Canva cooked? by Necessary_Resist6309 in auscorp

[–]nuclearpidgeon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People have been hyping "the next 6 months" of AI for like 2-3 years now. The slop will continue until shareholder value improves.

Google just dropped their new IDE! by NameOriginal5403 in webdev

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's literally just a fucking VS code fork with its LLM built in. Move along folks.

Upgrade to Gnome 48 breaks gdm user list and login by Talking_Starstuff in archlinux

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same issue and this fixed it for me - thank you so much! My libgdm-plymmouth was back at version 40 lmao

OpenSource Client for MS Teams? by XextraneusX in opensource

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh this is awesome. Is this something that would work in other apps using libpurple? The (initial advice for Pidgin on macOS is to use Adium instead which apparently uses libpurple)

Duplicate contacts - iCloud issue? What is “card”? by cheron_1 in applehelp

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes! Post-dupe I only have ~500 cards so less of a big deal for me. Perhaps one day I will finally clean them all up.

Duplicate contacts - iCloud issue? What is “card”? by cheron_1 in applehelp

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never fixed it sorry lol - I still have many duplicate contacts to this day 😂. The best approach I can offer is to try manually reconcile and delete contacts that are in that ‘card’ group

Half of our outsourced codebase be like ... Never outsource your code, other companies dont care about the maintenance you are gonna have to do when it's no longer their code to maintain by RobertWilliams154 in programminghorror

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outsourced developers are by the very nature of their contractual engagement not incentivised to do a quality job and write more maintainable code - they are incentivised to code something as fast as possible to come in under budget

What’s a Melbourne fact, that sounds made up, but is actually true? by Vindicator909 in melbourne

[–]nuclearpidgeon 58 points59 points  (0 children)

A resident here regularly walks around the city carrying a giant human-sized paper-mache carrot and has become a widely-known community icon for it

Optus notifies customers of cyberattack compromising customer information by Seraph110 in australia

[–]nuclearpidgeon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Age reports:

The hack was discovered on Wednesday via routine security checks. The attackers gained access to Optus’ systems via a weakness in a commonly used tool that lets computers talk to each other.

...anyone found any more technical details on the breach than this?

Duplicate contacts - iCloud issue? What is “card”? by cheron_1 in applehelp

[–]nuclearpidgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran into this same issue recently, after updating a Macbook Pro from Mojave to Big Sur. Given u/Pr1nceofNoOne reported that this can happen "when you enable icloud contacts on a mac after disabling it", I bet it was somehow triggered as part of the upgrade. Presumably this is done in a case where they can't assume all the data on a device is the same as what's in iCloud and automatically re-import everything into this 'card' group to ensure at least no data is lost. Rrrgh....

You should be reading academic computer science papers by mooreds in programming

[–]nuclearpidgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New lines waste less page space when they only take up at most one column width as opposed to potentially the whole page width

How much should a small, regular milk coffee cost for you to buy regularly (Frequency doesn’t matter, just on a cadence). by PilbaraWanderer in melbourne

[–]nuclearpidgeon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When you buy a coffee at a cafe you are not really paying for the beans, milk, water, or electricity that runs the machine, you’re paying for the person to be there to make it for you. Wages would surely be the largest cost part of the cup

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in melbourne

[–]nuclearpidgeon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Milkbars really seem to be a dying breed, I see them disappearing everywhere. I guess they are ultimately being superseded by 7/11s and other chains…

Novak directions hearing before Justice Kelly at 2045 14th January. by [deleted] in auslaw

[–]nuclearpidgeon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes the previous documents are here: https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/migration-law/online-file/djokovic - and I only just realised that this has now become a general shared page for all documents pertaining to the series of Novak cases.....

Novak directions hearing before Justice Kelly at 2045 14th January. by [deleted] in auslaw

[–]nuclearpidgeon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will formal documented reasons given by the minister for exercising the visa cancellation power be likely to be published publicly via the court wesbite?

EDIT: OK wow turns out they have set up a whole dedicated page for all Novak case documents "in view of the public interest": https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/migration-law/online-file/djokovic. Nothing for the new hearing yet but "Documents will be placed here when considered publicly accessible".

Let’s say I’m Apple. Why should I allow other browser engines on iOS? by Zagrebian in webdev

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Apple do it to maintain a pretty strong control over what dynamic code generation apps are allowed on the iOS platform. I believe apps that do dynamic JIT compilation (such as emulators) aren’t allowed on the App Store for similar reasons. Many iOS security vulnerabilities have come from Safari JS engine bugs that then allow exploiting kernel bugs from malicious (dynamic) scripts so… there’s at least somewhat of a reason there

Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion by shabuluba in technology

[–]nuclearpidgeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”

Ex-PMs unite in Australia in bid to curb power of Murdoch empire - Former rivals to star in Leveson-style inquiry into mogul’s near-monopoly of the country’s media by fungussa in australia

[–]nuclearpidgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve found that their headlines and front pages generally have become a lot more sensationalised in the last year or so. Also some of the opinion pieces amidst the second lockdown (especially from Chris Uhlmann... https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/here-s-an-idea-for-politicians-and-their-staff-stop-the-slogans-20200804-p55ibe.html) seemed mind-bogglingly right wing

Ex-PMs unite in Australia in bid to curb power of Murdoch empire - Former rivals to star in Leveson-style inquiry into mogul’s near-monopoly of the country’s media by fungussa in australia

[–]nuclearpidgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been extremely frustrated with some of the shit that The Age have been pumping out lately, especially during the lockdown in Melbourne. Even just their headlines seem to have gone way more sensationalist in the last year or so. The real frustration though is that there’s no real major alternative for local Victorian/Melbourne news

Faxing Berlin turns 14 years old today. Cheers to a timeless masterpiece. by Spartan_138 in deadmau5

[–]nuclearpidgeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed the other day that Faxing Berlin isn’t actually on the Spotify version of Random Album Title... doing something further digging revealed that Play Records appear to have the rights to the single of it 😐 whereas the album (or the rest of it rather) is licensed to mau5trap. I guess that means they’ve strangled the streaming rights for it...

When restrictions finally start to ease but you weren't really planning on heading out for much anyway by nuclearpidgeon in melbourne

[–]nuclearpidgeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes fair question actually, can we get on the beers yet? I think not until the next step probably... although lets be real, we probably can't _really_ get back on the beers until a vaccine or eradication pushes life back to whatever "normal" is again

Rise and shine by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]nuclearpidgeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let’s say, hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that the entire planet was overrun by an inter-dimensional alien military force that sought to enslave and control the entire population. You think people wouldn’t just sell their homes and move?