@comptona@hachyderm.io
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I've always characterized this as "I've learned through painful experience all of the ways it _doesn't_ work"
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Adam Compton retweeted
oh so they don't like using zoom either
Zoom tells employees to return to office for work
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Employees have been asked to return for 2 days a week
nypost.com/2023/08/05/zoo…
Adam Compton retweeted
people keep saying "went outside"
and not adding the other parts
we were by and large allowed to congregate outside and there were free or mostly free places we could hang out. there were arcades and 2nd run movies. 3 teens in an area didn't automatically summon the police
Adam Compton retweeted
What SRE is for:
Every day you roll d6 as to whether your site suffers a major outage
1: guaranteed outage no matter what
6: 👍
SRE mitigates the other no.s. You can spend infinite 💵 on SRE and still roll 1, or spend $0 and roll 6 day after day, but you can't be lucky forever
Adam Compton retweeted
Have you noticed that you’re way more angry at your phone and computer these days? The internet is in absolute shambles, and it’s a recent change. All the free money dried up. Now the tech companies are sacrificing and sabotaging your experience to make up for it
Public service announcement: In Gmail, ` and ~ switch between inbox sections. I just stumbled on this and I figured I'd share.
My new hobby is blocking every single ad on Twitter. I presume there's a finite number of accounts promoting tweets, and I'm curious to see what happens if I get them all.
I got tired of losing my terminal windows and scrollback on #linux after crashes and reboots, so I figured out a fix: comptona.medium.com/how-to-r…
Adam Compton retweeted
@kelseyhightower "Automation should be the serialization of understanding" has got to be my favorite technology quote of 2023.
There's a scam where you send stock picks, half up and half down. Then send the half where you were right another pick, and on and on. By the end you've been right so often the mark thinks you're magic. I think about this, but for lucky breaks and billionaires, _all the time_.
I've put together a package that ties in Serge (github.com/nsarrazin/serge) with OpenAI's Whisper and a text-to-speech package to create a fully-offline, self-hosted voice-controlled agent: github.com/handyman5/mcp
Adam Compton retweeted
You guys... I did it. I finally purchased WinRAR. For real. A mere 4096 days after the trial period. I've been using this software for years, and it just works. I complain about software that doesn't all the time, so why not support software that does? Thank you @WinRAR_RARLAB
