Looks like someone read my post about changing tires over on dull mens club

Like everything in life, most dangers is a matter of quantity.

Listening to music with headphones is a fantastic way to enjoy music, as long as you are reasonable, it is fine to listen to music loud enough to drown out other sounds for periods.

Back in 2022, I got double flat feet, double heel spurs and a bad knee at the same time, walking was agony at the end of the day, so when I had to walk home from the bus stop, I put on some quite loud Sabaton in my headphones, used that to gather strength to move, usually ending up crying hard as I dragged myself up the path to my apartment building.

I still hear ok, sure, I have a bit of bad hearing, but that was something I had found out a decade before.

You won’t go deaf just by listening to music in headphones, they are an important tool in several sectors, especially in music, every live performance artist is wearing in ear monitors these days, they are special headphones that allow the artist to not only hear the other performers and instruments, but also protect their hearing from the extremely loud speakers and crowds at a live event.

Then you have the people working post production, they all wear headphones all day, you have radio DJs, they also wear headphones all day, pilots, air traffic controllers, police, security guards, and similar professions also often wear head phones constantly.

What you are being told about headphones is just fearmongering, but built on a small kernel of truth, loud sounds can and will damage your ears, but that goes for all loud noise, not just headphones.

What?

It seems pretty resonable for my employer to know where I live…

Here in Sweden, they get all of that info via our personal number which we submit to them when accepting the possition

Thanks, blocked!

I had a look at the system, and it is a commercial product, I would imagine that their customers have requested these features.

Since you are a customer, why not request your features to be added as well?

Or, better yet, since you have explained that creating an XMPP/Matrix module as an alternative to email requires no coding, and the plattform is open source, why not just slap it together yourself?

You don’t have to write code to configure Matrix/XMPP.

You do realize that the developers need to write code to configure a Matrix/XMPP module? The module doesn’t just appear out your immagination.

Then it will need to be maintained as security holes are discovered.

Tell me again why developers should spend the time and resources to maintain a feature that at best will have a marginal impact on the userbase, over focusing on the core of the project.

Most people have no idea they exist.

That is my point.

If you write software, and need a way for it communicate with the user outside of the app, implementing email is simple, just about everyone with internet access has an email address and it is free.

XMPP/Matrix is a lot of added work that will only benefit those who:

1. Knows what they are and
2. Has or are willing to set up an account and
3. Care enough about it to do that rather than just using email.

I think you will find that the groups of persons who all three critera fits is vanishingly small.

So, please tell me why a developer should focus their time doing that rather than building the core features of the app.

EDIT:

I write this as someone who has used Jabber/XMPP and Matrix in the past, they are great services and I wish they had a longer reach. This is not a hill for you to die on.

XMPP and Matrix are not near universal.

Most people have no idea about that the hell the first one is, and are even more confused as to why you start talking about a movie when you just complained about email.

At first, try to establish trust that they are human, then when they are accepted, learn from that an implement in new bots.

Once you have a few bots with a decent reputation, you can change it’s instructions to start pushing your agenda.

I remember a documentary about the Queen’s guard, where they mentioned that she did indeed carry small amounts of cash in her purse.

IT guy here, I disagree, typing fast isn’t really useful enough to dedicate focus to.

I have never formally learned typing fast, I developed my own version of touch typing as I gamed and typed as I grew up.

I am a decently quick typist when typing normally, but my speed absolutely plummet when I do typing speed tests, I find it increadibly annoying to retype stuff from the screen.

Typing speed in and of itself is fairly meaningless, once you have gone beyond the hunt-and-peck stage.

Probably

So you’ll end up with a may more passive humanity?

This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.

Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.

Exessive material greed is evil.

Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?

Give people status, rather than pure wealth.

Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.

Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.

Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don’t just throw it out.

What would be fair would be if he as he is sitting on the ground a Cybertruck in summon mode careened off the road pinning him against the building not killing him instantly but slowly while the radio in the car is playing a comedy show where he and his companies are the punchlines. The last thing he hears is his legacy being laughed at as a joke

If money was no object, I’d stay here in Sweden, and I would probably buy a farm mannor in need of renovation.

I’d have the main building carefully renovated to preserve the herritage but modernize it, I imagine the property having a stable or other large old storage barn, I’d gut as much of the interior as possible, keeping the exterior look and build a “man barn”, basically make it an entire man cave, I mean a combined area for hobbies, a small LAN party corner, air rifle sooting range, full racing sim, full flight sim, electronics workbench, a separate room for dirtier hobbies like wood/metal working with separate ventilation, but with a glass wall between the areas, top floor of the barn would jave several guest rooms with a separate external access, I would also dig an underground tunnel between the mannor house and the barn, with a deep cellar for extra storage

Who was it?

Several, in hopefully this order:

1. Mr. - for a few minutes
2. Suspect.
3. Prisoner.

This is tangentally related, if I ever meet a celeberty, and get the chance I would ask if they could take a photo of me, not with them in shot, but them taking the photo.

I just find it hillarious that I would have a random photo of me with a hidden history that could never be proven, and I believe that most celeberties would find it funny to do the reverse of what they normally have to do with fans.

The best jokes have to be told twice, the first time, and then HR wants to hear it as well…