Skip Navigation

Posts
3
Comments
176
Joined
1 yr. ago

  • There is a moral imperative to disregard the law when the law does not deliver justice.

  • Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.

    And the Kickstarter link is posted with a referral code.

  • Just wanted to point out how awesome Tom Lehrer (wikipedia) is as a musician/satirist/teacher as well as just a decent human -- he relinquished all copyright ownership over his music catalog and currently* has his songs, sheet music and lyrics available for free download at https://tomlehrersongs.com/.

    Here's the link to Wernher Von Braun where the parent lyrics come from.

    *At the bottom of the homepage is the note:

    NOTICE:
    THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG.

  • Cinnamon uses Nemo.

  • It might not be a feature you're interested in re: your music (or photo) collection, but one thing I missed when switching from Windows was the folder previews showing album cover art. I've been using Cover Thumbnailer (on Linux Mint 21.3) and it's been working great.

  • Why would security be an upcoming feature? Surely if privacy is actually an important aspect of your software it would be incorporated from the start -- especially when the software is entirely focused on live real-world location tracking of your loved ones!?

  • The two ways I'm assuming Billy's last name could be pronounced and working with sewage seem to be some nominative determinism. Love the owl name too (and its source movie).

  • Billy likes to drink soda.
    Miss Lippy's car is green.

  • Tombstone is more expensive than Jack's but it's definitely a huge step up in quality. When I'm just focused on maximizing my budget Jack's is the lowest I'll tolerate. But if the goal is taste and quantity of toppings, Tombstone is certainly the better option.

  • It's not like specific items always being unavailable, it's just different random things being OOS necessitating a second grocery stop. It happens everywhere, but at least post Covid, and in my region, it happens consistently with Target.
    e.g.:

    • Campbell's cream of mushroom soup
    • Kraft mac & cheese
    • (any) Butter sticks
    • Jack's frozen pizza
  • There's multiple Targets much closer to me than the nearest Walmart but I can't recall a single time I've gone to one and they've had all the items in stock I was looking for. Simple staple items that shouldn't have scarcity problems that just aren't being adequately ordered or stocked on shelves.

    Now that I've finally vented about this problem I'm now also imagining the monkey paw curling and all the customer service complaint comments will just be replaced with LLM generated pro-WM propaganda :(

  • The Amazon situation was the first I'd heard about this problem so I assumed it was the same reason it happens on WM (and elsewhere). And while I certainly don't expect Walmart to actually read reviews, I would think they would be concerned about potentially losing sales due to projecting a bad image and try to at least (poorly/cheaply) implement a system to address it.

    Assuming it's not like an email based feedback system but something with an asynchronous connection, it can't be too hard to look for a handful of keywords (dent, missing, broken, spilled, delivery ...) then throw up a Clippy-style message - "It looks like you're talking about a problem with your order, would you like customer service to assist?" and then route the message/user in that direction.

    I know I'm expecting a lot from our primitive technology in 2025 but I refuse to stop dreaming, dammit!

  • I vaguely recall Monty Python conducting some studies on confusing cats too. Thanks for your contributions to the ongoing research!

  • To find the MD5 of a file in mac or Linux you just type md5 <filename> in the terminal

    Not sure if it's different on Mac or other distros, but for me on Linux Mint it's actually md5sum <filename>. Surprisingly, that wasn't a listed suggestion when trying md5 --help - just offers 'mdp, mda, cd5, mdu' to install with apt.

  • rereading it or someone else casting an eye over it

    Preposterous!

  • That author just couldn't decide if it was called Christmas Evil or Evil Christmas.

  • Principiis obsta et respice finem — 'Resist the beginnings' and 'Consider the end.'

  • It's an important thing to be mindful of when handling a deadly device and far too easy to become complacent if you don't strive for 100% compliance.

    It's not wise to wipe your nose while holding a loaded gun with your finger on the trigger.