davidagain
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- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 9 hours ago:
WordPad writes fairly clean rtf. Word writes incredibly bloated messy rtf. No, I don’t want to use a .docx or .pdf generating library, I just wanna slap some strings together and have it come out ready to print yet editable by non techy users. I use wordpad to write my templates.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 9 hours ago:
I use EditPadLite and have done for a loong time. It has regex find and replace, is fast and you can tell it to display word wrapped or not, numbered lines or not, font, size, colours, syntax highlighting scheme, all based on file extensions. I have it as my default text editor and for all kinds of other files as well as text.
If I want to do major coding, I fire up the IDE and choose from my recent projects, but if I want to quickly edit some xml or a single source file, I double click it and edit it in EditPadLite.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 9 hours ago:
If you’re still on windows 10, now’s is fine, by you might not be getting security updates for the whole OS. If you’re on windows 11, notepad is annoying, bloated, has AI, and is a security risk. Also the OS updates you are getting might well be written by AI, and we all know how infallible AI is, right?
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 day ago:
Braindead ruling. Not as braindead as “the equality act was not intended to protect trans people” which is about as stupid and fucked up as it gets, but still really pretty braindead.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 day ago:
Not if you’re selling it in shops.
I think you’re in the clear if you’re just giving it away to people you like.
- Comment on There's still life left in them! 4 days ago:
He looks great in them. Let him be.
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 1 week ago:
Can confirm.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, of course, but I really enjoyed “fubuciary”. It’s a deliblicious misplomuncitation.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 weeks ago:
You get blowjobs from Lemmy users?! I gotta try changing my username!
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
Then it’s not empty. If it were a union of empty sets, that would be empty.
- Comment on Huh? 3 weeks ago:
Like my local pub, then. That’s how I like it. Spoiler: they’re not ranking it in and agent millionaires, though.
- Comment on leg 5 weeks ago:
Oh.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 5 weeks ago:
Why would musk stop his pet ai doing what he programmed it for?
- Comment on I love science 5 weeks ago:
If there’s advanced calculus, there’s presumably also regular calculus, so at what point does calculus start to be advanced?
- Comment on it's so fucking awesome 1 month ago:
it’s so fucking awesome
That’s three words.
- Comment on Nigerian Village Bombed by Trump Has 'No Known History' of Anti-Christian Terrorism, Locals Say 1 month ago:
What? People are still looking for a reason for this happening other than to distract the media from how much trump is in the Epstein files despite being redacted from it in such vast quantities?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What happened?
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
Exactly. I wouldn’t touch a chromebook with a barge pole. Who wants Google to watch absolutely everything you do?
- Comment on What Are You 1 month ago:
(I’m not a YouTube person.) Thanks for explaining.
- Comment on What Are You 1 month ago:
Does table mean breadwinner or something?
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In confused by you saying that french verb conjugation is all three of: mostly incomplete, powerful and hard to learn. Did you mean inconsistent rather than incomplete?
Would German make a better lingua franca?
I’m told sanskrit is pretty logical.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
Lol no, they did not!
NERDS WORK VERY HARD INDEED AND FIX BUGS IN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SYSTEMS doesn’t sell papers.
For that matter, neither does TEENAGERS WORK NIGHT AND DAY IN UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION AND BREAK PREVIOUS SUCCESS RECORDS AGAIN BECAUSE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE GRADED AS FAILING UNLESS RESULTS RISE CONTINUOUSLY. Can you tell I have friends in the teaching profession?!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The invention of the printing press and of the dictionary at a time of great language change has been problematic for English spelling.
Why do you feel English is better than French? I think English has most of the problems of French and then a whole bunch of its own, but I’m interested in your perspective.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ah excellent, thank you.
I think the numbers speaking Irish Gaelic are incredibly small, whereas Welsh is still a commonly spoken first language away from south Wales.
I looked up the welsh for toes and found toesau which is a Welsh pluralised borrow from English, but also bysedd traed, which is indeed fingers of the foot, so I think Wales should be added to the stripey red and green part of the map as per other comments.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t know much about it, but I suspect this is just a map of the 'Germanic" language family.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think you’re allowing this to make you angrier than you should.
You clearly speak English, which I think of as the mongrel child of two or three Germanic languages and a Romance one, and not in a good way, so I also think it’s the most fucked up and inconsistent one of the lot. The only thing it’s got going for it as a language is genderless nouns.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
This is a fair point. I’m a programmer and this kind of banter is not super common in my workplace. We are all a little bit odd in our own ways.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
I remember it well.
The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmes encoded a date as two digits and everyone was going to accidentally become of negatively age and all timers would break.
COBOL programmers: there’s a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above Abby other issue to resolve it
Managers and newspapers: ARMAGEDDON!
COBOL programmers: we’ve got this.
Newspapers: nobody is doing anything about it! Armageddon!
COBOL programmers: It’s a lot of work but we’re cracking on, we’ve been working at it a while and it’s going to be tight and we’re going to need to put in some overtime, but really, we’ve got this.
Newspapers: OH FUCK LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CRASHMillienium dawns. Some slight issues remain. Most important systems already patched and fine. Society does not crash.
Newspapers: There was no millennium bug after all!
COBOL programmers: no, there was, but we fixed it like we said we needed to and then we did. Boy, that was hard work.
Newspapers: It was ALL A HOAX.
COBOL programmers: no, it was a problem and we fixed it.
Newpapers: CELEBRITY WOMAN WEARS DRESS.
COBOL programmers: we just see the world differently, I guess. Can I retire early with all this emergency business critical overtime money?