CosmicTurtle

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CosmicTurtle,

Yeah I saw the Google sheets scraping tool and that looked promising but I don’t want to have to rely on Xpath since it could change.

Right now I’m leaning toward change detector but can’t get the reverse proxy to work.

Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

CosmicTurtle,

More and more services are REQUIRING a gmail/outlook/etc. account simply because bots/scammers bombard their services. It’s their cheap captcha.

I’m seeing it more and more and it infuriates me to no end.

CosmicTurtle,

The color palette of fortune 100 companies seem to be, in order of frequency: Blue, Red, and White (not counting negative space).

I think that there was some study that found that these colors are the most impactful or some shit.

CosmicTurtle,

Yeah…but even then they may not get to you.

Over the holidays, I had a good back and forth with the maintainer of a project that I started using. The documentation needed updating and created a PR.

Then I went almost 10 comment rounds on why it was necessary, why I wrote it the way I did, and all this bullshit.

I just left it saying “merge it or whatever. I’m moving on.”

It’s still open.

CosmicTurtle,

Ngl, I absolutely love rigid. Most have lifetime guarantees, even on batteries.

Never had to exercise them fortunately.

CosmicTurtle,

Wouldn’t that be “I Did Do IT”?

A better title would be “I’m Not a Waiter: An Introduction to Servers and Networking”

CosmicTurtle,

I figured the “I” was referring to the author. Like “I Hiked Mt. Everest: An introduction on how to be a pretentious knob”

CosmicTurtle,

Ngl, love the misdirect of using lemmynsfw.com url.

CosmicTurtle, (edited )

IR blaster was the shit. Back then, there was an app called beep and go (I think) that held the barcodes for your loyalty cards. For someone that collected them like baseball cards, it was really handy.

Anyway, Samsung actually had the ability to transmit the barcode via the IR blaster which some scanners could read if they couldn’t read the barcode on the phone.

It was awesome!

I agree that the heart rate monitor was a bit of a gimmick though.

CosmicTurtle,

Are you sure the hardware is still there? I only ask because given the number of hackers out there, I’m surprised someone hasn’t come out with a patch or something to make it more ubiquitous.

My First Regular Expressions

I’ve been reading Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, and since nobody in my life (aside from my wife) cares, I thought I’d share something I’m pretty proud of. My first set of regular expressions, that I wrote myself to manipulate the text I’m working with....

CosmicTurtle,

Ah…the days when perl was the shit and python was still a glimmer in the eye of some frustrated programmer.

CosmicTurtle,

Lock picking lawyer.

Used to be a channel about how locks works, how lock picking works, cool locks and shitty locks.

Now it’s just a channel to sell his tools.

CosmicTurtle,

I’ve blocked L4sbot and lemmy is substantially better.

CosmicTurtle,

I work for a Fortune 500 company and I can tell you the reason why excel (and Google sheets) are used inappropriately is because cyber data controls make creating and maintaining a database very hard. Not only that but the skills required to know how to make a table in a spreadsheet is nowhere near the skills required to deploy, maintain, and provision a database table.

Spreadsheets don’t require a UI to be built. People don’t have to learn a new app just to be able to see data.

I’m an IT guy too and I’m the first to tell you that spreadsheets suck. But when it takes an act of a board to create new tables in a database, I tell ya…might as well just use spreadsheets.

CosmicTurtle,

I literally just saw this episode. God I love this community.

CosmicTurtle,

There is a number between 1 and probably 20 where the punishment for the number of people you kill doesn’t really make a difference.

CosmicTurtle,

Depends but usually because the road itself is not wide enough or you don’t want to impede traffic.

The last time I did this it was on a road with culverts on either side so the safest way to U Turn was in someone’s driveway.

CosmicTurtle,

I’m not 100% convinced that buying in bulk at Costco saves significant amount of money. At least on staples anyway.

The best deals I’ve gotten at Costco were electronics. But things like chicken thighs ($1.39 / lbs at Costco vs $1.49 / lbs at the local grocery store)…I don’t think it’s worth the price.

I bought soap there for $2 or so less than at Walmart. I’m sure it all adds up but between the shitty parking and long lines, I’ve been debating giving up my Costco membership.

CosmicTurtle,

Probably the most elaborate Rick roll I’ve ever received.

CosmicTurtle,

Doesn’t Plex require you to buy their premium service in order to use it on mobile devices?

I remember setting up my Plex server and was shocked that I had to pay to view my own media.

CosmicTurtle,

You’re missing a huge part of the reason why the term ‘tebibytes’ even exists.

Back in the 90s, when USB sticks were just coming out, a megabyte was still 1024 kilobytes. Companies saw the market get saturated with drives but they were still expensive and we hadn’t fully figured out how to miniaturize them.

So some CEO got the bright idea of changing the definition of a “megabyte” to mean 1000. That way they could say that their drive had more megabytes than their competitors. “It’s just 24 kilobytes. Who’s going to notice?”

Nerds.

They stormed various boards to complain but because the average user didn’t care, sales went through the roof and soon the entire storage industry changed. Shortly after that, they started cutting costs to actually make smaller sized drives but calling them by their original size, ie. 64MB* (64 MB is 64000).

The people who actually cared had to invent the term “mebibyte” purely because of some CEO wanting to make money. And today we have a standard that only serves to confuse people who actually care that their 2TB is actually 2048 GiB or 1.8 TiB.

CosmicTurtle,

So you’re saying all my skin tags are just puffer fish thorns?!

Amazing…

CosmicTurtle,

It took me…I’d say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.

It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.

CosmicTurtle,

I saw the Jaden Smith film and it’s…okay. But yeah…it’s not karate. It’s kung fu. They even say that in the movie.

Yet they still called it The Karate Kid.

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