Tango gameworks says hi. One of the few ever to escape this hell cycle, albeit painfully.
The just dripping irony of Microsoft praising the studio as making exactly the kind of excellent games it needs and then shutting the studio down suddenly will never be beat though.
If you only have to have a cert to be promoted, then OP can simply not do it and not be promoted. No conversation with his boss would be necessary.
It sounds more like the org need X amount of people qualified to have “gold” status with a vendor, so they pressure you to get it and make any promotion contingent on you having/gaining this cert.
Extremely online echo chamber talk doesnt make sense in any language if youre ourside that echo chamber.
Him being a 4chan shitbird means most the people here on lemmy likely weren’t going to be clue’d in immediately.
If the certs were not required, you have a point. If they are required to the point where OP has to have a discussion about not doing them with his boss, then the buisness needs to keep paying, drop the requirement or find new employees.
Vulgarian sound like “vulva.” It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.
They should put “arrives” in quotes, not Jetsons.
If you can’t buy this or have it independently tested, it hasn’t arrived anywhere. Just more “home robots are really here this time guys, really I mean it this time, really. Invest more billions in our company and you’ll get one, for real.”
I have a strong but as of yet untested theory that no human will ever levitate based on magnitized internal human water.
A magnet sufficiently strong enough to levitate a human based on the water in the body is more likely to remove the water from the body instead.
That was an incredibly long article that said very little at all. I recall torrentfreak being snappy articles about the futility of fighting piracy, but this was just run on nothing about sideloading apps on firesticks to watch futbol games. Lots of “tv broacasters dont like them but habent done much. They did a campaign, we have no data to provide. Also, there are apps people use, we didn’t like the permissions but wont name them. Also, here is a funny tshirt.”
Did torrentfreak lean into ai generated articles or is this just standard clickbait padding?
A lot of human actions are unfalsifiable because we can’t read minds. That why inference about what people say and do is important.
Musks and others nazi salute is just a reference to this behaviour writ large. It’s not the beginning of it at all. Nazi and alt right groups have been doing dog whistles for decades, and the internet has proved a fertile ground for the behavior.
Its fine to not be aware of things like “88” or “14 words” or the like, but they are dog whistle memes used by racists and nazis, the people the mainstream right has been shifting towards for years and years. You very well may have some cultural touchstones that coincidentally use the same memes without that racist context, but when you’re applauding the racists and using the terms at the same time?
Satre has a great quote about how facists dont care about what they say or do, as language is just a game to them:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Jean-Paul Sartre
This game is wholley embraced by racists, so giving people “the benefit of the doubt” plays right into their game of feigning decroum while ramping up hate.
Again this may be an unfortunate coincidence for the proton CEO, but that does not undermine the overall point that he currently appears steeped in rightwing ideology, and that is not okay for someone claiming to uphold freedom and privacy.
Lastly, Protons past donations are laudable, but plenty of groups had laudable donations before they became vile. Look at google’s past philanthropy as an example, or their since retired “dont be evil” motto. They certainly don’t live up to those standards today, and it looks like Proton is on the same course.
“Hide your power level” mask on behavior from the alt right love to play these plausible deniability games while still signaling their actual intent. You see it with the “my heart goes out to” or “i’m just autisitc” cover for musks nazi salute, or the “he was just waving” Bannon nazi salute. They made a nazi salute, but of course it cant be a nazi salute, wink wink.
I honestly find the 88 to be a faint indicator in this case, but it was a wildly tone deaf one if so. When someone claiming neutrality is making very partisan endorsements for a party that’s steeped in all of the same memetic game playing, you cant ignore the dog whistles.
Well, the first step is realizing it’s okay not to use it. My homelab is a mix of salvaged mini PCs and prosumer networking gear. It has nothing to do with the 6/7 figure gear I use at work, and I prefer it that way. Its simpler and lower stakes, is quieter, and uses way less power.
That all said, it’s a great server. if you do want to use it, there are many ways to start. First, you don’t need to plug both power supplies in, but you can. The server can run entirely on one of them. It has two in case one fails it can keep running, not because it needs 2x the power. For the monitor, yes you will likely need VGA. Servers rarely have modern video ports, because vga just works, costs nothing to add to a server, and is almost never used. Most of your physical interaction with a server should be though “out of band,” which dell calls “idrac.” This is a seperate networking port labeled on the server that lets you connect to a local website, put in a password, and then fully control the server. That includes powering it on, reboots, loading disc image iso files, on and on. The idrac will stay powered even when the server is off.
You may or may not have qn idrac license for that server. If you dont and your boss can’t give you one, you can use something like jetkvm instead when it’s released.
As to what to do either it, i would recommend installing different hypervisors or kubernetes suites and playing around. Proxmox, xcp-ng, k3s, harvestor, on and on. Once you find one you like, figure out how to use automation software to setup VMs and containers, like cloudinit, terraform, ansible, or nixOS.
