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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social some people engage in GPS drawing while cycling, plotting routes to look like simple pictures you could probably do that over there

@halla@kde.social we also do this back home in Rausu now that I think of it but the tablecloth is brought all the way to the backyard because we don’t need crows and bears in the front

@halla@kde.social my Russian relatives did something like this (instead of the front door it’s the balcony; most people don’t have a front door in your sense there as they live in blocks of flats) as recently as 2010 in my memory

@owashe@meow.social some clients (of them some likely by accident) allow you to use a sane chronological approach, and scroll up from the saved position, which I really like in Feditext

@owashe@meow.social (I catch up with everything everywhere but that is because I only use chronological timelines and I impose strict limits on how many people I follow to prevent catching up from taking up more than ideally half an hour across the whole day)

@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk Those 1024 byte sectors are plain CP/M boot stuff, but then it hands control off to something wild and untamed, a graphics-mode selection pane for ZX Spectrum tape images!

@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk 3½" stuff always, always gave me grief… I had a pile of Verbatim DataLifePlus where 98% had bad sectors, and of those 98%, more than a quarter were Track 0 bad, disk unusable.

@ramsey@phpc.social if you live in NA and work in tech or some other industry with Salaries, you really cannot go wrong with Zojirushi, they are built to last decades (at home in Japan we still use the original Micom that my grandmother bought in 1984). Another nice option is Yum-Asia. They have their own line of rice cookers, including inductive heating stuff, which are a lot, and I mean a lot, cheaper than Zojirushi, and are officially designed to cook a variety of other grains as well. I got a Yum-Asia Bamboo when I moved to Dublin for work, as you cannot get induction heating Zojirushi cookers in the EU, they are not certified and no models with 220-250V power supply units are available…

@joomy@functional.cafe and there was also one case where software was measured in hours/minutes of a 9600 bps upload over ISDN

@agowa338@chaos.social it might be because I am not a programmer — since childhood I only ever dealt with hobby-tier stuff (Z80/8080/M680x0/PowerPC Assembler, Ada, C#, Rust) and as a linguistics major only had 2 years of mandatory C in the university so git is inscrutable to me; I do not understand why is it git stash list but git branch --list, etc.

@bunnyhero@mstdn.ca containment breach. personnel already despatched, class A amnesiacs will be provided free of charge and with extreme prejudice

@biphenyl @aeva mastodon (the software) is weird, and so is, honestly, ActivityPub

@technomancy my solution as a Firefox user, for websites like Dan's, is to press F9 (caveat: does not work for everything, but visibly improves a lot of stuff, and sometimes bypasses silly, JavaScript-based paywalls)

@lynn @halcy I once disassembled an unsalvageable Thing that I don’t even remember the purpose of and it had like ten 500 μF / 250 V capacitors the size of a small boulder (think 500 ml cycling water bottle) each …that were still rather charged.

@halcy@icosahedron.website @asmcbain@woof.tech when I was working on fixing COBOL for MUFG (for Y2K) in my early teens I met a rather cool systems technician gal (as in fashion) in her I think thirties who told me that a girl shouldn’t judge by size but by appropriateness

@agowa338@chaos.social obviously, everyone is just about forced to use git (and the pull request workflow) these days, so there is simply no real choice

@libreleah if I may enquire, which keyboard layouts are available? I’m guessing ANSI or ISO only?

@ami_angelwings Gasai Yuno from 未来日記 (Future Diary) for sure

@pixelfed@mastodon.social they want you to specify your birthday apparently, this exact thing happened to me for a really really old account and on log-in I was asked for that Upon entering something valid I got an email about the removal of suspension

@swetland@chaos.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer at our consulate in StPetersburg where I was posted I had to deal with legal correspondence written in Russian sent from Japan in one of the more widely used Japanese encodings that included Cyrillic, and sometimes forward it to Russian speakers, who famously used… CP866 (DOS), Windows 1251 (Windows, duh), Mac Alternative (huh), KOI8-R (Linux, *UNIX, some Soviet mainframes), and ISO 8859-5 (UNIX, occasionally RTOS, some mainframes) Then UTF-8's introduction led to the birth of the horror of ‘Windows 1251 or what have you’ in UTF-8 encapsulation in email, and the whole amazing clusterfuck with MySQL (software that didn't really care about encodings) that shipped with latin1 and Swedish collation as the default… and everyone and their sister just shoved non-Latin-1 text into that. (It worked until you wanted to mysqldump it. There were even worse cases, with triple encapsulation.)

