Lemmy Shitpost
Another job lost because of technology 👿
LesserAbe 11 hours ago • 100%
How widespread was this? I grew up in the 80s/90s and pre GPS we just had a map in the car. I've never heard of such a hotline until seeing this post.
LesserAbe 15 hours ago • 100%
I'm on bluesky. It got most of the twitter people I followed for humor. The protocol supposedly allows (will allow?) other servers, but for now I think it's mostly the one. I prefer mastodon governance/structure, but bluesky has a bunch of people I want to read.
LesserAbe 15 hours ago • 100%
Having a central repository of resumes and how those people are connected is valuable. Seeing that I know someone who knows someone else is useful when applying for a job or reaching out as a salesperson. Even just knowing that a position with x title exists at y company is useful when searching for jobs or clients.
MSP - Managed Service Providers
Client wants to mass OCR documents
LesserAbe 1 day ago • 100%
It's been a minute, but when I was looking at these types of software (not this specific one mentioned) they can create a PDF with the scan images and OCR text overlaid on top of the scan.
No Stupid Questions
Is there a wig that doesn't heat your head?
LesserAbe 2 days ago • 100%
I wouldn't be surprised if there were something about different types of wigs that make them hotter than just having natural hair. That said, I'm not sure we have people with subject matter experience in the thread here.
Like this thread over at the wigs subreddit is already talking about terms I'm not familiar with, so that seems like a promising place to start.
I'm on lemmy because I disagree with the ownership direction at Reddit but they have an enviable user base in terms of size and diversity.
LesserAbe 2 days ago • 100%
From what I understand, the first assassination it wasn't clear the shooter particularly hated Trump. Sounded more like a school shooter. If anyone has seen reporting otherwise I'd be interested to read it.
Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'
A bag of Cheetos created a huge impact on a national park ecosystem
LesserAbe 4 days ago • 100%
"As for the spilled Cheetos, Ward told The Associated Press that could have been avoided because the park doesn’t allow food beyond the confines of the historic underground lunchroom."
I was going to say, one of the most exciting things for me as a kid visiting 30 years ago was you could buy a candy bar while down inside the cave. If this is such a mortal threat seems like a good step to take would be closing down the concession stand!
LesserAbe 4 days ago • 100%
Yeah, I'm starting to think this guy isn't on the up and up!
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 0%
Often in a news article when someone is described as dying "suddenly" without any other explanation it's understood to be a euphemism for suicide.
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 50%
I wouldn't be surprised if there was something there, but that's different than a fact.
Political Humor
Forgot the girdle
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 18%
Looks edited to me
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 58%
So people who don't live in swing states should vote third party until there's enough of them that the state is in danger of going to trump (or whoever)? If they're successful at some point that's a threat.
How do we actually get third party candidates to win, not just "oh, Ross Perot Jr got 3% of the vote"?
However you slice it, we're looking at like a 20 year struggle minimum to get election reform, and it would be at least the same length to elect a third party candidate to the office of president, but that's a one off thing. (Or more likely that third party would be the new one of two parties)
If we're committed to the struggle of improving things, we might as well improve a reusable process rather than have a single go at a third party presidential candidate.
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 57%
Right, but do you have any evidence? Otherwise it's just an accusation
politics
Watch Stephen Miller have a full meltdown when asked to back up crime claim with facts
LesserAbe 5 days ago • 100%
"THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!"
LesserAbe 1 week ago • 100%
I assume you're getting down voted because of AI use but I don't mind it in this case because I think it's a useful starting point for "how many big holidays are we talking about"
I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you? Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)
Ask Lemmy
Nature lovers and workers what do you think of Coyote Peterson and Brave Wilderness ?
LesserAbe 1 week ago • 100%
I am completely unfamiliar with that person
Technology
Some basic info about USB
LesserAbe 1 week ago • 92%
I didn't take the image to be showing a macbook, it could just as easily be my computer or probably many others.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
But "Scud" sounds like such a reputable brand
Asklemmy
My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos?
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
I like and use signal, but of course the problem is convincing someone else to start using it in order to send you a message.
WikipediaLesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Lol that's the van? How is it different than the car?
No Stupid Questions
What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently?
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 96%
I've seen people say there's good weird and bad weird, and if you don't mind calling yourself weird it's probably the good kind.
As for calling maga people weird I think it's effective because their whole deal is about vibes. "We're strong, we're smart" and it really bothers them to be perceived otherwise. It's also not something you can "debate". Either people accept it or they don't. What are you going to say "no, I'm not weird"? Sure thing buddy.
