I don’t think the CEO or anyone else was at fault, one of their teams picked people for the company to support, it was either before bad behaviour became apparent, or ignorant of it, then the community complaints and they fixed it
What’s to complain about?
To take the voice of the other side
Age verification is a thing that’s becoming more important
It’s expensive for all the companies if they have to do age verification, apple and Microsoft are huge so they can easily absorb the cost, so if we make those companies do it, it takes the load off the other companies
It’s not that they’re open source hostile, it’s that they’re open source blind. I think they’re also using corporate versions of windows so they don’t get the worst of it, so they’re not incentivised to find alternatives
Linux is going to have a lot of trouble funding ID checks in the handful of jurisdictions where it’s necessary
I wonder if Linux should be presented as business software (since most Linux installations are servers) that should not be bound by that law, what does a server care about the age of the worker who set it up or the company that owns it
I guess they weren’t microbiologists
I think I knew it was a clit mouse before I was looking on the internet for porn. IBM laptops were well respected and highly available on the secondhand market - I got my university machine from an excess (obsolete) business equipment auction for something like fifty bucks and looking up the machine on Usenet introduced me to the term
The op picture is from the UK, since it refers to the NHS. An Australian sign like that would say Medicare
But yes, it’s people cosplaying blue collar
She gets too hot, melts stuff, starts fires
The hydraulic analogy is better (accuracy-wise)
Some of them are realish, renditions of actual sea creatures by second hand descriptions of them
Most of them are just decorations
what’s the angle
They want to make people suspicious of those who tell them that this year is the hottest since we started keeping records, and that is a big fucking problem that will probably cost us every low lying country and every coastal city and every beach
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s near future sci-fi people dredge up the old beaches to build new beaches
https://xkcd.com/303/ vs this guy who thinks 20 seconds is a long time
Pot isn’t like opium. Most people can use pot occasionally and be sober most of the time, it’s probably less common for someone to become a pothead than for a drinker to become dependant on booze
Many people in all walks of life and all social statuses enjoy getting stoned occasionally
Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious
Chicken is in fact food. It is rarely in a jar.
I can’t say I have ever hit the seat. The geometry is wrong. Keyboards are threatened though
Skipping up to three mensurations has been tested and found to be safe. They called it a tri-cycle
More isn’t unsafe, just unknown to science
Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company
Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites
A 2026 house beats mine in every respect
Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation
One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”
Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix
Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged
On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution
Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn’t good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired
Yeah big vehicles are a problem in Australia too