@nixCraft with cover drawn by director of Toy Story.

@nixCraft WHY IS THERE PEOPLE???

@nixCraft Even as a developer I'd say they should have made a setup.py or a pyproject.toml since it's a Python program, but they don't have any of these.

@nixCraft Textbook example of why you don't steer end users to a Github page. Github may be great for tech people and devs organizing a project, but the UI/UX is possibly the worst fscking thing for any regular person who doesn't know how to navigate Github.

Make a separate project page and put your binary releases on it for those people. If you're putting out software for end-users, you have to understand that audience.

@nixCraft How to move people to stop using password managers 😂

@nixCraft Directly from the author USB

@nixCraft I swear some sites have this. Just an hour ago I tried to log into a website using my password manager: incorrect username/password. I went to a different page and hit login there. Got brought to the same login screen, but it let me in just fine this time!

@nixCraft don't boost teeth. that's just uncomfortable

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It mostly looks like an Eastern-egg 😀

@nixCraft
There's another group of Nginx developers that forked off earlier, and already have a product: Angie.

Someone posted this earlier on another thread about this.

https://angie.software/en/

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I did exactly that before.

$job: "We're enforcing MDM to use Slack on phones"

Everyone: "Ok, when do our company phones arrive?"

$job: "Yeah, we didn't really plan to do that at all"

Everyone: *uninstalls Slack*

That weekend, large outage.

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I had my laptop dock/hub break, and applied for a replacement, and was denied because supposedly that's not approved for work-from-home employees.

I told my employer that I wouldn't use my external monitors or mouse because they didn't provide methods to use those with my USB-C only laptop.

They decided that giving me a replacement dock/hub was in their best interest.

@nixCraft funnily enough i worked for a company that was entirely remote but we were explicitly banned from working off the clock to comply with labor regulations

this meant if someone called in sick, they weren't tasked with finding a replacement. in fact, no one was. because we didn't call people when they weren't working.

we just overstaffed a touch and if it ended up being a bit too much overstaffed we offered voluntary undertime and usually someone would be happy to take it

@nixCraft *whispers* unions

@nixCraft That became obvious when they switched the name of the department from "Personnel" to HR. As in, Tools.

@nixCraft The name says it all. "Human Resources". HR sees employees like laptops or desks. Resources that can can used, depleted or replaced.

@nixCraft Hell yeah, Emacs always wins

@nixCraft Emacs FTW :⁠-⁠)

@nixCraft Emacs is a great operating system, it just lacks a decent text editor.

@nixCraft Syntx error! But aye. Working with bastions, this is a life saver.

@nixCraft Seriously, does anybody know what happened to make kids not understand technology? I thought we'd be hiring people with a basic understanding of computers by now...

@nixCraft laughed so hard 😂

@nixCraft 😅​

@nixCraft @ojuliocampos olha isso hahaha

@nixCraft Web Browser on PC and Android App on my Phone

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Mostly i use Tusky tbh, but I also use Tokodon, it's great!
KDE is great!

Edit, link;
https://apps.kde.org/sv/tokodon/

@nixCraft I use the mastodon UI of my instance on desktop, and @phanpy https://phanpy.social on mobile, installed as a PWA.

@nixCraft Machine Learning requires an objective function that you are optimizing. This is known as 'test driven development'.

@nixCraft "seems to work"

@nixCraft lol, I am a machine.

@nixCraft I’ve been a long-time #Safari (on macOS) and #Konqueror then #Epiphany (on Linux) user because I favor small and standard-compliant engines. And because Safari is so much more battery efficient. However, there are always web tools that don‘t work - mostly things like Zoom, Teams, etc. Those I use with #Chrome which has better options for screen sharing, recording, etc. - but I want to switch to #Firefox now because I don’t trust Google anymore.

@nixCraft 99% #Firefox user. For a few sites wie where it does not work well, I use #ungoogled #chromium.

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I generally use Brave, but Firefox is also on my machines as a solid alternative.

@nixCraft what do they know?!?!

@nixCraft What a time to be alive 😑

@nixCraft Didn't know IoT was standing for Internet of Turds