NostraDavid

Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can’t swoop in and yoink anything available.

This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is “safe”.

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.

Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port

Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)

I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).

I’d say that’s credentialed enough.

I too wish he did more complex stuff.

These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy

That’s not how claims work, buddy.

Lastly, we string these major discoveries together: Cryptocurrency is an economic doomsday device; our government is a secret kleptocracy; The Simpsons exists to brainwash us. From there, the only research we need is critical thinking and we’re able to piece together the true story of our circumstances.

Wait, I thought we were supposed to use that all throughout, not at the very end!?

TL;DR Yeah, the guy clearly had a screw loose. Jumping from unfounded (conspiracy) theory to another. At least he was not a Nazi, I guess - he hated everyone* equally.

* everyone being “the government”, “Crypo-anything”, even a few billionaires!

The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.

Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?

About 2 years ago I wondered the same, so I collected a bunch of data (of ‘who worked on which game’) and used D3.js to make a graph thingy:

Downside: It’s up to Shadowlands, not Dragonflight; Also, the few little circles pulled more left are mentioned multiple times in the same Credits, just under different roles.

The thick green circle is Customer Support (though this was before the mass-layoff by MS).

Live version here, but it’s SUPER janky - changing selections will generate a new graph lower down the page.

Raw JSON data here - I had to install Retail WoW (F2P is good enough), dig into the game files to find the .html files that contained the credits and then convert that whole pile of doodoo into JSON.

I haven’t used 8GB since… 2008 or so? TBF, I’m a power user (as are most people on any Lemmy instance, I presume), but still…

And sure, Mac OS presumably uses less RAM than Windows, but all the applications don’t.

I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.

Linux or bust, babyyyyyy

Digg used to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603035130/http://digg.com/

They updated it to this: https://web.archive.org/web/20101231083935/http://digg.com/news

And basically reduced the amount of user-content, to promote… their own stuff? I don’t remember what they replaced it with. Users got pissed; left for Reddit.

Now it looks like a typical corporate website: https://digg.com/

It’s “XCOM” nowadays. Since 2012, really.

FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

add “before:2023” to your search query

Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.

Oh, oh, oh! I got one not mentioned yet:

ELK.

Well, not the whole of the ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash and Kibana, though the full stack size is much larger nowadays), but their watchers. A watcher is a piece of JSON with some search specifications on when to trigger and send an alert to email/slack/teams/whatever. We’re basically abusing it as an alerting system, and generally it works… Fine… Presuming Filebeat actually ingests our logs (which is partially our fault, as there’s a fix, but it takes too damn long to drag 3 teams along to implement what needs implementing to fix that problem).

Anyway, the problem is not the watcher itself, even though it is painful (heh) to learn the structure. It’s “Painless”, the JVM-based scripting language available in a watcher. It’s anything but. It is SO painful to write code, inside of a JSON object, making sure everything is exactly as it should be, having to use the DevTools in Kibana to try and trigger it, wait to see what enormous error comes out while praying it works. No IDE, no nothing. Ah, I lied. It does have Syntax Highlighting, for non-Painless code, IIRC…

Oh, having to dig information out of the data you get is super unintuitive too.

At least the UI/Kibana is good, and Elastic is pretty good too. Fuck Filebeat though. And Painless.

The background noise surpression of Teams is peak quality (vs Webex and Slack, though Webex is somewhat good)…

Did you check the calender in Teams? Not to be confused with the calender in Outlook, which may or may not overlap.