I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.

“We have changed the terms. Pray that we don’t change them further.”

It really depends on the ripper. I’d say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.

It’s that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.

two former VW engineers

Yeah, unless they are Chief Engineers, these two are just people who got caught in the churn.

Wake me up when the President of US Operations gets sentenced to prison. Hell, I’ll even be okay with club Fed.

I feel like that’s just urls but with extra steps!

According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.”

So I’m guessing that VLC will have a feature flag to enable or disable this setting. Then you play Disney movies that you pirated on loop. Let the lawyers sort it out.

Linux doesn’t protect you from other people you’re having conversations with.

I skimmed through their paper and I can’t seem to find the instructions to download the dataset.

I found this particularly cute:

This study introduces the Discord Unveiled Dataset, a comprehensive and ethically curated resource encompassing over 3,000 public servers and 2 billion messages exchanged on Discord.

Clickwall Removed

I go for a good enough solution. I know better solutions exist but I’m limited by time and empathy.

They released their code as MIT which is far more permissive than I was expecting. I was expecting some sort of proprietary license.

But they need to keep doing stuff like this. Devcontainers for VS Code is still proprietary and keeps me from running codium.

Under the current regime it will be used to suppress discussion of all things that don’t align with the Ministry of Truth

Ftfy

Super true.

I had this one user who kept using an old report. It used a terribly provisioned db account and had to be changed.

We created a v2 that was at feature parity to v1 and told users to move off of v1. Slowly but surely it happened.

Except one user.

We put up nag screens. Delays on data return, everything we could go “carrot” them to the new version but they stuck with it.

Eventually I called the guy and just asked him, “Why are you still using the old version?”

His answer, “no one ever told me about the new version.”

I asked him if he got our email. He said no. I forwarded it to him.

“Oh.”

I asked him didn’t you read the nag screens? He said no.

I asked him, “The page doesn’t allow you to move on until you wait 90 seconds. Why didn’t you read it?”

“I didn’t think it was important.”

I learned an important lesson that day: never wait for all users to move. Once you have enough, start doing scream tests.

His wife forced him to install security cameras in every room of his apartment and banned him from going anywhere after work. She knew his schedule and expected him home immediately after work ended.

This is so toxic. Not saying cheaters get what they deserve but if you can’t trust your husband, I think you have bigger problems than infidelity.