Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

@Migueldeicaza @sinbad and you know, the thing really hurting the Microsoft brand is all that C and C++ code.

Ignore the anti consumer behavior, shit products, cloud services for genocide, and overall mask-off evil stuff.

@neilk @baldur

It was different only until it became a commerce and branding/PR channel. Then that mostly drowned out everything else.

And we should consider “social media” as completely owned by commerce (ads) and PR (promoted posts, etc). Some of it is corporate, some of it is political, but all of it is harmful.

I have written too much fucking C++ code in my time.

Congrats to @ruby for 30 years of productivity and joy ❤️🎂
The first public release 0.95 was announced on December 21, 1995.

I turned on the telemetry of Firefox to show Mozilla what features I don't use.

#firefox #mozilla

@catsalad Hmm. Shouldn't it be more like:

🔲 Spaces
🔲 Tabs

@catsalad I know this is all in good fun and chaos. But if anyone is interested this is an accessibility issue.

Tabs are configurable width characters and can be customized to the needs of the user. For instance, if someone with low visibility is using a screen magnifier then they can set the tabs to be compact and see the indentation in context of the code. Tabs might also need to be made wider to help users follow indentation more easily. Also, screen reader users are able to track indentation with tabs (two levels of indent vs 4 or 8 or 16 spaces, which is it?).

So tabs put the consumer in control of how they can most effectively consume the information. Also, capitalizing hashtags helps screen readers, you're not a dork for doing it, you're punk AF!

#Accessibility #a11y #KindnessIsPunkAF

@catsalad no indentation just chaos

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

so many of the people who for years wrote about how the actual duty of a senior software developer is to remove code from the codebases and to mould the junior coworkers into fully-fledged professionals are now enthusiastically writing about inducing confabulation machines to extrude enormous amounts of code-like product, and how glorious it is that the infinite lies machine made junior developers obsolete.

@scottjenson "There isn't anything left to copy!"

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Looks at #HaikuOS …

😒

@andrewrk Does that include your code generation backend / LLVM replacement?

@joe @slava You should make a bot that just randomly replies this in systems programming threads.

@jwz GMail's global usage dropped from ~60% in 2022 to ~43% in 2024. And these days, most of the people I know are on smaller providers, if they don't run their own server.

Being able to use your own server or choose from thousands of providers, for something that is accepted and used almost universally on the entire Internet, is obviously still a massive success story. And the size of some of the providers doesn't change that.

Of all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important thing for humankind.

can't wait to hear who won the FIFA prize for literature

Spotify wrapped? My self-hosted Maloja Instance (or last .fm) gives me the data anytime I want already :D

https://music.arda.pw/

#SpotifyWrapped #maloja #tool #opeth #selfhosted