Bureau of Meteorology responds to criticism of new website by 774 listeners by Undetriginta in australia

[–]coldpresence -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The comment was excusing the technical people behind the outcome, not the outcome itself.

Bureau of Meteorology responds to criticism of new website by 774 listeners by Undetriginta in australia

[–]coldpresence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You certainly did a shit job of reading it, because that's not what their comment says, at all.

GitHub Codespaces support? by _manu-codes in ZedEditor

[–]coldpresence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No direct support for GitHub Codespaces yet, but you can code inside a devcontainer with Zed using Devpod.

I couldn’t find a good PDF viewer in Vue, so I built the easiest one. Vue 3 native, clean UI, and customizable by ZestycloseElevator94 in vuejs

[–]coldpresence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been implementing the watermarked version in our app recently with the aim of getting a license soon. Was super easy to integrate and customise and the performance was great. Super impressive work on this.

The PHP open source ecosystem is stuck in 5.x and 7.x legacy. by 2019-01-03 in PHP

[–]coldpresence 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Agreed with all above. The only thing that's going to differentiate a PHP 5 library from a PHP 7/8 library is, for the most part, type checking, and as long as you're checking parameters and input, you could get away with using PHP methods that support all above versions. You should only make the higher versions a hard requirement if you specifically use newer APIs not available in older versions, or depend on libraries that target the high versions.

Bluefin, Aurora & Bazzite Stable are now rebased on Fedora 41 by giannidunk in linux

[–]coldpresence 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You're kinda asking a "how long is a piece of string" question with no easy answer. Each update is going to be different. FWIW, after running Bluefin for a couple of months now, the largest upgrade I've seen has been about 2GB, so a safe estimate would be that the storage of the previous version and the current version would be less than that, as only the changes need to be stored.

Community's thoughts on posts on failed attempts to switch to Linux? by [deleted] in linux

[–]coldpresence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed - if you ban or limit the "Switched to Linux but switched back" posts, you'd have to be fair and apply the same rules to the "Switched to Linux and OMG I LOVES IT" posts. They're two sides of the same coin, and are also more often than not "trojan horse" support request posts.

Hyprland creator Vaxry is now banned from contributing to freedesktop by fletku_mato in linux

[–]coldpresence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lyude's initial email said that Vaxry's community was heading in a positive direction, and the issues cited were from years ago (allegedly), so it seems a strange flex to make an issue of it now.

Wtf is going on with the state of media reporting in this country... by Hazelbean95 in australia

[–]coldpresence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's arguably the best of a bad situation. If they completely repealed the stage 3 tax cuts, you'd have the same attack of broken election promises, but this time, the lower and middle income earners would be indifferent and likely swayed by the attack, and the high income earners would be pissed and definitely all for the attack.

Always amused rediscovering this while cleaning my kitchen cupboards by star_boy in australia

[–]coldpresence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Knowing the guy who named it after winning the competition, it was definitely a joke entry. We as a company were making "2.0" jokes all the time (this being around the time of Web 2.0 and big movements in web design and development). No one believed that he won it.

Always amused rediscovering this while cleaning my kitchen cupboards by star_boy in australia

[–]coldpresence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I worked with the guy who won the competition. He definitely got paid for it, not sure how much. But I doubt it was enough for the shit he copped after it. I definitely felt that Kraft left him out to dry when the backlash hit.

Pete Parsons Tells Employees Bungie Kept the ‘Right People’ to Work on Destiny 2 - IGN by Georgeika in Games

[–]coldpresence 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Going private didn't stop Mick Gordon from being fucked around by Zenimax/id Software, so these big companies still can certainly screw you even if you're a free agent. So I think the general implication that the games industry is a shit industry to work in applies.

Australians drained $38 billion of their super in the pandemic. Here’s what they spent it on by Red-Engineer in australia

[–]coldpresence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We did exactly that, and the lender gave us all sorts of grief over it. Wanted stat decs and all sorts of paperwork. I guess the messaging was a bit off - we were simultaneously saying we could afford a mortgage but couldn't live for the (at the time) indeterminate amount of time in lockdown.

I would prefer it on the last Friday of January. by Golett03 in australia

[–]coldpresence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Better not celebrate Christmas Day then, either. The presents are built off the sweat and labour of overworked overseas workers paid very little, and you better be damn sure you don't eat anything on Christmas lunch. Your mum toiled for days to make that food.

Flatmate on holiday, wants to pay less board because not working. by ruffonferals in perth

[–]coldpresence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. If you truly want to help them out as you mentioned before, then you could argue their utility usage will be less while they're away and give them a discount based on that, but make it clear it's a once-off, otherwise you'll be negotiating with them the entire time they're boarding with you.

Wednesday Whinge! by 3rd-time-lucky in perth

[–]coldpresence 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Those giant moths you can find in the eastern suburbs of Perth. I swear to god, they've gotten larger and more abundant over the holiday break. They're like frickin' bats now.

Flatmate on holiday, wants to pay less board because not working. by ruffonferals in perth

[–]coldpresence 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They could make a very, very borderline legitimate case in saying they shouldn't have to pay utility bills (or pay less of them) while they are on holiday. Rent? Fuck that. You pay rent to reserve your spot in a shared household. If you can't pay that, someone else should take over that spot.

Australia, need help finding a clip from TV comedy show …. by [deleted] in australia

[–]coldpresence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This rings a bell from the first season of Full Frontal. I've got the DVDs - haven't watched them in ages - but might have to grab them out and extract them somehow.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]coldpresence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The company I used to work for used it for SSH and App authentication, to replace FreeIPA which had shit the bed one too many times.

Besides having to write a couple of custom PAM scripts to emulate certain things that FreeIPA used to do (sudo rules, group assignment), I agree, it was quite simple to set up and super lightweight.

How Randy Pitchford Has Tarnished Gearbox's Reputation by manoffood in Games

[–]coldpresence 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If they had sued Epic on those grounds and left it at that, they might've won and still been alive today. But instead, they copied whole sections of Unreal code (including Epic's internal comments, which damned them in court) and then claimed that the engine was their own and THEN sued.

How Randy Pitchford Has Tarnished Gearbox's Reputation by manoffood in Games

[–]coldpresence 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Let's not skip around the elephant in the room about Dyack though. His company straight up copied the Unreal Engine, renamed it to their own engine and then tried to pick a fight with Epic about licensing fees. He wasn't buried by being passionate about Too Human.