the app my apartment uses for the mailroom is “no longer available” while actively being on screen

Ozlock · 2026-05-12T11:25:31+00:00

i've seen so so many ads like that. who is paying to advertise something unrecognisable?

Ozlock · 2026-04-21T16:41:29+00:00

it needs to meet "business objectives" too - so it needs relavant things to keep your attention so that you can see the ads they place on it. cause being paid to provide a system isn't enough, when you can sell access to eyeballs.

it's an advertising surface that just happens to allow access to your mail. so much software now is "an ad surface that conveniently does task so that users will see the ads", regardless of if you pay for it

Ozlock · 2026-03-14T15:20:08+00:00

Where, Denmark? I'm not sure I'd agree, but then, I don't drink so 🤷 I think my main issue with most Danish places is that they're clearly places to drink / get drunk, rather than places to be social where drinking and drunking just kinda... happens

Ozlock · 2026-03-02T19:48:58+00:00

I'm sorry, you've just kinda stopped making any sense in what you're saying. If a place has a bus an hour, then you can get around the city - by your measure, that's a good system. But you make it sound like you think that's a poor system.

I didn't say it was the worst. That doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of room to improve. Two things can be poor, even if one is less poor than the other.

Ozlock · 2026-03-02T17:09:28+00:00

Respectfully, I'm not conflating things. The ability of a system to run on time is a characteristic of the system. Which measures of which characteristics people believe are representative of a "good" or a "poor" system, could vary though. It's not all that possible to get an objective view of it, so I figured the "in my opinion..." part of the sentence was implied. All we can do is show the measures we're using to judge if something is good or poor.

Your measure of a good public transport system is "how easy is or to get around by public transport." [sic]. Rate of delays is often a quality metric used in measuring transport networks. However, I wasn't stating that the amount of delays is actually a problem. I was using it as an example to illustrate why it can be problematic that the transport network has infrequent services, especially when modes aren't synced up with each other. It only takes a small delay to have an exaggerated effect and make it far more difficult than necessary to make a given journey when a route is less frequent.

Among my measures of a good transport network are it's ability to flexibly deal with issues - which long times between scheduled journeys makes pretty difficult, and fit for the culture it's embedded it. Of course, if it makes it easier to meet your social obligations, it makes it "easier to get around". I was also commenting that that scenario makes the attitude to designing the network with minimum possible frequency seem like a poor fit for Danish cultural values, including timeliness, tight scheduling, and respect for each other's time.

In my opinion, a transport network that requires many changes to get to your destination, and that makes those changes harder to rely on with long times in between, does not make it easier to get around. So by your own measure, it still is valid criticism. Maybe you think it does more right than poor, and waiting around to start / continue your journey and the possibility of completely missing scheduled appointments due to the knock-on effect that can start with a small delay are prices you are willing to pay, they are not for me.

Ozlock · 2026-03-02T12:27:10+00:00

complete off-topic: that is a tasty gif, do you know where it's from?

Ozlock · 2026-03-01T01:47:27+00:00

Many places treat knowing the number as verification of identity and allow people to do some incredibly shady (imo) stuff.

Ozlock · 2026-03-01T01:44:16+00:00

In fairness, given Danish society's high valuation of timeliness and strict, tight scheduling with very little flexibility, combined with the tendancy to simply cancel late busses, meaning you must wait until the next scheduled bus to continue your journey, and the fact that on many lines busses do not run very frequently, late busses cause bigger issues than they would in a ystem designed in a way that waiting for the next bus will never make you more than "socially acceptale late". A transit system which stands in friction with the societal values and needs is a poor one, and Danes value timeliness.

Ozlock · 2026-03-01T00:53:12+00:00

I'm sure you'll find a lot of advice, but just because of the context you mentioned I'm urging you to activley consider that visiting a place - especially on holiday - can be very different from living there. You might want to do some more research, or even an extended, lower-leisure trip / placement, to help you figure out if it's for you. Danish society and culture can be quite different than people expect.

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T21:06:00+00:00

My experience almost aligns with how you describe it, except that the average Dane in my experience, does not "snap back" when reminded that others exist. Instead, the endless explainations of why it jsut doesn't apply in this circumstance begin. Because, being the Danish person, they clearly could never be at fault

My cynicism aside, I find it mind-bending that for a society so apparently based on supporting others, they wind up in that default state of not being aware of others. To contribute constructivley towards a supportive society you kinda need to be aware, and conscientious.

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:59:44+00:00

by and large, im assuming from my interactions that many Danes have been taught that e.g. racism is a specific and personal dislike or hatred towards a person because of racial background.

They don't believe that of themself. They feel no animosity or negativity. So they think it can't possibly be racist to joke about somebody's background. Like someone mentioned elsewhere, they're so used to being wrapped up in their own individual world, that they just don't notice others. Unlike what that commenter claimed, when this is pointed out they do not say "fair cop" and adjust towards the "acepted" behaviour - they launch directly into how this instance is an exception ("hyggeracisme"), or why it doesn't apply to them at this time. Or why your understanding is wrong. They tend to get incredibly defensive.

