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For a search company I can't believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can't even search "bank" for my banking apps, and there doesn't really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like "home" or "Resideo" or "Smart Hq." I just want to search GE for the damn GE app. Or "thermostat" for Resideo. Surely there's something beyond surface level here because obviously this is an extensively solved problem. How is there not metadata or description searching at minimum? My only guess is fear of abuse but Google has definitely dealt with that for their entire existence and up until recently, managed to handle it fine.

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The Sign (lemmy.stuart.fun)

For context, in case you don't have kids (therefor you probably don't watch Bluey), the family in the car (the Heelers) was selling their house to move for a job but ultimately, the dad (Bandit) decided staying at their house with family was more important. As a final act of demonstration, he lifts the for-sale sign out of the ground and throws it onto the street, with emotional montage music playing in the background.

Basically the meme being, I reject this and I'll figure out another way.

Thankfully historical Hashicorp code has been permissively licensed and we have awesome forks like opentofu and openbao.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 162 points 7 months ago

Had me in the first half

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 116 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm not saying it doesn't suck for this person, but product market fit is a thing for open source too. If people need it they'll use it and contribute until something better comes along. If not, your idea wasn't the one. That doesn't mean it's not possible. Nearly my whole life runs on open source software, so it's pretty clearly sustainable.

over the years, using "open source" has become an excuse to avoid paying for software

Um. Yes. And to be blunt: obviously. And in return, I give away software I create for free whether people need it or not, and try to give back in the form of contributions too. But I've never once given up my day job for it. Would that be nice? Maybe. But open source software is more frequently sustained by passionate people using and expanding it for their own projects and not by expecting people to pay you for your efforts when you're likely not paying (nodejs, github, ahem) for the software you're building it on anyway.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 164 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The workplace, or at least career progression, is like 50% politics lol. Google is no different.

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Until now I've avoided almost everything to do with combat so I guess this is my introduction.

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Poor lower decks crew (lemmy.stuart.fun)

My wife made this template and meme and it's too good not to share on the better social media platform.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 197 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm convinced most of these people are flat out lying to sell seminars because if he was really that good he'd just keep doing it and making his millions there.

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Sources say the decision was made by how long interns spent in each editor. In fact, it appears the vim users simply never exited once they opened the program, presumably because they found it so productive.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's probably a whole set of bots and the responses to "this needs to be a coffee mug" are some other account saying "I found one!" and that's the whole point of the comment chain. Someone has a crappy mug to sell and constructs scenarios that seem natural ish to introduce it.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 117 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the famous Dictator For A Day Program where the guy who wants to be a dictator famously chooses to not use his powers to install himself for life.

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This smaller food scoop is MURDER.

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Bono my routines are gone (lemmy.stuart.fun)
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I had an issue logging into Twitch last night for the first time in a while. I just didn't get any 2FA messages delivered to me, until about 12 hours later when I was asleep and they were probably long invalidated. and now suddenly I can't log in to my MVD either. Apparently there's some sort of SMS short+long code outage (according to the twilio status page in North America, which is mildly infuriating when this is already shown to be a pretty sketchy 2FA mechanism, at least theoretically.

Just curious if anybody else has noticed issues or if that's just me. And also, I really hate SMS 2FA.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 127 points 1 year ago

A GUI makes simple things simple.

A shell makes hard things possible.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 126 points 1 year ago

I use areopress btw

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Once a week every week (lemmy.stuart.fun)
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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 147 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize we were here to play geoguessr but you win!

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well when you realize we treat school as glorified babysitting and not just education, part of the reason becomes more obvious. Parents work 40 hours so we need kids in school roughly that length of time. Especially when both parents have to work to afford to live.

We need to uplift a lot about the entire system for it to work.

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Love hurts (lemmy.stuart.fun)
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She legitimately said "he seemed well adjusted." After telling me he looked a lot like me 15 years ago.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 159 points 1 year ago

I'm so annoyed we're here 25 years from Google's founding, catering to them with the euphemism "SEO" rather than doing what's best for the web and for humanity and expecting Google, the Search Engine company, to improve its capacity to search optimally.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 186 points 1 year ago

What a very oddly specific and suspicious thing to have anything at all to say about.

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