TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he's pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn't exactly finished yet.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

That's that me. But the company I work for is big enough that if they're fucked, it looks worse on my bosses for only having one of me and no plan. So fuck that, off I go. I told them how badly things could go if someone grabbed my laptop, so that stays very safely behind too.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Yes absolutely they can

You know the purpose of this is so they can use them without being tracked though, right? If it's easy to exclude outliers and bad data, it makes this suggestion pretty useless.

As people have suggested, there's almost no reason to ever have this data leave your own personal device or network. Women have tracked their periods for thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of years.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nah they'll just say "weird. Guys, exclude November, it's an outlier".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

If you are required to install something like InTune by your company, that's what controls what apps you can install in Work mode. It's a good trade off because it enforces good separation for them - clipboard is blocked between profiles, data too - but also for me. One little toggle and those apps and the profile are disabled entirely until I care again tomorrow.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This is data analysis, not development. Yes you can just exclude the problem month, average the previous and next months, and her real data starts to contribute again. And yes you can do that regardless of who is writing code. Or even that the code was written by your company and not some other company you bought or seized data from.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume we didn't just pick up the newspaper in the shop, flick to the funnies, shake our heads at what Andy Cap was upto today, and then leg it before Mrs Murphy tried to get us to pay

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Luckily the truth is pretty far in the middle.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah cool Malcolm, it's been 30 years, you don't need to give this speech every time uses it as shorthand for "in the context of our continued survival on it".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, sure, but this assumes that the killing is completely indiscriminate.

It is, but it's important that you're clear on that

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Right, but what can they do, short of banning small bottles of water?

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