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RL_Dane, 3 months ago to Youtube

#Youtube is starting to block #invidious instances like yewtu.be

That is beyond lame and bogus. >:(

pkw, 3 months ago to random

I see this pattern a lot.

Focusing on one's culpability to a problem as opposed to purely focusing on solving the problem.

They appear similiar, but the former is so much less productive and failure prone. If you are first worried about if you are part of the problem you will subconsciously not focus on
the areas where you might indeed be the problem.

For example consider people talking about racism or veganism.

Think of the kneejerk response: "but i have black friends".

Crell, 3 months ago to programming

1 does not mean true.
0 does not mean false.

That is a 50 year old hack in #C that we have not managed to escape yet; it's even inconsistent. (Unix error codes are the other way around.) It's high time we moved on.

#Programming #PHP #Types

pkw, 3 months ago to random

My cat does this trilly meow. It's kinda of like a subdued version of the Chewbacca noise when he's anxious. or like a very very less dramatic version of the yell he does.

He does it like when I go let him in and he's had to wait to long at the door. He makes this noise as he walks past me like "c'mon dude".
It's like he's chastising me.

To be clear it's very subtle, like less serious than a feed me now meow.

SallyStrange, 3 months ago to random

Ain't it funny how I have to choose between believing my own lying eyes, or believing a guy named "Truth Sandwich"

#BlockList
https://babka.social/@truthsandwich/111972491158509209

hakan_geijer, 3 months ago to random

Assange shouldn't go to prison because no one should. Him being extradited and sent to prison will be bad for journalists.

Deifying him and holding up his work as honest investigative journalism is, however, bullshit. He is a hack propagandist, a rapist, and certainly not a leftist nor someone anarchists should celebrate.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 months ago to random

#NetBSD 10.0 RC5 - you read it here first. 😉

pkw, 3 months ago to random

This isn't anything new, but I was lamenting that if you want to do web sites without javascript then you can't do things like multiselect "all" or "none" for a list of checkbox inputs. This is a very useful pattern, and the alternative is to check or uncheck each one individually.

But I realized you can totally do this without javascript, you just need to send intermediate POSTs back to the server and let the server do it.

I hear you, "That's a lot of extra work to replace something

pkw, 3 months ago to random

Anybody else block mastodon.social?

It seems like lots of edgy implied nazi racist stuff comes from there. But maybe it's just because they are so big.

Maybe having AP servers with that many accounts is a bad idea.

pkw, 3 months ago to random

Western civilization has been gaslit into this notion that change is impossible.

The inertia of the status quo is so inevitable that we might as well accept it is as we burn this planet down.

So many times this is the argument that wins against risking a change in course. "We aren't ready to change now."
In a sense not being ready for big change is a tautology.

Which seems so obviously a broken notion. Not changing is a course of certain doom.

I am almost always on the side of any kind of

pkw, 3 months ago to random

"you have to give them credit"

no, no i don't

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

Traitors are charged with everything BUT BEING A FUCKING TRAITOR.

pkw, 4 months ago to random

Keeping inline with smolweb ideas, at least in spirit.

I'm adding javascript to select all or none checkboxes. I am allowing myself this, because you can still use the page without that, just have to click the individual select boxes.

pkw, 4 months ago to random

I'm programming a Todo app in common lisp named "clue". Instead of doing things on the todo list :P. Well I guess writing a todo list is on the todo list ?

This is like that Bertrand Russell paradox.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 4 months ago to random

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pkw, 4 months ago to random

So often when I read a toot that I strongly agree with especially when someone did some act to stand up for their selves or others...

In my head I say "long live the fighters".

Like from the 1984 Dune movie.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Cv87NJ2xX0k

And then everybody raises their knives in power and solidarity, and they start doing direct actions of the likes god has not seen, all to a toto soundtrack.

pkw, 4 months ago to random

#OpenBSD

From time to time I have this dream of being the guy that gets bluetooth working on OpenBSD. [0]

I would feel like I won wimbledon, or won a superbowl, or went to the moon.

I am an average C programmer so don't hold your breath.

[0] obviously that means in a non-crappy way.

pkw, 4 months ago to random

Here's a couple of pics I have collected that I keep revisiting.
One of them I find soooooo funnny and heartwarming. And the other resonates with me because I think "soft leftist" people are so much stronger than ppl think. They just don't tend to advertise it.

I did not come up with them and I forget where I got them, probably from here (fedi).

Feel free to give credit :)

jacqueline, 4 months ago to random

u can buy my gay mp3 player if u want. i think it's a pretty cool device. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

pkw, 4 months ago to random

It would be easy to pick apples from a tree by changing how gravity works.

But some things you cannot change.

So you will have to do something else to get those apples out of the tree, and complaining about gravity isn't going to help.

It's the serenity prayer all the way down :P

OMG the serenity prayer is yet another dialectic.

I am broken ... bleep blorp

pkw, 4 months ago to random

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JCc91Zij9vI

The Heavy Crown -- Greenish Brown

This to me is a successor to early sabbath in spirit. Heavy and folky.

I like this band and song a lot.

claude_cahun, 4 months ago to random

References to purity when discussing voting (as in, "leftists need to stop their purity seeking and vote Biden") just read as genocide denial and apologia to me at this point. Perhaps you think that it is strategically necessary to hold your nose and vote for Biden. But saying that people who don't agree with you on the strategic necessity of voting for a genocide enabler are seeking purity is such an obvious distortion of reality that a person might start to wonder if you actually are holding your nose. Maybe he smells just fine to you.

People are complicated, but I don't think a person can understand and feel even a portion of the impact of Biden's continued material support for Israel and say that people who won't vote for him are seeking purity. Purity. The word choice itself is cruel. In my opinion, personally.