Notices by halva(0) (halva@wetdry.world)

@deepthaw @thomasfuchs i can't speak for the us, but as a student in russia i do this too, a lot

but frankly it's less because i don't have enough materials (i don't need to buy my textbooks and whatnot), but because i can't force myself to spend mental energy on things ill ultimately never even need

eg i don't understand why i was forced to attend "Engineering standards and drawing" or why im attending "The linguistics of business language" as a computer science major xd

so it's more of a tool to get around local academic nonsense and spend more energy on the parts that matter than to save money or straight up cheat

@yassie_j

tech “journalists” have spent so much time in the California bubble that they cannot perceive any metrics beyond “market share” and “growth"

i think this applies to many other things honestly

my personal favorite example is tesla. tesla is a shitty ev. it can look cool, but it has objectively shitty hardware design, it can only really work in the californian climate (no harsh winters, no harsh summers in populated areas)

and tech journos fucking love them, they sing praises and lick those stupid door handles that are impossible to grapple after any freeze

meanwhile, most people ive met (and myself) genuienly cannot think about owning one in a place like central russia, where the weather can jump between sunny 20c during the day and wet snow at -10c at night

@Makura @yassie_j honestly building EV chargers is the least of worries (640 km of range is decent enough for most people)

what about the clearance? teslas have notoriously low floors, it WILL get caught on every bump of a road

what about the system control? why is the infotainment system responsible for engine, remaining range, emergency lights and literally absolutely everything in the car? what if it breaks? what if i cannot look at it to switch things?

what about the fucking door designs in general? why are they electronic? what if the electronics just fail for whatever reason? the mechanical fallback is purposefully hidden

what about the emergency engine stop? tesla have implemented that through electronics too, there's no way to literally pull a mechanical thing to physically stop the engine

@Makura @yassie_j it's a design that SCREAMS it was made for perfect conditions, it was not made to survive in fucking Surgut, Siberia

@ipg nah fuck c lmfao, there's absolutely no reason to cling to it other than sentimentality

asm makes sense as a direct representation of machine code, it's not like there's any other way to do it, but C is just another high level language (albeit a very old and influential one)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240321185255/https://snapcraft.io/flatpak

lol

the fact people are scared of fedi admins reading dms tells a very scary thing

people are not scared of other social media admins reading their dms

@lanodan @SuperDicq my asus x555lb starts SCREAMING the instant i open any mk instance, that fucking webapp is legit cursed

HOT TAKE

FRONT END DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM USING THEIR HARDWARE FOR A MONTH EACH YEAR AND INSTEAD GIVEN A LOW END 10 YEARS OLD NETBOOK

@opensuse oh my god, fuck whoever made this post, and this is personal

you're building a community-based project, you're asking for contributions, you want to appear as friendly??

here's what you could do:

• not include a picture at all. text is a fine enough medium
• ask somebody in your discord/matrix to draw something cute
• draw a doodle yourself. it doesn't have to be the next mona lisa, it's just a social media post

here's what you did:

• asked a computer slop generator to make you a picture
• didn't even bother to look at it because that lizard clearly has 6 human penises for legs
• posted it without thinking for even a second about how it will alienate anybody who has ever dabbled in arts or personally knows any artistic person

fuck you, and fuck your post

@puniko that one just disappeared. cool thanks deepl

@puniko what

@puniko doesn't she say neko charm and not neko chan

worcestershire sauce is white people fish sauce

i think phones are a better analogy to fedi than email because with email everyone uses more or less the same stuff, but with phones (and fedi), you might be calling from your brand new and shiny iphone 15 pro, but on the other side there might be alexander graham bell saying "HULLO?? HULLO????" into his elaborate and goofy copper wire tele-phone

@chjara my favorite part is when these people talk about extension protocols or desktop portals

okay

just dont implement them then? nobody's forcing you my guy

you can just implement the core spec

my service workers have unionized and are demanding more ram and less cpu constraints

@enbyss @xerz if you feel like compiling chromium, i highly recommend getting epyc 9754

you want an open messaging platform? cool! we have:

* extremely old small protocol with an extension library more confusing than quantum physics, and clients that look like they came from the most horrible depth of early 2010s app development
* new protocol taking inspiration from the previous one, except it's horribly overengineered, which causes implementations that aren't the reference one to basically not exist, and the reference one to constantly break
* a discord clone developed by a bunch of teenagers as a side hobby with next to no planning or really any idea what do they even want from it
* a literal discord clone that has been pushed to indefinite rebranding and restructuring

#foss #opensource #matrix #xmpp

as someone who's not the target audience i of course had to complete this because i make everything about myself

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@mjdxp https://0w0.is/objects/94199e89-9ab6-4745-9792-20745811e95a