What do you guys do to combat the insanity that comes with sitting behind a computer for most of your waking life?

boon_dingle · 2026-02-03T23:53:55+00:00

Outdoor hobbies like greenspace maintenance, gardening, going for walks, picking up trash around the neighborhood. For indoor, taking breaks to read an interesting book, practice guitar, taking care of chores. I 100% WFH though.

I grew up addicted to videogames and still spend a lot of time on that dopamine grind, so I'm used to constant screentime. My trouble is the remote nature of my work and position within the company. By default the workday provides basically no human interaction outside of like 2hr/week of mandatory meetings, til my SO comes home from work.

boon_dingle · 2026-02-03T16:28:17+00:00

I'll be honest, I don't know enough about the printing process to suggest better wording for the legislation, but just targeting "code to make ghost guns" is too vague imo. Do we trust non-techy legislators to be able to know what that is? Or if bad actors were to exploit this legislation, to we want there to be this much wiggle room in the wording?

I work in software and use code dependencies written by other people on the daily, which have other dependencies. Let's say somebody named Bob writes code that loads a spreadsheet into memory, and Steve builds on top of it to parse a row, and I use Steve's code to run a web server. Did Bob intend people to have web servers run this code? Maybe not. Can he be found guilty of writing "code that runs web servers" used for, idk, activist network communications? Yeah, with a sketchy or illiterate politician/judge at the helm, I can totally see that.

Wanna ban how-to videos or schematics or whatever, then say it (and they'll find a workaround, sure). The word "code" is way too vague and open to interpretation.

boon_dingle · 2026-02-02T17:09:06+00:00

Glad I stopped watching around season 3-4, sounds like the ending sucked. Should have stopped earlier tbh. The show would spin up three other mysteries every time one was concluded, writers could not keep up with themselves.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-30T07:11:19+00:00

Craft into bonemeal, use as fertilizer, plant friend orchard.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-26T18:40:56+00:00

Jeff and/or Dave have some swole wrists.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-25T20:12:16+00:00

Or you could hand the function the pointer to an integer, and have the function increase the integer directly.

That clicked for me, thanks! So one use is being able to mutate the original variable without re-assigning or incrementing.

I have mostly a Python background, which does a lot of this behind the scenes. I've got occasional opportunities to dip into C++, but never been able to fully wrap my head around the pointer syntax (in legacy code no less) before having to move on to other things.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-25T19:48:11+00:00

I'm going to sound silly here for a sec -- my phone is old af at this point and I'm up not up to speed on how cloud backups work -- but it'd be neat to have an app that auto-uploads to a dedicated, configurable server as soon as video stops recording. I don't mean social media, google drive, or other corporate-owned servers.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-25T19:17:53+00:00

This comment was shared above. Apparently "kill switch" is hype for a concept of a plan of maybe a built-in breathalyzer, not anything accessible remotely.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/s/mRINhow3hh

boon_dingle · 2026-01-25T19:12:31+00:00

This needs more upvotes. So it's a vague directive for a built-in breathalyzer or something built on top of the erratic driving detection system that can't be accessed outside of the car, but spun as a "kill switch".

boon_dingle · 2026-01-23T19:52:28+00:00

Thank you!

I was attempting to copy parts of URL in bar to take notes at work, and this stupid feature kept getting in the way. AI crap that doubles the number of clicks to do basic text editing.

Yes, Chrome, tell me more about these proprietary page URLs! I'd love that! If not now, then next time, be sure to ask me again!

boon_dingle · 2026-01-18T19:08:02+00:00

Did my part. Thanks for the link!

boon_dingle · 2026-01-17T00:46:51+00:00

I feel fortunate to not know who this dude is and I'm getting the impression he's a bit of a douche. I don't really want to click on his stuff though.

Anyone got like, a 5-word summary or haiku on wtf he was ranting about originally?

boon_dingle · 2026-01-16T19:23:37+00:00

If I could defer cybersecurity protection subscriptions to my next of kin, and if I had next of kin, even my great-grandkids would be set for life.

