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@topspin Don't forget what the real purpose of the change is. Nothing is too clever for colossally effing everything up.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@topspin Don't forget what the real purpose of the change is. Nothing is too clever for colossally effing everything up.
No, that's the purpose of the "fuck you" patch, but not of the original design. Still seems like a bad idea.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
This is definitely some kind of "too clever for your own good" functionality.
My impression was that this kind of monkey patching is just standard operating practice in javascript-land
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
This is definitely some kind of "too clever for your own good" functionality.
My impression was that this kind of monkey patching is just standard operating practice in javascript-land
Well, they never seem to run out of bad ideas.
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Xbox players are growing increasingly frustrated at being forced to play against PC gamers. While crossplay was initially a popular request from Xbox and PC players that Microsoft has backed strongly for years, those playing first-person shooters on Xbox are struggling to opt out of the experience to avoid PC cheaters.
Cheating on PC is said to be rampant. Independent studies confirm that most PC gamers indeed use superior input devices such as mice and keyboards, which make aiming possible at levels that lame gamepad analog sticks cannot compete with.
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@cvi here, you dropped this:
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@Boner there goes my last reason to visit, along with my way home.
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The extension also tracks the time spent on different websites, the URLs that the browser visits, and more. Mozilla noted in its announcement that all data being exported from the extension will be anonymized and not shared with third parties aside from the Markup’s reporters.
In other news can someone recommend a browser that can share bookmarks across iOS and windows?
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@DogsB It's going to use an extension, which will hopefully be opt-in, and not auto-installed like the Mr. Robot ad from a few years ago
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB It's going to use an extension, which will hopefully be opt-in, and not auto-installed like the Mr. Robot ad from a few years ago
It's definitely opt-in. I'd even consider opting in, if not for the mighty .
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Meanwhile in B*****m:
Team Trees just shed a tear.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in B*****m:
Team Trees just shed a tear.
And Team Allergic let out a cheer
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
In other news can someone recommend a browser that can share bookmarks across iOS and windows?
Firefox
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in B*****m:
Team Trees just shed a tear.
And Team Allergic let out a cheer
Tree law! Tree law! Tree law!
Depending on the details, that contractor could be on the hook for $millions!
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in B*****m:
Team Trees just shed a tear.
And Team Allergic let out a cheer
Tree law! Tree law! Tree law!
Depending on the details, that contractor could be on the hook for $millions!
That's why you have insurance for dumb mistakes.
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@Gąska wow, you should never use your own initials for that.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The extension also tracks the time spent on different websites, the URLs that the browser visits, and more. Mozilla noted in its announcement that all data being exported from the extension will be anonymized and not shared with third parties aside from the Markup’s reporters.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I love how the link at then end of the article, "Read more at Gizmodo here", points to the wrong article (something about NVidia).
The correct URL btw, is this:
This was taken from the CodeProject's daily newsletter, where they've added this blurb:
In Soviet Mozilla, browser tracks site tracking you!
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I missed it, but apparently...
Dumb and random enough?
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Two important points here.
Maintainers need to be legible to the big company department that approves and processes those invoices," he wrote in a personal blog post. "Think about it: no company pays their law firm on Patreon.""
Open source people have being told this from their inception. I can't convince my company to throw a dollar to a tip jar but I can convince finance to pay a thousand dollars a year for support services if the name, address and vat numbers for both companies are on an invoice. A lot of open source projects don't make this connection and worse those that do don't advertise on their main site.
"At the end of the day, companies are responsible for ensuring the code they ship to production is safe, secure, and reliable,"
you get what you pay for. Every open source license has a line that says “by using this software you absolve the author of all responsibility and liability if something goes wrong”. Don't bitch about incorporating other peoples bugs into your project.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
"At the end of the day, companies are responsible for ensuring the code they ship to production is safe, secure, and reliable,"
you get what you pay for. Every open source license has a line that says “by using this software you absolve the author of all responsibility and liability if something goes wrong”. Don't bitch about incorporating other peoples bugs into your project.
That's what he's saying. The company using the open source code has a responsibility to make sure they're not incorporating other people's bugs and opening themselves up to the liability, but basically no-one does.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I can't convince my company to throw a dollar to a tip jar but I can convince finance to pay a thousand dollars a year for support services if the name, address and vat numbers for both companies are on an invoice.
