Notices by Georgimus Prime (georgeeyong@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft It makes sense to me that if student shouldn't use "AI" teachers shouldn't either, even for detection purposes.

@eff Popular culture especially TV and movies tend to minimize how invasive and Orwellian it is for police and any random "hacker" to access the feed and recording from any camera, most times without the knowledge of the camera owners or people captured.

@nixCraft Nope. High disk usage (and bandwidth to download the large files) along with involuntary "automatic" updates are some of the worst features of Windows, why copy them?
It might work well where unlimited internet, 16GB/1TB laptops and regular power supply are the default, but not so much anywhere else.
Same issue with docker and flatpak, and the problem scales if you have multiple devices. Appimage is not so bad as you can decide where to store the files, and share/sync them as well.

@nixCraft The memory and hardware access requirements tend to limit adoption for me. My typical (local) server is a 4GB RAM mini PC or thin client with only one (or zero) available SATA port and lots of USB ports.

Yes some smartphones are more powerful than this. Shoo.

@nixCraft Also, even if you remember it doesn't hurt (if there's time) to find out if things have changed. There might be an update or a better solution since you last needed to do it.

@nixCraft Your place gets swamped by chefs

@nixCraft it's looking for it's teal-coloured colleague to summarize the manual it didn't read

@nixCraft As a web developer, it rendered web pages very differently from the default Internet Exploder at the time, so it was there mostly for testing. Opera was my default, with a lot of others for different things. I actually ran w3m and lynx on Windows 2000(!).

@nixCraft it's what you say to engineer when they help you. Equivalent to saying "10q engineer".

@nixCraft 😨 There are people with only one computer???

@nixCraft "Scam Bank Man Fried"

@nixCraft "Firefox is too woke! I use Mozilla!!"

Callout to "I don't need Obamacare, end it! I get my health insurance from the affordable care act!!"

@nixCraft 4 and 8 cores 16GB RAM on the two main ones. I use barrier/synergy for keyboard and mouse sharing and syncthing/unison to keep ongoing work files in sync, so they generally work as one. I'm happy with it but I wouldn't mind a single powerful machine with lots of external screens.

@sardo @nixCraft 😅all links 500

@nixCraft Who else used to replace this, or the Windows 95/98 boot images?

@nixCraft 🥲It's still confusing. It could be the date in any format as well as "It's Our Anniversary", "Our Anniversary" in any variation including all caps, no caps, no spaces, etc

@nixCraft 😅 Some of the side projects started by my side projects have declared independence and started their own country.

Timing, necessity and availability of external resources can keep side projects in limbo for decades, with marginal progress now and then.

Speaking as a web developer without a personal website😱

@nixCraft I can't do without them (and byobu) at this point.

@nixCraft or it could be 2020 IV:

https://mastodon.social/@georgeeyong/111563329067464285

@nixCraft It has to be instrumental or music that I'm already familiar with.