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Yeah, basically unsubbed from AvE over this too.

I can't remember who this was, but there was another engineering YouTuber who, during the pandemic, basically twittered about being frustrated with the lockdowns from business perspective and whingled about being scared talking about his political beliefs because apparently being anything anything right of a model leftist is a crucifiable offence in the bird site, according to him. And how the horse paste actually works. I was like "...oh shit, maybe this dude is a magahatter?"

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I used to watch iilluminaughtii several years ago, probably because I've been grabbing popcorn and enjoying watching someone dunking on multi-level marketing since, uh, 90s at least. Then I watched some video that was about some topic that I was kind of in middle of a deep dive, too (I can't remember which exactly. Elan School, probably?). And the video was bland as hell. And then I was like "yeah, most of these other videos are kind of forgettable shallow pap too".

...and this year we found out about the whole landlordy corporate town fancier backstabby financial abuser helicopter-CEO situation. And the content mill situation. And the plagiarism thing. Can't forget the plagiarism thing. ...I was like, "oh this all just makes sense now."

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Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn't separated by colon. The format is "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm". Date is separated by "-", time is separated by ":", date and time are separated by "T" (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just "Z" for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that's a thing I've never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that's apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There's also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.

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It's funny, the only Linux software I've ever used that was only shipped as binaries was Loki games. Also, the only software that broke after binary compatibility went south. There used to be a giant tarball of old libraries and jiggerypokery that enabled the Loki games to sorta kinda work.

I was kind of sad to see that Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri didn't run too well, but then I tried to play the GOG version on x64 Windows 11 and there are occasional weird issues. So, eh.

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32-bit software is still absolutely supported on amd64. Just go to C:Program Files (x86) and be amazed.

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Windows: Can you run 25 year old binaries? Yes you can.

Linux: Can you build 25 year old software from source? Yes you can.

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So yeah, Xfce looks the same as it did 10 years ago.

And?

Desktop environment is meant to launch apps and give me windows and maybe have a file manager. Xfce does that. It's a desktop environment.

Hey, "modern" desktop environment enthusiasts, if you bring Compiz back from the dead, give us luddites a call, will you? Ohhhh you kids should have seen it back in the day. Windows and Mac users saw Compiz in action and were, like, "wat." You don't get them to react that way to modern Linux desktops, no. And all that is lost now. Thanks Wayland.

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Oh content from this blog has been popping up in random places. Methinks it's le epic trole.

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God clearly failed, then. George W. Bush kept bombing places that he couldn't pronounce.

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Oh how quaint, someone has discovered that Wikipedia can be vandalised. I'll have to have you know that that came to us a a real surprise in 2001. Things are more manageable these days. People usually notice these things.

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    Yeah, there's an important distinction. Just because you could use Linux doesn't mean you can at any particular moment.

    I don't really do music production; I'm more into writing and visual arts and photography. I could do all of those things on Linux and be perfectly productive. But there's a difference between being productive and being optimal. My current process happens to be based on software that runs on Windows. (Heck, a lot of the software I use already runs on both Windows and Linux, anyways.)

    The key here being that you shouldn't lock yourself too much to just one tool and one approach, and that actually goes both ways.

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    Sssss, tail number SSS-55555

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    There are a lot of people who go "I tried to learn X through Duolingo and failed". Sure, that's probably true, because staring at the app is not how language learning works. Much like 100 years ago, people would have said you can't learn a language by reading a single book.

    Duolingo is great for basics of the language, vocabulary and constant daily lessons. But you always need more. There's a whole language sphere out there. People actually using the language and whatnot.

    I started studying French through Duolingo and about 6 months later I was like "I really need a grammar book and a dictionary, dammit". Year in, I was like "I should try reading news in French and maybe try a book."

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    Switch to Chrome? Never! I take my chances with the gargantuan planet humping fire elemental vulpine.

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    In middle of a couple of worldbuilding projects. Haven't really had much good ideas for the fantasy project lately.

    Ah HA! Maybe I'll do some mild subversion of expectations.
    Maybe one of the most famous sites in this world, where people come to visit from far and wide, has a tiny old withered tree.
    ...I mean, there could be a lot of legitimate logical reasons why this site could me important. Maybe the tree has a really fascinating story behind it.
    Heck, there's probably many such places on our world too! Can think of at least one from the top of my mind.
    I should write this down.

    Last year I felt really crappy as far as my writing projects go, but in the last few months, if there's one thing I've learned it's that even smallest ideas can sometimes break the writer's block. Keep writing them down!

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    In Finnish language we already have the kinda rare expression "rapakon takana" ("behind the mud puddle") about stuff that's happening in America.

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    Well of course it has a picture of his parents fighting (???) in it. Dude's a severely messed up right-winger.

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    Reminds me of another old joke: "My doctor said I have the lungs of a little old lady. The upside is that I know that little old ladies never die."

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    Aww, ADHD dinosaurs sounds like a cool animal concept. I hope there are turtles who taught us how to deal with depression.

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    The difference between wolves and dogs: wolves eat the grandma, dogs eat everything else in the house except the grandma

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    Newspaper Nerds appreciation day! ...Maybe. The dude's political signalling was fucking all over the place.

    umbraroze, to RedditMigration
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    A lot of people are boasting here like "well I just deleted my 15+ year account with quintillion karma."

    I'm not going to delete my account yet (but probably won't be posting anything on Reddit either). Instead, I came up with a Strange Hobby.

    Because password managers are so ubiquitous and easy to use and everyone should use one, I somehow found a complete list of all Reddit throwaway accounts I had over the years. (You know, from back when you could create accounts in seconds and Reddit didn't make you sign a blood pact or whatever.)

    So I've been deleting those accounts. There was a pile of them.

    And I like to every time I delete an account, a little siren goes off in Reddit HQ and Spez is like "Aaaaagggh! Not another one!"

    umbraroze, to RedditMigration
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    Like many others, I've been wondering "Hmm, where the heck do I get all the cute animal pictures now?"
    ...but the answer to that question was staring me right in the face.
    I'd just do what I've always done if I want cute animal pictures.
    I mean, Pinterest is right there.
    Reject subredditery, embrace tradition.

    umbraroze, to RedditMigration
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    As I recall, Reddit really dragged their heels in implementing GDPR-mandated data checkouts, citing technical challenges and privacy issues, but I'm sure it was more about the technical challenges and laziness (old codebase that has kind of sucked since forever and they're not keen on touching it). This was when the law went into effect in 2018.

    I requested archives of my data from Reddit as per GDPR a few weeks ago, and it's still pending. And the page said "oh, uh, we'll provide them within 30 days." ...which is well within the letter of the law, if not the spirit. Other sites I've requested my data from can provide it within days, usually.

    All I can say as someone who's been perplexed about Reddit's tech side for a long time is that it's pretty damn emblematic of the whole site.

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