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umbraroze , 2 months ago to Memes in Dead?

The ghost of dead Game Boy also came with ghosts of dead batteries. ...So many dead batteries. Many coming from tragic circumstances, such as almost reaching the last level of TMNT 2.

umbraroze , 2 months ago to 196 in Beep boop, I don't want this rule

Me, I'm a real human. I would not fall to a silly trick like that.

Now excuse me, I'll just copypaste this cover letter text from the dozens of previous examples I used and edit it slightly based on buzzwords on the job description and company web page.

(Also, last year, I was in one of the events for the unemployed, organised by the municipal job services, and there was literally a short segment on the talk on using ChatGPT for cover letters. Well if the same authorities that mandate us to send a bunch of job applications every month tell us to use it, it can't be wrong, right?)

umbraroze , 2 months ago to Technology in Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools.

converting an autotools build recipe

Oh yes!

to a bare makefile

Oh no!

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.

Yup. Got also added to the Jargon File, which was an influential collection of hacker slang.

If there's one thing that Elon is really good at, it's taking obscure beloved nerd tidbits and then pigeon-shitting all over them.

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Technology in A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

I can confidently say that CSV support is one of those problems that even the brightest computer scientists will be pondering for the decades to come.

Supporting CSVs sounds like an easy problem, but it's not. It's like a whole different complexity type. Time complexity, space complexity, and now, the dreaded subclass between spec complexity and organisational complexity.

You can't just make the users agree which delimiter to use and how quotes are supposed to work. That's nearly impossible. No no no.

umbraroze , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Ktitle

Windows devs: "We need to ask the keyboard makers to add a special key for OS stuff. A Windows key. Yeah."

KDE devs: "There's something special about the K key, and none of us can put it to words."

umbraroze , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Money has changed microsoft

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umbraroze , 3 months ago to 196 in Artist rule

"Oh I've been practising drawing. Lots of plans for comics I'll be making soon, I hope."

"Can I see your practice drawings?"

"...No."

umbraroze , 3 months ago to 196 in inspirational poster rule

This is one of the biggest all time #relatable classics generated by Inspirobot.It truly resonated with the common people.

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

Basically, people working on graphics-related algorithms needed to build a library of standard test images, so that when people published their work in an academic journal, they could easily demonstrate what that algorithm does, in a manner that is fairly obvious to anyone who is familiar with the image.

So someone, when they needed to pick an image that represents a person, scanned this photograph. And it could be argued that at the time, it was probably an interesting test image for a lot of reasons: person vs background, different textures, areas with soft and sharp focus, etc etc. If you developed, say, an image compression algorithm, those things are going to be headache in all photo portraits.

It's probably not the best image by modern standards (being a low resolution scan of a photograph off of a printed magazine - not a photo print scan, not a direct film scan, and not comparable to digital photography). Also, it's gotten overused to the point of absurdity. (Oh your hot new face detection algorithm works on this image? Well whoop-de-do.)

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Technology in Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances

In the 1980s, 8-bit home computers were sold with slogans like "Kids can use these to play games! And use educational software! And the ladies can use them to keep track of the freezer contents!"

...One of three ain't bad.

Decades later, we still open the fucking fridge to check what's in the fridge. Such is the nature of technological progress.

(Random old person memory: when I was a kid I actually had some "home economy" software for Spectravideo SV-318, found in some random pile of tapes. I only used it once because it was boring, obviously. My father used the recipe book and added "Poop Cake". That was enough recipes thank you very much.)

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Forgejo forks its own path forward

Yeah, I just tried upgrading my Gitea Windows instance to Forgejo via Docker, and it actually works pretty much as easily as it did before. Fantastic! Might just leave it here instead of shoving it all in the VM - I can always do that later if it's necessary. Having a full VM does have upsides, but in this particular instance this is definitely good enough.

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Forgejo forks its own path forward

Heh, your comment actually made me finally go and resolve a problem I've had since I got this laptop in 2020. I didn't have SVM virtualisation acceleration enabled because that made Windows unable to boot somehow. A bit of twiddling after, it finally did! VirtualBox runs! Docker runs!

...but why would I use Docker for something like this. Might as well blow the dust off of my FreeBSD virtual machine and run Forgejo there!

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Technology in The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

I heard about it from television news. I normally only watch TV broadcasts between the time when I turn the TV on and launching an app / turning a HDMI device on. Which is not very long. Does Elon have any idea how unlikely it is for me to pick major news this way?

umbraroze , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Forgejo forks its own path forward

What's the latest on Forgejo's Windows builds? Last I checked there was no Windows build due to no volunteers for build/test - Gitea's old build stuff should still be good.

Which is a mild shame because Gitea's Windows version was an insanely simple way to run it if you are a solo dev on Windows and need a private Git site. Drop the binary on an USB hard drive, run it on terminal, boom, done.

(Currently contemplating just setting up a Raspberry Pi server.)