LP still can't spell Ainmhícon

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social dana *no* :neocat_scream_stare:

@foone@digipres.club I think this is not far off some of what happened in Die Another Day, but nobody *wants* to remember Die Another Day

@JellyTBeagle a lot of tech *workers* are really burning out on not being able to find a way to turn their skill into rent payments that doesn't help capitalists accelerate social ills, too

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social the cognitive load one feels so much like one that would clearly conclude "we should stop doing this, it measurably leaves us with less brainpower to make good decisions", and everyone would go "yeah", and then go right back to doing it

@dermoth @hailey you can still use WSL1, it just requires a supported settings change. supposedly still maintained in parallel too. it's still the easiest way to get virtualbox to coexist, since it's grumpy if hyperv is around.

@sheepfilms@mastodon.social this actually works on any of them that have this socket---that's why it's called universal serial bus

@gloriouscow @curtmack @foone somewhere in the mantle lies the Area 5150 demo (which I guess puts https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/ "only" on the sea floor)

@gloriouscow @curtmack @foone it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDxdoRTZPc , and see the description for the commitment to graphics wizardry, or it runs correctly in martypc and is in the default loader menu it boots into

@balinares@furry.engineer @nicuveo@tech.lgbt This only holds if you believe there can be an end which justifies the means. To entertain it at all, you must think there's a possible outcome that makes the harms excusable. That *is* where people are disappointing me. That once they've done this, I can never take them seriously again that they care about the environment, or worker solidarity, or supporting artists, because they've shown they were just waiting for the right bus to throw those ideals under.

@foone@digipres.club getting the XFree86 modelines wrong (I'm sure there was a DOS tool with comparable scary warning, but the brain is saying "UniVBE" and the internet is saying "wrong")

@juliancday it's brilliant, isn't it

@Nerts@yiff.life the bad bios flash ones *actually* bricking hardware, rather than the diluted modem meaning

@rootkitty@yiff.life @jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net I miss the alsa+dmix days, that worked, and did so on a Celeron 500 every reboot I'm rolling a dice on if my audio output will just be missing

@gloriouscow @curtmack @foone *brain itches* *click* "Author of: MartyPC" :neocat_3c:

@petrillic@hachyderm.io Unfortunately, my experience is that the usual problems unions are geared up to solve are like, pay and conditions disputes, not ethical objections to the work. Or, y'know, mass layoffs. But experience wasn't great there either.

@balinares@furry.engineer @nicuveo@tech.lgbt And yes I'm getting hypersensitized to this by being in tech. Yes there's obviously leeway here for people looking at the new highly-hyped toy before they've realized the deep rot it's built on. I can understand, but disagree with, using it to demonstrate how bad the output is. All while I'm watching people around me completely sincerely go "wow, this made up better team photos than I could have taken!", let alone anything happening in the codebase or bug tracker.

@Phorm@dragon.style ha, excellent shirt for a genie

@lunareclipse@snug.moe @foone@digipres.club language-specific package management and various flavors of dockerization have brought it to other platforms too it's a rare treat to see a project whose build instructions are just "here's a list of lib*-dev dependencies to install via your distro, then run cmake"

@zoe@zoeoconnell.co.uk But that's not what that does, right? That's a debug string for "pretend I gave you a prompt to generate something awful", to test refusal without having to actually ask for something awful enough (and risk it might generate it). The scraping side of things absolutely does not care about it AFAICT.

@foone ah, but what are the odds each of those plain text elements is being rendered as an HTML document?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social good comments explain if it does that on purpose, so you know if your "fix" to make it safer will actually break something else (or to be boring and get away from the image, good comments answer "what were they even trying to *do* here?!", because The Code only tells you what they *actually* did)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Also it was on an instance that died, sadly, but, RT https://snouts.online/@dandelion/103879754459626276 : thinking about how software companies slowly chip away at the idea of consent by turning every "no" into "not right now," every "stop this" into "do this less often," every "i don't want that" into "maybe later"

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt I don't see how this is different from Twitter, where anything older than a day may as well never have existed pretty much *except* dril tweets, and that's only because they're very searchable phrases and dril has gone that long without changing account (and without getting banned). Scrolling back through discord channels of tweets, many of them rot away after a year or two even though you have the link. (Masto *does* need to figure out backdated post import for moves thought, yes)

@joshmillard surely the last is just a satisfied customer of the monkey-rental service previous?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Product Owner: users might not realize they like ice cream unless we give them a taste first. it is our solumn divine duty to ensure every user tastes the ice cream, by any means necessary. they cannot possibly make an informed decision to the contrary without sampling our specific implementation of the product. the more they've disliked previous ice creams the more important it is we make them give our version another chance. i have never heard of lactose intolerance.

@jonschwenn who did the art?

@selfsame@tiny.tilde.website exact same line as the last scam

@imsop@tech.lgbt @EndlessMason@hachyderm.io @nixCraft@mastodon.social you can drop me from these replies any time now

@jschauma@mstdn.social reeeeealy wondering if I can make it work, even if "retirement" is actually "find something which pays much worse or less predictably given what other skills I might be able to develop to 'worth money to someone' level, but at least isn't tech"

@foone@digipres.club sadly this is the least surprising answer in this modern world :blobcat_flopdaze:

@fraggle@social.coop @mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza I mean it *does* emit radiation...

@jiub See also: just booting the debian kde live image gives you Too Many Input Methods: https://plush.city/@LionsPhil/115091317460711846 we've reached the point where the rate of "simple, clean rewrites" is outpacing removing the old ones :p