What if they made OnlyFans?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I can't convince my company to throw a dollar to a tip jar but I can convince finance to pay a thousand dollars a year for support services if the name, address and vat numbers for both companies are on an invoice.
What if they made OnlyFans?
If you see a developer on onlyfans writing code and they offer vat receipts I'll try to expense it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
you get what you pay for
My experience with commercial software is that you often get shit even if you are paying for it, and support is often less helpful than being able to look in the code and fix it yourself.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
you get what you pay for
My experience with commercial software is that you often get shit even if you are paying for it, and support is often less helpful than being able to look in the code and fix it yourself.
This was the lesson of the Tale of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck, in support.
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Well, it was until you went and jinxed it with Betteridge's Law...
https://timnwells.medium.com/is-2022-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-dc834ac6fa7a
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PSA: Don't forget your pets on the train:
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Well, it was until you went and jinxed it with Betteridge's Law...
https://timnwells.medium.com/is-2022-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-dc834ac6fa7a
I've had to unlearn a lot of muscle memory.
I had to look up a lot of stuff, though. And I am reasonably computer savvy.
The thing that gets me most of the time is the clicking on icon in task bar minimizing the window if it isn't.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
The thing that gets me most of the time is the clicking on icon in task bar minimizing the window if it isn't.
Is this something you use? I personally find it annoying.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
The thing that gets me most of the time is the clicking on icon in task bar minimizing the window if it isn't.
Is this something you use? I personally find it annoying.
If I just clicked on that icon to look at an app and I want to go back the previous app, my mouse is already there.
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@Karla That... makes a lot of sense actually. I hadn't thought of that.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Karla That... makes a lot of sense actually. I hadn't thought of that.
I think it's funny that we all probably know the majority of ways to do various tasks but it is unlikely that you know all the same ways I do and vice versa.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Well, it was until you went and jinxed it with Betteridge's Law...
https://timnwells.medium.com/is-2022-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-dc834ac6fa7a
For a serious answer: because there is no central management solution.
For companies, the Active Domain with it's group policies is a huge benefit to companies. Most of the computers are operated by people who have neither skills nor time to do any administration of the system, and the IT department never has time to go around and fiddle with each computer separately, so they really need to be able to apply standard configuration, user access policies and manage installing and updating applications.
For Windows that's basically built in. For Linux I've so far only heard of https://landscape.canonical.com/, but it's still quite limited compared to what Active Domain can do.
There ain't nothing for MacOS either, and admins hate it for that, but Apple has enough marketing power to push it. But nobody advertises Linux.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
There ain't nothing for MacOS either, and admins hate it for that, but Apple has enough marketing power to push it.
Not built-in but there are several 3rd party solutions, including some that integrate into AD.
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@loopback0 Do you know any particular one?
… it's a bit hypocritical in our company, because we only had an LDAP server, not a complete AD until recently, and while they are trying to move things over to the AD, it's still all rather ad-hoc, but when they started integrating things, they'd like to integrate the apples as well (and the linuxen if it wasn't too difficult – we have some projects that have to be developed on Linux and some that can and it is a bit more convenient).
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@Bulb we use Parallels Device Management which can push out device profiles and allows updates, apps etc to be deployed by SCCM just like on Windows.
It probably does other things too, I'm not involved with it other it runs on my work laptop.
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You could always do what a former employer of mine did: roll out basically all user laptops managed via Puppet, and enforce certain things by making people create a (specially curated) Debian package on their first day (instructions in a wiki, success rate not 100%) which can be installed on servers to give people access etc...
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@Arantor installing package to grant access is rather crazy – Linux can authenticate against Kerberos or LDAP just fine (and therefore against AD, in two ways, even). After all, Kerberos is originally a unix service.
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@Bulb well, we all had our own packages which could be installed on servers, installing the package would include our SSH keys and there was then a central auditable log of who had access to what...
But that doesn't make sense for everyone in the company, only the people expected to be on servers...
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I wonder which one blinked.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I wonder which one blinked.
It's not as obvious as it may seem, considering that Bezos can hire people capable of blinking.
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@DogsB I figure this one falls into the category of "Whoever wins, we lose".
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If they're ever going to use this for omelets then I wouldn't want to see the bird whose eggs they're going to use: