@IceWolf @foone yeah, let's all continue to use an eldritch abomination of a server and protocol to run all WMs, using more extensions than years since it went into maintenance mode so that it can at least pretend to function like a modern compositor, just because some DEs haven't yet fully agreed on protocols outside its scope.
Why stop there, let's force everyone to write programs to run under some shitty pre-defined runtime from the '80s because heavens forbid some may have different APIs and certainly won't agree on them ever.
@blake @whynothugo from what I've seen they forked Synapse away from the Matrix foundation's version to do that, this has nothing to do with the protocol itself.
E-mail would have really had what it takes to be an alternative to letters, but no! You have to make the login so complicated and then there are thousands of providers and you have to decide on one AT THE BEGINNING...
.. and with that they have already squandered their chance. In my environment, e-mail was too complicated for most people (with the providers and then looking for e-mail addresses, etc.) Today, none of them use it anymore. Me neither. Hope for fax now.
rant about English
I like to laugh at americans that they're worse at writing in their language than non-native speakers, but English itself is at least as much at fault as their poor education system. Why would you have "than" and "then" that are spoken exactly the same but have different meanings? I don't think there are many languages that would be worse as an international standard than that randomly mixed inbred dumpster fire for which the relation between written characters and phonemes they represent is a vague suggestion at best.
@caekislove @Moon it's been painfully obvious ever since they lost a war against a much smaller bunch of rice farmers running around the jungle with AKs. I don't think they're even close to Russia's level of delusion to believe otherwise. Though this only applies to aggression, it seems that no current major power can win a conventional aggressive war against any other, they all can defend themselves.
@coolboymew we're slowly approaching the point at which CGI in anime is net positive. Only took like 20 years.
@Linux_in_a_Bit there absolutely is "viral" on the Fediverse. The same it was before algorithmic content selection. The term originally meant something spreading like wildfire due to being exponentially shared between people and that's how viral posts on the fedi work.
@hidden is this posted ironically as a meme or unironically? At first I assumed the former but now after looking at some replies I don't know.
Rossmann's company has created Gray Jay, a stupidphone-only app that aggregates video publishers' multiple profiles on different platforms into a single feed/browse/search interface. Rossmann promoted it on YouTube. In a move that should surprise no-one, YouTube banned him. It's probably a literal TOS violation, and not just a "depends on how our AI feels about butts, today" ruling.
https://odysee.com/@TheQuartering:1/youtube-bans-massive-youtuber-louis:7
Anyway, fuck YouTube?
@coolboymew
London: shuts down pop-up urinals because they killed or injured too many people
This startup: fine, I'll do it myself
Unix philosophy: make a program that does one thing well
Linux users: ok so if you want to copy a directory preserving metadata, you should use this sophisticated remote sync program with its own protocol for communicating on sending and receiving side, compression in transit and a thousand other options
I know it's just practical to maintain this one tool that covers all of this related functionality, but every time I use `rsync` for non-remote stuff I feel like I'm taking an excavator to pull out a nail.
Same with `wget`, and probably there's a lot more programs that have *much* larger capabilities than the simple tasks I use them for and I don't even know it.
The intro mission to MGRR is a masterpiece. I don't think any game has ever sold me on itself so fast, I knew it's a meme but not the extent of its over the top Rule of Cool shenanigans.
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