linux users are always talking about how it's a better experience in almost every way and that might be true until u have to interact with any software written by anybody at all
everyone is dunking on humane ai pin but have you tried to fit a class 2 laser projector, a camera, a microphone, led lights and a magnetic booster into one tiny package the size of an apple watch
went to windows performance options and turned off the window open/close/maximize/minimize/snap animations. never before have i known such peace. computers are fast and pretend to be slow
computer science education is so frustrating bc the tension between the theoretical field of study and the software engineering vocation lead to courses that sit in a weird middle and dont make u very good at much at all
At Stanford, almost one in five undergrads now ends up majoring in computer science. At MIT, itβs 42 percent. CS is taking over academia,
@ibogost
writes, and its newfound power may corrupt:
new Minecraft snapshot has a blurred background when you pause the game but it looks ugly as hell so I made a resource pack that replaces it with a pretty gaussian blur ^-^
before | after
it does suck that mozilla are always restructuring and refocusing on short-term gains though i was really excited for moz-backed servo (altho the renewed servo effort is cool and exciting now !!)
It's hilarious to me how a Microsoft partner like Spotify "just" uses a web wrapper (bit more complex than that but still) for their desktop app while Apple crafts a beautiful native app that follows the Windows 11 design guidelines.
Same with Arc being more native than Edge.
being trans in britain is sooo bad because u wake up and u are like "oh the media apparatus are demonizing/infantalising me again" and then u have to eat lunch and you're in britain and it's british lunch
projects that don't provide bins but should (& projects that are layman-user-facing and have a github repo instead of a website) are real and bad but this specific case is a python cli script that can't really build into an executable anyhow
but frankly this is not a big deal & more machine learning features in firefox sound cool actually. i want to have OCR that lets me copy text out of an image!! i want a browser extension gives alt text fields an initial value with image recognition!!
i like all the dudes explaining python packaging and desktop software development to me as if my github account is not eleven years old with a username four characters long
u should be careful with autodidacticism because it can actually cause you to permanently know more things which is really scary. always learn from a qualified professional teacher
my other mortal enemy actually is automated systems that replace emoticons with emoji. if i meant an emoji i would have typed it. please do not put "π" in my message
every software developer that whines about "DEI hires" goes to work and writes garbage software that spits out messages like "'Last Name' must be at least 4 characters long"
there was one day that i wrote a js obfuscator that did pretty much this but i ended up obfuscating it using itself (by accident) before i put it into source control
@pileoffeathers
it is a shame. i hope we can escape the "assistant chat" form factor and get rid of the all-remote processing where your data gets sent away.
if only a company like mozilla were working on productive uses for AI with offline models. i'm sure everybody'd be normal about it
@Fuckitimjem
i think it's because we have instant free transfers via regulation here but slow transfers go through the international system or whatever
common misconception that LaTeX is a language you are supposed to actually use. it's actually just a compile target that everybody has a personal system for & didn't tell you as a prank
this is entirely the OSHW niche u know. no screen no socials. weird hardware form factor with a wifi chip & lte modem. hot swappable battery. it's awesome
email: Hello [deadname] [dead middle name u forgot u even had]. This is your bank. Please log in to view the messages in your inbox.
me: ok
website: please sign i-- holy shit are you trying to PASTE a PASSWORD right now?? mods!!! mods!!!
inbox: 5 savings packages for billionaires
i don't see why people are so pressed about ffmpeg. it's pretty simple to print out a file:
$ echo "Hello, world" > hello.txt
$ ffmpeg -v quiet -y -f data -i hello.txt -map 0:0 -c copy -f data /dev/stdout
Hello, world!
$ # lol
the end of this tweet says "Is there anybody that actually likes Windows" (it's cut off)
i like Windows!!! Direct3D 12 ^-^ DirectStorage ^-^ modern OpenCL on RDNA2 !! multi-GPU support ^^ fractional display scaling !!! bluetooth that works
Windows users seem to have 2 states of being:
1. Windows is the only useful operating system, I don't like or dislike it, I just use it
2. Why does Microsoft keep making Windows worse, why do we keep seeing more and more ads
Is there anybody that actually likes Windows
@roxy_wodka
this is really bad & so was letting go of members of the servo / rust / wasmtime teams :/ i'm not a mozilla stan i just think in-browser ML does not make it "Over"
@a_music_failure
@awawawhoami
has "spyware" as a term become so diluted that it's just "when u keep a counter of software installs per platform" now or what
wheres that one tweet thats like "u can do groundbreaking transfeminism by just going 'women experience misogyny' but about trans women"
also u should read this
did you know trans women in the formal production economy experience workplace discrimination, including massive pay gaps, sexual harassment, and the expectation of forms of domestic labour, since they are women and treated as such even if degendered/misgendered to isolate them
invite only mail dot x dot com email service is like two minutes spinning up dovecot/postfix in whatever k8s cluster u already have and a dns record change . sure it will not handle the load but it's x dot com
π¨ all firefox users beware. as "FirefoX" is an 'fx' technology your computer is at risk!!! Change your bank account details and send them to me so I can verify that you have done so correctly
it's really cool that computer security is so misunderstood that u can make bullshit up like "millions of toothbrushes used in cyber attack" or "if you click an fxtwitter link you will be Immediately hacked by north korea" and get five thousand retweets
Tired of transbians thinking all they need is a laptop running Arch. Girl take your ass to the git forge rn and clone glibc, coreutils, dbus, polkit, systemd, fontconfig, mesa, ur wayland compositor, xorg-xwayland, foot-term,