josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@Alexia_Powderr
> ¿Porqué las que limpian y se prostituyen son mujeres?

En mi oficina hay un tío que limpia. Lo hace bastante mal, pero también las mujeres. La verdad es que, más que una oficina, parece un estercolero.

Cuando montamos alguna fiesta (porque haya salido bien algún proyecto), la mayoría de los que limpiamos el desaguisado somos hombres. Por supuesto, me puedes creer o no. Yo te digo lo que hay.

> ¿Por qué hay hombres a los que sus mujeres les cocinan y lavan la ropa?

Porque son mayores y no saben hacer esas cosas. También porque ellas no tienen estudios y sienten que es su deber.

> ¿Por qué hay incels?

Porque las mujeres no quieren acostarse con ellos (sus motivos tendrán), de ahí lo de “involuntariamente célibes”. Si te sirve, también hay _volcels_ y _femcels_. No sé cómo eso entrará en tu análisis.

> ¿Rojipardos?

Ni idea de qué es eso.

> ¿Techbros? ¿Criptobros?

Porque jilipollas los hay en todas partes. Es un hecho de la vida. También los había antes de que existieran ésos y los seguirá habiendo cuando desaparezcan.

Lo que me gustaría saber a mí es cómo reconcilias el hecho de que las dinámicas han cambiado en estos últimos cuarenta años y aún así estamos más enmierdados en todos los aspectos que nunca.

@smxi That's not a very good explanation (there are four privacy levels, not just two, and some applications have even more granularity), but if it works for you, great.

@smxi Well, every post has these metadata info at its bottom with the timestamp and the number of reposts and favs. Also there's an icon with the privacy level. You can check that.

Another good indicator is that the RT button is disabled if the post is followers-only or a DM.

Finally, a DM has a slightly different background color.

All the above is true for Mastodon's web UI. It may not be the same for apps, of course.

But, as I said, the UI will usually adjust the privacy setting automatically when you reply. You shouldn't need to worry about it.

@eSheep It's been years since I last touched it, but I thought it was easy at the time. Maybe they've changed it.

@smxi As far as I know, Mastodon's web UI (and, I assume, all others) use the same privacy level of the post you're replying to by default, so you shouldn't need to worry about that.

@smxi A good rule to follow may be: “You can make your reply more private than the post you're replying to, if you think you should, but never more public.”

@Fratm
1. Mandrake
2. #Slackware

@eSheep What kind of soup?

@freemo @sergeant As a sidenote (in case you didn't know): while you can't yet edit as such, you can already delete and redraft.

@eSheep I've been watching my nephew cook and I think the trick is having the ingredients prepared before you light the fire. That way you can do it at your own pace. Doing it the other way around is definitely stressful.

My sentiments exactly, except I don't think 2024 will be any better, at least in the short term. This decade has been FUBAR from the very start.

@scummvm Does this version work without PulseAudio?

@BitBun Now I'm curious: what constitutes a failure according to that test?

@karolat I can sort of understand the Python example (I've been there myself), because maybe implementing 'exit' as a way to actually quit the REPL may increase the technical debt in some way that none of us can fathom (I've been there, too); but the Rust issues are just the devs being spiteful of their own users. They can only be attributed to malice.

@BitBun What does that mean? That you're a complete failure as a wife or that your failure rate is 0% and, thus, you're 100% successful?

In the latest issue of the Spanish edition of RetroGamer magazine, there is a piece on Ron Gilbert. In it, the author (and Ron, I guess) wonders why his games were successful in Europe, but not so much in the US, where Sierra and Infocom dominated. The reason is pretty clear: Lucasfilm games were translated, while the others were not.

I'm sure _King's Quest II_ was an awesome game, but I will never know, because I couldn't even understand what the game wanted from me, and the mechanics were so unintuitive and unfriendly that, even after trying with a dictionary, I gave up utterly bored. (Funny anecdote about _Leisure Suit Larry_: after days of trying to bypass the age verification test, all my cousin and I could do in the actual game was to get in the bar, go to the bathroon and URINATE. That's what Sierra games were like for non-English speakers.)

Monkey Island, on the other hand, was funny, well-crafted and just difficult enough to be challenging, but, most importantly, it was in Spanish.

Game magazines did a lot to popularise it, too.

I don't want to derail his thread by disagreeing, but, to be completely honest, I don't even consider BASIC a proper programming language.

It was needlessly hard to type and edit, and impossible to structure your programs in any meaningful way. It wasn't even suitable as a learning tool. Having to number the lines made it hard to get into the ‘Flow’, if you know what I mean. It made programming slow and boring.

Someone in the thread mentioned that people did really cool things with it. Well, people do really cool things with legos, too, but nobody in their right mind would build anything _real_ with them. “I'm gonna build me a house with legos,” said no one ever. (Well, there's always the odd someone, I'm sure.)

@charadon _Learning Perl_ (that's the Llama Book) and its sequels are pretty good.