The first Ghost busters movie

I saw scenes of it at six years old and some of them were really scary if you are too young. For weeks I had nightmares about chairs grabbing me with demon arms or demon dogs trying to eat me.

Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ (hear an audio sample)) is inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge.

Or simply for-jay-oh

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 3 months ago

Please don't call yourself stupid. The common internet slang for that is ELI5 or "explain [it] like I'm 5 [years old]".

I'll also try to explain it:

Docker is a way to run a program on your machine, but in a way that the developer of the program can control.
It's called containerization and the developer can make a package (or container) with an operating system and all the software they need and ship that directly to you.

You then need the software docker (or podman, etc.) to run this container.

Another advantage of containerization is that all changes stay inside the container except for directories you explicitly want to add to the container (called volumes).
This way the software can't destroy your system and you can't accidentally destroy the software inside the container.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 4 months ago

Disney consored Gravity Falls a lot before the episodes even aired. Alex Hirsch (the creator) had constant trouble for even some minor things.

The funniest bit was, when they had a flyer that literally said "not S&P approved", because S&P (standards and practices) wouldn't approve the flyer saying "bottles will be spun".

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[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 8 months ago

The year is 2024.
It's weird out there for developers. Some of barely scrape by, others live in prosperity.

I myself found a discord server, where I was given 10 grand to flame Kim Jong Un. The contract ended shortly after for I cannot program.

Now I am sitting here in the dim light of my PC, scouring the web for another grand opportunity of flaming some asshole for money.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 177 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Imagine paying money to see 2 fucking ads before a video.

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The day the phones went down (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/talesfromtechsupport@lemmy.world

This story is a few tears old, but I'll try to remember all the fun parts.

Back then I was working with a company that among other stuff also outsourced telephone services to customers. So they would get their phones from us, all the infrastructure, we did all the technical stuff with the ISP, got everyone their extension and call groups etc.

We had only a hand full of customer who used this service from us, but or company itself of course also relied on it.

Most parts of the infrastructure were customer specific except one. The main entrance/exit server (+backup) into/out of our datacenter. But for our cause, they were so oversized, that no amount of traffic would even be closely able to bring them down. (Or were they)

On usual days we would handle maybe 50-100 external calls simultaneously. Cause remember, those servers were to the outside. All other traffic would not touch them. The servers were (according to the specs) able to do 4000 simultaneous calls.

To the day of the incident. It began around 8 in the morning. We would get a few incidents reporting calls not being established, which we brushed off at first, cause it was more probable that the other site was at fault.

Later one of our customers also opened up incidents reporting this in mass. At this point, we were getting a little worried and looked into the logs. What we found was not fun. Much to our dismay, we saw that we had around 7000 simultaneous calls trying to bomb our system. Most of which were trying to reach one specific customers call center.

After a while we found out that this customer had a countrywide mandatory survey they didn't tell us about. For this survey an external call center was hired to handle all the calls.

We hopped into a call with them and found out a few things: They were expecting about 15-20k calls a day, and their contract said something about "up to 2k" and when questioned, how that would work, they told us about a specific rule in their contract with their ISP. This rule meant that all calls above the 2k limit would get a "number is busy" kinda answer and had to wait or hang up.

We called the ISP. They just told us (and the customer in the same call): "Yeah, we sell that feature, but that doesn't really work and mostly isn't even used..."

So the ISP broke their contract but were to big to fail and the customer didn't tell us enough, but was angry our stuff didn't work.

End of the story was, that we rerouted all the calls directly to the call center and then the call numbers dropped back to a few hundred.

Edit: Survey was mandatory.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How do you have 25 upvotes? Everything you wrote is wrong.

Linus said, that the rust infrastructure is not stable, is positive about AIs future and happy, that NVIDIA had to step up their open source game.

And even the interviewer mentioned, that the "I only care about the kernel" quote WILL be taken out of context.

And he answered even implied questions...

Once had a coworker come to office an hour later than planned saying "Sorry, had to say goodbye to my gf".

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/dach@feddit.de

Die CDU macht grade eine offene Umfrage zum Verbrennerverbot. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich. Da könnt ihr ja auch mal abstimmen, vielleicht bringt es was.

Diese Umfrage ist massiv manipuliert worden. Zehntausende Stimmen sind automatisiert abgegeben worden. Das ist völlig inakzeptabel. Die Umfrage ist daher abgeschaltet worden. Wir stehen als CDU für einen fairen Wahlkampf

I absolutely hate people naming their program with a word that existed before. At least call it Allpaca ffs. How should I search for errors or stuff in general?

VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.

Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.

Mozilla VPN vor Mullvad

I mean, Mozilla VPN is Mullvad, so yeah. You can trust Mullvad.

Yeah, it's not too helpful, but maybe they have no more data. If you want to know more, go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter you e-mail. They maybe know, where your data came from.

Otherwise: Do you have a different and random password for each site? If yes, change your gmail password (in as it was gmail itself) and then watch the news, if a site you use was hacked. If you don't have different password for each site... Well then you are gonna have a fun day changing all you passwords to new ones. And use a password manager and a new random password for each site this time, please.

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