Notices by Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)

i like when the way someone types "a" or "an" before an acronym reveals something about how they pronounce it.

"an HTML file" okay, so you're an "aitch" person, not a "haitch" person.

"an SQLite file" you're pronouncing it "ess que ell ite"? i didn't realise the good doctor hipp had so many alt accounts.

"open a SSH connection" surely you don't pronounce that as "open a secure shell connection"? unless you just use "a" because the acronym starts with a consonant, against convention because the actual sound it makes is "ess"? or maybe you pronounce it "susush" or something? i don't know.

"a NT kernel update" you're just fucking with me, aren't you. you're not saying /əʔɛntiː/

"an CSV file" yep you're fucking with me

has anyone seen my unsaved changes?

i was watching a british panel show and apparently they measure things in stones and pounds to weigh people? you're telling me people moving to the UK have to learn two new units of mass, one of which is only used by them, and only specifically for people??

i found a conversion website, and firstly, why do they provide so many significant figures, and secondly, anyone who's actually played disco elysium knows they're called "réal", not "harry du bois pounds"!!

sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use for #grapheneos users and others using #android devices with """compromised integrity""", people without smartphones, people using smartphones with other operating systems, etc.: https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652

google's new "mobile reCAPTCHA verification" will require you to scan a QR code from either an iOS device with the reCAPTCHA app or an android device with up-to-date google play services.

EDIT: this is part of google's new "fraud defense" system, and is (seemingly) intended to be used for more "important" things like purchases rather than just e.g. comment sections. however, there's nothing stopping site owners from using this thing everywhere

sharing a fedi post with your friends is always great.

sometimes it's something normal like mastodon.unassuming.website and it's a quick-to-load mastodon instance

sometimes it's something like chat.anarchism.biz and it takes eight seconds to load pleroma

sometimes it's some shit like social.rolandtr808fuckers.online and it's a hacked up instance of misskey that takes fifteen seconds to render a loading spinner underneath five animated catgirl gifs

the above toot is not making a statement about any of the server softwares mentioned, i'm just listing them in order of obscurity for comedic effect

@SuperDicq alright, i'll talk to my coconspirator and see if they're comfortable with it being shared 👍

@SuperDicq i do, yeah

@SuperDicq it's finished, i made it a few months ago!

i might upload it eventually, but i've never made a torrent before and don't know how to

@SuperDicq maybe.

i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can finally come clean now.

i spent months editing the entire star wars movie. at first i made subtle changes (colour correction, fake shot/reverse shot scenes, etc.), but as the movie went on, my edits got more and more absurd (extra powerpoint transition wipes, doom door open/close sound effects, etc.).

i can't upload the full thing for obvious reasons, but here's one of my favourite parts: the death star scene. spoilers for a movie that came out nearly four decades ago

#swle

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You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen:

• Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.
• C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate.
• Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data.

The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

perl has a reputation for needing complex sigils and degrading into line noise, but i don't think we give bash enough flak for the same thing.

why on earth do you iterate over associative array keys (and yes, bash has associative arrays) by writing dollar sign open curly bracket exclamation point array name open square bracket at sign close square bracket close curly bracket?

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i like to stop, take a deep breath, and open the MSDN page for the MsoTrioState enum.

MsoTrioState is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported.

the only supported values are true and false.

@vkc a point in favour of the association between the sparkle emoji and generative AI: gnome's new icon set contains a sparkle icon called ai-slop, which is also tagged with generative and bullshit

brains are so weird. i'm writing a pretty complex bit of code right now and i can see it's something i'm gonna need to really stop and think through before typing anything. my first thought was "i should have a shower"... because i often do my best complex structural design thinking in the shower.

most people use laptops on a table, not their laps. you barely ever see someone with a desktop on their desk. and i have never seen anyone take a tablet three times daily with meals

so github lets you leave comments on commits, pull requests, issues, etc.

i think they should let you leave comments on code. then they can have an IDE plugin that shows the comments. and also you should earn some sort of redeemable points for writing comments.

so if you're trying to understand something like player.flags ^= (has_mp3() ? FLAG_MP3 : FLAG_OGG), you can hover over the 💬 icon and see that SourceCodeWizzzard2005 said "i think this is something to do with music? idk" and RonaldGustaffson said "This is some codes that makes to have MP3 play back on all of the Linux systems and Linux systems, but not Orc Vorpis on an Windows computers systems."

they should port #eu5 to consoles.

"to open the cultural emigration map for wallachia, hold the left and right triggers and press Y+X+A while pressing the left stick for one second. to open the cultural immigration map, do the same for two seconds."