Historical Artifacts
Firefighter's coat with a spider over a Go board, Japan, 19th century AD
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Cool jacket, and reading the backstory you linked makes it even cooler.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Lol, well I didn't mean specifically "tell me you're from the US" just the general phrase "tell me X without telling me X".
And can confirm that plenty of Americans aren't thrilled with how things are run in America. We're running democracy v0.1 beta
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 83%
Well like other people were saying, there's a trend of people posting this prompt, and then others responding with funny answers. You're right, I don't like it when people use the same formulation in response to a comment. I also don't get why people are doing it, for the same reason: I don't think it's funny, and it doesn't really add anything to the conversation.
Usually memes are funny because there's a familiar pattern and then people riff on the pattern and make little unexpected tweaks. The type of usage I don't like and don't get is when people are just saying "you're this" in a more wordy way. It has the form of a joke with no punchline.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Sorry, that probably came off too negative. Looking at all your posts there's clearly plenty of variety. And anyone regardless of party is going to do things worthy of criticism. Only reason I commented is I've noticed that when I get to the end of my subscribed feed I often encounter a post with low upvotes critical of Harris and see your username. I guess that illustrates the audience on lemmy just as much as the type of things you post.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 90%
Thanks yeah, I've seen that sort of thread. If anything in this particular case it would make more sense if the comment was "tell me what country you're from without telling me what country you're from."
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
I was saying I see it everywhere?
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 30%
Not calling you out specifically, but I see this phrase everywhere and don't understand its popularity. It would be more concise and equally "clever" to just say "Sounds like this guy works in the US". What is the appeal that everyone keeps typing this?
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
I was going to say, normally your posts are shitting on Harris but this one's good
RedditLesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 95%
I think the issue they're raising is that these clips aren't from porn, they're from movies that happen to have nude scenes. They argue that taking the nude scene out of the larger context is molesting them.
I can understand not liking it, but I don't see how it would be unexpected.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
You should probably correct it right? Like swap the image for a different Herzog quote, or change it so the image is William
A Boring Dystopia
Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
If you had anything real to say you'd be linking to it or even talking about specific examples. Instead it's "there's stories", "there's been reporting".
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Impressive, but seems destined to fall apart. Companies like Spotify presumably have a sense of how "normal" users listen to music. You'd have to spend a fair amount of time mimicking that or you'd get found out eventually. (As he did)
UkraineLesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
Lol, all guns have zoom
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
I was thinking for now you need a ptz gun with a separate human controller from the human flight controller.
A Boring Dystopia
Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
This is gruesome for sure. That said, most ways of killing people in war aren't good ways to go. Killing is going to cause suffering.
Ideally we wouldn't kill. And then if we do it hopefully it's quick and doesn't prolong suffering. And then if we're pushed to the point that it's us or them hopefully it's them.
A Boring Dystopia
Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 93%
Wow, stories have circulated you say? /s
Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, which were immoral American misadventures, this is a Russian misadventure, and supporting the Ukrainians is pushing back against aggression.
GarfieldLesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
I said the same thing first time I found out
Technology
How Self-Driving Cars Get Help From Humans Hundreds of Miles Away | In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the wheel
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
You're right, doesn't sound great. In the example they shared, sounds like the issue wasn't that the car couldn't drive around the fire truck, but that it couldn't break a programming rule about crossing into a lane that would normally be opposing traffic. Once given the "ok" to follow such a route, the car handled it on its own, the human doesn't actually drive it.
I could imagine a scenario where you need one human operator for every two vehicles. That's still reducing labor by 50%.
Obviously they want it to be better than that, they want it to be one operator per ten vehicles or no operator at all.
And the fundamental problem with these systems is they will be owned by big corporations, and any gained efficiency will be consumed by the corporation, not enjoyed by the worker or passed on to the customer.
But I think there's true value to be found there. Imagine a transportation cooperative - we're a thousand households, we don't all need our own car, but we need a car sometimes. We pool our resources and have a small fleet that minimizes our cost and environmental impact, and potentially drives more safely than human drivers.
LesserAbe 2 weeks ago • 100%
It could be a career, or religion. For me I was planning to become a pastor, but then became an atheist. It really did throw me off. In my case I think I'm much happier than I would have been, but do kick myself because I could have been positioned much better if I wasn't making plans in this other direction.
