I've been programming with lots of dumb people, and I'm particularly dumb myself, but if you really literally spend hours looking for missed semicolons, then you should give up programming no matter if this means more time for date nights or more time to look at the wall.

Amazing how still many of those developers post things like "Hey Elon Musk, something broke, please help us" rather than "Hey all, Elon Musk once again fucked with the system we're paying $42,000 / month to use, and there is nobody at Twitter we can even talk to".

The article is funnier than the account. I also liked

The Yaccarino parody account lists xvideos.com in the link field, a reference to a porn site Gizmodo has obviously never heard of until now

and

Typically, social media companies have robust security departments that help you avoid obvious mistakes that create problems like someone impersonating your CEO. Unfortunately, Musk laid most of those people off shortly after buying the company.

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

On a side note: Why is this image (from Threads, don't know the version accessible on Twitter, as it's not accessible to me) a JPEG, and a very much compressed one, too? You see non-tech people sharing screenshot JPEGs all the time, but they are usually in okay quality and only degrade when shared and edited a lot. This one is basically unreadable from the beginning, and it's posted by a guy who studied computer science and leads a leading tech company since 14 years. Or is it really Threads transcoding and downgrading images so much?

Doch, laut der Datenschutzbehörde ist das ein grundsätzlich legitimes Modell. Nur ist eine allgemeine "Ich zahle nicht, dann trackt mich halt und spielt mir Werbung aus"-Option nicht ausreichend, es muss dann (wie anderswo) eine explizite Zustimmung für die einzelnen Trackingzwecke gegeben werden, und die fragt Heise halt gar nicht erst ab.

If you check it out, don't forget to have a look atthe somewhat hidden 3D mode. Though well made, the 2D mode is just a Google-Maps-like view, and the 3D mode is entirely different.

Does ChatGPT's code get better if you include "You're an expert in that language" in the prompt?

He has done it once and cannot be bothered to do the same things over and over again. Rescuing people is a solved problem after all and there is no more challenge in it.

And it won't go into production next year. But workers will still be treated like shit.

Half a year ago, I bought the 9 years younger (and much more complex) Red Dead Redemption 2 on Steam sale for $20.

In the meantime I remembered the existence of Nitter (and that it still works!), and there the screenshot is a JPEG, too, but in much better quality (https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF0mvPmYaYAEUxU9.jpg). So it seems like, yes, the tech CEO publicly posts graph images as JPEG, but he does it in good quality, and it's the photo sharing community's microblogging service that kills the image uploads there by compressing them to death.

EDIT: In the next meantime, Threads itself seems to be dead, at least the embeeded tweet (or thread, or whatever they call it) in the Verge article has been replaced by a "View on Threads" button which leads me to an absolutely blank page.

64% der Fernzüge der Deutschen Bahn sind pünktlich, vorausgesetzt natürlich man setzt den Pünktlichkeitsbegriff der Deutschen Bahn zugrunde, nachdem jeder Zug mit weniger als 6 Minuten Verspätung noch als pünktlich gewertet wird.

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen_fakten/puenktlichkeitswerte-6878476?

Sind halt völlig verschiedene Dinge. Wenn jemand auf deinem Grundstück was baut, das du nie da haben wolltest, soll man dich dazu zwingen, das so zu akzeptieren, nur weil man an vollkommen anderer Stelle entschieden hat, vermeiden zu wollen, dass Flaschendeckel zu tausenden in der Landschaft landen?

Sicher extrem blöd gelaufen für die Familie (wobei ja mit dem Abriss das letzte Wort noch nicht gesprochen ist), aber das hat mit generellen Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen nichts zu tun.

Or just the unavoidable spam bot accounts coming as long as it's easy and the instance operators being still unprepared.

How I Met Your Mother literally had an episode only about smoking, revealing that everybody in the main group has smoked at one point, and they all do in that episode.

Besides that, isn't the "smoking is cool" phase in movies a thing of the past already? Most movies don't show anyone smoking, and if, I would say it's most often not the hero, but often some shady guys.

But it was not ernest who banned OP. Ernest was mentioned as being the site admin, but as you can see in the screenshot, someone else banned OP.

That's a poor example, as Outlook basically is a mail client and you actually can use it to access your Gmail mails.

Beim Gütetermin im April hatte der Käufer dem Vermieter das Angebot gemacht, das Auto für 30.000 Euro zurückzukaufen: https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/ulm/prozess-um-gestohlenen-mercedes-vip-bus-100.html

Für den Vermieter sicher ein schlechter Witz, aber der Käufer hätte dabei immerhin draufgezahlt,er selbst hat den Bus schließlich für 33.000 Euro gekauft.

But Linux is a registered trademark, too.