Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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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.
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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?
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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If Linux Kernel 6.6.6 isn't named "Kernel of the Beast" I'm quitting Linux and switching to FreeBSD
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This line change in the google-chrome AUR repo is 💯 percent based.
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The advancements of the hardware guys are quickly undermined by the incompetence of the software guys. No game should require a [latest $1k+ graphics card here], it's just a skill issue by shit "programmers" who make both the game and the engine (lol imagine not being able to write you own engine)
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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR 🖤🖤🖤
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
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Microsoft products where the objects the product works with have the same name as the product itself:
* Windows
* Teams
* Whiteboard
* Bookings
* Word (why not Words?)
* Project (noun, not verb, that one's called PowerPoint)
Microsoft products where they stuck "One" in front to distract you from the fact they're doing the thing again:
* OneDrive
* OneNote
Microsoft products whose names are verbs setting unachievable expectations of what you could achieve:
* Excel
* Engage
* Access
* PowerPoint
Ditto, but also named to remind you of another, less heinous, product in the hope some goodwill will rub off:
* SharePoint
Azure:
* Azure
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Trying to teach my kids programming with Swift Playgrounds, but it keeps deleting the local copy of the playground before we can do another programming session, and taking an interminable time to re-download.
That's a programming lesson right there.
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Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware
How are shoe sizes not yet standardized to some sensible units? I’d understand if it was just the US being behind on QoL as always, but even Europe has some weird-ass system.
The US shoe sizes are based off of barleycorns, which are roughly 1/3 of an inch (around 8.47mm). European shoe sizes rely on Paris points, which equate to 2/3 of a centimeter (or 6.67mm).
Jesus Christ
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death to all websites that display 50000 different in-page pop-ups just to be annoying as fuck
no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies;
no, i do not want to sign up for your newsletter;
no, i will not disable my malware/adblocker;
i don’t give a damn that you changed your “privacy” policy, this is the first time i viewed opened your website anyway;
i don’t care if this site looks better in the app, fix your fucking website then;
oh, i need chrome to view this page? what year are we in, 2000?;
i no longer want to read the full article if it means i have to create account;
and no, i do not want to sign in with my nonexistent google account either
for fucks sake
I generally try to stay at least a stick’s length away from front-end development since everything it touches turns to cancer. So it was today that I learned that TypeScript doesn’t even support ignoring a specific error. You know, the feature that’s been standard for the past ~30 years in every sensible compiler and linter.
Reason given by Microsoft? “Error codes do not add to expressiveness in a position like such.” I’m sure ignoring everything to silence an unknown error is much more expressive.
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/21602#issuecomment-369015655
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The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:
Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.
#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
