aard

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[–] aard@kyu.de 13 points 2 years ago

I find it quite useful as warning that you'll now hear about the opinion of a moron which you can safely ignore.

[–] aard@kyu.de 6 points 2 years ago

Agile, their team delivered a Minimum Viable Product

I guess that's kind of what got me into this mess.

They have some shitty web application where you're supposed to log times your kids will be in daycare. I logged in, looked around - and told the wife she can chose to log times herself, or tell daycare to do it themselves. I'm paid to deal with broken shit in my main job, I'm not doing that for free in my spare time.

At that point I assumed the web app was some prototype their intern had thrown together for the sales pitch, and they were now desperately trying to get it functional - to my surprise I later learned that it was an older product, with quite a few customers already.

Few weeks later wife came back upset from kindergarten over an argument about missing times - which forced me to actually deal with that dungheap, and prompted me to have a closer look at other components, like the android app they're using on their phones as well. There's a lot of stupid beginners mistakes in all components - not necessarily exploitable, but I also didn't really check as in my opinion the tag thing would be sufficient to have this taken out of use.

[–] aard@kyu.de 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's amazing how much NFC stuff is still badly done - and how bad the response to discoveries is. I recently got a police report filed against me here in Finland for pointing out that guarding personal details of kids and parents on a phone used in daycare by an empty tag, just by the tags UID is probably a stupid idea.

[–] aard@kyu.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, manchmal braucht man so altes Zeug.

2009 war ich am Doku fuer egcs suchen - weil ein SDK das wir fuer ein Kundenprojekt gebraucht haben nur den (und wirklich nur den) unterstuetzt hat.

(Fuer die Juengeren hier - egcs war ein gcc-Fork in den 90ern, wurde '99 wieder mit gcc gemerged)

[–] aard@kyu.de 7 points 2 years ago

As somebody who also uses paper maps for hiking still: I find google maps got a lot worse over the years, and is pretty much unusable for just looking at maps, while osmand provides easily readable maps.

[–] aard@kyu.de 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It seems they recently fucked up something with i.redd.it handling - opening image links from old reddit always redirects to https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/ for a few days now.

[–] aard@kyu.de 12 points 2 years ago

We cancelled Netflix about a year ago for good - which made me setup stuff like Sonarr. Without Netflix being dicks I wouldn't have proper pirating infrastructure...

While I still pay for Disney+ we're also throwing everything we care about into sonarr - so if they do something stupid I'll just cancel and still have everything I want.

[–] aard@kyu.de 6 points 2 years ago

Also: if there's a boss fight I can't get through because I can't get the timing right just detect that, and make it easier for me.

I loved the Zelda games on the different game boy variants - but never finished one as there always was that one boss I couldn't get past. And that was when I still was young and had patience to try to put effort into mastering the movements. For more modern games I'm stuck with some boss on ittle dew - great game, but probably will never touch it again for more then the 2 minutes it takes me to realize where the last save is stuck. Just opened it yesterday, was surprised about the progress, and closed it halfway into dying in the fight.

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 2 years ago

They're supporting automod matching, so I guess something like this should remove all content from idiots stupid enough to use that thing:

points_balance: > 1
action: remove
[–] aard@kyu.de 4 points 2 years ago

And while that’s fine, it takes longer to understand and set up for simple installs.

It also allows for easier scripting, which makes things more reproducible.

Even for simple things I'm nowadays going through Ansible - because I know I'll have forgotten what exactly I did in a year, and that way I can just look at the Ansible files in git to remember.

[–] aard@kyu.de 39 points 2 years ago

Ich hab da so eine wilde Idee. Der Staat koennte sich um die Wasserversorgung kuemmern, und zur Finanzierung dessen Geld von den Leuten und Firmen die im Land wohnen einsammeln. Wird natuerlich einige Zeit dauern um die Infrastruktur aufzubauen um von so vielen Leuten Geld einzusammeln, aber ich glaube langfristig koennte das echt nuetzlich sein.

[–] aard@kyu.de 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Und wieso ist das eine Eilmeldung?

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