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In a GitHub ticket viewed by WIRED, Lavingia also suggested abandoning Drupal, a content management system (CMS) that the VA uses for publishing updates and information about the agency and the services it provides on VA facility websites. “I think we should consider removing Drupal as part of our workflow, and all content should just live in the codebase,” he wrote.

Sources say that the regular office administrators and health workers staffed at VA locations around the country are often the ones responsible for making sure that the content about their facilities are clear and up to date on their VA webpages. Instead of being able to log in to the CMS and update the appropriate text or pages, Lavingia’s suggestion would mean they’d need to go into the actual code of the website to make simple changes. Any mistakes could break the sites, and one source worried that such a technical task would be too big of an ask for nontechnical VA staffers.

Man they just keep trying to fuck shit up, don’t they?

The second half of the article talks about how the apps get around this permission requirement.

Usually they just disable all the hdmi ports except for cable and don’t bother to lock the final hdmi port to a specific device. So long as you have a long hdmi cable and nimble hands, it’s not too much effort to just pull out the cable hdmi and put in your own.

Directly to the clients from the already self-hosted server, exactly like all the other media hosting software does. Lmao.

You’re giving an incredibly large allowance for companies that have continuously calculated exactly how much they can fuck over their customers for more money before we decide to use some other product.

they need an anti-bullshit step that doesn’t currently exist.

This will never exist in a complete form. Wikipedia doesn’t have this solved; randomly generated heuristics will certainly never have it either.

I think it’s iphone stage. We’ve had predictive text in some form or other for a long time now. But that’s just LLMs. Can’t speak for the image/video generators, but I expect those will become another tool in the box that gets better but does the same thing.

I just can’t see a whole lot of improvement in these products making any changes top how we use them already.

shouldn’t Newegg of all places

Heads up; newegg has been shit for returns for about ten years now. Their monitor return policy in particular is notorious for being bad.

Probably for video streaming. If you’re only ever downloading large amounts of read-once content, you don’t actually need to save any of it.

Besides actively donating to the union, various causes which slow the end times such as wikipedia, keeping my emissions low, planting trees in my yard, and taking care of family members in need, you mean? I’m posting goddamn memes that aren’t spreading rage inducing bullshit.

I’m well aware that things aren’t as good as they could be. I’m damn well doing what I can to make my little slice of the world a little less shitty. None of these things are helped by reading or posting about how awful everything is.

Honestly, I have blocked almost all political news on Lemmy since most of it is just re-hashed emotional trigger subjects.

God yes, if it’s not conservative or tankie bs, it’s the doomers talking about how literally everything is going to end in the next five years.

I know most of the less expensive used hardware is going to be server-shaped/rackmount. Don’t go for it unless you have a garage or shed that you can stuff them in. They put out jet-engine levels of noise and require god tier soundproofing in order to quiet them. The ones that are advertised as quiet are quiet as compared to other server hardware.

You can grab an epyc motherboard that is ATX and will do all you want, and can then move it to a rackmount later if you end up going that way.

The NVIDIA launch has been a bit of a paper one. I don’t expect the prices of anything else to adjust down, rather the 5090 may just end up adjusting itself up. This may change over time, but the next couple of months aren’t likely to have major deals worth holding out for.