ByteOnBikes

joined 3 months ago
[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

I read this as "No Pronoun Problems" and was like, dayyum, Two Face got my vote. Hell yeah de-gender those bathrooms in the Two-Face Goon cave.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There was a movie or show where they ripped a hard drive out of a server and then punted it through a gunfight. It slid on floors, rolled around a dozen times, and the hero picks it up and leaves with it.

And it just works.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not angry. I'm just confused.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

This is apple we're talking about. So it'll be $500 and called the iDock and the fans will call it innovation.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

My job is shopping around for third party customer support vendors. One of their pitches I kept hearing was, "We don't lie to you about times."

And then they shared how their competitors were trained on a method of customer service where their goal was to get you to hang up as fast as possible to increase their velocity Metrics. So they would literally lie to you. Thinking it was a joke, I googled and yeah, apparently that was a REAL tactic done for decades.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

NFTs. I'm so glad it died so quickly. What a scam.

Can't wait to see Ubisoft's first AI only game.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with UK laws. Is the lease bundled with insurance?

Or separate thing?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Probably because of your usage.

My motorcycle insurance was $200 a year. They asked if it was my primary or just on weekends, and I do wonder if I said primary, id be paying 2-5x as much.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago

Regular Ford 2015? Nothing fancy at all.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I live in a major city with decent (not excellent, just decent) transportation.

Yokels from small towns talk about how "expensive" it is until I ask them how much they pay for rent and food. And it always surprises them theyre paying the same damn amount thanks to inflation.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You are not kidding!

I got a motorcycle and paid for insurance. When someone stole my bike and police caught the guy and put it in the impound, my scummy ass insurance called me to go see if it's okay? Like bro, that's your job.

Then they said if I was willing to sign a contract that the bike was fine without allowing me to see it. I said no.

Finally they gave up and wrote me a check for the cost of the bike.

 
 

ABILENE, Texas — Students at Clack Middle School were allegedly told by a staff member that they would begin tracking menstrual cycles for female students.

KTXS reached out to Abilene ISD about the situation and they gave the following statement.

Abilene ISD is aware of allegations regarding an inappropriate comment made by a staff member at Clack Middle School. The district is actively investigating these allegations, and the staff member has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. We take every allegation of employee misconduct seriously. Our teachers and staff are expected to follow the highest standards of professional and personal conduct to protect the best interests of our students and schools.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In States where it's legal, prices are dropping to rock bottom. It's kind of amazing and my 90s self would have cried to see how much good cannabis I can buy at today's prices vs 90s street price.

 
 
 

Google Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software.

Specifically, of the 138 vulnerabilities disclosed as actively exploited in 2023, Mandiant says 97 (70.3%) were leveraged as zero-days.

This means that threat actors exploited the flaws in attacks before the impacted vendors knew of the bugs existence or had been able to patch them.

 
 

A war has been raging in the WordPress ecosystem for the past two weeks. In a latest development, employees are leaving the feisty WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who is dividing the WordPress community. An eighth of his own staff do not seem to share his position. It's about demands in the millions, blackmail, "nuclear options" and, in a very big way, defending the future of open source against profit-oriented corporate giants.

 

A new report says Unity is cutting around 1,800 jobs, or about 25 percent of the its employees, according to a regulatory filing and internal company memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.

This is reportedly the largest round of layoffs in the software company’s history—far larger than what happened in November of last year—and it will be completed by the end of March. Unity has gone through three prior rounds of layoffs within the last 12 months.

“We are … reducing the number of things we are doing in order to focus on our core business and drive our long-term success and profitability,” interim CEO Jim Whitehurst wrote in an internal memo obtained by Reuters. The memo was sent to all Unity employees on January 8.

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