I know people can wear two video cameras to recreate a first person experience in virtual reality. I also know they make those mannequin head stereo mic sets that create interesting spacial audio, supposedly because they mimic the head's shape and position of our ears. Instead of the dummy head, does anyone make a mic set that you can wear, with the mics in approximately the position of our ears / ear shaped? I was thinking you could do some interesting things with that, like recording a band in their practice space from the perspective of the band members. Or tracking lead vocals where the singer is singing to a person wearing the mic set.
Some animals sing (birds, whales) and plenty of animals make sounds together at roughly the same time (wolves howling, prairie dogs yelling at threats). Are there animals that harmonize? Or animals that make sound that's rhythmically coordinated, like has a time signature? Guess I'm asking about more finely coordinated sounds. It's something that's pretty neat about human music.
theintercept.com
Doesn't seem especially practical, but I thought folks here might be interested in this method. With the increasing scarcity of pay phones I suspect it might be equally as "easy" to get a burner cell phone with cash and register a signal account that way.
No, not talking about their own shit or vomit, har de har. I mean how dogs can't have chocolate, can't eat grapes. Are there things it's no big deal for them but would be toxic for us.
Just learned that Wikimedia has a project called Wikifunctions. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia and associated projects, and on its face sounds like a cool site. I do wonder how this would work in practical terms though, like how could it actually be used?
Prompted by another thread about conscription in Ukraine.
I saw a post on lemmy about how we could prevent 133 holocausts by promoting animal rights and veganism. The article opened by doing some math about how many dogs you could torture and kill in order to be equivalent to taking a human life, and then how many animals humans kill, and concluded that we're committing holocaust equivalents many times over. I have respect for people who question the status quo and think seriously about morality. Thinking about slavery, it used to be argued "this is the natural order," "this is actually the moral thing to do" and so on. It wasn't easy then to stand up for what we now see as the obvious moral position. So I have some receptivity to this type of argument. That said, I think back to when I was a Christian (atheist now), and was fully bought into the anti abortion movement. They argued that fetuses were human, that we were committing fetus holocausts all the time. Taking that view to its logical conclusion, one could justify things like killing a few (abortion doctors, judges) to save many (fetuses). The author of the vegan piece was not advocating for such things. But one could ask why not. I think the fact the conclusion (133 holocausts) is so far outside accepted views should prompt some examination of the starting premises. (Is any killing of an animal for food the same as torturous factory farming, should we do something about animals that eat other animals etc) I'm glad I read the piece because there's value in hearing other perspectives. We can't see ourselves and our own blind spots. I would have responded in-thread but that community description said "not a place for debate", so tossing out this thought here.
powering-the-planet.ghost.io
I wasn't aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
Man, fuck this guy
Every week or every month each level of government throws a party funded with taxpayer dollars, and attendees are selected at random from the residents and given advance notice of the party schedule.
My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I'd ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help! Additional info: Single car garage built in the 1950s in the U.S. The current opener is a lift master, just eyeballing it probably from the 90s. The door could be original? I don't know. It's wood, seems fairly substantial. Yesterday and this morning started having issues with the door just stopping in the middle of opening or closing. When it stops, the remote button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. When it starts moving again it goes the other direction so you have to keep pressing and try to get it to close/open before it stops again. This morning I ended up pulling it down part of the way because I'd gone through several rounds of up, down, up, down. It doesn't seem to want to move manually which isn't surprising. Worried my car is going to get stuck in there before work so I figure should probably be proactive here.
Question inspired by the news that Dave and Busters is supposed to be adding gambling to their games. And of course there are the sports betting apps. I get that all things being equal we should let people do what they want to do. But I don't see much of a benefit, and a lot of downside to allowing the spread of gambling.
Let's assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters Edit: to expand on this, presumably if society has temporarily or permanently collapsed there would be issues with things like deliveries, security, digital transactions, utility service etc. Feel free to use whichever scenario seems most likely to you, I'm asking more because I was thinking how screwed I'd be if I was just out of food after say, seven days.
I don't mean the actual rules of passing it, I mean what organization, activities and funding are necessary to do so. The last one passed was in 1992 and it was just about congressional pay. Last one before that was 1971. Is there some kind of play book? It seems to happen so infrequently that it would be hard to study and conditions would vary enough that the last effort wouldn't be useful as a model. ("The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states." [Link](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/amendment-process))
We're talking actions limited to something one human could achieve - so not wishes, but could be something amazing or rare like "become president"
www.bloomberg.com
"...These kinds of private conferences, where business and cultural leaders interview one another free from the pesky, prying grasp of the press or public, are becoming increasingly common."
