Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Bad software enrages me so hard sometimes, especially when from some massive corporation.

It literally takes longer for MS Outlook to open a fucking plain-text message already stored on my hard drive than it takes for my browser to load a website that I'm hosting on a 15 EUR/month server.

And I sometimes hear the CPU fan wind up every time I open a mail. Sometimes it hangs for 5 seconds until it opens it.

How the fuck?

Mozilla Thunderbird is free/libre software, costs zero dollars, and works better.

This is interesting.

- 25% of Britons say they view trans people negatively. (Higher than I expected, to be honest.)

- But if you ask trans people how they perceive it, they think 56% of Britons view them negatively.

- Similarly, if you ask Britons how they perceive it, they think only 51% of Britons view trans people negatively.

There seems to exist more than twice as much *perceived* transphobia than what could be called *openly admitted* transphobia.

(Even with the openly admitted, I wonder how many were actually thinking of trans *activists* when asked about trans people, and answered in accordance to that. So the "real" transphobia could be even less.)

(It's similar with homophobia if you look at it as a ratio, though the absolute numbers are much smaller.)

Me: MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names?? Good lord

Friend: No this makes sense, it's a chain of dependencies. Every teams channel is a SharePoint folder

I think god is dead for sure

@sorrowl @winter if only you knew how bad things really are

@anonicus Jesus Christ end Pokémon already

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

🤔

SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

@mangeurdenuage @rgarner Love how more than half the issues are telling them to get fucked and all of the ones that aren’t are still saying it’s a bad idea lmao

>have problem
>look up problem
>someone else had problem and made an issue on the github
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created for same problem
>other people +1d it
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.
>other issue created mentioning the other auto closed issues
>even more people respond with their experiences with this annoying ass bug
>This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.

I saved this a while ago and I still laugh every time I read it. I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's one of those things that are always funny to me. There are only two meme/cartoons that have this effect on me (the other one is Dog Fort)

I hear the government is doing IoT cybersecurity labels? They're welcome to reuse mine from a while back.

I love how this makes perfect sense as a programmer but would sound horrible to anyone else

People screaming about the Web Environment Integrity proposals are not exaggerating. It's the biggest threat to user freedom I've seen for a long time.

Its proponents state that one goal is to "continue to allow web browsers to browse the Web without attestation" - but this goal is simply not compatible with reality. If they can block non-attested user agents, they will. (remember when they were agents of the user???)