Professional I.T. guy, union actor, hobby comedian and closet rap-battler.

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.worksOPtosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Requests for all:* page 2 timeout.
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    4 months ago

    I’m so sorry for my delay. Just had a hell of a weekend at work and only just resurfaced.

    To give you some more detail (it might not be good enough for QA but I’ll try)…

    Blorp 1.9.4, Pixel 7, Android 16.

    I mentioned in the title of the OP that the issue occurs when browsing All/* (New/Hot/Active).

    For Blorp, the issue presents after I load All/anything, then scroll through the feed until it stops, I assume it should have infinite scroll, I keep gesturing ‘up’ (to scroll down more), but no more posts appear.

    I can scroll back up to the top and gesture ‘down’ to make it refresh and it does, but just the initial 50 posts then no more

    I assume 50 posts is the first-page fetch.

    My initial post was also triggered by my experience in Boost, which actually shows a ‘timeout’ error popup, about 30-60s after scrolling to the end of the first page-feed.

    Lemme know if you need more details.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy Guides•Creator of HaveIBeenPwned Data Breach Site Falls for Phishing EmailEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Heh yeah they’re getting better.

    One day working in I.T. at a bank, I received an email that was formatted and written really convincingly that someone has referred me for a bigger role with a salary bump, with light/abstract details that could ‘be inferred as’ relevant to my country, sector & role. It just asked to click-through to see the opportunity-

    -which popped-up a warning from the company’s I.T. security that this was a phishing testing/training email, and I’d failed.

    I usually evade a phish, but this slightly-targeted one got me good.

    After that I had to ritualistically double-check potentially legitimate emails from external domains, for sketchy domains/short URLs/links/tracking cookies etc, because they included vendors & 3rd party consultants or contractors we were working with.

    At least (the) God(s) know scammers are bad people.

    Heh.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your profession?
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    1 year ago

    Software/solutions consultant, and union actor.

    I mean I was. I mean I am. I dunno. 20 years in I.T. starting from programming to a ‘senior tech consultant’. But was then made redundant. Didn’t get a job straight away. Started working at my girlfriend’s bar as a bartender & server.

    That was over a year ago. 60+ applications for jobs in I.T.; zero interviews. WTF.

    I’m trying to work out why & what to fix, but for now? I’m a server & actor.

    I’m reading and tinkering with technologies but not nearly enough. And will have to explain the gap in employment.

    It’s getting harder to resist the urge to panic and break down.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Toronto non-profit building tiny homes for unhoused
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    1 year ago

    I saw one out front of our business, on Front St Toronto, and several lined up along the edge of one of our downtown parks.

    The information on the home and from the guy talking to by-standers is that there’s a bicycle on the front of it - so it’s apparently allowed to stop “anywhere” because “it’s a bike”. No opinion on that, just repeating what I heard.

    Our owner had a chat with parking enforcement because it was during summer - CafeTO - and was taking up one of the few parking spaces nearby. Parking said (at the time) that they couldn’t do anything/don’t know what to do.

    No opinion here, just answering the previous two comments.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•I want to learn how to code
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that sounds like a good path!

    I used to love advanced math, physics and game coding, so I’ve revisited the 'Landers several times over the years (a day here and there in the middle of life/emigrating/careers).

    If you also Google for solutions to the 'Landers you’ll find people have done hardcore analysis and genetic algorithms!

    (cough like this)

    Next mission: somehow hack UE5 into CodinGame and let it sort it out.

  • GeekMan@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•I want to learn how to code
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    1 year ago

    To add to the list, Codingame.com

    It wouldn’t be the first thing to try. Get the basics down on your own machine/environment. Try this for something additional.

    CodinGame gives you the IDE and build environment in your browser, so it’s for learning/practicing/testing coding knowledge without building/deploying locally, or worrying about UI/persistence/networking etc.

    It’s filled with coding puzzles and competitions. I started where they give you animated scenarios (to look like part of a game or engine), and you contribute a small, missing unit of code to complete the challenge.

    You can choose from 25 languages, they encourage unit-testing, and there are global coding competitions and company outreach to top coders. I don’t wanna say they gamified it… but they did.

    But once you’re comfortable with those, CodinGame lets you practice different concepts & algorithms without having to come up with the bigger systems around them.

    I’ve loved it for getting back to coding after a while, tinkering with certain concepts, or trying other languages.

    I’m not affiliated with it. Just loved the idea & execution. Except for Mars Lander III challenge. That can get @#$&ed.