josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I'm getting tired of the Internet.

Quería recomendarle espacios en Madrid, pero todos los que encuentro parecen de ínfima calidad o están abandonados. Si tenéis sugerencias, poneos en contacto con él (y mencionadme a mí para que me entere yo también). Gracias.

Is it bad form to reply to followers-only posts? I ask because I usually don't get any response from the other person, be it a reply or an acknowledgement of any kind.

Does anyone know how to make Mutt work with Org mode (or vice versa)? I looked it up and I found a few old blog posts, but the code in them is incomplete. I'm an Org newbie. I only started using it last week, but I appreciate any guidance you could give me.

#emacs #orgmode #mutt

I hate the _Fire Emblem_ series with a passion! In all their games there's always one battle where difficulty takes a huge exponential leap and I'm sick of it. “Oh, so you've managed to keep your whole party alive up until now? Let''s try this new approach where you have to fight several bosses so powerful that, in sheer desperation, you'll have to sacrifice your friends if you want to move on.” “Oh, you managed to beat that with only a few losses? And you thought you could go back to base and regroup somehow? Why don't we take your powers away and have you fight another battle just for the thrill of it? But this time with dragons!”

I'm not fond of people who say: “Don't reinvent the wheel.” I say: “Yes, reinvent the wheel! Maybe yours is better. Maybe your work leads to some awesome, unexpected discovery on roundness or friction or aerodynamics.”

Regardless of your opinion on its outcome, this is how a referendum should be presented to the people:

https://www.electoralcommission.ie/referendums/referendum-information/what-are-you-being-asked-to-decide-on/

#Ireland #IrishReferendum

I'll believe an LLM is on the road to AI when, instead of bullshitting its way through the conversation, it asks: “What do you mean by that?”

Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There's no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”

Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially _no_ partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.

#linux

Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.

#programming

Not a fan of Sean Tilley, and the article has several glaring errors, but I'm glad someone else agrees with me on the Fediverse not being the Utopia many made it out to be. It is the most toxic place I've ever been on the Internet. The only reason I'm still around is that there's good people too, most of them _not_ on Mastodon.