Good luck, and enjoy. Getting started from scratch can be a lot, but it can also be a lot of fun. Go into it expecting to fail, fail a lot and try to learn what you like. That’s the best thing a homelab can do for you.
Huh, I noticed you cherry picked two things to try to refute (interesting that you ignored him hiding “88” in binary and the fact he specifically tagged Trump in that tweet) and ignored all the others I listed. Its almost like you want to spread disinfo about how this is a non issue instead of actually digging into it.
Explain his fandom for J.D vance (a tech millionaire funded by the biggest, most privacy invading, facebook funding, Palentir creating tech billionaire ever, Peter theil) while endlessly criticizing Chuck Schumer, his statement that the GOP “was there for the little guy,” that the GOP was going to take on big tech even while they bent the knee and were donating millions directly to Trump in real time, his use of the term “triggered” to describe offending someone, on and on.
Go on, keep excusing all the clear MAGA “mask on” indicators. Tell us why a CEO in a foreign country, that keeps heaping praise on one party while using their cultural shibboleths, also “coincidentally” used an in-group dog whistle, is actually totally non partisan. That should be easy, right?
Sure sure. The guy who unprompted endorsed a trump appointment that has deep US Telco ties, bizarrly said “the GOP is the party for the little guy,” had nothing but wonderful things to say about J.D vance, stated that Chuck Schumer slow rolled 2 internet privacy bills because of “quid pro quo” with his daughters working for big tech, used the phrase “triggered” unprompted, and just randomly added “88” to the end of his new user name.
Yeah, that guy is just neutral and disillusioned with the Democratic party. It’s not utterly clear what spaces and politics he aligns with. That would just be wholley unknowable.
Plex was bought out by venture capital and has been enshittifing for years. “Free” media stream sources added riddled with ads that you have to opt out of, opt out “everyone can see what everyone is watching” features, nebulous “we need to upload hashes of your media to skip credits” privacy issues, abandoning apps for various platforms like kodi, on and on.
I have a lifetime pass, but no longer consider plex a viable platform. The issues are not baseless, but rather based on what plex has decided to do to make money.
Meanwhile, jellyfin is FOSS with no profit motive, no privacy issues, skips intros and credits with no issue, pulls subtitles down and indexes media flawlessly, and has native kodi clients with Database sync support so a show paused in one room can be resumed at the same point in another room.
Hard to beat “slick, private and free.”
Something I forgot to mention, Seattle and the surrounding area also have the largest light rail expansion project in the country right now. There has been a huge amount of rail stops added in the last few years, and the city has focused on turning what used to be flat ground level parking into a mix of parking structures and rail adjacent low income housing on city land. Building what used to be just tarmac up has let the city add density near desirable rail stops and still appeal to the suburban folks who commute to the rail by car.
I expect a lot of this housing will go in near the light rail neighborhoods. Tons of them are already building for profit housing, so the interest is there. This funding will let them put housing where it’s most valuable and act as a shot in the arm to a dozen neighborhoods. Washington state helped by allowing upzoning to 6 stories within 1/4 mile of light rail, and 4 stories anywhere else in the state.
Washington is the only state to go left this last election, and it shows. Its not perfect, but people actually give a shit here and are trying to fix the actual problems.
They are targeting mixed imcome housing, with a focus on lower income and caregiver roles (teachers/emts/etc). The plus side is that the city will own these outright, unlike what it normally does which is fund non profits or lease land to for profits developers with a guarantee of a percentage of the units are low income, generally for a decade or so. Of course, the leases run well past that decade, so the business cleans up long term and low income people get forced out. This of course is always a sweet heart deal for the developers, as they donate large sums to the major and city council. This was a direct ballot initiative, and it won out over the poison pill alternative the council, mayor and the chamber of commerce also forced on the ballot.
The plans ive seen are for multi-unit structures, tending towards green building and social configs, i.e energy efficent building with inner courtyards and amenities. Everything ia still in the planning phase, though, so no actual number of units, but at that funding, with city owned land, I would expect 1000-2000 units/yr. Seattle is growing at a pace of roughly 12,000-15,000/yr, so this should address 10-15% of that growth with affordable, excellent housing.
So y’all just pissing in cherrios today?
This is a brand new, opt in interoperability tool between 2 small-ish social networks. No shit its not heavily used yet. People who are using it can ask their friends to bridge, which will bring growth over time, just like any social networking experience.
What exactly are you complaining about? That someone else did something cool you don’t care about? That other people may enjoy something you don’t?
Interoperability removes power from closed gardens. It makes the platform itself way less relevant.
“Bending over backwards” is how you undermine bluesky in favor of mastadon. We should 100% be doing it as much as possible.
Also Paypal, and in a lot of ways, Facebook.
Also he bought and paid for J.D vance, and runs all sorts of alt right think tanks and influencers.