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Gauss

@Gauss@furry.engineer

{ he: true, taken: true, straight: false, age: 23, race: 'white', sfw: '95%', occupation: 'SW dev', hobby: 'fluffy pics', supports: 'BLM' }

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Gauss, to random
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Me dunking on social media platforms:

Facebook: Zucc's clever trick of stalking on uni students got a little out of hand

Instagram: Facebook for basic millennials

TikTok: 90% garbage, while the good 10% gets reposted on other platforms

YouTube: The platform that can copystrike you for beatboxing a song for 3 seconds, but can't figure out how to filter extremely obvious spam comments

Twitter: The place where people act like it wasn't a dumpster fire before Elon took over

Reddit: They killed the only thing that made it usable, while driving away the people who make it useful

Threads: Oh you thought Mastodon is irrelevant?

BlueSky: These people created a better Mastodon, then made it invite only while forgetting half the features

LinkedIn: The only time you'll use it is when looking for a job, or looking for a new employee

Discord: This platform ruined the word "server" for an entire generation. Also it's not a wiki, please stop using it as one

Gauss, to random
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Oh, the irony

Is this the beginning of the downfall of TG?

Gauss, to random
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When I was on the train, the person in front of me was wearing a "my social battery" pin, with a slider to adjust the levels.

When searching for it, I also found an electronic version with colored LEDs, which is when I realized "I have a badger2040, I could make an app for it"

So after 1 hour and 15 minutes of coding, this happened:

Ninji, to random
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New (probably contentious) blog post: Free Software that you can't customise is not truly Free Software
https://wuffs.org/blog/free-software-needs-to-be-customisable

Being able to modify and adapt your software is one of the grounding principles of FOSS, but I think we've lost sight of that

Gauss,
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@Ninji I don't think it's lost. There are lots of cases of FOSS being modified and customized.

For example, lots of distros apply patches to many of their packages before compiling. And whenever a FOSS refuses to incorporate some changes, there's always a chance it gets forked.

For example, when NewPipe refused to integrate SponsorBlock, it got a forked version which has SB. youtube-dl has a forked version called yt-dlp with lots of extra features. Codium is a "fork" of VSCode with all the closed source stuff removed. I'm currently typing this on Husky, a forked version of Tusky.

Sure, it might not be you modifying the source code, but the possibility is there. And if enough people want it, it happens. Sadly it's often time consuming and not practical to deviate from the "mainline", so I see your argument. But you can always use software that has good customization, so I don't really think this is a big issue.

Ninji, to random
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Here are some random photos I took yesterday

A Philips electric shaver at Asda has a security tag wrapped around the box, and the sticker “Security Protected, remove before microwaving”
In the middle of the Asda toy department, there’s a large sculpture of a wolf howling, made out of Lego bricks
Dramatic wide-angle shot of the M8 motorway as the sun goes down, as seen from a bridge that goes over it

Gauss,
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@Ninji I kinda want that lego wolf, but I do not want to know how much it costs :blobfoxmelt3:

Gauss, to random
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Nothing to see here, just 4 pictures of bunnies

Gauss, to random
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NSA stands for Nation State Actor

Gauss, to random
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Finally

Heavier

Gauss, to random
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"We're aware of the server issue, but fixing is slow because the entire sysadmin team is at BLFC"

If companies were more honest, you'd hear this line a lot more

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I'm on an AA Boeing 777 and the rather modern in-flight entertainment system has a port that looks like some 90s proprietary AV connector. Does anyone know what this is for?

The in flight entertainment system in question

Gauss,
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@karpour Based on a Google image search, the port looks exactly like a SEGA Genesis A/V port. But it might not be that...

Gauss, to random
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It's actually not going to big cities that made me realize how shit Hungary is. It's going to a small Italian city that made me realize this.

Like, if you saw a nice looking train station in Amsterdam, you wouldn't be surprised. But imagine seeing a nice train station at Driebergen-Zeist that looks nicer than any station in Budapest, and you'll immediately feel sad about the state of your country.

Gauss, to random
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3 stage interview? I prefer 0 stage interview

Reach out to me with a job

Ninji, to random
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using the finest computer vision technology for a most noble cause: determining how many Bob’s Burgers episodes actually include a burger

Gauss,
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@Ninji I sense a potential video idea

"Bob's Burgers but only when a burger is in frame"

Ninji, to random
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I've realised something — I don't actually hate :java: Java™, I just struggle with Spring

Am I just too old-fashioned of an engineer?? Spring seems to be really popular so clearly they must be doing something right, but every time I do anything with it, I end up wanting to quit dev and become a farmer

Gauss,
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@Ninji I've struggled so much with Spring sometimes. It's doing a lot of stuff that's just straight-up bad practice imo, obscuring a lot of logic, and you end up with very mysterious error messages.

Gauss, to random
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Every damn time

First, a guy is sitting in front of a laptop thinking "Damn, 1000 changed lines, this is going to take a while for others to review". Then, F1 racing driver Max Verstappen interrupts, showing a time of 1 minute and 11 seconds. Some text reads "My coworker" and "LGTM" (Looks Good To Me)

Gauss, to random
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This toot was made by typing on a keyboard

Ninji, to random
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Work update: Just got an email telling me that I need to click a link and authenticate to complete my assigned anti-phishing training

Sounds kinda sus but what do I know :///

Gauss,
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@Ninji One time, we got a discount as a promotional offer, and to get it we had to open a pdf and click a link inside it.

I though that was bad, but this... is so much worse

Gauss, to random
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We have trains going to airports

Subways going to airports

Buses going to airports

Is there any place where trams go to the airport?

Ninji, to random
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I had a dream that I was on a train and the ticket inspector asked me for my railcard, and then the TrainPal app wouldn’t let me display my railcard until I filled in details and registered a fraudulent company

I… I don’t know what this signifies

Gauss,
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@Ninji I think it signifies your desire to register a fraudulent company

Or it's about your fear that you won't be able to show your tickets on your phone

Gauss, to random
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We live in a dystopia

Ninji, to random
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who’s going to be the first person to wear a pup hood with the Apple Vision Pro

Gauss,
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@Ninji You?

Gauss, to random
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Phone: 256 GB

Images: 38GB
Videos: 35GB
Apps: 61GB
Yiff stash: 92GB
Music: 6GB
OS: 18GB

Someone help me manage this my phone is low on storage

Gauss,
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@tek_dmn You're taking this joke too seriously

Ninji, to random
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I've packed my suitcase for ConFuzzled so now I need to decide which pieces of technology I want to put in my backpack

Do I bring my actual, useful laptop? Do I bring my anachronistic Windows 3.11/9x netbook? Do I bring my iPAQ or my Clié or both??

This is so difficult

Gauss,
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@Ninji You should definitely bring at least 1 thinkpad

Gauss, to random
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Subtle Ninjicore image:

There is a scratcher plate below the coin slot, but everyone scratches it above the slot

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