Here they started doing such phishing tests a while ago and our IT department had significantly worse stats than other departments, in terms of how often we would click on the link in the phishing mail.

And yeah, the conclusion was that we were just being asshats that decided to poke around in the obvious phishing mails for the fun of it. Rather than getting extra security training, management told us to just stop dicking around, so that our stats look better.

What I find most frustrating about this kind of incident is this:

There is fucking nothing that would prevent humanity from actually building a ‘smart’ bed. Something that gives you data and allows you to control heating etc. based on this data, without these features being a liability.
This would’ve been possible decades ago and technological advancements have made building reliable software easier ever since.

But unregulated capitalism means that instead of using this to actually build reliable software, it’s rather used to cut costs. You still get the same unreliable mess.
And the worst part is that this isn’t even in the interest of capitalism either. Sending shivers down the spine of any experts that hear about your smart device means that excitement among potential customers won’t be excessive either.

Damn, I’ve had technological disagreements with Mr. DeVault in the past. Obviously, I did not assume those to mean I’d disagree with him on everything, but it still feels surreal to read an entire post where I’m fully on board with everything he writes (and appreciate all the info I did not know).

Cool to see that he’s fighting the good fight.

The cats might have pushed the door shut?

Damn, I hadn’t seen the community name before reading the title and thought Microsoft was fixing up their filesystem. Of course, there’s more development happening on the non-Microsoft side.

They used to be fairly reliable. Then privatization happened…

I just ate wholemeal rice and still would not have guessed rice. 🥴

I was overplaying it for comedic effect. 🙃

My mum makes fruit salad with oranges, apples, bananas and then adds in apple juice to make it blend well.

To be honest, I’ve noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it’s like in nature.

Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:

Excuse me, it’s smoothies that are an abomination, if anything.

You’ve got beautiful fruit where each bite tastes and feels different, which have long fibers with structural integrity to prevent your stomach from ingesting the sugar all at once, and then you decide:
Nah, I’d rather have fruit soup, where the whole thing just has a singular monotonous taste. And where there’s nothing to chew. Just sign me up for the retirement home now.

I believe, it’s a US thing. This is a quote from the official Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA):

Other Vegetables: All other fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables, cooked or raw: for example, asparagus, avocado, bamboo shoots, beets, bitter melon, Brussels sprouts, cabbage (green, red, napa, savoy), cactus pads (nopales), cauliflower, celery, chayote (mirliton), cucumber, eggplant, green beans, kohlrabi, luffa, mushrooms, okra, onions, radish, rutabaga, seaweed, snow peas, summer squash, tomatillos, and turnips.

Source: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans-2020-2025.pdf (page 28)

I’ve read elsewhere that the reason for the DGA to conflate them, is because mushrooms have comparable nutrients to vegetables. So, from a dietary and regulatory viewpoint, it makes some amount of sense. But yeah, I feel like you could have just had a category “vegetables & mushrooms”.

I choose to believe that it’s the human that jumps on the counter in this story.

Ah, so you’ve scripted a whole bunch of stuff with YUM. Then you automatically have the downside that switching over could incur hours of work.

As much as the software developer in me wants to encourage you to use DNF (or an abstraction like pkcon) for newer scripts, in case they want to remove YUM one day, I get not wanting to deal with two separate tools.

In my head, switching over was trivial, i.e. just typing D, N, F instead of Y, U, M, because that was my experience when I switched over way back when I was still a freshly hatched penguin.

I’ve always liked Zypper (and if I remember correctly, DNF was also fine), purely because it feels sane in everything it does.

We love to make a religion out of them, but a package manager is ultimately just a secondary tool. It installs other tools, which are what you’re actually interested in using.
So, I shouldn’t need to learn a scramble of letters to achieve that. I shouldn’t need to think about refreshing the repository listing. The less I need to worry about instructing the package manager, the better.

There’s a section at the end where they’re mentioned.

No idea, if it has a TUI, but I feel like improved performance should be good enough of a reason to switch, if there are no downsides…

You not using any libraries? We have like 1100 animals in our software at work (that we know of).

There’s !bertstrips@moist.catsweat.com .

Yeah, I feel like people are mainly confused/annoyed, because splitscreen multiplayer existed before online multiplayer, so seeing games ship with online multiplayer but no splitscreen, that just feels backwards…

It was likely posted to a platform like TikTok, where all videos are in portrait. So, the video creator likely had clips in 16:9, but then chained them in the TikTok video editor and that put them into this 9:16 format…