Do you guys realize, @cachondo basically invented the invisible interface standard that we still use to this day? It all started with Jawtter, a JAWS script that allowed access to the Twitter social network from within the JAWS screen reader. From there, Qwitter was born. After Qwitter, two forks, TheQube by @Quartizer and TwitMonger by I'm not actually sure who. Then, Chicken Nugget, and alongside/at the same time as that, @twblue, Spanish only, was born. From there, you get Quinter and then finally, TweeseCake (@app). But it all started with Jawtter. If Jawtter hadn't happened, I don't think the Twitter/Mastodon experience would've gone quite the way it did.
hay tech humans: Gigabyte Vs ASUS motherboard, thoughts? I'm not overclocking and both seem to offer the right feature set for me just at £150 premium for the ASUS. Is it worth it?
@bermudianbrit My current board is an Asus Tough Gaming X570 pro with on-board Wi-Fi. Amazing board, great IO, great support. Only issue is the on-board wi-fi and bluetooth suck cock, but they're Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2, so not very surprising. Asus is solid though.
@bermudianbrit Honestly I wouldn't stress on-board wi-fi much, any desktop worth its weight in thumb screws will have enough room for you to insert at least a 6E card.
A few years ago, I wrote a program in Go that would get the RSS feed out of an Apple Podcasts link. I've been using it the past couple years, but I didn't like dragging around this 4.1 MB executable that's not stored anywhere convenient and I was bored, so ended up rewriting it this morning. Usage is pretty simple. Run it, paste in URL, get shown RSS feed link. https://quinbox.xyz/files/Podfeed.exe
@matt I thought about it, but I just can't Rust. I hate programming that way, because sometimes I just want to get an idea out. I don't really care if this string will live until the end of the program as opposed to the end of the function, because it runs for like 5 seconds. Perhaps a lot of my resistance to rust's safety though is because I haven't been bitten by enough null pointer errors etc yet (although I sure have gotten a few...).
@matt I also honestly don't think Rust was meant for tiny utilities like this. For example, one of the functions I call here takes a JSON object, a pointer to a structure to extract it to, and the size of the structure. Very C-like, and potentially unsafe, sure. But in this case, the safety isn't really a concern.
@jscholes@matt I reported this too, and the dev actually explained why this is the case. Apparently, you need to call DefDlgProc instead of DefWndProc to get this behavior (thanks, Microsoft). Hopefully they'll start doing that in the next major version, I'm certainly not being quiet about it
Why did anyone think that touch screens were a good idea? Swipe swipe swipe, swipe swipey swipe swipity swipe! 3 hours later, oh yay, I made it 10 posts down my timeline! Swipe swipe swipity swipe swipe...
Interesting observation: almost all of the blind hackers in my friend circle are bookworms, me included. I mean, some of us like audio over epub or vice versa, same with genres, but we're all bookworms. Wonder why?
@miki Yup, that's true. I do enjoy being able to literally read basically anywhere and not get judged. Books kind of always called me though, my third grade teachers were mildly horrified when I started talking about the political conflicts in the the third hunger games book LOL.
@cordova5029 Pretty much, seemingly. Because normally if I'm listening to music, or watching TV, I can still very easily think about programming, or a project I'm working on. Reading though? It lets me relax and just think about the book.