It’s a logo commonly used for political movements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist

Last week at work, we had the lights on in the morning and as we went for lunch, I flipped the switch to turn them off. In that moment, you hear a loud bang and the lights won’t turn back on anymore.

The next day, a technician comes in to look at it. He puts the fuse back in and all the lights work again. He decides to check all the capacitors on the lamps in case one of them blew out and finds nothing.

In the week before that, one of the fluorescent tubes got swapped, so that’s our only clue why something like this might happen. Kind of wild that it can just go bang with nothing to show for it, except the blown-out fuse.

It has been a thing for longer that extensions are not allowed to make connections to the internet, unless it’s actually required for the functionality they advertise. And I believe, they have some rudimentary code scans in place to check for that. Besides that, there’s also their Recommended Extensions program, where they do thorough code reviews for a subset of available extensions.

They have the Recommended Extensions program, where they do that for a subset of the available extensions.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

Here they started doing such phishing tests a while ago and our IT department had significantly worse stats than other departments, in terms of how often we would click on the link in the phishing mail.

And yeah, the conclusion was that we were just being asshats that decided to poke around in the obvious phishing mails for the fun of it. Rather than getting extra security training, management told us to just stop dicking around, so that our stats look better.

There’s cardboard envelopes which often don’t fit into mailboxes, but might not be completely obvious under the doormat?

I find that if your command is complex enough that editing it on the terminal becomes annoying, then there’s a very high chance you want it in a file anyways, just to document what you did and to allow easily re-running it.

Having said that, you can also have your shell open the command in your editor of choice: https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/edit-long-shell-commands-in-your-usdeditor/

I sea what you did there.

I’m not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a “distro’s Flatpaks”? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling…

I’d argue that it’s Android’s DE for Linux.

Works fine for me. ¯\_( ᵔ ~ ᵔ )_/¯

A colleague always complains that KDE looks like Windows. She does also get jealous, though, when she sees me using poweruser features.

It’s like flying on a broom. Perfectly logical.

Man, the one time that I remember to read a manga-style comic right-to-left, it’s been edited to read the other way around. 🫠

Yeah, I feel this one. We currently have significantly less dev velocity than the velocity at which requirements come in. So, unless something actually is the highest priority *right now*, there’s a pretty low chance of it ever being worked on.

And then, yeah, I can be “professional” and say that we’ll work on it when we find time for it. That’s technically not a lie.
But we both know that it’s not going to happen, so it’s actually better for the customer to take that reality at face value and find another solution.

YouTube made a change to their content curation algorithm a few years ago, which favors longer videos, because they can fit more ads into those. As a result, even topics that could be perfectly covered in shortform videos get documentary-length videos.

But actually creating a densely packed documentary is a lot of work, so instead you get three intros, an unboxing, a tasting and half a life story for a video on how to bake a bread.

You not using any libraries? We have like 1100 animals in our software at work (that we know of).

There’s !bertstrips@moist.catsweat.com .

It may not be an industrial-grade desiccant, but the major advantage of rice is that people tend to have it at home…

I think, their point (and also my experience) is that you get taught about it in university a lot more than about simple loops, so it feels more important even though you rarely use it in reality.

Same thing goes for linked lists and inheritance…