Dave Gupta
He’s our best bug fix
Overworked and underpaid
So he gets drunk and sick

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

I just like knowing which episode this is from and the implication that removing the code analyzer will cause an explosion.

Dang it I finally literally just updated yesterday after not updating for like six months and being lazy haha.

Nice new features though and no breaking changes so no big deal. Just update it again today, I guess.

Kinda suspected this was coming when this happened less than two weeks ago.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563

Honestly that’s good to hear. I’ve run into some devs who are completely mystified on how to connect to a remote database and couldn’t tell a socket from sandwich.

Just keep trying to justify your own lack of competency I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my experience, a lot of software dev degree paths basically don’t even have relevant classes on hardware at all. Classes on hardware are all in IT Helpdesk and Network Admin degree paths whereas the software dev students are dumped straight into Visual Studio right off the bat with no relevant understanding of the underlying hardware or OS.

I am not OP but I actually have similar questions on backup because I didn’t have access to my Immich server for a few months and got really behind on keeping it updated. I want to make backups before I do a manual update, but I don’t know if following the directions on Immich’s Backup and Restore page is good enough or if I should handle it another way manually.

Secret Agent AI, Secret Agent AI

They’ve given you a name, and taken away your number.

Just be careful running a Tor node and what kind of data could be flowing through your machine… It’s Tor… so some of the data can be pretty fuckin unsavory while other data can be political dissidents who need safety.

*Looking at the senior devs JavaScript code

My God, it even has a watermark.

Maybe just need new executives entirely since the ones they have often seem consistently out of touch with the userbase.

Yes (with the caveat that it’s still tied to Google) and yes (de-googled)

1. It could be sold to someone who is a worse steward of web standards than Google

2. It could lead to Google exerting far more influence/control on Firefox while still funding Firefox.

I’d say those SMART attributes don’t look great…

Well played!

Infinite loop.

Accurate.

Based Chad Guy Debord via Society of the Spectacle:

In Debord’s treatment, modern society forces culture to constantly re-appropriate or re-invent itself, copying and re-packaging old ideas. Thesis 207 makes this point, rhetorically:

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”

This passage concerning plagiarism is itself directly lifted from Poésies by French-Uruguayan author Isidore Lucien Ducasse, better known as the Comte de Lautréamont. In particular, the original French text for both Debord and Lautréamont’s versions of the passage are identical: “Les idées s’améliorent. Le sens des mots y participe. Le plagiat est nécessaire. Le progrès l’implique. Il serre de près la phrase d’un auteur, se sert de ses expressions, efface une idée fausse, la remplace par l’idée juste.”

You gotta hand it to Debord for committing to the bit, half the book has phrases and ideas copied and re-worked to fit his theses in SotS.

He’s also right, we literally learn by copying information into our own minds and changing it with our own ideas. Nobody born feral in the woods is going to invent a toaster all on their own without the accumulated knowledge of humanity behind them.