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Professional software developer. Unsuccessful nonfailure writer and game designer. #nobot

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chucker, to random
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Wild how much of Facebook is now

  1. take Reddit post
  2. translate into user’s language
  3. put on website with gross amount of ads
  4. money?
max,
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@chucker The worst of these meme recycling accounts all seem to show up in US election years. They start as recycled meme factories to get high engagement scores and Likes then later in the year they pivot to charged political content.

Having lived through enough of 2016 and 2020 FB, I’ve already turned off FB notifications for the year and am restricting any time in the app.

wagesj45, to DeGoogle
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If you are trying to your life, be aware that one of the unpleasant side effects is that a shit ton of people will not be able to receive from you. I've been on an email address handled by my shared server provider for like 15 years now, and I can attest that and are both pretty bad for blocking anything from a outside the big providers.

max,
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@wagesj45 Have you done all the fun rituals like SPF and DKIM and DMARC?

max, to random
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There are SO many straight to Hulu (presumably?) Lucy Hale romance movies. Do you think she’s being punished (and why?) to do all these seemingly endless “meet cutes” followed by “frenemies” followed by “true love” followed by presumably an off screen breakup prior to the next in this (endless?) series of movies?

Also am I part of the problem by watching so many of these that I’ve started to worry about this pattern for poor Lucy and whatever romantic purgatory she’s stuck in?

rauschma, to random
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HTML entities in Markdown—for HTML and other output formats:
– Which ones would you support?
– For most entities, using the Unicode character directly seems like the best solution(?)
– I can’t think of any exceptions. Maybe:  

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@rauschma I find it interesting the people that want/prefer to use the :shortcodes: for emoji and other Unicode. But part of why I find it interesting is those colon surrounded shortcuts were popularized in (Github Flavored) Markdown and the overlap with HTML entities is obvious. Makes you wonder if HTML was standardized a couple decades later if there would be a lot more emoji entities (or almost no entities at all).

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@tbroyer @idleberg @rauschma I think that was true when the shortcodes were first popularized. Also some of the popular Markdown tools weren’t yet always UTF-8 safe. (Admittedly a MySQL problem some of the time.)

Today emoji keyboards are in all major OSes and an easy key press away. Thanks in large part to emoji themselves we can trust Unicode to work almost everywhere. I think the readability of just using the intended emoji directly bests shortcodes, esp. how easy I find them to type.

ned, to random
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J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.

Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

max,
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@ned I find it fascinating too that half of Rowling’s Galbraith books according to Wikipedia summaries (I refuse to read them) are extended versions and variations of the transphobic character from Silence of the Lambs. Like all trans people are serial killers to her mind because she watched that one terrible but award winning film at too young an age and developed some sort of bizarre kink.

max, to random
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Shouting “Double Meaning!” after a layered joke like you just won a “Double Word Score!” in Scrabble

grumpygamer, to random
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Git/LFS shows a lot of promise, but it's still a kludgy add-on. It needs to be built into core git with zero setup for users (not for admins). It needs to just work without any user knowing it's there.

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@grumpygamer Git for Windows installs LFS by default. It doesn’t surprise me Linux distributions still make it an effort to install but it does surprise me that it still isn’t a default install on macOS or at least with homebrew.

It’s definitely weird that Windows has a better out of the box default for something git related.

wagesj45, to opensource
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Question for all the perverts out there: How "professional" does need to be before it is appropriate to share with the world?

I'll tell you why I ask: I spent a couple weeks getting an build server working for the browser. It works and is useful, but it isn't "clean". It has custom elements throughout, like curl commands to upload the finished installer via ftp and notify a Rocket.Chat instance.

It isn't a proper "project" but I feel people could benefit.

max,
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@wagesj45 Depends on who the target audience is? Code is poetry. If you want the widest audience, you get it polished, edited, reviewed, and bound into a regular looking book. If you are fine with it only maybe getting heard at the poetry slam at a single coffee shop during just me Thursday afternoon open mic poetry slam, let it be a hideous collage of a zine badly photocopied on flimsy paper, full of punk typos and mistakes. 🤘

wagesj45, to random
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UNBELIEVABLE.

Finally got the cross compilation of Firefox/Mercury building automatically on Linux for Windows installation. AND ITS SLOWER THAN BEFORE. WTF. I EVEN TARGETED THE znver2 CPU ARCHITECTURE, WHICH IS WHAT MY THREADRIPPER 3990X SHOULD BE. GUESS I'LL TRY x86-64-v3 AGAIN.

I'm flustered, y'all.

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@wagesj45 Windows is the only stable ABI 😜

0xabad1dea, to random

I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much faster

this is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!

max,
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@eater @dalias @0xabad1dea @chucker We have the worst of both worlds already. We have chrome (or safari) near the kernel in every major OS and then electron comes along and suggests the OS chrome isn’t enough and we need to stack more chromes like turtles in userspace because you all love chrome so much

“Yo dawg, I heard you like chrome so I boooted more chrome from your chrome so you can chrome while you chrome.”

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@0xabad1dea I took some liberties for amusement, it’s not exactly “technically correct” in all cases, but some of the OS level app launchers are web views (or related/derived tech) and it is funny using them to launch electron apps.

