Dave.

rustfmt

is stopping me from writing code like this, and I have never been more happier using it after viewing this.

People don’t just leave leaking apps out there for consumption.

Ha! Welcome to corporate, where vendors sell you software and say that the hardware has to have 128GB of ram and when you poke around a bit you discover a single JVM with constantly growing memory usage with a script that restarts it every time it runs out of resources.

AND a log file that describes - in typical Java excruciating detail - the precise lines in each module where the devs allocated resources but didn’t free them. About 40 times a second.

Motor oil tastes funny.

Map usage times for a week.

In the middle of a non usage time type the string of characters that are first typed at the start of usage time.

Then open a browser using keyboard shortcuts (does Win+R open a browser in Windows if you type a URL in?) , type a URL, type in all learned username password combos, close browser using keyboard shortcuts.

“Oh, it’s got an embedded TIFF of the actual content. That explains it.”

Yes, I am quite old now.

Bastard user from hell

Every IT/software group needs to have one, otherwise you get complacent.

Yeah it’s steadily getting enshittified.

I used to have a mythtv box that I’d built , like, 15 years ago and it was pretty good. For a while there TV UIs were adequate enough that I didn’t need it, but it seems that maybe it’s time to build another one.

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it’s input shouldn’t exist.

Some of that input could do with a bit of tweaking though.

I wouldn’t mind if the TV was able to do things with the audio track, like remove background music, or lift the volume of people speaking, or erase laugh tracks/live audience hooting& hollering.

There’s probably similar manipulation that you could do on the video side (eventually, once TVs stop getting the worst processors ever, not here and now). Imagine a prompt that says “Airbrush every recognisable brand name on-screen so that it blends with the background”.

I seriously doubt if any major manufacturer would do that kind of thing though, so better get working on jailbreaking those TVs.

If you occasionally boot to windows, it’s known to leave NICs in an unusable state if you just hibernate/quick power off. You need to boot back to windows and so a “proper” shutdown for it to come good.

Consider yourself corrected then. I’ve skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is “bootlicker” or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it’s just, “I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!”

So maybe a little guidance for you:

The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what’s left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.

Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.

Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it’s greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn’t worth my time.

Six levels deep in a teams group file storage and open a file to view? Clicking the big obvious “close” button on the top right of the opened document now takes you back to the top level. Enjoy digging back in again!

Oh, you really just want to close that document and remain in the folder you were just in? Well that’s easy. Just ignore that big tempting close button and click the tiny “<” button on the left, no problem. You’ll probably remember that after reflexively clicking that close button at least once, so enjoy all that!

“Akshually”, so do you. You had a chance to discuss and inform, and instead you went straight to “bootlicker”.

Do you think they’re going to take any notice of whatever you say from here on?

Samsung front loader washing machine here.

It is generally musical while selecting program options. It sings a little song when finished, which is only after it unlocks the door. The little song only plays once. The little song can be changed to other tunes by subtle and undocumented button presses.

After about 10 minutes it plays a few notes while turning itself off that are easily recognisable as the notes it plays when it turns itself off, so if you miss the first little song, once you hear that you know it’s definitely finished. After that it is done. No more door locking shenanigans or tumbling or clothes.

Generally I use the “sportswear” cycle which is about 1 hour, my clothes are generally not that dirty. Sometimes I treat towels / linen to a hot cotton cycle which is 2.5 hours and a 90 degree (Celsius) wash.

Had it for 10 years now, no mechanical or electrical issues. I always leave the door ajar when finished and once every few months I do a cleaning cycle.

I also have a Fisher and Paykel dryer. I have owned it for 8 years, in which time it has needed a replacement drive belt as it gets used heavily. The bushes on the drum need replacing soon, but I just turned it upside down so it will last for a while longer

Regarding your door issues, well that’s because idiots try and open the door during a load, and then when it’s locked, they turn it off and still try and open the door. They subsequently complain about the water going everywhere. Don’t forget that manufacturers have to deal with the lowest common denominator end user.

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

Maybe we should take the Amazon storefront naming approach where instead of repurposing exisiting nouns we just create new words from combinations of vowels and consonants, like Pnopty, or Flontep.

Always make your test messages something like, “Test message, please ignore”.

That way if it all goes wrong at least it looks like it was somewhat intentional.

The distinction is “through which users”.

Merely putting something online does not make it social media. The key is the ability for users/passers-by to add their own content and/or comments, which then allows for interaction between users.

They’re not missing funds though, it’s not a discrepancy in accounting. They overpaid , they know where the money is, and it’s simply a business decision whether to recover it or not.

They could have simply filtered on overpayment above some arbitrary value based around recovery vs goodwill.

Or they could have let it slide, but still notify people so that they wouldn’t be wondering if it was an accounting error.

But no, they want to recover 23 cents which is well below the cost of everyone’s time and effort to deal with, on both sides of the transaction.

Well you see, engagement is down, and the whole “sponsored content” thing is in a death spiral due to AI slop. So Meta has decided to cut out the middleman and generate their own AI slop, because surely their version of personalised AI slop will solve the whole engagement problem and keep line always going up, because if it’s one thing users love, it’s an endless torrent of AI slop.

Try “lspci -vv” first to see the devices on the bus and to figure out which device is causing this.

Secondly, check all your BIOS’ “performance” settings, such as memory timings, bus speeds, and etc, and set them to default.

See how things go after that.