OneCardboardBox @ OneCardboardBox @lemmy.sdf.org

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Policy is 7 day rotation, 24h a day. Must be available to respond within 30m.

1. ~$800 US a week. More if there are holidays. Get paid even if no incidents occur.
2. I get phone and Internet reimbursement that normal devs don't get.
3. There's supposed to be a policy where if I get paged between 10pm and 6am, I don't have to show up to work for 11h. It's not strictly followed in my team, but I always try and get my value from it.
4. 7 others, so I'm on-call for 1 week every 2 months.
5. Job is US based, but company is EU owned.

I'm an SRE though, so our on-call is different from on-call for our product devs.

Only in the one episode where they serve together on a Klingon ship during the dominion war: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sons_and_Daughters_(episode)

I got to know the old guy who ran the electronics section at a local thrift store. Eventually, he took me to the back room where he inspected all the equipment before putting it on sale.

On a workbench, there was a complete Apple II+ with peripherals, software, manuals, and expansion boards. $250 and it was mine.

Worf is really just a terrible father. Given how conflicted he is about his own upbringing on Earth, it's pretty rich that he sends Alexander to live with his adoptive parents in Russia.

Then in that DS9 episode where Worf and Alex are on ship together, Worf goes full warrior mode and pretends like he never had to learn his Klingon identity.

I love Worf as a character, but I'm happy he wasn't my dad.

This article isn't clear on one question: Are users still able to add new trusted authorities? I have a custom CA installed so as to be able to access self-hosted https services inside my home network. Given that Android now prevents you from accessing sites with an untrusted/self-signed cert, I need this feature.

The robot drinks in Vegas are novelty. As overpriced as casino drinks generally are, the ones at robot stations are even more expensive.

I got a disgustingly over-boozed long island iced tea from one such place. I assume they add more liquor to make it feel worth the extra price. It's not.

I wonder if it could be caused by other celestial bodies captured in the black hole's orbit. Some new mass approaches the accretion disk and the gravitational pull slingshots some of the disk's matter out.

I use friends and family as sample data for unit/integration tests.

At a previous job, I tested an automated email system by scheduling fake events for various US presidents. I've long left that position, but I never cleaned up the test data. Every month I still get a reminder for Nixon's upcoming reservation at the Watergate Hotel.

If you find a Wayland compositor that's based on wl-roots, you basically get that ability for swapping out the window manager.

The wl-roots project aims to be a common library that any project can pull in without having to implement the required Wayland protocols themselves.

I don't know about one word, but generally I've heard "quack medical device" used to describe such things.

His foreign policy? Send him to a state dinner with a geopolitical adversary, and the dude will eat enough to bankrupt their military.

Bennett Tomlin investigated the emerald mine claims. It's really interesting: https://youtu.be/4oNoy7Ay-yU?si=Y4-2_nCk73sWHmhW

Not only did Musk's father own part of an emerald mine, but he was given that part of ownership after allowing shady people to use the family plane to transport things without asking any difficult questions.

How is standardizing privacy law incompatible with cool shit?

How about we pass a goddamn federal-level privacy law in this country?

Oh... I see...

You say it's too hard to reconcile privacy laws between 50 states? Hmm, yes. Sounds impossible for a global superpower. Let's just get back to banning things. Cool!

I went to a dronemetal concert once. It was two hours of the loudest thing I ever experienced, like a column of noise washing over and through my body, vibrating my inner organs. One of the top things I ever experienced. If that's what a soundbath is, I'd absolutely do it first thing in the morning.

I've been looking into getting a cheapo laptop to take outside, and Chromebooks caught my interest. However, literally everyone I spoke to about this idea recommended against it. After researching all the nuances to putting baremetal Linux on a $40 Chromebook (BIOS screws, firmware patches, etc), all so I could have 2GiB RAM and 16GiB of unreplaceable storage, I asked myself what the point even was. I might as well buy a(nother) Thinkpad T40 at that point.

Glad I didn't go with the Chromebook. Got a 2018 HP secondhand from a local college. For a little extra money, I have something with superior construction, specs, and upgrade potential.

I should be able to open one account and access everything.

This seems like a misunderstanding of how Fediverse works. It's about voluntary association between instance owners. If you don't like the decisions made by your instance owner, then the point of Fediverse is that you can either find an instance that thinks like you do, or make your own. It's not about forcing owners to associate with other instances they dislike, even if you disagree with the reasoning.

There's a bit of downside in that Lemmy doesn't let you migrate accounts at this time, but it's basically brand-new open source software. Whether you meant to or not, you signed up to be a user for an incomplete experience.

They're not even launching in the USA because the SEC might kick their shit in. This is basically an overcomplicated scheme to harvest biometric data from impoverished foreigners. There's already been fraudulent signups from people trying to exploit the world's poor. It's dumb AF.

Firefox for Android lets you install ublock origin as an extension. I absolutely refuse to use any other mobile browser.

Never owned one, but I have a hard time believing that $40 pocket projectors are any good. LED projectors at that price range are going to be pretty dim, so you'll absolutely need a dark room and to buy a proper projection screen if you want to see what's going on. I think most of those are also 720p, maybe 1080p. The speakers on such a projector are going to be awful, tinny garbage.

For the price of $40 1080p projector, $50 screen, and $60 Bluetooth sound bar, you could get a 43" 4k tv that's on sale somewhere.