bricklove

@bricklove@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These comments are like a treasure trove.

  I didn’t see anyone mention Kodi as an alternative to smart TVs. It’s better in every way than the Apple TV I won from a raffle at work. The best part is that my TV box is just a computer so I can use it to host other services too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  America has been strategically sitting on a couch eating strategic cheeseburgers for the past 50 years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont worry about your retirement plan...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not thin enough. He should be quartered too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wood⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are the bodies, Garth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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'?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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