Office window open at work and I can hear Scotland the Brave in the distance. I do like it when all the pipe bands come to Glasgow and practice across the city ahead of the pipe band championship.

No users. No bugs. Right?

Spent $300k on a healthcare app that nobody uses https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1mmlnvl/spent_300k_on_a_healthcare_app_that_nobody_uses/

Joke aside, it seems you spent money to build an app without ever consulting end users and you failed to understand what functionality they would want. This is the problem. It is an expensive lesson for sure. EDIT: added screenshots in case post gets deleted or some folks may not want to visit the Reddit especially vpn users who are blocked out by default without account.

@snaprails Morrisons are getting sneakier hiding the hole in their custard doughnuts, with often annoying results.

@MLE_online I remember the good old days in sci.eartquakes and sci.space to name but two

Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather unique take on what is considered a bug.

#netbsd

Can't believe that the carbon monoxide alarm ran out of battery at the reasonable time of 18:00 rather than the normal time of 05:30

@ibrahimtencer Adding a word or two is NOT an inconvenience. Not doing so is just LAZINESS and not caring about your followers. A post like:

WOW, this is great! and a link tells you NOTHING.

It could be: WOW, this is great. Aircraft: LINK

This is not rocket science.

@jachym I'm not sure what they are but they look delicious

@scudderfish do they not unscrew?

MothBox, a low-cost open source automated invertebrate monitoring device, is looking for local vendors to start manufacturing an off-the-shelf unit

https://www.openscienceshop.org/join-the-mothbox-working-group-for-our-first-meeting/?ref=open-science-shop-blog-newsletter

#Mothbox

@kestral
New govt position: Using a VPN results in the direct death of penguins.

Narrator voice: It was, in fact, 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap.

Aging as a software person is awful. Nobody remembers anything from 2 years ago let alone 2 decades ago so you're constantly going "WHY DID THEY MAKE THAT AGAIN IT WAS AWFUL" with ever increasing frequency.

Yes, "liquid glass" is a terrible effect for the same reason that fully transparent phones are the least desirable kind of interface you could have. Paper makers have spent hundreds of years trying to make the thing you read on as opaque as possible because it turns out EYES NEED CONTRAST TO READ

Python Script to add hundreds of basemaps as XYZ to #QGIS

https://github.com/opengeos/qgis-basemaps?tab=readme-ov-file

@tankgrrl Even the Washington State Department of Natural Resources was shitposting about this

To: All staff <staff@example.com>
Subject: [URGENT] Email deletion

If you have any old email in your inbox from Frederick Ironsides, late of the Accounting department, please delete them all immediately. A soul is tied to the mortal realm as long as its name is recorded, and we are unable to access the Compactus while this apparatus remains haunted. Your immediate attention to this would be appreciated, as it is obstructing the processing of payroll.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

@apLundell I can remember when Netflix used to compete on it's selection/recommendation algorithm. Now, it randomly recommends things I've already watched, stuff other people are watching and whatever cheap films that Netflix has made. But it does have a less than 90 minutes list that's useful for old fogies like me.

This is, to put it mildly, utter bullshit.

You can store a decade of email for a million people—call it 10-20Gb each—in a 10-20Tb NAS box that costs about £2000 and sucks less electricity than a laptop.

The environment agency are gaslighting us. One wonders who put them up to it?
https://social.lol/@robb/115016579150112511

Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list” 1-866-786-5972

Platform 11 has seen some shit.