Discoverability issues as per yesterdays search giants methods of crawling the web.

It’s quite clear that companies like Google and Microsoft are vulnerable in the search game right now.

I mean in the end you’re probably right, but if there were ever a time for a well-funded group to take aim at the suddenly low barriered entry, I think this is probably Custer’s last stand.

Their procurement policy is basically “has it been recommended? Is anyone else using it? Is it cheap?”

I work in public sector.

Three things.

1. Yes. Sometimes this is malice. Sometimes this is an attempt to drive impressions and page views.

2. This can also be caused by poorly configured web applications that update in real time. If, say, some sports website is giving you real-time data about the game as it progresses, a poorly configured web application might be creating a dynamic URL for every change. When you access the older page, it will be instructed to take you to the most recent data, so pressing back is taking you to old data on that page, and then immediately realizing that data is old so refreshing it with the most relevant data.

3. This is a super common misconfiguration in single page web applications. Domain.com will take you to an application that renders at domain.com/en-us/home. Pressing back takes you to domain.com, and guess what happens next?

This is basically 99.99% of these cases. I would say if its on some shitty news site with 1000 ads that somehow sneak by AdBlock and UBlok Origin, it’s case 1. Otherwise, it’s case 2 or 3.

The picture instance is either case 1 or 2.

Market to tax funded institutions. If you can market “self hosted” as cheaper and easier than mother solutions you’ll have guaranteed clients for a long time.

Ubuntu is a good idea to get the new one of the best ones in the world and the other one is a little bit of a lot of people who are like a lot of people who are like that and I don’t know what to do with it but I don’t know what to do with it but I think they are going to be a good day to go to the store.

Smells like toast.

HONK

9 vibes all day

Not sure how it holds up legally… But I am very strongly of the option that If my health care is tied to my employment, then anything healthcare related is work related.

I only make calls for this shit on the clock. I haven’t pushed not using sick time yet, but I will once I get the WFH shit sorted.

Today someone barged into the IT helpdesk to bug a support rep to bug me (I’m helpdesk adjacent).

This would be fine, except, two weeks ago:

“Hey [person], making sure I’m clear about our meeting. Did you want this? (Screenshot of proposal of what we had discussed). And as for the other thing, is it something we can export (from this 3rd party you all paid money for without consulting IT)?”

Hey foggy what’s the status on the (3rd, unrelated) thing we discussed?

"Hey [person],

(Screenshot)

Is this the thing? It doesn’t seem to have everything you’d said it would. If I found the wrong thing can you tell me where the right thing is so I can address 3rd thing?"

2 WEEK SILENCE

Fucking barge in here like I owe you something. Answer my fucking questions or set up a meeting, dickwad. Ugh. Bad day, man. Bad day.

Our emails that followed

Hey foggy you seemed busy, is there a time we could meet to discuss?

"Hey person, as per my previous email:

[Copy and paste first email]

Can you answer this question please?"

Sorry I’m bad with technology. Here’s that answer

"Great thank you. Can you please address this?

[Copy and paste second email]"

Oh I’m not sure foggy let me ask I’ll get back to you

“Ok did you still need to meet?”

Haha public sector. Union. You’d be surprised who needs Network Admins/Engineers, Webmasters, Security Analysts/Engineers, Tech support.

If it has a union, and you have some financial wiggle room, take low pay. Get in that union. Argue like hell for competitive wages for your role. Profit.

Yeah, nothing that’ll take > ~4-5 hrs, for sure. Especially if anything else is on my plate.

🙂 I’m responsive if the request is clear. I make sure to subtly train people I’m in frequent contact with to send me requests in ways that will get them done in, usually, <5 minutes.

But SO many requests are, quickly, responded to with questions to get the necessary info to do it quickly. And these folks are usually not as fast to respond as I am, so… No SLA breach, waiting on requestor.

I am adamant about not beginning a new task with less than 2 hours remaining in the day unless the task will take less than 15 minutes.

Especially true for Fridays.

I use end of day time to prep for the next day so I can come in and hit the ground running. Faux-start the task up until you’d actually do work.

That being said, I’ll be clocking out in about 1.5 hours. Which is why I’m posting to Lemmy 😁

It says 1.8M and they doesn’t wanna disclose their identity.

That’s why I downloaded the top 250 non-text posts from 250 different pornographic subreddit when they announced the API bullshit over a year ago. I got an old man style static spank bank like playboy magazines in the 70s on my home server for safe keeping.

I should probably scrape the top 250 from this past year from my favorite 20 or so subs manually or find some automated way that still works 🤔

This is the way.

If they paywall their porn, the site tumblrs off a cliff.

Ready locked up! 🥺

The kiosks are basically what keeps them afloat. All other fast food places are following suit due to their overwhelming financial success.

https://youtu.be/BKX6EhDrgqQ

I hate the kiosks. But, they are money makers.

As much as I agree that they create shitty experience, they generate so much more dollars per order than having a human take the order that they are never going to leave.