@meena@cathode.church there is research that shows that degenerative BS usage does not result in statistically significant improvement to a software developer's performance (so when the developers themselves say they are 10%, 30%, 1000% more effective they are being extremely subjective and deluding themselves) the same research (mostly done by the very companies that peddle this stuff) shows that more often than not it results in performance degradation

@FoxVK@mastodon.cloud @BeamMeOut@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange the company that I work for is going to migrate from Sharepoint to Google Workspace, so Teams will be replaced by Meet, and I dread the day because: Teams (if you are not using 3rd party conferencing hardware) has absolutely epic noise cancellingTeams has automated captioning and transcripts that work really well (sure, it's not ideal, but it's great), and for someone with broken hearing like me this is a godsendTeams video calling just worksthe company is going to stay on Windows anyway and we cannot really do our jobs if we don't run Windows (I'm in localisation) P. S. IRC is not better as a chat replacement for Teams because, by design, it has no persistence, zero fault tolerance, and no history playback unless you stick znc somewhere (and let's not mention media content)

@agowa338@chaos.social it's a mobile game and they have separate branches for separate features/events/etc… and loc strings are spread all over those it's terrible but that's what they have

@agowa338@chaos.social @feliks@chaos.social I feel like the guy's frown should be turned upside down too because he uses git

@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk likely to not have any bad sectors (my experience with 400+ 5.25” diskettes most of which were written to in the early 90s)

@agowa338@chaos.social a project that I collaborate on has dozens of branches and it is easy to get lost sometimes haha git stash list is used by me a lot for weird reasons: I have a git checkout of the FreeBSD ports tree that I want to keep as close to the original as possible, so all my temporary patches are stashed when I'm updating the tree

@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk oh, and a random fact: I have DS/DD 80-track diskettes that are formatted in a peculiar way: the first track on each side is the standard 1024 byte sectors ×8 per track, but second track and on are 512 bytes ×16 instead.

@rra seeing how the image doesn’t even spell ‘security’ I think they mean cyber-obscurity (security through obscurity maybe?)

@etam@im-in.space would still have been nice to see something wide enough to allow stress-free passing of two Dutch style bicycles (unless I’m really bad at approximating width) Dublin has spots like that and even on my drop bar bike it’s always somewhat scary when someone is in oncoming lane, especially when it’s an MTB — people often ride close to the centre line instead of hugging the outer side :(

@halcy@icosahedron.website @firefly@frogs.lgbt huh, no ga in the selector there at all… (also a very curious choice to use ISO language codes instead of language names) wait, their selectors make no sense in general huh

@agowa338@chaos.social @feliks@chaos.social (to quote my uncle, ‘git, or more specifically github, usage tends to exacerbate psychopathic tendencies’)

@joomy@functional.cafe the moment I saw ‘meter’, without reading further I was like ‘oh, metres, means it's either tape or printout’ (in the 90s some Japanese companies did similar weird things but for paying for software development)

@saddestrobots@jorts.horse @scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place what's BSD coreutils? (I don't think I saw this in the FreeBSD ports tree, there's only the GNU one?)

@meena@cathode.church also honestly not sure why would you want your employees to surrender their own critical thinking abilities and troubleshooting skills to a heap of mindless, thoughtless formulae

@technomancy you could probably modify the Style Unstyled extension to suit your needs, unless your goal is to avoid using extensions if it is, I think I heard tell of magical files inside the Firefox user profile directory that you can use for these overrides, but alas, I cannot recall what they were

@mausmalone@mastodon.social does Komoot have no privacy settings? both Garmin and Strava do this ‘start and end hidden’ thing and you can tell them how much of a radius to hide

@etam@im-in.space the other side does not seem to have a cycleway so this looks kind of… cramped to me? maybe I am too used to Dublin's bidirectional cycleways…

@punishmenthurts@autistics.life they called themselves socialists as a buzzword of sorts — socialism was popular and they wanted to steal blue collar workers from actual socialist movements

@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk oh, I'm sure 720 KB ones would have been fine, but these were all 1.44 MB HD stuff… I still find it somewhat funny that for 5¼", IBM PC and compatibles are locked into 40/80 track dichotomy of incompatibility. My hand-made PC uses a TEAC FD-55FR and you cannot stick this drive in a PC because it does 80 tracks, but a typical HD PC drive will still read and even write (though not advised due to RPM) DS/DD 80-track diskettes from that PC, and if they're MSX-DOS formatted, DOS and Windows will read it fine. But for imaging purposes I got a TEAC FD-55GFR and added a tiny flip switch for RPM selection ahaha…

@foone@digipres.club long may live the fserve tech even if it was a mIRC thing (it was kind of shit but it was shit that worked just fine until it was partially replaced by XDCC stuff) also eggdrop of ‘please op me’

@agowa338@chaos.social I am not the one doing git clone, it's poudriere updating its local copy from FreeBSD's main ports repository and I am working on that local copy

@agowa338@chaos.social dumb projects aside, I am still convinced that git command line interface lacks consistency

@mausmalone@mastodon.social spicy…

@agowa338@chaos.social honestly, I never really understood git's design approach and still prefer Mercurial and Subversion because they do not actively try to subvert my ideas about what consistent command-line interfaces are like

@halcy @KathyReid ‘was’ perhaps, March 28 was more than two weeks ago? Unless this is about 2027… (As an Ainu speaker I’m curious too)

@halcy@icosahedron.website posts about Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP are indeed often straw-man type

@agowa338@chaos.social that's one of my issues with git: with svn and mercurial I only needed to know a few basics; with git I need a Ph. D. in git administration \o/

Image 1: Glenageary Road Upper on Google Street View and as I remember it from a year or so ago Images 2 and 3: photos of this same road I took today (2 is from the intersection visible at the bottom of image 1, 3 is from the one at the top beep boop @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer and Arabic. I'm in localisation and there's like, CSV files with Arabic text and they just work.