago. Regardless of whether it’s true for any percentage of cases, they’re still monsters causing massive amounts of damage and trauma to people just trying to exist. They’ve also shown us time and time again that hypocrisy is no barrier for them.

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Or tunneling equipment. The surface world can keep its bullshit. Me and my homies gonna build a new society underground… with blackjack and hookers.

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Yeah, seems like a legitimate news source. 🙄

saynewsy.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html

Saynewsy is a Professional News Platform. Here we will provide you only interesting content, which you will like very much. We’re dedicated to providing you the best of News, with a focus on dependability and News. We’re working to turn our passion for News into a booming online website. We hope you enjoy our News as much as we enjoy offering them to you.

I will keep posting more important posts on my Website for all of you. Please give your support and love.

It’s not like there aren’t numerous other reputable sources covering this same topic:

Oh, that blog is all you ever link to. Not suspicious at all.

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😆

That’s actually not a bad idea.

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My car is like that. I’ve just stopped trying; it always comes out as angry honk. lol

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I try not to, but more often than not, it’s pretty much exactly this (whether I’m talking or listening):

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/image_proxy/dubvee.org/pictrs/image/f34a9aa4-ae87-4bd0-b380-25a474576196.webp

I get on a video call, and I basically turn into a bird with a mirror.

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When I’m talking, I try to look at the camera (which is on my middle monitor). Depending on which monitor the video call is displaying on, sometimes I’m not even looking at any of the participants or myself. That does seem to help me act more “natural”.

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Thanks for the post. I just bought 4 of them as a stopgap.

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Good share. I hadn’t even heard of the Nautilus expedition. Totally seems like a Wikipedia rabbit hole I would have already gone down.

The biggest takeaway for me was learning the North Pole isn’t actually on land but rather sea ice. I had always assumed it was on a continental landmass.

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Right after Florida, probably.

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Some might say that’s cheating.

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It’s weird how in one of the richest countries in the world

Not that weird when most of the riches are held by a handful of people. The rest of us are just trying to get by.

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Updated the post with some screenshots from my install.

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Nice. I was looking at the light jazz ones from TWCClassics: twcclassics.com/…/playlists-october-1997.html

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Dumb question, but how to do you get just the weather panel to display without the settings form below and such? Setting it up in an iframe is one of the things I wanted to do with it aside from a kiosk-style, fullscreen display.

I looked at that one, and the demo was cool. When I looked at the hosting steps, though, it mentioned IIS and I pretty much noped out. Lol

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Oh, I’m not adding it to HA, just curious how to have just the weather panel is ws4kp to display for embedding without all the settings/controls.

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Thanks!

Ah, Kiosk mode, I think, is literally brand new. There was an issue/request he was working on for that, and I did a build from that branch yesterday. As I was building my Docker image from that, it was literally getting new commits as I was building it. Talk about bleeding edge haha.

I’ll check that out again now that he may have merged it into main. Mine only has the configuration URL string to preset the options/location. You still have to click “fullscreen” on the weather window thing.

This one is in JS. I was referring to the parent project that required IIS and seems to be in C# (I didn’t dig too deep into it). That’s where I bailed out. If there were Docker instructions for that one, I wouldn’t have seen them as IIS is basically an instant deal breaker for me lol. Too much pain and misery in my past to ever want to deal with that again 😆

Update: Yep, latest release works amazing, including Kiosk mode. No need for my custom build anymore.

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    Some have already, and I don’t blame them one bit. I’m hesitant to since it’s mostly one troll over and over again using that open instance as a base camp, and I don’t want to block the whole instance because of that single jerk.

    OTOH, I’m considering it, at least as a temporary measure. I usually reserve that for more severe matters (massive spam campaigns, CSAM, etc), but I’ve only got so much patience.

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    I’m split on open signups.

    On one hand, it makes switching from something like Reddit easier. For people joining us in good faith, that’s a good thing. On the other, it’s open season for trolls and spammers.

    That said, I don’t think an instance with less than a team of admins spanning multiple time zones should have open registrations. Admins have lives and need sleep, so a single-admin instance with open signups has a huge window of opportunity for bad faith actors to take advantage.

    There are automod tools which can help with this, but I still think open signups should only be enabled when an instance can have an admin on hand 24/7.

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    Oh, I did not know that. Today I learned. Thanks!

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    Thanks for responding.

    Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.

    You only temporarily ban them from what I’ve seen in the modlog. You may not know this (I didn’t until recently), but a home-instance temp ban will override a remote instance perma ban (there’s a PR in the works to fix this , but it’s the way things are currently). And when someone has a username like https://lemmy.today/u/JewKiller64g, I really don’t think they’re going to suddenly change their ways in 30 days and come back after a temp ban a better person.

    Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don’t think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It’s built into the service to have different emails for different sites.

    It adds at least an extra step they’ll have to go through if they’re spinning up a new account to evade a ban. The one in question has admitted they’ll just keep spinning up new accounts because it’s easy. Adding a slight inconvenience won’t stop everyone, but it would at least help prevent becoming a base camp for trolls.

    I think it’s frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I’m not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.

    That’s also 12 hours where your instance can spin up accounts with no one able to do anything about them and everyone else has to deal with that.

    How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?

    You don’t, but at least with some form of barrier they’re not free to go crazy with no oversight. It also allows you to weed out obvious trolls like half the usernames listed in the post above.

    If the spammers and trolls manage to make you defederate from Lemmy.today, they will pick another instance.

    You’re not wrong there, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Right now, they’re targeting yours because there’s no barrier to entry whatsoever. Defed is not something done on a whim, and I’m responding to your comment which means I haven’t taken that step. Yet.

    Sooner or later, small instances may even stop accepting new users for fear of being defederated from the larger network.

    Not as long as the admin is responsive and takes measures to address the problems. Defederation is not something most of us do lightly, but when all else fails, it’s the final option.

    I would like to stop having these spam accounts and trolls on the instance. I could add email verification but it won’t make a difference and just make it more annoying for new users

    Most instances require this, as do pretty much all mainstream platforms. I don’t think anyone is particularly annoyed by this.

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    Greatly appreciated! :)

    Feel free to join us in the Matrix channel where we keep each other apprised of spammers and trolls and other problems. You show up as a member already, but we never see you in there. That’s how we catch so many of these so fast.

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    I do, and would hope so as well 😆

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