And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.

And the command prompt uses the directory terminology anyway with the dir command.

I would presume because their work insisted?

So when I started in the current startup I am in, we did the anarchy approach of just give a feature to work on and a tool to track tickets for 3 years. Eventually as team leader we migrated to scrum development. And as the team has expanded I’ve actually gotten stricter about it.

The rituals of scrum seem pointless when you start out and with a team of less than 4 people but at 4+ people it’s important just to keep track of what on earth is happening in the team. Like end of sprint allows us to work out if things are vaguely on track. If they are not we can identify where the weaknesses are. Someone took on a task estimated at 8 story points and it took 2 weeks to do, need to find out what the issue is (usually because either because there is a knowledge gap in that aspect of the system or because the task just simply hasn’t been defined clearly enough and needs the product owner to give more details).

I never thought I’d be that guy who defends the scrum process but 5 years of being a team lead changes you.

Though because this system was one that evolved naturally as we grew and realised what we were doing as a company wasn’t working we largely avoided the corporate bullshittery version of scrum. We don’t have a scrum master, I’m the guy who is like “oi I need you in this meeting” to the product owners.

The depressing thing for me is that in my country access to COVID vaccines is now limited - you can only get a booster if you’re part of the “clinically vulnerable” group. And whilst I kinda get it that the logic is the same as the flu vaccine that it’s about reducing hospitalisations, at least with flu we have the option to get the vaccine privately… Which we don’t with COVID.

They meant in the sense that crypto/nft was the last fad that VCs were throwing money at.

It’s actually hilariously transparent how dumb VCs are and how much tech companies exploit that. Every now and then they randomly get hyped by some big tech company over some ‘new’ Y idea, then suddenly they throw money at any company suggesting they are doing Y thinking they will be the next Google or Meta. Then they inevitably doesn’t materialise and they move onto the next fad.

Through the years I’ve been in the industry we’ve had Big Data, followed by AI, followed by Cloud, followed by blockchain, followed by nfts, followed by metaverse and now back to AI again. And the tech companies don’t even need to implement any of this they just have to find a way to spin what they are doing to make it sound like the fad is what they’re doing.

Yeah I was going to say VC throwing money at the newest fad isn’t anything new, in fact startups strive exploit the fuck out of it. No need to actually implement the fad tech, you just need to technobabble the magic words and a VC is like “here have 2 million dollars”.

In our own company we half joked about calling a relatively simple decision flow in our back end an “AI system”.

Yeah these days literally every website uses JavaScript in some format as modern reactive design is easier to do if you can execute client side code. Blocking JavaScript is a sledgehammer solution to the problem.

I completely forgot I had added that extension (back when Google actually looked ugly on Firefox on Android without it) just disabled and oh my god not only does it not freeze it actually feels usable again (I hate the weird AI suggested tabs at the top in the chromium UI).

Firefox mobile used to have mobile add-ons but it was separate and naturally therefore more limited.

Yeah I think I find this problem a lot with most projects with a FOSS community. Lamenting about the lack of large scale take up of a project whilst also getting ideologically gatekeepy about the user experience.

Apps like Sync are a gateway for converting Reddit users over to Lemmy and we should celebrate them.

Yeah also trying to stay FOSS on Android/iOS seems like a lost cause given the OS themselves.

Yeah when I saw the title I assumed it was going to be about the sheer crassness of the quarantine room scenes.

It mostly doesn’t matter except for a couple of linking points:

• Strange New Worlds effectively directly follows events of Discovery Season 2 with a plot point introduced in season 2 being a bit of a focus of SNW S1

• It is probably advisable to watch Picard S1 before Discovery S3 and 4 as the first season of Picard introduces lore elements that have relevance.

Also to be honest, the Star Trek IP being taken away from Paramount’s dumb decisions could be the best thing to happen to it.

“Electric buses aren’t safe because the batteries can catch on fire”

London here running hybrids for over half a decade with no issue.

Yeah if anything when you’re over 30 it’s even worse, as then you have to dedicate some brain power in dealing with all the body ailments you suddenly start developing.

Whilst I don’t follow US law, quick Google suggests one of the conditions is “the injury is not readily avoidable by consumers”. In other words the business isn’t liable for the customer not reading the documents they signed up to.

how we never got proper authorization

Why do I feel like this is a domestic abuse situation. Husband broke her laptop in order to reduce her attempts to communicate with others? She goes to get it repaired, he finds out.

I think it’s the belief that the wife can’t authorise the repair…

They would but that doesn’tv sound as sexy to investors.

That’s what it all comes down to when businesses use words like AI, big data, blockchain etc. Its not about whether it’s an accurate descriptor, its about tricking dumb millionaires into throwing money at them.