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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
@ghast@liberdon.com "you people." I take it you're a foreigner to these parts, and maybe a lover of X?
We borrowed some #PHP code from #StackOverflow that had nested ternaries without parenthesis. Turns out that as a fatal error in PHP 8 on our production server but not on the earlier PHP on our development server. Wow... a language with breaking syntax changes. I'll stick with sound #Clojure, where you never have too few parenthesis.
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“[Ada & Zangemann] Introduces readers young and old to the power and peril of software. It also highlights the accelerating effects of sharing software freely—creating conditions for direct and indirect collaboration which can be a metaphor for the conduct of science. Behind it all is a backdrop of ethics of knowledge sharing upon which the arc of human history rides.”
~ Vint Cerf, Computer Scientist and One of the Inventors of the Internet
@freddy I'll be using this! I HATE when sites hijack normal browser function. Does it work when they hijack area selection?
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Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser's context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?
Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.
@ghast@liberdon.com yep. So much news just reaffirms why I have happily left it behind
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I do not want to be given iron-fisted control over my child's media habits, particularly as they grow up, but every "parental controls" app and setting is based on the idea that I need a way to prevent my kid from learning that trans people exist or that people say "shit" sometimes, not that I want to just give them a device which has the stuff that we have put on it that does not *advertise* other things to them constantly. I have no interest in preventing them from seeking out information.
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Wow. Talking about license plate registration stickers has actually caused me to stick up for one of those typically 'murican values.
Do we really need a differently-colored sticker every year to signal the car is properly registered in this day and age of enforcement cameras with OCR hooked up to central databases? Strictly speaking, no.
But it's a nice alternative to that sort of surveillance tech being everywhere which I'd rather not normalize.
The Musk social media instance seems increasingly irrelevant. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/10/elon-musk-reactivates-alex-jones-x-accounts-.html
@mc should I know you? Your content seems interesting though.
What's this #pim @publicvoit talks about? A specialty of his: Personal Information Management. "Worthwhile" is basically what it's all about.
Ài to help replace Cobol
I get so sick of people trying to solve problems that are already solved especially when that solution is really just self service because you want to bypass the safetys and evolved restrictions of the old solution. That's what most apps are trying to do, and I hate it.
This message is inspired by visiting #gmail on mobile. No, I don't want your app!
From the bygone era preceding #markdown and #StackOverflow, #emacs' message mode developed a marker for code areas within an email. With `message-mark-inserted-region`, by default in a message with a selection `C-c M-m`, you get something like this:
@RuthMalan MMM... do you know Meadows, or like me just her work? I ask because I am also working with a CS professor who is all about system/control theory
@Ten my wife is a librarian. I'm sending this her way :)
@thunderbird @talios ;Thanks! Any idea when I should expect that? Is the migration targeted for this year?
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@worldsendless @talios We're working on a way to let people opt in from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android, as our plan is to give people an easy migration path. We hope this answer helps!
I'm definitely going to do that! Time to draw some bicycles
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
