bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on I just finished a small drawing of some Pikmin bugs! 1 day ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3033: Origami Black Hole 4 weeks ago:
Help, halfway through folding my paper turned into nitrogen!
- Comment on Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters? 4 weeks ago:
There is no such thing* as a UTF-8 file. It’s just text encoded in some way. It’s only a UTF-8 file if everything is encoded as UTF-8 which it’s evidently not.
You can even tell MySQL to export perfectly valid UTF-8 text encoded as ISO 8859-1 to import into a UTF-8 table without any troubles (maybe apart from stuff that could not be encoded in ISO 8859-1).
*Yes, technically there could be a BOM at the beginning but almost no tool uses that and most get confused by it. And it would still not force any data written to it to be UTF-8.
- Comment on Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters? 4 weeks ago:
Encoding is hard. Especially when your data comes from web forms or CSV files. And MySQL needed three tries to get UTF-8 right and you need DB admins and often programmers as well who know this. So not everything MySQL calls UTF-8 actually is.
And often enough it took a long while for something to actually reach UTF-8 status. And idiots not converting the data leads to databases with a mixture of encodings.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 4 weeks ago:
What if the front falls off?
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 4 weeks ago:
We’ll win the robot wars by pitting them against each other.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll definitely check it out when it’s out of EA. PoE 1 is already great.
Don’t have the energy or money for a new game at the moment, though.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Diablo 2: Resurrected
Actually played it while watching the fireworks.
- Comment on I can't believe I haven't had a shower since last year..... 4 weeks ago:
That joke is soooo last year.
Just !chronicillness@lemmy.world things.
- Comment on Hey mods or admins can we get a best of 2024 for this year like best questions and best answer? 4 weeks ago:
Just sort by top of the year.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
How would you do that? You need some party to accept and hold the money and be able to give it out. And those usually have to follow a bunch of regulations.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 4 weeks ago:
But con Jews. A real conundrum.
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- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 4 weeks ago:
If you want to appear older online you should write properly. Proper capitalisation and sentences make your text easier to read. As it is they look like an uninterrupted stream of consciousness.
This might also help you offline. Try to structure your thoughts before giving them to the world. This takes time but should go a long way on making you seem like you got your shit together.
- Comment on Better luck next time 2 months ago:
Idiot viruses, just made me bedridden, thus minimising my contact with other people. Stupid things are just salty because they’re not really alive. Don’t even have any DNA, the losers!
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 2 months ago:
If anything this reflects badly upon Microsoft’s cloud business. Dynamically spinning up enough servers shouldn’t be an issue nowadays.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Well, by now the Supreme Court has been supplanted and intent to overthrow democracy has been shown. That’s a big difference to last time. So it’s not exactly the same situation.
But we’ll see how robust American democracy is.
- Comment on The PlayStation Portal remote player experience to evolve with new system update 2 months ago:
From an outside perspective it’a so strange that this thing doesn’t work with Xbox live and other cloud providers. Or does it?
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 2 months ago:
XcQ, no thank you!
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 2 months ago:
Not to be confused with the Pussy Examination at the vet next door.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 months ago:
And then they complain that their fruit garden isn’t working.
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 2 months ago:
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 2 months ago:
And indestructible Nokia phones!
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 2 months ago:
The only reason I’m not playing more VR is that it’s more involved than playing without. You have to make space to play. If you’re playing from PC (which I would recommend) you have to set that and the games up. And then it’s usually more fun to play standing for which I don’t always have the energy.
My Quest 1 is not logged in to Meta so I only play free games from Sidequest or whatever free games I used to get from Meta. Plenty to play with that and PCVR.
“Smaller” games like Moon Rider are usually more fun. At least in the long run. Full games like Alyx are few and far between. But ports of older games work well. I dare say that VR is the best way to play Doom 3.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Dude, thorium reactors will be ready any day now, along with mini reactors! Everything will be super cheap and all the waste will be reused and we won’t be dependent on any fuel sources from Russia and all our problems will be gone!
/s, in case it’s not obvious
- Comment on Migrating from Nextcloud AIO to Owncloud Infinite Scale: Good Idea? 2 months ago:
If I wasn’t using so many other Nextcloud apps besides the file storage I would switch.
- Comment on Corn? I DAUHN REMEMBAH EATING ANY CORN! 2 months ago:
Only the shell survives. It seems to be intact but it’s full of shit.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Huh? I wanted to see whether Portal 1 and 2 are free as well to recommend them to family and friends but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. They don’t show any info on purchasing them whether I’m logged in or not.
- Comment on idk french but this escalated quick 2 months ago:
There should still be lots of energy stored holding it together. It’s just incredibly hard to split.
- Comment on The amount of people your age is only going down with time. 2 months ago:
I see “your age” similar to the dating pool. It grows the older you get. When I was young my brother and his friends were incredibly old. But nowadays they are “my age”. I mean, my wife was literally born four days after my brother. That alone increased “my age”.
And when I look at the other parents I meet at my kid’s schools “my age” is an even bigger group. Add hobbies to that and it’s off the chart.
