bricklove

@bricklove@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents are those college educated conservatives and their mental gymnastics are Olympic level. They also donate to charities and do volunteer work like meals on wheels. They don’t make any sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for skyrim and oblivion to be remade in OpenMW

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked as a developer in electronic payments for 5 years and we had to go through a months long process to certify the code with the financial system. My bosses were paranoid of any changes I made (to a silly degree) and we had a silly amount of automated tests.

  We were a small startup with an underpaid staff and I’m not sure if more than 1000 people used our software. What they’re doing is completely reckless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do rhymes make sense to deaf people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also doesn’t help that spellings started to standardize at the same time the great vowel shift was happening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are the bodies, Garth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just using a self hosted git repo with markdown files. I was having trouble finding something open source that I could edit with vim that also had a good mobile solution. I also didn’t want to get locked into a file format that was specific to an app.

  Markdown is ubiquitous and I use git all the time as a developer so it was easier to tack something onto an existing workflow. It’s a little janky but at least I won’t be screwed by devs abandoning whatever app I was using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it to surprisingly easy to read. I knew about the characters beforehand but never saw them used extensively in words I understand. Let’s bring ðem back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I got “cunT” once and gave myself a heart attack because I thought I had accidentally committed a frustrated debugging log message to a work repo. I found it while searching for swears but it was in a file I hadn’t changed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch toilets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you have the light switch outside the bathroom too? That way your friends can make you poop in the dark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance:⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m standing at an Amtrak station right now. Quit teasing me with these steamy pics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That serenity is why I enjoy running Arch with basically nothing on it. My OS doesn’t do shit and I love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know about this. Thank you for the knowledge fellow human!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they don't fold well either⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually sleep on my back but if I sleep on my side I always use a pillow. I have a pretty big head so if I’m lying flat with no pillow my neck is straight and not bending backwards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they don't fold well either⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the comments is making me feel like a psychopath. I guess I’m the only one who occasionally uses no pillows because one can be too much for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a theory that the vinegar was posca, a mix of vinegar and water that was better than straight vinegar. Not that that was really a kindness since he’d survive longer and suffer more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not German enough, needs more unnecessary capital letters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from one of them Laconian magnetar-class battleships

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outliers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I yeet I yote I have yeen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outliers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It comes from Latin iactare meaning “to cast”. Over time the c was dropped as French evolved and the i shifted to a y consonant and we get yeter. Once it was borrowed into English it further changed as it simplified the ending and following the great vowel shift.

  I am lying but most of those bits are facts and I’m actually describing the etymology of jet. Also the proto Indo European ye is hilariously uncanny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do names of countries get translated? What is the reason why Nippon/Nihon is called Japan or Ellada is called Greece in English?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the subreddit I miss the most. Some of the best history content on the web

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And the owners will use it as an excuse to not hire more workers or increase wages for the more productive current workers