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  • Well that's the neat part, you don't! If you post on Pixelfed you're already on Mastodon.

    ...I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.

  • One day I was walking about.
    Someone said "Excuse me, could you tell me where is (random street)?"
    I was like "That sounds familiar, hold on a second."
    Looked it up from the map on my phone.
    It's literally the next street over.
    It was about that time I decided people perhaps shouldn't ask me directions if they value their time.

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  • I don't think I even remember what "AAA" games I bought last year. Uh... Baldur's Gate III and Train Sim World 5. That's about that.

    Thing is, I didn't play much of those either! I have an absolutely gigantic backlog! And in December I got somehow addicted to Skyrim again. It never ends

    Best and awesomest and most profound game experience I had last year was Chants of Sennaar, and even that technically came out in 2023.

  • I once read about Andy Warhol's film Empire and thought it could form a decent stylistic background for a movie about your average programmer's work day.

    One continuous 8 hour shot of a programmer sitting by a computer, slowly scrolling through a code, pausing for a long time to stare at particular sections, and occasionally saying "why the fuck doesn't this work?"

  • Funny thing, Pixelfed isn't even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.

    Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.

    Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this... thing. I don't even know anymore.

  • In addition to the stuff already listed:

    In the Swedish film version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Lisbeth and the hacker dude use Ubuntu, especially in the scene where they recover the stuff from Lisbeth's broken laptop. (In the US version, they decided to use Macs instead. And included a scene where she goes to an Apple store with the broken laptop and they helpfully tell her shit's unfixable. Realism.)

  • rm -rf / can brick your system

    Well good thing there's basically no legitimate reason to ever even use rm -rf / anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you're doing and want to nuke partitions, that's what cfdisk and mkfs are for, dammit

  • Probably the silliest thing I have run into was some game. It asked you to set two passwords. You needed both to login. The second password couldn't be changed. This is why it was secure, see. (...What.)

    When I created my account and set the second password, I couldn't log on the second time. Because I had entered a 20 character second password. It was accepted and verified during the account creation just fine. On the second login, it only accepted 16 characters. (It let you enter 20 characters but said it was too long.) Trying to enter first 16 characters of the second password didn't work, of course.

    I then contacted the support, and they did manage to reset the second password anyway. (What is this even)

  • My hierarchy goes something like this:

    • A relatively trivial configuration file? TOML
    • A configuration file that needs a bit of complexity and nesting? YAML
    • Is it getting so complicated and longwinded that you're actually unlikely to touch it by hand anyway? JSON
    • Have we become downright enterprisey? XML
  • Wait. What if Garfield eats lasagna all the time because the freezer is literally an endless pocket dimension full of lasagna...

    Shit, I need my morning coffee. I hate Mondays and it's only the Sunday morning now.

  • It's funny because GNOME was the first OSS X11 desktop environment to get actual usability testing from corporate developers (Sun Microsystems).

    I'm not sure if they still have a user interface design guideline document, though. They probably burned it when GNOME 3 development started. Haven't checked. I've mostly used Xfce since then (and very recently KDE).

  • YouTube already randomly drops me to 360p on my big-ass broadband sometimes because it just feels like it. What are the guarantees YouTube Premium won't do that? ANSWER ME YOUTUBE, THIS IS CRUCIAL PRE-PURCHASE INFORMATION.

  • Huh.

    You know, when I think of supercomputer applications, I think of deeply analytical problems based on solid math and well understood algorithms that can be highly parallelised to take the maximum theoretical advantage of the hardware at hand.

    You know, the opposite of what the "AI" crowd is doing. Throwing vast amounts of crunching power at a barely understood hypothetical black-box problem in hopes that it potentially yields some interesting results. Maybe.