Are peoples memories that short? He posted this 2 months before he “tried” distancing himself from the idea.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1225174713992990721

Hotline for the MacOS warez scene to get games in high school (circa 1999ish).

I accidentally pirate crap I have legitimate access to because I can’t be bothered to figure out which damn platform its on. I have access to quite a few through work due to my industry at no out of pocket costs.

The times I try to actually search for something, it’ll be listed on multiple platforms but 0 to 1 of those platforms will actually have what I’m looking for included with the subscription forcing me to manually check each one.

It is easier to just pirate.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

• Goodhart’s law

Advertisers made it a target to have a high review score so now they are just another advertising cost.

SEO did the same to the web.

Bots and now AI are infecting social spaces as users figured out reviews are now shit and would turn to special interest groups.

• Corporations who pushed cheap processed food for profit that is the only thing affordable to those in poverty
• Politicians who enable the above with bullshit processed food pyramids as the largest food group
• Corporations who pushed jobs sitting all day to make a good wage at an office
• Politicians who enable the above for “the economy” aka rich people with investments

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Obese people

We do not know who else may be watching.

-Gandalf

Yeah seems like it was more capitalist propaganda. Thanks Lemmy for ruining my childhood memory, lol.

There is a Public Assisstence board game from the 80s. We had one when I was younger. I can’t tell if it was a “anti-welfare” game or just making fun of the whole system. I grew up pretty poor, so I always assumed the latter as a kid. Since the welfare track was easier from what I remember, now I’m not so sure, lol.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3393/public-assistance/images

I wouldn’t even bail out for COVID. I’m paying out the ass for insurance and still end up thousands in medical debt.

A gray area exists for small businesses, but fuck corporate welfare.

I guess we are in reverse timelines. I’ve built about 10 keyboards, but its been about 5 years since I built my last one.

The Iris is my favorite.

Whatever you do, don’t start down the path of customizing a Linux distro.

Started messing with NixOS in December and it has been the bittersweet curse of a never ending things to do.

• More and more of my config now tracks 0 day releases with custom bug fixes.
• Started writing my own Gnome Shell.
• Started adding support to my favorite TypeScript framework for GJS (Gnome JS) for my shell.
• Started writing a a parser combinator to parse GJS stack traces.
• Started writing custom source map library for GJS so I know where my errors are.
• Started writing a custom test runner because none of the modern ones work on GJS.
• Started writing widgets for my new shell.
• My veovim config is now its own software suite.
• Started writing syntax tree parsers for poorly supported query languages we use at work.
• Coding style is enforced with huge linter rule configs and custom plugins.
• Sleep is now at 75% of what it was.
• My wife is now working double what she did because I’m always busy.
• My kids think I’m crazy.
• My work has doubled their expectations because they think I’m some inhuman wizard.
• The walls of reality are crumbling down.
• Brb my morning NixOS update is failing to build (again).

“High five” instead of “paw” for two dogs which wasn’t the accident. The accident is they learned to associate high five with wanting something. When they want pets, food, bones, or toys they obsessively high five at you.

My cat does it now too. Maybe they learned it from the cat who saw they got treats for high fives. My wife hates it. I think its hilarious.

Official API client used by proton: https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api

I didn’t see any good documentation. Its in use by (or has at least inspired) https://github.com/henrybear327/Proton-API-Bridge?tab=readme-ov-file

The API bridge backs rclone’s Proton Drive support.

If there isn’t a built-in option, it will probably be DE / WM specific. Something like this might work for x11. Wayland will require something different. Sway/i3/Hyprland/Gnome/KDE/etc may all have a native way depending on what you use also.

/usr/bin/firefox &
/usr/bin/wmctrl -r firefox -b add,hidden```

In nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

I’m kind of curious how late gen X and millennials will be at that age in regards to tech.

I work in software dev. I’ve interviewed 2 CS grads who did their whole degree on an iPad while acting as if its an accomplishment.

My engineers also religiously use ChatGPT. It has a tell in that all its code comments start with a capital letter without punctuation. All their merge requests where coding conventions were not followed and “help I’m stuck” non-working code has these comments.

They are super smart and hard workers. They just lack the experience of needing to figure shit out without aide because it didn’t exist.

As long as their isn’t some mass cognitive decline for that generation, I think there might be a dip in general technical knowledge when millennials that had to figure things out check out and all that’s left are those who want to understand the tech they use.

Doesn’t have to be plain text. I’m not using Standard Notes as my media storage solution or anything, but I keep a section for house repair stuff. I bundle repair photos, receipts, PDF manuals, etc into my notebook.

Doing a tare down of my leaking dishwasher? I document the shit out of that.

This is a feature not a bug.

–asshat billionaire who inherited daddy’s money

You can use rclone to mount: https://rclone.org/protondrive/

Its bi-sync is a little janky for replication. I use B2 Backblaze for my storage that hides instead of deletes by default. I’ve “hidden” everything before on accident.

I prefer to unidirectional sync, similar to git, but avoiding merges. My local files are in a crypt “remote” so I have to mount. I wrote a simple script to pull, mount, unmount, push to simplify things.

For profit prisons. They essentially launder tax payer money to these places that give kickbacks in the form of campaign donations.