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  1. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  2. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  3. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  4. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  5. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  6. I can't believe the nerve of a person who pitched to be on my show. After they pitched me and I said let's have a convo they asked me for my stats and to justify their time on my show.

    YOU PITCHED ME YOU SCHMUCK!

    #DontDoThis

  7. CW: USPol

    You may have heard that President Musk's latest inane demand to the civil service was an email that went out demanding that all U.S. government employees summarize what they accomplished in 5 bullet points, and send it via email to [email protected] .

    This is, of course, ludicrous and pointless. There's no real way to use such unstructured data - it's probably just another attempt to terrorize employees into quitting.

    However... if you assume they do actually want to do something with this data, then polluting that data with garbage, lots of garbage, enough to drown out any real responses, would be a good way of throwing a wrench into that bit of ratf*ckery (the workers threw their shoes, called sabot, into the machines, hence ... sabotage).

    This would be impossible, of course, if the email address [email protected] were closed to submissions from outside government networks, as it should be. But it isn't. The DOGE bros are incompetent as well as everything else.

    It would be a real shame if [email protected] drowned in useless reports, preventing this technique from working. So don't do that.

    That email address, again, is `[email protected]`. That's `hr` at `opm.gov`.

    #sabot #email #doge #elmo #PresidentMusk #ratfcker #DontDoThis

  8. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  9. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  10. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  11. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  12. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  13. CW: workers and "AI"

    If you use generative AI products, you are not "adapting to the new", rather you are robbing yourself of competence, while training your replacement.

    The end-goal of the companies that push these overrated contrivances is that it will eventually be able to do your job better than you can, not because it is good at it, but because you no longer have the capability to work without it.

    You're enshittifying yourself.

    Just say no.

    #generativeAI #deskilling #dontDoThis

  14. As an experiment, i put a cloud instance online today, with a non priveleged user admin:admin.

    Anyone want to take any bets on what happens to it?

    #linux #cloud #security #dontdothis

  15. This is awful to actually use, although that's mostly due to the Amiga font having fake scanlines in it, but I couldn't resist making an extra terminal profile with the Workbench 1.x colour scheme.

    #retrocomputing #Amiga #DontDoThis

  16. Right now I'm reading through some #Javascript code written by a former employee here in 2009, trying to see how the hell it's process is and finding out that there was no thought to possible changes in data, everything is hard linked and I just need to re-write a system to take it's place instead of adding to it.

    Always make sure your code can be added to or at least think of the future in some way please =/

    #BadProgrammers #DontDoThis

  17. The year, 1991. Roommate decides we are going to play Super Mario Bros start to finish in 1 night on Super NES. Other 3 roommates are out of town so we won't annoy anyone.
    Buddy has "brilliant idea" of dropping 2 hits of #LSD each, to avoid sleep for task at hand.
    We begin at 6pm and make it to the final levels, but we're just unable to complete it. It's 8am. We agree to stop to sleep. Only now, SMB is on repeat in my head. Can't stop visuals OR music. FOR HOURS. #retrogaming #dontdothis

  18. #Cybersecurity awareness was SOOO last month! Here's to ignoring it again until next October! Ready for 11 months of reckless clicking? 🚪🔓 #DontDoThis

  19. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette

  20. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette

  21. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette

  22. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette

  23. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette

  24. Your browser doesn't support color-mix()? Don't worry! Use animations instead! Widely supported (even by old browsers) and "easy" to implement.

    Don't do this:

    ```
    .orange {
    background: color-mix(in srgb, red, yellow);
    }
    ```

    Do this instead:

    ```
    @keyframes orange {
    0% { background: red; }
    100% { background: yellow; }
    }

    .orange {
    animation: orange 2s -1s linear paused;
    }
    ```

    #joke #dontDoThis #seriously #dont

  25. Social media trends that are not only dated but also cringe:

    1. Video clips of before and after without showing how it's done.

    2. Video of a product being shaked slightly left and right slowly by a hand to make it look cute or whatever.

    3. AI self portraits. Especially the ones to look like heroes or goddesses.

    4. Annoying music.

    5. Robot voice narration.

    6. Person pointing at a text box.

    7. "Please like and subscribe".

    8. Product video sped up 2x.

    #tiktokcringe #dontdothis