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
How the fuck is “segue” pronounced “segway” in the language that pronounces “queue” “Q”? Out of all the times you can pronounce all the letters in the word, you choose this? That’s nearly the correct pronunciation in its language of origin. In the language that seemingly takes pride in completely massacring original pronunciations.
Happy new year, everyone!
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So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.
It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.
One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!
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Happy Train's Secondary Compressor Stops Working Day to all who celebrate it! 🤗
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this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html
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I need to go find my copy of Sid Meier's autobiography. maybe there's a whole section on what exactly he was smoking back in the late 80s
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<Garth Marenghi> I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO USE PURE FUNCTIONS AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS
I’m in Slovakia right now and I noticed that Slovak sounds “wrong” to me, in a way other foreign languages don’t, even Czech, which is also similar to Polish.
Now I know why. Slovak sounds like foreigners trying to pronounce Polish. Where we have “ł”, which is pronounced like “w”, they use “l”, which is usually how foreigners try to read that letter. Where we have “ś”, they usually have “s”, etc. Many of the words that are similar in both languages are basically the same, if you took all the “softened” phonemes and hardened them.
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Implementing a web browser is literally impossible.
"The total word count of the W3C specification is 114 million words […]. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications."
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html by @drewdevault
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Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin
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@foone I just tested this! The answer is: the first device it's plugged into retains control, the other device doesn't see it.
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I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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Measuring height is one of the ways Americans accidentally use metric, at least partially. Coverting between feet and miles is annoying so you use thousands of feet instead. Also known as kilofeet. 400k ft = 400 kft. Imagine if everything was so simple…
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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
