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It’s true, at least for me. I can actually control the focus now instead of digging down a rabbithole of <random topic here> for 6 hours at 3am.

If I’m going down that rabbithole now, it’s because I want to.

Man, the code in that project is really something else. Looks like something hacked together in a weekend

I think I’m going to fork it and make it… not that.

The stock Pixel phone app has this. If you don’t use the stock phone app, you can’t use this feature.

Just added it to the massive Google graveyard next to Stadia, wave, hangouts, plus, music, etc etc

I am shocked and appalled that Google Reader didn’t get called out in this list and is relegated to the “etc” category.

It deserves more than “etc.”

I’ve been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it’s news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.

The only people that get upset over it are those whose entire personality are based on superficial bullshit like this because they don’t have a personality, or just want to feel superior to someone else, or both.

I’ve been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades, and using it period since it was hard to install and Slackware came in the mail on ~50 floppy disks. There is not enough “Get off my lawn” in the world for those people.

I’ll call the path container whatever I damned well please.

You wouldn’t download a folder

The fuck I wouldn’t! I’m gonna do it now out of spite!

This is art.

If it’s that old, I’m betting it doesn’t use HTTPS for its connections. You could do a network packet capture on the XP machine (or if you can find one, hook it up to a network hub with another computer attached and capture there) while performing the “clear error” action and find out how it works/what you need to send to it to clear the error. You could also set up a SPAN port on a switch and mirror the traffic on the port going to the printer to capture the traffic, if you have a switch capable of doing that. If not, you can get one off Amazon for about $100.

It’d be pretty simple to put together a script that sends the “clear error” action to the printer after seeing how it’s done in the packet capture. I’ve done this numerous times, the latest of which was for a network-connected temperature sensor that I wanted to tie into but didn’t (publicly) expose an API of any kind.

Throw in a mysterious comment that says “Don’t change anything below this line or everything breaks” and it’s complete.

“We don’t know why this works, but it does, don’t touch it.” would also be acceptable.

Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.

“That’s the future guy’s problem, my problem is making money.”

No need to wonder. That’s how.

Unless you’re really deep into a particular provider’s unique-esque products (Lambda, Azure AD, Fargate, etc), this is exactly why things like Terraform exist.

Places like that never learn their lesson until The Event™ happens. At my last place, The Event™ was a derecho that knocked out power for a few days, and then when it came back on, the SAN was all kinds of fucked. On top of that, we didn’t have backups for everything because they didn’t want to pay for more storage. They were losing like $100K+ every hour they were down.

The speed at which they approved all-new hardware inside a colocation facility after The Event™ was absolutely hilarious, I’d never seen anything approved that quickly.

Trust me, they’re going to keep putting it off until you have your own version of The Event™, and they’ll deny that they ever disregarded the risk of it happening in the first place, even though you have years’ worth of emails saying “If we don’t do X, Y will occur.” And when when Y occurs, they’ll scream “Oh my God, Y has occurred, no one could have ever foreseen this!”

It’ll happen. Wait and watch.

You’re literally describing the system that controlled employee keyscan badges a couple of jobs ago…

That thing was fun to try and tie into the user disable/termination script that I wrote. I ended up having to just manipulate its DB tables manually in the script instead of going through an API that the software exposed, because it didn’t do that. Figuring out their fucked-up DB schema was an adventure on its own too.

I don’t even let things communicate on /30 networks via HTTP/cleartext…this whole thing is horrifying.

Run it in a Sandboxie sandbox. It can run any application in a Sandbox.

Or just spin up a lightweight VM. Could even run it in a Docker container.

I’ve been using vscode since it was released and I never knew that was an option. Thank you!

docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

…until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

Lint your code and configs every time!

You’d have to have a separate cohort of non-plugin users & another with a sampling of both, I think. Run some regressions on those data and I think you’d be able to tease out any bias that exists.

I don’t think the problem is so much profitability as it is the demand/expectation for endless growth. It becomes a positive feedback loop and is completely unsustainable after a certain point.

You know what else is endless growth? Cancer.

contributing to open source projects

You need to be careful with this point, because it becomes addictive.

It’s 4AM and I just submitted a PR to the Liftoff app repo.