No. Its had external library support for quite a while now

Obtainium can solve that. It will check websites for updates and then download the new apk and install it. I use it more than fdroid now, can get apk straight from the developers github repo usually.

Yeah, I’d rather they did better in the first place too. But I’m not going to complain when they finally do the right thing. That’s just going to lead to them not changing unpopular policies at all.

I genuinely don’t understand everyone complaining about u-turns. Setting aside that this isn’t really a u-turn, they’re still doing it, just won’t be mandatory.

Would you rather a government that dogmatically sticks to every single idea they have regardless of public opinion, or a government that changes its policies in response to feedback?

Sort of related, I was fact checking some of the content on my own website that had been provided by someone who later turned out to be less than reliable.

There was one claim I was completely unable to find a source for and suspected it was an AI hallucination. Turned to chatgpt and tried to find a source with that and it provided nearly the exact same sentence and cited my website as the source thus completing the hallucination cycle.

I just deleted it all from my site and started over.

100%. It irks when software has messages in the first person. The human-like TTS are very uncanny valley to me.

I needed voice over for a video recently and everyone is telling me to use AI, I tried dozens and they’ll all just off. Ended up getting a friend to record it. I don’t have a decent mic so my own recording sounded bad.

I have to use windows at work, have 32gb and regularly get browser tabs unloaded for low memory. I’m not running VMs or anything. Usually just Firefox, visual studio, and slack.

Personal computer is Linux with 16gb and that’s more than enough.

I’ve found the same thing. I’ve turned off the auto suggestions while tying because by the time I’m typing i already know what I’m going I’m to type and having mostly incorrect suggestions popping up every 2 seconds was distracting and counterproductive.

I had the same issue which is by I don’t self host bitwarden. If my house burned down the same day Bitwarden had a catastrophic outage I’d probably have issues but that seems unlikely.

Years ago now, they pushed an offer for lifetime subscription onto my server. I clicked it, went through to their website and bought it, paid, the subscription activated and worked.

The next day they emailed to say actually i wasn’t eligible for the offer, they cancelled it and refunded me and said it would actually cost $30 more.

I installed Jellyfin that same day, it was pretty buggy back then but was definitely the right decision.

Yes, you need the sandboxed Play services and have to gove it a few extra permissions but it works fine after that.

Helped a disabled pensioner recently with her phone that kept plaging loud obnoxious ads at her even while locked.

She had 4 different “virus scanners” that were all fake adware.

I speed ran this. First job right out of uni, the team lead went on holiday 2 weeks later and never came back. Everyone else was gone within 3 months.

It doesn’t say that. The potential fine the higher of 23M or 10%. Not that 23M is 10%

Yeah, maybe the contractor thought he’d get more work fixing it but he was long gone by the time I got it so i never met him

One of bugs I got was performance because the search didn’t work, with about 600,000 assets in database it would timeout searching for one by exact match on ID. It took 45 minutes to return 1 result.

I got dumped with fixing some bugs in a project written by a contractor who had literally done this but with extra steps.

Backend was sql server and c#/asp.

There was an api endpoint that took json, used xslt to transform to xml. Then called the stored procedure specified in request passing the xml as a parameter.

The stored procedure then queried the xml for parameters, executed the query, and returned results as xml.

Another xslt transformed that to json and returned to the client.

It was impressive how little c# there was.

Despite holding all the business logic, the sql was not in source control.

Had a 3 year old one this week. A loop that builds a list of messages to send to a queue for another service to consume then it calls BatchPublish.

Only Batch Publish was inside the loop so instead of sending n messages, it sends 1+2+3… +n

We never noticed before because n was never more then 100 and the consuming service is idempotent so the duplicate messages don’t cause issues. I think it’s (n(n-1))/2. So n=100 is 4950. That’s only 4 minutes work. Also that code only runs at 1am.

Recently n has been hitting 1000 which produces 499500 messages and it takes a few hours to clear and triggers an alarm for delayed processing.

Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as “just a tweet” are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.

She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.

At work people think I’m some kind of wizard with git.

I tell them I’ve been using it every day for 15 years and I read the freely available book on the website, link them to it, and mention the first 3 chapters probably covers 90% of their normal usage so they should just read that.

They won’t do it. I don’t get it. Something about written words is scary to them.

Now apply this to literally everything else. There’s a tech company inserting itself into every industry that worked fine without them, extracting money from both sides.

My local pizza place is 40% more expensive on takeaway apps, or i can just phone them directly.