Colloidal

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How to deal with a not so good related team that always asks for help? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

That's leadership. Sounds like a plan.

How to deal with a not so good related team that always asks for help? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

That's a job for THE MIDDLE MANAGER!! (imagine a crappy super hero)

No, seriously, do not step over your boss to talk to theirs. That's like, the job your boss has, and they might get pissed at you, and, depending on pettiness level, make your life worse. Talk to your boss, explain how and why that's a problem. Make it clear you expect them to solve it.

If and only if they say they can't do anything, you may consider talking to your boss' boss. But not the other team's boss. Before doing that, I'd have hard financial evidence, like the other commenter suggested. Log your hours in their time buckets for at least a month, get others to join you in doing the same, get a report with total amount spent. Then you turn again to your boss and maybe include boss².

I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

I was being facetious. But yeah, the trailer looks like a PG-13 version of Schedule 1.

I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's not just a Schedule I rip, it's also a Papers Please rip.

I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, did you provide a link or am I supposed to search for it like a caveman?

Bluesky age uk verification in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not illegal yet. I'm joking. Makes sense.

JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

“So instead of writing three applications, you write it in a special programming language, which is basically English, which describes how you want to see this application in a very specified way, and then AI agents, together with JetBrains tooling, will generate the code of all of these platforms,” Skrygan said.

Bluesky age uk verification in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I am not a lawyer anywhere, nor a citizen of the kingdom, but usually, when you circumvent an ID check, that's not legal.

Bluesky age uk verification in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's true. But there isn't any advice that will work against such totalitarian practices and be legal at the same time. Either you circumvent the law with some VPN, or you relinquish your right to privacy.

The VPN route won't work with sites like Blue Sky, as they've already bent to the state so you won't have privacy there, even if your face or ID isn't in their database.

Bluesky age uk verification in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev -2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I see no problem with that.

Bluesky age uk verification in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Being based in another jurisdiction might allow them to tell the UK government to suck a fat dick.

How long do you use USB drives for live Linux systems? in c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

You made me remember college, when we'd carry Knoppix on a thumb drive to use on university shared computers.

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The Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.jakewelch.design)
 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/43777533

[JS Required] The Restroom Archive

Repo.

The Restroom Archive is an ongoing case study that aims to document and celebrate the public restroom. What started as a joke in 2023 has become a years-long practice of 3D scanning the restrooms in restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, coffee shops, and various other spaces across the U.S. and Europe.

The scans are meant to capture the humorous, chaotic, and often scary nature of these uniquely private publicly accessible spaces.

Through capturing the diverse decor, graffiti, and artifacts, both stored and left behind, I consider public restrooms to be a reflection of both the creativity and impertinence of human nature when we think nobody else is watching.

Scans were made with LiDAR using Polycam for iPhone. This site was built using Vue.js and Three.js and is currently hosted on GitHub pages.

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The real reason automakers are ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto (www.motortrend.com)
 

TLDR: Automakers want a piece of the data harvesting pie. But don't worry they assure us it's just to improve their products. You know, like the infotainment they're building, that they wouldn't need to build if they kept phone integration.

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Sluggishness again (programming.dev)
 

Programming.dev seems to be experiencing slowness intermittently again. It is most pronounced on Tesseract, but also on the default UI. Using a mobile client such as Voyager seems more responsive, so maybe the API isn't suffering from it.

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Review Checker will shut down tomorrow (blog.mozilla.org)
 

The Fakespot feature within Firefox known as Review Checker will shut down on June 10, 2025.

There goes the only feature that managed to move my wife towards a gecko based browser. l guess it's Brave for her now.

Mozilla acquired it two years ago. Bastards.

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Iconic Open Source Hub Appeals for Lifesaving Donations (linuxiac.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63055455

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab may shut down without $250K in funding. Projects like Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, and many more rely on it.

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Battle of the noobs: CasaOS X Yunohost X TrueNAS Scale (programming.dev)
 

All of the above have web GUIs to install, configure, and maintain services and are commonly suggested for someone that is new to self hosting. What are their key differences? Their advantages and disadvantages for common use cases?

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https://git.programming.dev is chock full of spam (infosec.pub)
 

It's pages and pages of this. Maybe you want to restrict who can log in and create repositories.

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What is NoSQL good for? (programming.dev)
 

I’m versed enough in SQL and RDBMS that I can put things in the third normal form with relative ease. But the meta seems to be NoSQL. Backends often don’t even provide a SQL interface.

So, as far as I know, NoSQL is essentially a collection of files, usually JSON, paired with some querying capacity.

  1. What problem is it trying to solve?
  2. What advantages over traditional RDBMS?
  3. Where are its weaknesses?
  4. Can I make queries with complex WHERE clauses?
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