CosmicTurtle

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CosmicTurtle,

I haven’t seen this either. OP, you got a link? I’d love to see what kind of software is doing this.

CosmicTurtle, (edited )

It shouldn’t be done at all. If you’re updating discord, you’re writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.

If you can’t be bothered with Markdown, just do text.

I’ve never encountered this in the wild so I can’t say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.

Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?

CosmicTurtle,

The vast majority of my open source projects, I’m the only user. I release it open source because back in the day, GitHub only allowed open source projects if you want to use it.

But another reason is the hope that someone will find it helpful. If not the project itself but maybe the code.

I have one project that has a significant following and honestly it’s sometimes very scary because I might not want to keep it updated because of my own interests changing.

I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car (lemmy.world)

In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn’t feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in...

CosmicTurtle,

They intentionally didn’t roll the subscription into the sale price. That’s the goal. They want that sweet, predictable, monthly income that they sell their investors on.

They also figured that if you’ve found your car, you’re less likely to walk away for what is essentially a fraction of the car’s price.

I honestly hope the next car I buy has shit like this. Because boy am I going to make it my mission to jailbreak it and release my code open source.

CosmicTurtle,

That’s the irony of all of this. I too would donate to a project that was actively trying to do this, even donate to their legal fund. I’d probably pay more than the subscription!

These asshole companies just don’t realize that a determined developer and engineer will move heaven and earth to make sure that their freedoms (as in speech) aren’t restricted.

I don’t care if it’s illegal. It’s my fucking car. Once you sell it to me, it ceases to be your property. You leave $100 bill in the glove compartment before you sell it to me? Well it’s mine now.

You leave software on my car’s computer? Welp, it’s mine now.

CosmicTurtle,

I did mean that. And don’t call me Shirley.

CosmicTurtle,

I mean…are they good mods? Does the candidate have good code etiquette?

Honestly, the fact that a candidate would mod any game, let alone a hentai game, would be pluses in my book.

CosmicTurtle,

Yeah…but even then they may not get to you.

Over the holidays, I had a good back and forth with the maintainer of a project that I started using. The documentation needed updating and created a PR.

Then I went almost 10 comment rounds on why it was necessary, why I wrote it the way I did, and all this bullshit.

I just left it saying “merge it or whatever. I’m moving on.”

It’s still open.

CosmicTurtle, (edited )

IR blaster was the shit. Back then, there was an app called beep and go (I think) that held the barcodes for your loyalty cards. For someone that collected them like baseball cards, it was really handy.

Anyway, Samsung actually had the ability to transmit the barcode via the IR blaster which some scanners could read if they couldn’t read the barcode on the phone.

It was awesome!

I agree that the heart rate monitor was a bit of a gimmick though.

CosmicTurtle,

Ah…the days when perl was the shit and python was still a glimmer in the eye of some frustrated programmer.

CosmicTurtle,

Lock picking lawyer.

Used to be a channel about how locks works, how lock picking works, cool locks and shitty locks.

Now it’s just a channel to sell his tools.

CosmicTurtle,

I’ve blocked L4sbot and lemmy is substantially better.

CosmicTurtle,

There is a number between 1 and probably 20 where the punishment for the number of people you kill doesn’t really make a difference.

CosmicTurtle,

I’m not 100% convinced that buying in bulk at Costco saves significant amount of money. At least on staples anyway.

The best deals I’ve gotten at Costco were electronics. But things like chicken thighs ($1.39 / lbs at Costco vs $1.49 / lbs at the local grocery store)…I don’t think it’s worth the price.

I bought soap there for $2 or so less than at Walmart. I’m sure it all adds up but between the shitty parking and long lines, I’ve been debating giving up my Costco membership.

CosmicTurtle,

Probably the most elaborate Rick roll I’ve ever received.

CosmicTurtle,

Doesn’t Plex require you to buy their premium service in order to use it on mobile devices?

I remember setting up my Plex server and was shocked that I had to pay to view my own media.

CosmicTurtle,

You’re missing a huge part of the reason why the term ‘tebibytes’ even exists.

Back in the 90s, when USB sticks were just coming out, a megabyte was still 1024 kilobytes. Companies saw the market get saturated with drives but they were still expensive and we hadn’t fully figured out how to miniaturize them.

So some CEO got the bright idea of changing the definition of a “megabyte” to mean 1000. That way they could say that their drive had more megabytes than their competitors. “It’s just 24 kilobytes. Who’s going to notice?”

Nerds.

They stormed various boards to complain but because the average user didn’t care, sales went through the roof and soon the entire storage industry changed. Shortly after that, they started cutting costs to actually make smaller sized drives but calling them by their original size, ie. 64MB* (64 MB is 64000).

The people who actually cared had to invent the term “mebibyte” purely because of some CEO wanting to make money. And today we have a standard that only serves to confuse people who actually care that their 2TB is actually 2048 GiB or 1.8 TiB.

CosmicTurtle,

So you’re saying all my skin tags are just puffer fish thorns?!

Amazing…

CosmicTurtle,

It took me…I’d say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.

It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.

CosmicTurtle,

I saw the Jaden Smith film and it’s…okay. But yeah…it’s not karate. It’s kung fu. They even say that in the movie.

Yet they still called it The Karate Kid.

CosmicTurtle,

lemmynsfw.com is growing pretty quick, though the number of reposts is pretty high.

CosmicTurtle,

Could work if dev was upstream from prod. But honestly there would be no difference between that and branches.

CosmicTurtle,

I’m Asian. Hate Pumpkin Spice. It’s not even pumpkin. It’s nutmeg, allspice, and cloves.

It smells nice but it tastes like dirt.

CosmicTurtle,

There’s a great TED talk about this and it’s absolutely fascinating.

Bear in mind that it was recorded well before the era of Trump.

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