I like getting glasses off of Zenni but they never seem to fit quite right, mostly the arms. Would be nice to be able to make adjustments.
Or by only putting one stick of memory in, or changing the slot you're using. I was assembling a computer and everything seemed to be correct, the fan would spin up, I'd get some lights, but there was no image on the screen, not even the BIOS. I saw someone else make this suggestion and didn't think it was likely to work, but it did. First I just tried one stick, and it booted. Then I tried both sticks and it didn't work, but I reseated and then it did. (Also worth pointing out that your motherboard should have diagnostic lights which if you check the documentation may point out which component has an issue) Thinking about Lemmy's demographics many here may have heard of something like this, or have more helpful suggestions about troubleshooting which would be welcome. But thought I'd write out a little post about my experience to contribute to Lemmy SEO supremacy.
www.youtube.com
20daysinmariupol.com
Amazing and horrific footage. Definitely not easy to watch, but worth seeing.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12565350 RE: sales CRMs like salesforce or zoho > Don't expect much of an audience for this on Lemmy, but: > > Maybe it's just the places I've worked, but seems like I'm constantly wading through contacts who are gone - I don't want to delete them because the history could be helpful, but seems like there should be a quick, native way to mark them. Maybe once marked those names are grayed out or something. > > My one company had a custom field that you could check, but then there was no special handling of those contacts in terms of how they're displayed - just you could use it to exclude results in reports. >
Don't expect much of an audience for this on Lemmy, but: Maybe it's just the places I've worked, but seems like I'm constantly wading through contacts who are gone - I don't want to delete them because the history could be helpful, but seems like there should be a quick, native way to mark them. Maybe once marked those names are grayed out or something. My one company had a custom field that you could check, but then there was no special handling of those contacts in terms of how they're displayed - just you could use it to exclude results in reports.
Doesn't have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn't have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions. The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative. I'm interested in other examples of things that aren't just useful, but that open new possibilities.
Why YSK: I had this experience this morning. I was raging because the "alt + tab" shortcut had changed on my work computer when it worked fine yesterday. Now it opened the task view, but wouldn't switch windows unless I clicked on a different program. I figured either windows had rolled out some new "feature" or the IT department had changed something without telling anyone. I kept trying different google searches but couldn't find anyone talking about my specific issue. Tried restarting, changing "multitasking" settings, editing the registry. Finally some old post prompted me to try "windows + tab" and that worked. I discovered the windows and alt tab had been switched. So I tried a different keyboard and it worked fine. Finally I learned that my main keyboard has a "Windows" layout and a "Mac" layout, and somehow I had accidentally switched them. So I wasted a bunch of time, got upset and was mentally blaming others when the issue was on my end. And one sign I could have used to realize that was that apparently in the whole world of internet search results I was the only one experiencing the issue.
I see news stories that will give examples of how much energy a type of technology uses (usually AI or crypto). They'll claim very big numbers like the whole ecosystem using "as much as a small country" or one instance of use being "as much as an average home uses in a year." With the crypto ecosystem being so big and I'm less inclined to defend it, I haven't thought as much about the claims. But with AI while it still has problematic aspects, it also has a lot of useful applications. When I run a single query the idea it's the same energy as driving my car ten miles or whatever doesn't seem to pass the smell test. How are these numbers generated? Historically media doesn't do great with science reporting ("a cure for cancer was just invented" etc) so just trying to get some context/perspective.
fortune.com
Not sure if this falls under in person activism, but thought it might be of interest. Short version, he uploaded to a website he controlled instead of using a USB stick or a commercial file sharing service
https://catandgirl.com/stasis/
Buttercup Festival: https://www.buttercupfestival.com/2-60.htm
I think budgeting and practical finances should be taught at multiple stages throughout a student's life. I thought I knew the general idea but didn't appreciate how much neglecting it would set me back. What is your process for budgeting? As a starting point this [article](https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-to-choose-the-right-budget-system) lists a few methods. I use zero based budgeting where every dollar is assigned a purpose. I don't end up sticking exactly to the plan, but I do keep a spreadsheet which lists my current balances and all expected expenses, so I can see my future balance and avoid going in the red. A couple times a month I cross off expenses which have been paid and update the balance. This is especially helpful to me because a big portion of my income is irregular month to month.
Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were: * No periods * No balding * No nausea * No body odor * Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting