Brewchin @ Brewchin @lemmy.world

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Inevitable, really. And zero surprise it's coming out of China.

Reads more like an advertorial. Low on detail, high on "passkeys are the future", and plenty of typos.

Agreed.

I didn't mention that I also spend time after every meeting I host putting together a summary of what was discussed along with a bullet point list of deliverables, who agreed to work on them, and due dates and then send it to all attendees, invitees, and stakeholders.

It deals with the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme problem and "magnanimous work dodgers" - those who promise the world in meetings but then seemingly disappear off the planet.

It probably should be noted that many of the meetings I host are recurring, often weekly or fortnightly, so it's easy to find a rhythm (and identify the problem children).

Nice! This is MangoHud levels of useful.

The last time I checked Steam's performance overlay stuff it was... minimal.

When I started my career I quickly became convinced that meetings are the opposite of work. Now a large part of my career is hosting meetings. 😬

My biggest piece of advice to junior staff is: if you're not provided an agenda prior to a meeting, your attendance is not required. RSVP with Yes if it sounds interesting/beneficial and you have the time, otherwise Nope (or Tentative) your way out of it.

The obvious caveat is if that meeting is called by someone with role power over you. In which case: as they clearly don't respect your time, it's on you to (politely) ask them to provide an agenda. It may also indirectly train them to be less shit.

Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it's traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).

But I'm team ISO-8601 when there's a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can't be used.

"Muh freedums profit" outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.

As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.

It begins. More of this from media and other organisations, please!

If you're after text, there are a number of options. If you're after group voice, there are a number of options. You could mix and match both, but "where everyone else is" will also likely be a factor in that kind of decision.

If you want both together, then there's probably just Element (Matrix + voice)? Not sure of other options that aren't centralised, where you're the product, or otherwise at obvious risk of enshittifying. (And Element has the smell of the latter to me, but that's another topic).

I've prepared for Discord's inevitable "final straw" moment by setting up a Matrix room and maintaining a self-hosted Mumble server in Docker for my gaming buddies. It's worked when Discord has been down, so I know it works. Yet to convince them to test Element...

Classic "I've made a HUGE mistake" moment from yet another "thought leader" suffering from AI/layoff FOMO. 🙄

GOG does preservation. That and Archive.org are the ones I use.

One way could be to grep your history, then compare the matches against a distro source?

It'll be tedious if it's lots, but might be a solution if you don't have a backup.

That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

But I've not used either in many years, and I've never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it's possible Pocket went down that route, too.

Both. "I am an idiot." "You should know better."

Pocket won't be missed. Self-hosted alternatives like Wallabag are better and private, so switched to it many years ago. Integration (and enabled by default, requiring about:config to disable) ensured I'd never use it out of principle.

Fakespot (the website) was genuinely useful to help ID scams on Amzn Marketplace, though I never used the extension. But I think that enshittified in recent years, so (in the style of Stephen King's Misery) it's probably for the best.

Related, the Keepa extension is useful as a price rigging detector, but I expect that will "number must go up!" soon enough, too...

A sword and a dildo. Fightin' or f...un. Your call.

Your initial response got peoples' backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn't provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

Many office application users wouldn't consider vim as an "office application", as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don't really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.

IIRC, Voyager doesn't provide any notification capability. (At least not the version I use from Droid-ify).

It's never bothered me, as the only things I want notifications for are extremely limited. But I get how others might want the option.

It's likely because regular Android notifications all go via Google services. I'm not sure why the dev doesn't add the ability to use Ntfy.sh or any of the other non-Google options, though.

There's likely to be an existing feature request for it, though.

Indeed. I tend to think of humanism as atheism with a moral framework.

Suspect OP has a different question they're really trying to ask.

Like the @a.gup.pe ones? They are kind of autoboost bots, but they do have communities behind them and it's annoying when people treat them like hashtags.

But I'd not use the term bots. They're more like old-fashioned email reflectors: a message goes in, and it then gets sent to everyone on the list.