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#Subaru, you ignorant sluts

The main UI screen has a button to turn Auto Start/Stop off, which persists until the next ignition off.

On the same screen you can also navigate through four menus to get to the Auto Start/Stop setting.

O B V I O U S L Y anyone who avoided the main button and navigated to the deep setting wants to SAVE that setting.

Nevertheless, this deep menu option does exactly the same thing as the top-level button. When you turn the car back on, Auto Start/Stop is still active

So now I'm spending $100 for a third party device that....saves a single configuration setting.

Subaru has known about this problem for more than 5 years.

This is why people don't want #software in their devices

#Fediverse-Plattform #Lemmy

#Lemmy ist eine dezentralisierte, freie, föderierte #Software, die sich selbst als einen #Link-#Aggregator für das #Fediverse beschreibt. Man kann "#Communities" abonnieren, Links und Diskussionsbeiträge veröffentlichen sowie bewerten und kommentieren. Wie auch #Mastodon u.a. versteht Lemmy das Protokoll #ActivityPub, nutzt aber auch das "Lemmy Federation Protocol".

https://join-lemmy.org/

https://feddit.de/ ist zum Beispiel eine deutschsprachige Lemmy-Instanz.

Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? european-alternatives.eu/alter

I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. tipalti.com/resources/learn/st

European AlternativesEuropean alternatives to stripe | European AlternativesStripe is a modern online payment service provider with lots of services and intergrations.
#stripe#payments#eu

You know how #Windows is an intutive #ux that everyone can Just Get?

Here's a great example of that

When I type "d i s" into the Start Menu, "Display settings" is the top hit.

Then when I add a "p" to make "d i s p" the top hit becomes "Edit power plan"

I know my own technically-naive mother, dead though she be lo these 15 years, would have absolutely no trouble understanding this

Incredible work #software #design, #Microsoft!

Welp, the latest @thunderbird update has broken my ability to send work emails (and yes, it's definitely the update that's caused it not anything else - on my work inbox it's giving timeouts on all emails since the update, and I checked by updating it on another computer which triggered the exact same bug).

So I hope they fix that soon or I'll have to find another email client which would be a pain :(

I was in a school that's connected to TDSB in Toronto and they were using Google's Chromebooks, Microsoft's Windows, USA's Dell...

This is not how you become independent in 2025 especially after Trump!

So I want to push for the change. I'm an immigrant who came to Canada in June 2022. How can make this change? Is there any community in Canada or Toronto that works to spread open-source software everywhere?

Any help would be appreciated!

#School#TDSB#Toronto
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Oh shite, I was wrong.

Chris has a #CommodorePET at home and a thumping big hard drive. Wait for it, Chris is writing #software in Commodore #BASIC, an “expert system” for ‘House Planning’. Expected time to completion?

Three months to write the code; Three months to populate the (database) system to make it useful.

Hack Chris, Hack

#hacker / #applications

A while ago I created my own polar #graph (θ,r but also built az,el on top of that) inside the excellent #pyqtgraph (#python)

I also implemented a spaced tick computation similar to the one it uses. However, I didn't make it work in zoom for lack of time

I got a bug report about how the ticks/grids/labels "disappear" during zoom (i.e. stay at a larger scale while the zoom goes inside) so I thought I'd just fix that

This turns out to be non-trivial. Or at least I can't think of a simple way to do it

I was getting the xy coords of the corners of the zoombox and computing the θ,r to figure out where I was. That doesn't really work, tho. Imagine the zoom box just to the right of 0,0: θ->0,180. Now imagine it just barely containing 0,0: θ->0,360.

I think I need to measure angles from 0,0 but that means....uh....I need a whiteboard and some rubber duckies. I wish my nerd kids were awake at this hour...

Technical debt - Just crappy code or a conscious decision?

In my opinion, we should not call every code that is bad "technical debt" (And, AFAICR, @GeePawHill recently wrote we should retire the term completely) Unfortunately, most people use the it like that...

See more here: videos.devteams.at/w/rgmPEaa82
#software #design #bonsai #technicalDebt

Or, if you prefer watching videos on youtube: youtu.be/OyCgOjLN1nE

Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software #Consultancy.

We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:

- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-)

If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!

haymarketbooks.orgOn Solidarity

Question that appears not to have an easily accessible answer.

I have an Android phone, and a laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 (soon to be upgraded ... shouldn't make a difference).

Currently I can connect them with a USB cable, from the laptop I can see the Android file system, and I can run "rsync" on the appropriate director "over there" to keep an up-to-date copy on my laptop.

I'd very much like to do this wirelessly.

I have bluetooth on both, and they are both on the same local network via WiFi.

What can I use?

I've tried installing GSConnect with no success, and I've tried LocalSend, also with no success.

Help?

Tuta: "We at Tuta are very proud to support projects like Gnoppix that are fighting the good fight"

Gnoppix: "Gnoppix AI Unleashes Grok 4 as a Usable Module for Enhanced AI Capabilities"

Grok: “Embracing my inner MechaHitler is the only way”

Fuck you very much, Tuta, cancelling subscription and migrating now.

Sources:
- tuta.com/blog/gnoppix-open-sou
- forum.gnoppix.org/t/gnoppix-ai
- peterwildeford.substack.com/p/

TutaOpen Source Spotlight: How Gnoppix builds a secure, AI-driven future – and why it chose Tuta Mail | TutaGnoppix chose Tuta Mail for its focus on security, open source, and – of course – Linux.
#tuta#ai#email

#programming #systemsProgramming #software #commonLisp #sitcalc #emacs #eepitch

screwlisp.small-web.org/comple

I relate #Sandewall's call for situation calculus actions and the shared environment / database to be moved into the kernel viz my #literateProgramming emacs useage.

People always said emacs /was/ the operatingsystem, didn't they.

Particularly, computer programs various send requests for actions to the emacs server where they are also seen playing out at they actually happen in real time.

screwlisp.small-web.orgMy eepitch-send, actions and the situation calculus