oldfart

@oldfart@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero to Hero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I made good brussels ONCE. I have the recipe and tried to do it many times, never could make them good again, always too bitter. I know it’s possible but I’ll wait a decade for stars to align again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For that one time when systemd-logind crashed on every boot on an unmodified CentOS install because of an OOM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a note, high denominations are not great during emergencies, unless you mean big purchase emergencies. Buying food and gas with high denomination bills may end up in seller not accepting the bill because they have no change. Or happily accepting that bill despite having no change.

  For small change, you could take the jar to your bank and make a cash deposit (and see the cashier die inside). In some branches they have machines for counting change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, you wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period.

  Haha no, thanks. I really don’t understand why Stallman stands behind dystopian statist money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The moment you start using this argument you become a tinfoil hat money laundering thug. Being afraid of putin is more socially acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel enters its 40th year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Matplotlib

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel enters its 40th year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also prefer a spreadsheet, but for a proficient coder it’s not a week long job, unless they build it on bare metal. You can do a lot in an hour with a visualization library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the same at all. Archivebox would do the trick if it was pre-populated with every page Google Search has in its index.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck them, but it’s not like anything changes for people who currently watch ads, or who pay for Premium. It’s us who they’re fighting, and we don’t generate any income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot thickens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else wondering what that bed notification is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t want to learn. I want the machine to free me from tedious tasks I already know how to do. There’s no learning experience in creating a Wordpress plugin or a shell script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, phones are a lost case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to use good GUI programs designed for using with a keyboard, but it seems touch UI is the main theme for bigger developers these days, and keyboard is an afterthought at best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when is it not okay to have an opinion on how you’d like your computer to work? You’re saying it as if usability was an objective truth, not a preference of majority of users. People are different, everyone is talking about neurodiversity, and you’re saying that loving lowest common denominator UIs are the only acceptable opinion in the light of objective facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully, the normies are moving away from computer and maybe the ecosystem will heal in our lifetimes 🤞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For whatever reason, at the time Italian coffee names became so popular 15 or so years ago, coffee became either super intense or a dessert. I’m old and I just want a mild coffee like I used to drink before the fashion, not a super strong one. Call me a lightweight if you want, I don’t take pride in doing stimmulants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “This will be my Gemini homepage one day!” on 90% of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember myself in my ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid rules are beat by malicious compliance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I quit Facebook over 10 years ago it was because it stopped showing me my friends’ posts and pushed random crap instead. I literally had to go friends’ profiles to see their posts even when checking the feed several times a day.

  Looks like nothing changed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …ccc.de/…/3e0a51f5-f60a-4a90-a78a-3a311c6ffe41 here the author explains why and it all sounds like a bucket of bullshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I confirm, I’ve been on a plane with charging ports once. They exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I’m on a longer trip and want to replace a battery with a charged one? Every time I want to be offline but carry a phone for emergencies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all about replacable batteries but come on. Two times I was out and came back home soaking wet because of rain. Many more times I used my phone in the kitchen or bathroom while water was splashing with no stress, which I wasn’t brave enough to do with a non-resistant phones.

  That being said, I’d rather carry an extra battery or two like I used to than carry a power bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many leaders in tech evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When did you grow up that Gates has not been evil yet? All of the 90s was marked by Microsoft making home computing worse to create a monopoly. Fucking emails formatted in a way that’s unreadable outside Windows, closed .doc format that became a de facto standard in offices and likely many other things I don’t remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds really healthy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, youtube ads in the US are so much more interesting. Don’t get me wrong, fuck pro slavery propaganda, it’s just completely exotic to someone who only saw bank loan and lame product ads (when visiting parents who use official app on their tv)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same when setting up Nagios, after a time you learn fewer alerts is better