Ernest @ ernest314 @lemm.ee

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from context, it's probably the "single dude in nebraska holding up the entire internet" one

e: holy shit I got the state right

I think people say this because there was one specific 6TB model that does really poorly in BackBlaze reports, combined with a generally poor understanding of statistics ("I bought a Seagate and it failed but I've never had a WD fail").

I will also point out that BackBlaze themselves consistently say that Seagate and WD are pretty much the same (apart from the one model), in those exact same reports

it makes me incredibly sad that these people are firing the smartest, most brilliant minds in this country, destroying their life's work, with no apparent awareness of just how bad they're fucking things up.

This bill doesn't, but the senate version did iirc. Still, it's obviously a step in the right direction.

I understand the reasoning, but I really wish Firefox had configurable keyboard shortcuts.

heck, everything should have configurable shortcuts. It's an accessibility feature with an obvious curb cut effect.

I love that they have scoped labels while GitHub still doesn't

the alternative is that they don't sell replacement parts at all

maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't the corresponding alternative in this case "you can use parts from any manufacturer you want"?

... oh damn, I didn't catch that at all. First time hearing about them. (looks like the all caps thing is canonical too)

I guess they're completely unaffiliated with LibreOffice? looks like their product is intended to feel as close to Microsoft as possible

nah. it may not be a huge deal (esp. if you're male) and "screaming" might be exaggerating it, but "keep personal politics out of code" is classic "I consider your existence political".

I'm happy to see if the guy's politics has changed in the years since this happened, and I don't know if their involvement in the project is worthy of a boycott, but those are personal choices (and the relevant comment was even helpfully linked).

OpenOffice is unmaintained, unfortunately (see the LibreOffice page explaining this); LibreOffice considers officially hosting a cloud service out of their scope but Collabora does provide hosting (and you can self-host, of course). Their "Development Edition" is the free version that doesn't come with an SLA.

edit: I can't read

this was my introduction to "10x" engineers: https://youtu.be/kKAue9DiHc0

and if they punish you before the judge says you don't deserve punishment, oh well!

the horrifying thing is on multiple occasions, they've (we've? it's our government) attempted to use this logic to execute people. Some of which we know for sure are innocent.

last year was my first time; looking forward to doing it every year now

because in the long medium term sooner than I imagine, those things are going to happen anyway. Presenting it as a choice between "saving (some) fed employees" vs "fucking them over" is disingenuous. The actual choice is between "ceding power and the news narrative" vs not. People are upset that the Dems keep doing this, despite the long history of "working across the aisle" not working.

To address your specific points: just because there are things the Republicans want, doesn't mean they're "good" for them (see: all? of their policies). In the case of federal employees, passing the "CR" isn't going to get them paid--the GOP doesn't care what the laws say (obviously). The Dems should be obstructing other ridiculous funding bills as well, because the only thing they can do is be in the news cycle for obstruction (and then using that time to sell progressive policies that most people agree with). That's the only leverage they have. This appeasement threw that away. The hive of scum and villainy is only going to continue their illegal cuts, and the correct response is to fight back, not to lend them more legitimacy. Dems have tried that for decades and this is what it's gotten us.

: it's not really a "continuing" resolution, as it has a bunch of Trumpian garbage in it that wasn't in the previous appropriations bill. They're just... calling it that, and Senate Dems have tacitly endorsed it as such.

or even a center strip that "staples" the two halves together with pegs running through holes in the two halves (probably sturdier than glue but also uglier)

If you're willing to change up the design aesthetic and have other materials lying around (e.g. dowels, rods, some kind of sheeting), you could also just print the "end caps" with slots for the main body.

This also has the advantage of being sturdier and maybe easier to print, but the design might be more involved.

speculating here, but the "auto-generated ones" are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It's more likely that these websites' operators don't have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they're the "proper" way to do embeds, lemmy can't just ignore them, either.