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also for that matter "not giving someone a free lunch" is a fucked up sentence because lunch should be free, actually. all food should be free because people uh, you know, need it to *live*

@thcrt see also: companies which have exactly one (1) product used by every company in the world, but don't mention it ANYWHERE and you can only find it via the wikipedia page of companies run by known criminals

me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.

The fact that NASA operates an official youtube account that doesn't also provide direct download links for all videos, and isn't mirrored anywhere non-proprietary should be illegal.

I shouldn't have to make money for google in order to view NASA content. I shouldn't have to subject myself to youtube DRM in order to watch NASA content. I should be able to download any video NASA produces, since NASA can't own a copyright on them.

I submit this thread for nomination as one of the most iconic threads of the post-2022 fedi era. What a journey from @sundogplanets

mastodon.social/@sundogplanets

more shows like the expanse, please!

sci-fi with real people having real problems in a society and moral culture that's at least somewhat plausible for the far future

covid, poll, pls boost 

to the entities rhat are woozy/eepy all the time... was that already before y'all had covid?

Agree with @baconandcoconut who mentioned on the #EuroPython panel about OSS that we shouldn’t celebrate if ppl are able to maintain a library alone for 20 y, we should instead celebrate if they manage to get more ppl on board, divide responsibility, delegate, and over time pass the project on someone else, ideally a team. Over my volunteering career I learned that if the thing I built would die with me, I didn’t actually manage to build it yet. It’s not done until it lives without me involved.

We're pleased to announce the official release of #Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream".

This release contains several new features, many bug fixes, as well as overall improved performance over CppNix 2.18. It is a drop in replacement.

Some highlights include:
- the debugger works properly
- repl-overlays may be used to add shortcuts to the repl environment
- :doc in the repl works on lambdas now
- `nix flake lock --update-input nixpkgs` is now `nix flake update nixpkgs`

lix.systems/blog/2024-07-10-li

it's called the "user agent" in the specs for a reason, and i'm not talking about the string

Voor een (journalistiek) stukje ben ik op zoek naar organisaties die op het punt staan hun email te migreren naar Microsoft of Google, of dat net gedaan hebben. En die mogelijk publiekelijk kunnen vertellen over het waarom, of de problemen die ze eerder hadden. Mail is welkom op bert@hubertnet.nl of op Signal BertHubert.72 - dank u!

There's this guy on Youtube with a bunch of shorts showing a house being 3D-printed, and *every single one* of the videos has a comment section filled with people pointing out the obvious and disastrous issues with the construction quality.

And the dude just keeps posting new ones and going "it's the future, just you wait". Unbelievable.

Today I learned: the `dateTime` XML type is almost *but not quite* the ISO 8601 format.

This discovery brought to you by my database mysteriously producing null results on dateTime comparisons.

Here's a fun challenge: in , how do you determine whether a given value is an object literal (or equivalently plain object)?

Cursed nix tips: Do you know of a predefined function that gives higher priority than mkForce? mkVMOverride!

De klantmanager beweert dat het verplicht is, maar zet niets op papier, geen beschikking, geen contract, helemaal niets. Zonder rekening te houden met de mogelijkheden van de man wordt hij onder druk gezet om nog meer vrijwilligerswerk te doen. doorbraak.eu/klachtenboek-bijs

Fun printer fact: laser printer "toner" is actually very fine plastic powder! The printer uses Laser Magic to put it on the paper in the right places, then feeds it to something called a fuser. What's a fuser? Why, it's a whacking great heat lamp that literally melts the plastic onto the paper.

So, what happens if the fuser fails? Did you guess that the toner falls off the paper and gets absolutely fucking everywhere? Because that's what it does!

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