I recognize the need for policies like this, but while reading all these walls of text, the only thing that comes to mind is the old saying about bureaucracies: “the more paper you use, the cleaner your 🍑 cheeks will be”.
In 1968/69, two Conferences on the nascent topic of Software Engineering were held in Western Europe, organized by the NATO Science Committee.
These conferences produced, among other things, my favourite longform shitpost of the 20th century. You might also know it as Tom Simpson’s “Masterpiece Engineering”.
@srfirehorseart@dcoderlt The full quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste", which is something else again. Leaving off that last bit has caused all sorts of headaches and misunderstandings.
@nf3xn
Yeah… Mastodon has a classic thundering herd/Slashdot problem with each instance trying to create link previews. It has already crashed smaller sites, which I guess is a sign that Masto has made it to the big leagues 💪.
I also wonder why some of these secretbins don’t have an “ask user to confirm before showing them the secret” function, like 1ty.me does. Ah well. I’m sure they have rate limits or something else to prevent curl loops…
@eater
Haha, yeah, one of the first projects I inherited at work used a table to display three tabs with rounded corners, and when you clicked one of the tabs, it fired off a single $(...).addClass().next().removeClass().next().next().next().addClass()...
statement that had probably 30 .next() calls chained to each other, it was wild.
@nf3xn@dcoderlt For russia to get a unanimous vote from all member nations, they will have to do a lot of reforming.
To start, they will have to give back the land they are occupying to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
I'm not saying that Russia should be let in, but, give Russia a long list of requirements, like a functioning democratic government, international oversight, etc.. as a condition to enter.
It’s the year 1998, and I’m waiting for good multi-monitor support.
It’s the year 2001, and I’m waiting for good multi-monitor support.
It’s the year 2010, and I’m waiting for good multi-monitor support.
It’s the year 2023, and I’m waiting for good multi-monitor support.
It’s the year 2051, and I’m waiting for good multi-monitor support.
@eater
Yeah, and I’m glad it does, but monitors with mixed sizes and DPIs, and random applications still create nuisances sometimes. I just had a run-in with ksnip, where it took a screengrab of my middle (primary) monitor, placed it on my left (smaller) monitor, and asked me to select the area of this image I wanted to screenshot. No way to move it back to the primary monitor and see the entire screengrab, instead, I had to discard it, screengrab the full multi-monitor view and crop it.
Yup, classifying NAFO shitposts as fake news is a stretch. But I guess their more serious counter-propaganda posts could themselves be classified as propaganda, in a way.
The author of that list is a bizarre individual and I have them blocked from earlier, but I am on several similar mute lists, presumably because I follow some cartoon dogs and they follow me back. Some people really need a hobby.
I’m very disappointed in you, nerds. A vulnerability in a tool called xz has been in the news for a week, and I have not seen a single xzibit shitpost.
Finally convinced a cheap-ass client to upgrade their servers from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS.
Hosting provider misclicked things in Azure and created VMs running 20.04 LTS instead, then transferred everything to them.
When I noticed and asked about it, they said “My bad! We can migrate you to 22.04, but what’s the big deal, 20.04 is still supported through 2030?” “ESM?“ “Err, yeah, you’ll have to get a paid subscription to get updates after 2025.”
IntelliJ IDEA was so eager to show me its New UI that it fumbled, forgot all my recent projects, and switched itself to Dark Mode. This is my unamused face.
Turns out IDEA also forgot/turned off Settings Sync and acted like a brand new install without any customization. All without a peep about resets or errors, until I realized my keyboard shortcuts weren’t working, and found/reactivated Settings Sync.
This silent reset really soured my experience. That’s something I’d expect from Microsoft Teams or other JavaScript SPAs.
I wonder if this new UI screwed up anything related to multi-monitor or high DPI settings…