[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I don't know what the exact agreement here is, but such things are very often not enforceable. You can't have someone sign their rights away. You can have them sign the document, but that document will be worthless in court and will not be respected. Those are more to scare people and discourage them from suing the company.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You have one brief interaction and then spend the next two eternities pondering what that was, draw all sorts of baseless conclusions without attempting to contact the other person to ask for more information. I'm very good at it, been doing it for 30+ years.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

We were taking a walk by the sea on a cold-ish winter night. Some stupid teens got up on the walls at the edge of the quay and started posing for photos and shit. Just as one of them was in the middle of yelling to her friends something about how not-scary it was up on that wall, two of them lost their balance and fell in the water. It was a big splash. I mean it was not good for those two kids of course, but the timing could not have been more hilariously perfect.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

There are approximately two metric shit tons of planets. I assume scientists have better things to do with their time than to sit around and think of names to give to every single one of those.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

How is that? Does risc-v have magical properties that make its designers infallible, or somehow make it possible to fix flaws in the physical design after the CPU has already been fabbed and sold?

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago

Sir please it's not break dancing, it's breaking. IOC insists on using the latter, because they are desperately trying to convince people that it's a sport and the dance in the name makes that more difficult.

At first I thought break dancing was a stupid sport to include in the Olympics. The I figured if those hoop throwing and ribbon twirling stuff can be Olympic sports, why can't break dancing? It certainly has plenty of athleticism in it. More than many other sports in fact.

I still think the overly hip-hop-y style looks weird in the context of Olympics though. Contestants with funky nicknames, and presenters waving their arms while grabbing their crotch like it's a rap concert don't scream "prestigious international event that involves thousands of top tier athletes" to me. Though I guess it might be because I'm not used to it.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 71 points 5 months ago

Ad blockers don't protect you against dumbass frontend devs who serve 5mb png files to be stuffed into 600x400 boxes.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago

Manually optimizing the code I wrote in C, so that it runs noticeably slower and has all sorts of stupid bugs that weren't there before. All in a good night's work.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

Just look at Michael Jordan. His mother negotiated the everliving crap out of everyone who wanted to be associated with him, and now the dude's still raking in absolutely obscene amounts of money every year without doing absolutely anything at all.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

This still smells though. Why is the raw, plain text password string getting anywhere near database queries in the first place?

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don't much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

I stopped doing frontend work when responsive design became important. Super unpleasant work. Now I'm happier at the backend where I don't have to worry about how my shit looks on the 7 million possible screen sizes people are likely to use. Life is more peaceful here.

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submitted 1 year ago by herrvogel@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello,

I've just recently unpacked my new Dell P3421W monitor. I was like 80% sure there would be no Linux support for the proprietary piece of software that manages the monitor's features, because that sorta stuff is hardly ever built for Linux for some fucked up reason, but I figured I could use my macbook (for which there actually is support) or the monitor's own nipple menu to do stuff. Turns out the macbook version does not work properly on Apple silicon, and the nipple menu doesn't have all the things.

I know it's a long shot, since google hasn't helped much, but would anyone here know if there's a way to go about it? Maybe there are existing tools?

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