@dalias am frequently thinking back to how quality and long-lasting products were made 100+ years ago. Let's say a cast-iron range, or a trolley car.

A worker was probably at least somewhat proud of their product. But even then capitalism alienated them from this feeling through hardships of labor and existential dread.
@jhankins

@dalias yeah that would be nice. And in itself a much bigger change than "just" leftshoring manufacturing jobs again.

I don't think the phone sanitizers currently at the helm grasp this though, and it won't be in their interest anyway Seeing as they wrongshored everything for their own profit in the first place.
@jhankins

@dalias I still don't think there's going to be very many powerpoint artists looking for a job in a jeans factory at jeans factory wages though.
@jhankins

@jack_daniel I wonder if anyone got around to adding ai to their products. Surely that would be quite the technological step.

@sotolf same, same. 😀

I love these early spring forest walks, the atmosphere is so light and airy before the foliage comes out.

@rl_dane working on a 43" at home - yes, it's too big. Especially in the vertical axis.

I want to replace that with a 34" curved which I feel is the sweet spot.
@mogwai @sotolf @mirabilos

I'm sure that's fine. Nothing to see here, move along.

#cybersecurity #otsecurity

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/

@ParadeGrotesque NATO insider attack. How nice.

[scribbles on risk management matrix]

@slothrop absolutely. Not questioning your choice. Just the metrics should be clear. From a resource perspective the best trip is the one we don't take.

@slothrop by that logic an EV rental car would also not have created any emissions. And we all know that's not true.

Apart from all the obvious resources going into vehicles and infrastructure, there's also the fact that until all electricity is generated through renewables there's always a penalty for every kWh used, no matter where or how.

@slothrop our place is thoroughly infested with SAP as well. Can't say I like it either. But some of the newer tools IT manglement has recently dredged up are even worse.

PMO365 is a good example. It's basically a head-on collision of a project management tool with ms paint, built on top of sharepoint. I'd actually prefer the SAP module I think.

"Fact checking a serial liar is like taste testing diarrhea."

H/t:
https://chaos.social/@RichiH/113862078449216839

@slothrop sunlight. Sky. Pfft. Obvious "ai" BS.

😉

@slothrop m360 threw a wobbly again.

@dalias likewise if you send it through a heat pump.

Still not nearly enough in winter though. For 4.5 kWe installed we got 60 kWh so far this month.

@slothrop

@dalias in these latitudes solar heating isn't really a thing.
@slothrop

That's at least better than a few weeks ago when they broke the microphone. Not audio completely, just the microphone, first in edge (lol), then in Firefox, then lastly in chrome while at the same time fixing it in Firefox.

Seriously you couldn't make this up. Nobody of those clowns has any idea what they're doing. Every time I see teams restarting I wonder what they fscked up now.

Msft teams in the browser now has the "take control" button. And to everybody's amazement it actually works. 🧐

To nobody's amazement they broke the calendar view in Firefox. 😒

Msft giveth and msft taketh away...

@selea yes I also run that. Small, lightweight, supports the h/w just fine.
@OrbitalMartian @jahanson

@arichtman @jacqueline
@Brett_E_Carlock

Just one example: DNS.

DNS is a super lightweight UDP-based application protocol - one packet with a query, one packet with an answer, in 90+% of use cases. Boom you're done.

Now the DNS-over-https (DoH) abomination changes that to a very expensive TCP connection with TCP handshake, connection management, SSL handshake, the actual query/answer, and then tear everything back down.

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