dan @ dan @upvote.au

Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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That was just an example. There's all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn't count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn't count as a view either.

I was going to say "that's unfortunate", but the claims haven't actually been fully dismissed. Matt is just spreading incorrect information, as usual.

They've been "dismissed with leave to amend", which means the plaintiff can revise it and resubmit.

My employer is trying to get people to use AI more, too.

I'm skeptical of AI, but I'm finding it useful for menial tasks - things that you'd otherwise automate using an AST-based codemod tool (like jscodeshift, libcst codemod, etc), a hacky find/replace, or do by hand (boring, tedious work that I'd rather not do). Giving the AI system an example patch for something like migrating away from a legacy API, and saying "do this same thing across these 200 other files", can have pretty good results.

In general, it seems like a good tool for things where the entire process is well-defined - the prompt and context provide all the info it needs - and I include example code in the context.

I don't trust it for brand new code in a large existing codebase.. Even the best AI models still get a lot of things wrong.

Let me preface with a fuck microsoft.

Yet you're praising copilot, and likely using an editor built and maintained by Microsoft (VS Code). I'm confused.

This is also something I mentioned to them, but some people just don't like facts and logic.

Thanks for the info. I haven't used BASIC in a very long time and can't remember much about the syntax. Must be over 20 years ago now. I switched from VB6 to C# when .NET Framework 2.0 was released.

Page loads don't count as a view though, because otherwise things like search engine indexing would count as a view. It's only considered a view if the video is watched for at least 30 seconds.

YouTube only counts a view if it's longer than 30 seconds, but clients like Newpipe don't send the tracking data to Google for them to track this.

of at least one dialect of BASIC that allowed subroutine calls to lack their parentheses

Did sub calls normally have parentheses in BASIC?

BYD busses are in the USA too, or at least small ones are... My employer uses some to transport people between buildings.

I was arguing with someone on another social media site because they were posting nonsense about EVs being horrible for the environment because all the power comes from coal.

Turns out they live in Houston, where 92% of power generation is renewable. lol.

Even across the whole USA, coal is only 16% of power production. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

I prefer zwave/zigbee to keep the wifi less cluttered

Just double check that your Zigbee channel doesn't overlap your 2.4Ghz wifi channel, otherwise Zigbee will clutter the wifi. It's a common issue! You should use either wifi channel 1 and Zigbee channel 25, or wifi channel 11 and Zigbee channel 11. Wifi channel 6 isn't recommended when using Zigbee.

I don't think I've met any anti vaxxers in California, but I live in a well-educated area, so maybe it's different in more rural areas. California has some of the strictest vaccination laws for kids in school, with no exemptions allowed.

You could say the same about any social media site really.

The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they're more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they're more active on TikTok and Instagram.

Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.

That's especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).

I'm just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.

Well, except at work where we're forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from sensitive/confidential work webapps then pasting onto non-work sites, and other features that big companies use.

I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I've been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they're based on Chromium. I'll have to try it out!

I'd say 9/10 aren't doing proper backups given most people don't actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don't test your backups, you don't have backups!

Which containers do automatic DB backups? Normally the database is a separate container, unless the app is using SQLite. Is there a MySQL or PostgreSQL container that does automated backups?