mastodon 4.7.2+glitchFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Biologist & educator in the Netherlands. I've got a column somewhere but I'll never tell. I like (palaeo)botany, anthropology, free & open software, Chinese tea, old hifi tech and writing alt text. He/him.
Join the no ai webring maybe?
https://baccyflap.com/noai
after a few years of good colour grading, #ForAllMankind goes on the list of shows that I have to watch with brightening filters so I can actually see the characters crying at each other. Also on the list of shows that I will stop watching soon because it has finally become enough of a soap opera for me to give up on it
@bluebudgie@mastodon.art made these great #stickers. Currently discussing with my partner who gets which
I limit my work interactions with #Microsoft 's online environment as much as I can, but each endeavour is an infernal voyage of horrific discovery. I get a few emails a day about spam emails held in quarantine. Now, these are all very obvious spam emails so I'd like to label them all as definitely spam and block the senders, but of course, this can only be done one at a time and the time between clicking an email, getting past the loading spinner and finally getting to click the three dot menu to block the sender and then hitting 'confirm' takes close to 15 seconds. Not doing that for thirty days' worth of emails, so I guess I'm just deleting them and I'll keep getting spam. Microsoft then asks me if my users are protected from phishing attacks - I don't have users, so no idea why I'm getting that notification. I hit 'delete' on all emails and it takes a baffling 90 seconds for the emails to disappear. I go looking for a way to disable the constant emails about the quarantine... no dice, of course. I log out after a fifteen minute struggle, right back where I started.
How people work with this shit every day is beyond me. Just the sloppiest, messiest, most unreliable system, working against you every step of the way. If we have to suffer the indignity of the existence of trillion dollar companies, at least have them make some 'you have to hand it to them'-style usable software - but even that's too much to ask, I guess.
A coworker has sent me a message in Microsoft #Teams! Time to open this message - only a few hundred bytes worth of text, it'll just take a sec... oh
Did an upgrade on Ubuntu MATE, rebooted while anticipating whatever fresh hell awaited after this particular upgrade and it's... the keyboard going completely unrecognised. Always something. Gets picked up by GNOME, not by MATE.
Got there in the end by digging through the fora and finding that installing xserver-xorg-input-all does the trick. Why and how, I am sure I will never understand.
Was making up a joke song and discovered that there is no animal that rhymes with 'stone'. any suggestions