@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 I saw this too and immediately thought
I have to stop using Terraform
🤣
@bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱
Well, looks like I’ll be using IBM software after all … 🤣 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)
@prologic@twtxt.net ha! If you lived in the lightning capital of the US you would do it too! 😅
@mckinley@twtxt.net I’m not sure to be honest I think it’s just a straight up duplicate post. This actually does happen, it’s not a bug, it’s a “human problem”, but yeah it’s annoying, so it’s making me want to figure out a way of keeping some kind of similarity db to strip duplicates out like this.
@prologic@twtxt.net Are they changing unique IDs? I hate when people do that. If I ever do that with any of my feeds, feel free to mock me relentlessly.
Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq
Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
No, it’s not IBM. 😅 I won’t say what it is. 🥴 I don’t think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause that’s what I grew up with), but really no idea what they’re up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. That’s a bit scary.
Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? 🤔 We lost a modem once, but that was it.
Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!
One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html
😅
After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.
Thank you very much, everyone!
@bender@twtxt.net It is very proprietary, yes. 😂😭
@movq@www.uninformativ.de ay ay ay ay ay! Don’t envy a bit on that one. I assume the software you are forced to use is proprietary, and very specific?
@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon!
(And thanks for not being one of those “it’s just a cold” guys.)
One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.
Even Word 97 could do shit like that …
@bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net thanks mate! I am trying to isolate, wearing masks at home, and washing hands constantly, to see if kid can be spared.
@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞
@bender@twtxt.net Oh dear. 😭
I am supposed to come to office today, but I have caught the same cold bug wife has had for the last three days, so I am staying remote to spare cube-mates. Nose stuck, dripping, and a general slight sense of malaise is what I am feeling right now.