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Cake day: 2023年6月12日

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  • what has meta done that was good

    Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: “call mom” and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It’s a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.

    Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like “this is an amazing device, but don’t get it because fuck Facebook.”

    Now it’s been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.

    And there’s been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it’s peerless.

    There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.




  • JIRA, and Atlassian

    Since one makes the other, it’s like saying “Rav4 and Toyota”. I’m assuming you mean Confluence (aka Flatulence; or Confluenza for the stress-based sickness from watching the spinning please-wait-web-loading symbol too much).

    using salesforce, JIRA, and [Confluence]

    Quit it.

    No one uses those tools; they get used by the tools. They’re slow, cloud-based, usually under-budgeted for the great gobby java blob-wrangling clown shows they are.

    If you’re asking deadline-driven engineers to use a slow cloud app like that, with their caffeine levels, and invite real feedback without fear of penalty, you’re going to get some interesting opinions. Please, try to find something more usable for the non-deadline-helping work-tangents like documentation; which are important, but not on-fire-important like every other bloody thing on the list.


  • Tracking down why all that junk exists and if its still required can take a staggering amount of time. Trying to juggle that with your day to day is…not practical.

    Yes. Please deep-dive into it all and then schedule a long, slow sit-down, regarding the Morton mod, but also be prepared to justify why the Penske Project is behind the arbitrary and impossible schedule some DeVry grad has already set for you.

    (I suspect OP will find a lot of “in what fucking time?!?” concerns when it comes to knowledge ‘synch’ or documenting, since neither of those are billable endeavours and no one wants a deadline for the next project crushed because of the prep and meetings justifying the time over-run for the last project)