The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

Lob12

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

Gustaf

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

Trains go on tracks, it shouldn’t be that hard for them to not fall off the tracks and blow up.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

Those guys were losers. And looks like the shipper didn’t disclose the volatility.

Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway - Wikipedia

Gators1

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

oyaji

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

the shipper didn’t disclose the volatility.

oh, c’mon now, don’t tell us that you aver that is the reason the train left the track?

Lob12

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Gustaf

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Except AQ’s not as bad as Big Rail

Lob12

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Except AQ’s not as bad as Big Rail

Obviously, but my point was just that they’re all terrorists in the end.

Kilemall

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

the shipper didn’t disclose the volatility.

oh, c’mon now, don’t tell us that you aver that is the reason the train left the track?

No hence the term losers, but you don’t destroy the town.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Sure.

Kilemall

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

Accident rate and one man crews and loser engineers like the one that didn’t set hand brakes.

oyaji

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

engineers

i object to that term in this usage.

should be “enginist”.

Kilemall

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

engineers

i object to that term in this usage.

should be “enginist”.

That’s nice, since 1830s job titles in practice means you just have to deal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32758223#

oyaji

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

engineers

i object to that term in this usage.

should be “enginist”.

That’s nice, since 1830s job titles in practice means you just have to deal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32758223#

that’s only because the related terms “satanist”, “socialist”, and “communist” had not yet entered common parlance!

Tazz

Jam

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Nor the gender of the various connectors . . .

“I think in the ‘old days’ that connector with the pointy things sticking out may have been considered a male connector, but the back cover looks pink to me? Could it identify as female? We shouldn’t assume, I guess.”

Lob12

I do not miss those.

I’m a big fan of open source software. Partly because I’m a tightarse but also because when shit inevitably goes wrong with software you have options beyond reporting it through the vendor’s support channels which is often about as effective as farting into a gale.

Two things open source does particularly poorly sometimes though is UI design and audio systems. Some of the biggest apps in open source have the weirdest, most illogical user interfaces and you have to be a rocket scientist to understand the interaction between Pulse Audio, JACK, ALSA, Pipewire etc and the myriad ways they interact. Shitty UI and incomprehensible audio systems come together perfectly in a program called Ardour, a DAW, which I’ve spent three days first trying to get working and then trying to get it to do what I want it to. I’m kind of there now but fuck me.

madrebel

Ardour works fine on Mac ;-)

The open source ‘desktop’ world was its own worst enemy. Android/ChromeOS has proven you can create a UI atop open source that is usable by 10s of millions of idiots but in order to do that it took a governing body with financial incentives to create and maintain the over all look and feel.

The Gnome and KDE people spent too much time fighting to be the ‘best’ linux desktop and lost way to much time/ground on Windows and MacOS. Nobody cares that today both Gnome and KDE offer very usable UIs as 99.9% of people who ‘need’ Unix as a desktop just run Macs and everyone else still uses windows.

Gators1

Someone isn’t vaccinated.