Brewchin

After too many wild rides with Watchtower auto-nuking services, thanks to breaking changes (migrations, DB updates, deployment changes, etc), I switched to What’s Up Docker and pin the version for all of my containers.

WUD lets me know when something has an update, so I periodically go through their release notes and do the update(s) manually. Usually as simple as read the notes, changes version in compose, down (or pull), then “up -d”. But this approach has saved my bacon multiple times.

I’ve seen there are other solutions - of varying degrees of promises vs delivery - but most of my stuff is long term and stable. My approach maintains all that.

Who’d have imagined that “jumping the enshittification” would be a thing.

Anyone thinking this is a climb down or win is deluded. This was planned. Bait for the hard of brain.

Fuck Google, honestly. If only there wasn’t a duopoly.

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Assuming you’re new to the idea: never a better time to start. 😊

DeBeers, diamonds and FOMO marketing… not a new strategy.

But also not necessarily artificial scarcity in this case. Hard to tell.

It’s telling of this era that it’s impossible to initially know if this is corporate greed or vibe goonery.

So… intentional or unintentional enshittification, I guess. 😬

From OP’s linked article:

[The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.

So yes, I guess “she” is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn’t check).

This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬

I wonder if it’s a coincidence.

It probably does, and I doubt the difference is anything to do with you. (Beyond not sticking your head above the KPI parapet, etc).

The last place I was laid off from was notorious for a LIFO/stack policy whenever heads needed to roll. The one before that looked purely at the highest earners. And the one before that did whatever the nice vulture capitalists told them to do… or else.

None of them looked at how much you made (or retained) for the company, customer and colleague satisfaction, impact on teams or projects. Just “thought leaders” looking at spreadsheets while telling everyone that they know what they’re doing. And for the IC it’s indistinguishable from Russian roulette.

You make good points about them being contractors and the CV aspects. I’d not thought of that.

But it’s not just in gaming. It’s all of the tech space, or at least those run by American companies, and applies to full time staff. The last decade or so of my tech career is a mirror image of it.

Though it’s hard to tell if it’s layoff FOMO, AI changes, or AI being used as an excuse. Something’s changed in recent years.

Classic modern tech company formula. If any records or targets are broken, mass layoffs must happen.

I think MBA schools have forgotten the golden rule of economics: you get what you incentivise for. Guaranteed unemployment isn’t it.

This was a great read. Thanks for sharing. I bought my N64 specifically for this game at the time, and it didn’t disappoint. 😊

Sadly, not having touched Nintendo products since their ClockWatch LCD handhelds years earlier, I struggled to find any other games I really liked on the N64. 🤷‍♂️ There were a couple, but it was all just filler to me.

Not in my case. Been happening for a year or more, and for as little as £3 (bus ride, etc).

For me it’s that 75%+ of my contactless payments trigger an “insert card and enter PIN” check, which defeats its purpose. Presumably because my bank has become super cautious or their fraud detection is managed by a clanker.

I never have a problem with the same transactions using my phone.

Honestly, I’d prefer to use my card, rather than gift transaction data to my phone manufacturer.

The pinned post explaining it can be found at [email protected] on most instances (eg. lemmy.world has it). It has “VPS” in the title.

Either way, as an earlier commenter said: the post says it should be resolved next week.

Edit: Corrected community.

Only people who’ve never been inside a shop think it’s an age thing.

Unless you’re a child, for whom everyone is old to you. *Notes that it’s from Tiktok.* Oh, never mind.

Sure it does. It lets them smile and say, “We did tell you. But you chose to do nothing.” Probably even while you’re grieving at the recent loss of your child or loved one.

As always, when it comes to the intersection of techbros, threats of legislation and society, this is about making their problems and decisions your responsibility. Politicians fall for it every time, because they love “personal responsibility” rhetoric, and Number Must Go Up continues as before.

Yeesh. I miss Joshua from War Games and Asimov’s three laws of robotics. What utopian fiction…

Same with tissues and mum’s spit for other stuff. Anything is better than nothing. 😄

So what you’re saying is that you’ve engaged with football content a billion times.

Did Facebook’s shift to emojis teach us nothing? Engagement > Preference. You’re the product.