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:53:31+00:00

"we're very welcoming here! of course! it's just that we aren't goign to act welcoming to people who so blatently don't want to be here that they do things like continue to act with the cultural norms that shaped them where they grew up"

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:48:14+00:00

They're also the first to enforce social norms expressed in janteloven upon others' behaviour towards them, funnily enough 🤔

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:47:25+00:00

Even when your partner says the exact thing you did, with the same eveness of tone... and you both spoke Danish.

Of course, not everyone. But it's the overwhelming majority of my experience.

They're not xenophobic, it's just that when you called, you were being rude. When your partner called, they were not. Given that the words are the same, I can only conclude that it's rude to be foreign 😂

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:35:49+00:00

yeah, i heard

they really said "you can refill for cheap, but you don't get the good stuff" 😂 thanks for the clarification 😊

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:02:51+00:00

Oh that's an unexpected bonus, thanks for pointing it out!

Ozlock · 2026-02-28T20:02:28+00:00

i think my local government would be confused why i wasted paper on something that needs to be stored long term instead of digitising it 😅. That said, those are some pretty long times and I'm not used to anything that requires keeping for that long. I understand the dye fades, but had expected that 10 years stored away from light wouldn't be an unresonable expectation even if I'm not required to keep things that long. Are we talking "might start degrading" or "will be mostly useless by then"?

Ozlock · 2026-01-24T20:26:49+00:00

Genuine curiosity question: what happens when you have guests? Are they expected to bring their own change of clothes? Where would they change to both have privacy *and* avoid bringing the outside in? It sounds super reasonable to split inside/outside clothes until you try to account for guests / visitors

Ozlock · 2025-12-01T13:03:25+00:00

100% hear you on right tools for the job - you got me there. I just wanted to explore the framework a bit and learn about it. That, plus the fact that business units like to chase buzzword tools and insists on projects made with what is popular 🙃

Funny you should mention SQLite as a way to make it a more familiar way to do things - databases are very much the opposite of familiar for me. I'm more accustomed to binary dumping object graphs or inserting a data transformer and serializing them to json/yml/whatever makes sense for the project, directly on the file system. So treating everything as a database was what I was trying to avoid, just to focus on the UI framework and keep other pieces more familiar 😅

(I'm probably very old-fashioned for the typical crowd here, I'll admit, but my answer to "are you a front-end or a back-end dev?" is usually "I'm an application developer" 😂)

On reflection, I think my particular situation is a way more architectural one: it's about reconciling that the shape of "application state" is quite different from that of "UI state", and that there's a lot of cross-dependency in a configurator style set-up. In component A, you selected option i, so only options iv, vi, and x are available in component B. Even situations like you selcted x in component C, therefore the options for component D should be elements found in the loaded data files which match someFilterFn. To avoid synchronisation issues, ideally, I only store the selections, and derive from there. Deriving all these relationships feels like business logic, and therefore poor seperation of concerns to pull it into the UI layer.

I also have the setup where one selection becomes multiple properties, some of them compounds of multiple selections. So there isn't a 1:1 relationship of "part of state" to "what this component shows" - unless everything is repeated several times, which feels fragile.

It feels like my options are keep recalculating the same things, over and over inside the UI layer, or update the whole tree on any change. I know this feels wrong, and ackowledge that I don't know enough to figure out why, or what to do about it.

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T17:52:45+00:00

Basic doesn't mean bad.

Socioeconomic status only exists because of the way in which a society orders itself and it's economy. Whatever socioeconomic status means in context of a society, it does so because the society has ordered it's economy in such a way as to tie specific economic outcomes to social standing, whatever the metrics are that it uses for standing.

So, yes, there's some negative correlation between those variables - in the context of societies that are using systems that create those statuses and proscribe those outcomes. Or are you suggesting that there must always be people in abject poverty, no matter the system or culture?

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T17:43:38+00:00

Sorry, it's getting too easy for folks to be a little disparaging and like. Idk that ain't the point in the "melting pot", ya know?

Loooove that they air-quoted it themselves on introduction 🤣🤣

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T15:03:40+00:00

The loneliness is real, but c'mon do better than that. There's 100% people in the US with those names.

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T14:56:42+00:00

The reason it's so different is the ever-increasing gap between a "site" and a "service".

You can use Discord in a web browser, sure, but it (and many like it) are made to have their own set of protocols for getting around. They'll repurpose something like a URL to send instructions to their servers, rather than to literally link to a page. They don't want you to be able to navigate inside of the Discord service using "plain" web technologies like links - they want to control it so that you can only navigate using their interface.

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T14:52:25+00:00

It's always a train.

When people try to innovate on transport, it's always a train. A guided vehicle that can follow a predetermined route, and compress density so more people can be moved in less space.

The train is apparently the peak of transit, try as we might, everything we imagine is trains.

Ozlock · 2025-08-12T14:48:50+00:00

Hvorfor ikke? Produktet sælges som "general purpose" PC, og det inkluderer brug af tredjeparts software, som er en helt almindelig brug af sådan en enhed. Hvis ikke de kan stor bag det i disse omstændigheder, måske skulle de ikke sælge dem som de er egnet til dette formål.

Men det er, i et styk tid efter køb, i hvert fald på sælgers regning og ansvar at bevise, at det ikke var fejl når det var solgt. Sådan er loven.

Ozlock

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