The boundaries between “kernel” and “userspace” are fuzzy in the graphical side of the modern OS, especially today when even core functionality is shipped as “apps” for software lifecycle reasons, and the main browser has some light privileges others don’t.

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@0xabad1dea Also electron bundles both node and chrome and node is an additional copy of Chrome’s v8 engine, so there is a bit of “chrome in chrome” in electron. In most electron apps they reduce to a single shared v8 lib, but not all electron apps

chucker, to AppleInc
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10, about half a year in (I think I used the betas?): I think it’s mostly an improvement.

Changing some of the basic interactions is bold, because you’re messing with people’s muscle memory. But I doubt Apple did that lightly. They knew this was a risk. A 10.0 is one of those rare occasions where you get to take the risk.

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@chucker I think this relates to the Widgets side of the watch? Most of the reasons to switch back to a previous app are better embodied as widgets: if I check something in the middle of a workout and want to get back to the workout screen there’s a widget for that; same for Apple Music, generally. (Plus there’s still the old weird tap the top edge but not enough to drag notifications down “last app” gesture.) Most of the cases I need to scroll recent apps are a missing widget, I feel.

wagesj45, to 80s
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Do they still make kids horror movies or shows? Like actually scary stuff but for kids? I'm thinking along the lines of Are You Afraid of the Dark and similar. Maybe I'm just completely out of the loop, but its a niche that I don't see anymore.

I'd love to be wrong and flooded with examples of new(ish) kid's horror!

max,
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@wagesj45 I heard there is a new TV show about to come out based on the Fear Street books. (R. L. Stine’s “teen Goosebumps” series)

wagesj45, to overwatch
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I climbed 5 levels in , then fell 5 levels. Then climbed 5 again. Now I'm in the process of falling, presumably 5 levels, again. All in the span of about a month. This seems odd to me. I have been "high gold" for years, and I certainly haven't improved suddenly (lol) so what the heck is goin' on here? Seems like a lot of volatility that hasn't existed in the match maker in all the years I've been playing.

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@wagesj45 One must imagine Sisyphus happy

max,
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@wagesj45 It’s also possible that the game didn’t change but you did. Maybe you are just growing too old for the game 🧓 😹

chucker, to random
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/windows_keyboards_copilot/

I want a “yeet this hype into the sun” key

max,
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@chucker Win+C has had a different use for C in every version of Windows since 8: Charms, Cortana, Copilot. I look forward to whatever stupid C word and logo design Microsoft invents for Windows 12.

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In its new leader, Creative Commons needs someone who understands why creatives don't want AI bros plundering their work.

This means a no-AI license variant (NC wouldn't have stopped the horrible LAION creeps) and the guts and money and lawyers to help creators sue AI bros over lack of attribution in use of CC-licensed works.

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@chucker @datarama @dsalo Even in the US I don’t think it is legal to launder NC clause data through a non-profit. I especially don’t think it is legal to launder NC clause data with SA (Share-Alike) or ND (No-Derivatives) clauses. The ML is definitely a derivative by all lay definitions and at least some of the legal ones.

I don’t think that is currently stopping current ML “researchers” and it will take some ugly expensive court cases to settle this long after ML has made a ton of damage. 😿

chucker, to random
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Idle thoughts: so it has triple-slash /// comments that use a proportional font, right? Which I like, but poses a weird philosophical issue for me. I do like limiting line length; long lines are hard to read. Specifically, I have a soft limit of 80 (most lines should be this long), and a hard limit of 120 (OK, if you really must, make them this long).

But when you have a proportional font, you can’t limit by character count.

max,
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@chucker But then you get jagged edges when you need to open the file in another text editor that doesn’t use a proportional font.

If you only care about the proportional view then it should just auto-word wrap in the editor like a prose document flow and save just run on one-line per paragraph flows.

If you still care about how the text looks in cat or vim, then you probably still want character based limits and in that case I think the editor should word wrap that for you, too.

max,
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@chucker Right, but at that point with auto-word wrap it is a display setting “right margin” “CSS style” of the editor itself rather than a direct artifact of the code file.

chucker, to random
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This, via @chartier, is worth a watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGn9mm9bT0

I can’t help but wonder how much “companies utterly misjudges the market” factors into other screw-ups of Viacom of the time, like, say, killing Trek only to revive it four years later, splitting off CBS only to re-merge with them 14 years later, or launching a streaming network before having much programming to put on it, then looking for a buyer.

max,
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@chucker My perspective was that it was always the “alt-right movement” some of those things like videogames were the trial balloons or the innocent looking part of the iceberg above water masking how huge the iceberg was below and about to sink the cultural Titanic.

max, to random
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What’s the over/under on number of Edwardian ghosts that will visit billionaires this 24th? How late can you place bets?

max, to random
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Wish was a fascinating piece of very meta Disney art. It was almost anti-fascist. Maybe about as close as Disney can get, especially when trying to meta-celebrate way too many years of Princess movies.

wagesj45, to random
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"Dunking" on AI by comparing it to "dumb" technologies like autocorrect is the left's version of calling everyone a "dumbocrat."

max,
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@wagesj45 Let me know when the MLs can fight in a cage match, maybe by then I’ll be excited

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