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Blackmist ,

It's underneath on mine, with the contents in the sidebar. Looks shite.

Blackmist ,

Badly muxed VP9 stream? Is that where they tried to stuff ads into it?

Blackmist ,

It is.

"This problem is triggered by bad muxed VP9 bytestream served by Youtube, so it's not a regression on our side, this issue can also be reproduced on old versions Firefox".

Blackmist ,

Does it sound like he wants you in his club?

Blackmist ,

You catch on fast young Padawan.

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit ( www.theregister.com )

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

Blackmist ,

The recent AI LLM goldrush has shown that things don't need to be good to be used.

If it makes the line go up, no matter how short term it is, it gets done.

Blackmist ,

"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."

-- George Carlin.

Blackmist ,

That face when high testosterone turns out to be caused by lead in petrol.

Blackmist ,

Tech companies grifting? Say it ain’t so!

Blackmist ,

I hate that they still teach it in schools. It means that for about 3-4 years per child, you get birthday and Christmas cards and you can’t read them.

It’s not noticeably faster and it’s certainly not neater. Just let it die.

Blackmist ,

Possibly, but I know exactly one person who writes with a fountain pen.

I remember wanting one in school, but the value was mostly in being able to flick ink at the other kids.

Blackmist ,

So’s Minecraft and Fortnite, and I dare say they’ll enjoy that a lot more than trying to remember how to join a p and a b.

Blackmist ,

And yet also not in the slightest bit surprising.

Blackmist , (edited )

I barely got through S1. Terrible show.

Jeri has aged like a fine wine, but I’m not so desperate for TNG nostalgia that I’ll watch fat Data.

Blackmist ,

Every generation does this. Gen Z can barely afford to.

They don’t really think middle aged man are going into work every day busting their plums, just so some cunt above them can buy a nicer car do they?

Bare minimum, every day, don’t get sacked. Winner.

Blackmist ,

CEOs will admit nothing.

Shareholders like to hear that employees are having to come to the office, being fired, or pissing in bottles. It means more money for the shareholders.

“Every hour we’ll beat our lowest performing employee with a pool ball in a sock.”

The line goes up.

Blackmist ,

Because they also hold shares in the companies that rent offices.

None of these businesses have given up their office spaces. They’re also likely on very long term contracts. Not using them is wasting money.

Blackmist ,

Because line goes up.

It doesn’t matter how profitable the company is. It only matters how much the people who want to buy your shares are prepared to pay for them.

kde , (edited ) to KDE
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With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plasma 6.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features.

@kde

Blackmist ,

Let’s hope the HDR is better than Windows the last time I tried it.

Blackmist ,

Even profit is manipulated and funnelled back into “growth”.

Blackmist ,

I hate that people try to edit PDFs.

There’s a hundred formats more suited to editing.

Blackmist ,

Ugh. You just reminded me of the time I asked for a CSV file from a customer and got a .doc file.

Inside it was a screenshot of the CSV file opened in Excel.

I was just impressed that somebody could misuse so much software so badly.

Blackmist ,

One of those businesses where the accountant, the IT manager, and the person who locks up in the evening are all the same person.

And the only qualification they have for any of these roles is that they’ve been there the longest.

Blackmist ,

We don’t need those hedonistic European roundamacircles.

In my day we just T-boned each other at high speeds, and we enjoyed it!

Blackmist ,

I don’t think he’s a very good robotics technician if he’s only making $20 an hour.

He could be flipping burgers and making that.

Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay ( www.commondreams.org )

As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is “not radical” given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for...

Blackmist ,

But what about the poor billionaires?

“I’ve got one hobby space program yes, but what about second hobby space program?”

Blackmist ,

If your whole selling point is “Yeah, things are still gonna be shit for you, but at least we’re not Nazis!” then at some point you’re going to lose again.

Yeah, life is going to be no better under the Republicans either, but some people’s lives will be significantly worse, and for some voters, that’s enough.

“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” That’s an actual quote from an actual Trump voter. That’s what you’re dealing with. For some, happiness is a zero sum game. They’ll quite happily suck down a spoonful of warm shit if some other sucker has to suck down two.

Blackmist ,

That may be so, but isn’t the result always a little bit closer to 50/50 than most of us are comfortable with?

The fate of the most powerful country on Earth hangs on the whims of a tiny percentage of voters in swing states. If you live somewhere like Houston your vote does not matter. That state is going red and always will. It’s batshit insane that a state can be 48/52 and that just counts exactly as if it was 0/100.

Blackmist ,

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…"

“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

The Fox GOP debate melted down when the word “climate” was mentioned ( www.motherjones.com )

After the network showed a clip of a young conservative activist saying that climate change was the number one issue for young voters, Fox News moderator Martha MacCallum asked for a show of hands in response to her question, “Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change?”...

Blackmist ,

It’s the classic Yes, Prime Minister Four-Stage Strategy.

In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.

Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.

Blackmist ,

Or Heath Ledger as The Joker.

Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?

Earlier in the pandemic many news and magazine organizations would proudly write about how working from home always actually can lead to over working and being too “productive”. I am yet to collect some evidence on it but I think we remember a good amount about this....

Blackmist ,

I don’t care if remote workers are less productive (although I’ve seen no evidence that they are).

You can’t convince me that spending an hour every morning travelling to get to an office, in order to sit in front of the exact two screens I have at home, is a good use of my time, nor is spending an hour getting home again.

That’s about 450 hours a year for me. 18 whole days. Those days are mine now, and you’re not having them back.

Blackmist ,

Only one day? You guys are slacking.

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