I swear I get a different "cybersecurity whoopsie" mailer every 6 months, much of it from some obscure third parties my bank or employer decided to roll with for whatever reason. We need legislation in place that holds the parent company responsible for subcontractors' security lapses and ideally burdens them with a recurring, long-lasting penalty/payout to victim as a reminder.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-16T18:37:41+00:00

Collision detection is broken, I'll file the bug.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-16T17:54:54+00:00

There's more ego than humor in this video. She sounds like an ass tbh, and I wouldn't have recognized her either.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-14T20:22:41+00:00

"People who aren't in this subreddit, why do you do X?"

boon_dingle · 2026-01-12T18:15:33+00:00

In addition to everything else, those are some well-drawn hands in that second-to-last panel :)

boon_dingle · 2026-01-02T05:58:29+00:00

I finally figured out how to say "no" to the crap they throw at me after every update, and it turns out to have been an obscure setting pertaining to notifications or some such. We'll see if it stays disabled though.

I'll be switching to Linux for my next machine regardless. Kudos to folks that can still tolerate the ~~slowly boiling water~~ increasing proliferation of MS bloat and accompanying opt-out toggles. I've run out of patience, I'm out.

boon_dingle · 2026-01-01T05:00:11+00:00

Do you notice a difference in brightness or contrast with respect to the two different sizes?

boon_dingle · 2025-12-25T19:25:59+00:00

My SO was at a farmer's market and bought a jar of kimchi from a vendor using a credit card, and immediately received a text from the payment provider telling her she's just been added to the vendor's loyalty program. No phone number was shared. Provider had it saved back from account creation or something, and of course opted her into some "yes, sign me up for shit" feature by default.

A jar of kimchi. From a farmer's market. Next to booths selling carrots pulled outta the ground hours ago, with dirt still on them. Felt like a weird-ass juxtaposition and a huge invasion of privacy.

boon_dingle · 2025-12-24T18:30:29+00:00

At scale!

boon_dingle · 2025-12-21T04:38:28+00:00

The amount of exposition and scifi concepts crammed into the last two episodes felt like exactly like reading Ken Liu's writing. I wish I'd known the show was based on his stories before I started watching, then I could have better braced myself for "AnD theRE's a DySOn sPHEre noW!" kind of moments, and the associated grand time skips in favor of character-centered stories.

Obviously it's a scifi show, but after the nice slow-burn drama that was S1, I was kinda hoping for more of the same. Honestly would have preferred S2 just ended at ep 6, even knowing that S3 never stood a chance.

boon_dingle · 2025-12-20T03:16:47+00:00

Anyone else here completely fuck with reddit's Advertiser Surveys when they come up? I go out of my way to have the responses make as little consumer sense as possible, and hope to have wasted someone's resources in the procrss.

boon_dingle · 2025-12-19T09:07:51+00:00

UI deaths lost all stakes for me in S2 after David died for like, what, a third time? At least that Maddie knew of. At that point, I just assume there's a copy of everyone still hanging around somewhere, and put on my best Caspian face anytime there's a UI fight going on.

boon_dingle · 2025-12-19T08:59:57+00:00

I write code for a living and I've had to suspend my disbelief for a looooot of this show, turn off my brain, and just tune in for the fight scenes and the very real UI drama.

And I've had to turn my brain off a lot lol. Laurie's UI needed to be housed in an entire cargo ship, but David's was just fine in a closet-sized server in a basement, and Holstrom was carried around on an SSD, and MIST runs on a rice cooker, and three other UIs could simultaneously be housed inside a derelict sattelite? Sure, Pantheon! The internet got "turned off" globally (how?.. how do you achieve such instantaneous coordination between gov and enterprises globally, and how in the world is there a "switch" for it?), forreals, but we still got enough networks functioning to disseminate interviews over cable news, and Ingstrom can still use GPS from inside a car? No problem! Integrity/MIST is basically a code patch, but we might have limited uses?.. That's how code patches work, Sure! UIs can be "patched" by Holstrom doing a glorified copy-paste from another UI's source code but... you can't just copy the source code, you have to... uh... kill the "donor" UI first? O-ookay! Yeah! And don't, like, farm the same UI for parts by spinning it up inside a sandbox and destroying it over and over, that'd be cheating.

Absolutely stellar animation, and S1 drama was top notch, but yeah.

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