I like the implication that the AI screening saw “vengeance” and decided they were worthy for short listing.

I like the implication that the interviewer saw it in the job application and decided to invite them to a formal interview before even mentioning it.

Ah, interesting. Thinking about it, do they have vanity plates? If so then all my arguments are invalid.

Currently there is a system. One number, three letters, three numbers. So no chance of mixing up certain characters. If you introduce a different system you will need to make sure you know what system is being used. With your plan you could get a plate that looks exactly like the old system except it’s using 0 instead of O.

I suspect there is also a lot of benefit in knowing where numbers and letters will be for having more accurate plate recognition cameras.

The issue is probably that those I, O, Z, and Ss are already on plates since the system is different?

If you’re looking for answers, then any post in a community with a good spread of subscribers will get noticed. It doesn’t need to be currently active.

Heaps of people browse All. And Lemmy is small enough that most of the time posts will get seen, the content doesn’t get buried particularly fast.

I recommend Findroid as well! You can download and play within the app, much closer to a netflix experience.

Sounds like you didn’t believe you could fly.

I just really want to see where the numbers come from.

You know people self hosting email, I know people self hosting email. But that is certainly not the case for the vast, vast majority of individuals. For businesses, I have seen Exchange take over what used to be smaller hosts, and Google has broken into the small/medium business world as well. I have searched and searched and found nothing, but I don’t see why it should be so hard to do. Obtain a list of email addresses from some data breach (I dunno how but I’m sure security researchers do it all the time) then check their DNS to see what proportion point at big tech. My gut feel is that it’s a large proportion, but maybe that’s just the corner I work in.

email can be run using hundreds of servers on dozens of platforms even from your own house and interact with the email network.

It’s nice that it can, but the point of this list is is that what actually happens for the majority of people?

And from my experience, the answer is no, the vast majority of people use Microsoft or Google.

This claim is “Top Provider User Share: Google ≈ 17% → Score: 27/30”

Where does this number come from? Gmail alone claims 1.5 billion active users. Outlook.com has 500 million. But then you have to start adding up all the email users worldwide that are using services hosted by Microsoft (all the Exchange business customers), and the google customers as well (that may or may not be included in the Gmail figures). Then there are all the ISP email addresses that use these services as the provider.

I find it hard to believe that email is as decentralised as claimed here, and I’m really keen to see more data on how it was calculated.

The reason I find it so hard to believe is that when Microsoft fucks up (and given time they always do), a significant portion of the business customers I deal with get affected.

The process manager lets you kill any process.

You can also click the do it anyway button when it’s waiting on shutdown, but I’ve had less consistent success with that.

What surprises me is that they count using an email service as self-hosting. With that logic wouldn’t bluesky get a high score because people can bring their own domain easily?

Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!

Not to mention that you can drill into the data using them.

If that is your most unnecessary comment then you must not comment very much because it seems helpful and well placed.

I tend to find we more tech savvy people vastly overestimate how tech savvy the average person is.

However, I suspect you are right about the people interested in home automation eventually hitting that point and coming across Home Assistant.

Home Assistant have done a great job reducing the barrier to entry. Significant improvements in UI editors and all but removing the need for any YAML config for an average user. Plus the Home Assistant Yellow and Green meaning you no longer need to know how to set up a server and can instead buy a hub off the shelf. Surely these efforts are a big part of why the number of installations has increased so much.

You sound like you know your LibreOffice.

My experience is they are quite different but I’ve been able to do the same things for the most part.

But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?

Yeah perhaps. I don’t have a Spotify connect device so can’t try it.

I quite like having the LLM, and listening to all the weird questions the kids ask.

As I understand it you can also use a locally running LLM. But that requires power my Raspberry Pi 4 doesn’t have.

I’m not sure if Music Assistant has the capability yet, but I presume you could have a no-LLM version if you could trigger a search and to play the first song found.

I’ve been using Home Assistant for a couple of years (from memory I think it was soon after joining Lemmy I was convinced to set it up), and I have to say they have made great progress. It’s amazing to see them double their active installations from 1 to 2 million in one year, that’s awesome for what feels like a very niche product.

The progress on voice in particular is amazing. With a Voice preview, OpenAI, and Music Assist, my kids can start music where they only know some words and not the name of the song.

The only complaint is wake word detection isn’t great with our accent. My wife swears it’s sexist, she thinks it only listens if she puts on a male voice 😅

I’m not sure what others see as the context of the meme, but in my experience it’s normally when you are fiddling with it, but you never expect it to be the problem because it seems so simple.

There are many reasons you might need to fiddle with is. The most obvious is when you move your server to a new computer, it might get a new IP address. But your browser might cache the old address. Your computer might cache it. Your DNS server might cache it (like the rest of the internet, there is not one big DNS server but many smaller ones - most non-technical people would be using one provided by their internet provider). It might not be working and you presume it’s a problem with the new server but actually it’s the DNS.

But also DNS as a system is also used for things that are not directly related to looking up a domain name. For example, when sending an email, there are many checks on the receiving side to ensure that the email is actually coming from somewhere that is allowed to send an email from that domain name. I can send an email to you from bill@microsoft.com, but it would go straight to spam because it would fail those checks. DNS records are used to authorise servers that can send email on behalf of that domain. And just generally DNS is used for proving domain ownership (for example, it’s one method to get a certificate from Let’s Encrypt to allow secure connections to your website).