DV8

@ DV8 @lemmy.world

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3 yr. ago

3w ago

Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?
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DV8 @lemmy.world 3w ago
Euthanasia is accepted and has been legal in Belgium for decades. It's not perfect but clearly better than nothing as it has stopped many people from needlessly suffering or worse, forcing their loved ones to discover their bodies after doing it themselves. (Though it still happens as many, many things aren't covered or extremely hard)

2mo ago

Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

Not disputing it's buggy for you. It's not buggy for me though. Using it on my android phone, AAOS in the car, android TV, and two windows machines.

The only thing not working properly for me is the Yamaha Musicast implementation, and ofcourse their stupid refusal to let me choose my own language for the app.

2mo ago

Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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DV8 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Ah, never really used folders but in retrospect it does sound like a cool feature.

Missing songs for me was like 1 to 2%, and usually relatively easy to solve by looking for the songs myself. Some songs were different versions, but that's probably less than 1%.

2mo ago

Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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DV8 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Honestly the importing of all my playlists went perfectly well using Soundiiz. 15 years of playlists over with minimal loss in less than an hour.

2mo ago

Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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DV8 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I have opened one. They simply don't reply. But should try again I suppose.

2mo ago

Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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DV8 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I'm very happy with Qobuz. Switched over last year after 15 years of Spotify. The price is a little higher but it has more High quality recordings. Plus they give more money to artists per stream, and actively try to work against AI slop.

The biggest downside is that they don't let you choose your language. (That they think everyone on Belgium speaks French is even worse since most people in Belgium actually speak Dutch)

3mo ago

Brits detained in Iran receive 10-year prison sentence, family says

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DV8 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

These kinds of sham trials and convictions purely happen because the government of those people have arrested and convicted Iranian spies and/or assassins. They'll only ever be released in exchange for those. Like what Iran did for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asadollah_Asadi

3mo ago

He at it again

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DV8 @lemmy.world 3mo ago

The original art of this is by https://kilkennycat.art/links/. Her art gets stolen for shirts and stuff all the time, so do please credit her.

4mo ago

Isack Hadjar on what he learned from his podium

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

The new regulations are probably his best shot for that.

4mo ago

Glad she found the right people to love her 🥹

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

I totally agree that adopting is a big responsibility. Still, personalities don't always fully come out in the shelter. We adopted a 15 year old to give him a golden basket. We were told he's calm while withdrawn, while still at ease around other cats. What we got was a 15 year old acting like 2 year old. Absolutely races through the house and wants to play a lot with the other cats to the point they get annoyed, and is constantly and aggressively trying to steal from our plates. Frequently gets the zoomies at four in the morning which can result in facelicking. Still love him ofcourse, but I can imagine it's harder to deal with if you're in your 70's and expected a cat that at least doesn't try to use your legs as tree trunks on the way to food. Trying to find a family that matches the kitty's personality doesn't mean you're a bad person imo. Throwing them on the street is evil of course.

4mo ago

Anon and Rusty

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

I get the joke, but last time my girlfriend went away for a couple of days, the cats were basically all over her when she sat down. Even the ones that don't particularly tolerate the others being too close were fine with it at that point.

4mo ago

'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

That sounds like GitHub Copilot though.

4mo ago

Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

They are desperate. I literally had a sales person reach out to ask how she could help us use copilot more because they can see literally nobody is using it despite a limited amount of usage is included in our M365 business standard licences. This after me already making a ticket to stop the behaviour of the home page automatically loading the copilot page instead of the classic home page with the overview I want to land on.

4mo ago

Today in “Google Broke Email”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Honestly if anything he should focus on creating a solution where he can have DKIM active. He has dmarc and SPF, but not DKIM.

4mo ago

Today in “Google Broke Email”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

I've read through the post and the comments again, and it's also that he doesn't seem to want to train his users. They're familiar with Gmail so he wants them to be able to use it. His users probably use their mailbox as an archive, and he doesn't want to train them into understanding this is a bad idea, and he doesn't want the hassle of dealing with ever increasing mail storage. At my previous job, we had Exchange Online, so 50 GB of storage. I was still explaining to my users, they should store their handled mails in archives if they wanted to be sure they would always have them. (Obviously stored on parts of their hard drives set up to synch to the fileserver which had daily backups)

All of these things are normal parts of an admin's responsibilities. The only reason he's getting away with his setup is because he owns the business and there's been nobody there for the past 20 years to explain this would lead to problems down the line. (Or if there have been, he's conveniently ignoring that)

Now they're here, he's blaming Google for what is probably the least evil thing they've done this year.

4mo ago

Today in “Google Broke Email”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

I admit I know nothing about him apart from the linked wiki page elsewhere. But nothing I read there seems to indicate he can be a good admin.

What you state he wants to achieve is what ignorant managers sometimes say they want without understanding how silly it is. I was in IT twenty years ago already, while still being green and unbearded, and even then this would have been an extremely bad and dumb idea.

4mo ago

Today in “Google Broke Email”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

You forgot to add that he obviously refuses to hire an actual IT admin to do IT admin stuff.

4mo ago

Today in “Google Broke Email”

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DV8 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Being good in one thing doesn't make you good in something else. He is an inexcusably bad IT admin. The devs I work with don't ask for my opinion on code and if they would, it would probably sound nice to someone who doesn't know shit, but it'd still be a dumb opinion. Likewise I don't ask for their opinion on how to create our IT infrastructure (beyond of course asking their requirements for testing servers and such). If they have an opinion on it, it's generally not very coherent or founded in reality. Like the complaints of this guy. Though they're generally not this dumb.