Notices by Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml), page 4

FUUUUUUCK!!!!

@lanodan It does trigger a facepalm response.

@lanodan I dunno. Using that word unironically is kind of an indicator, I think.

@sarahquartz Смотри, какую штуку нашел

https://github.com/FEX-Emu

@a1ba Не, правда, передовая вещь. Вот бы еще она risc-v таргетила.

@sarahquartz

@a1ba птицеебу?

@sarahquartz

@a1ba Хха. Да, ок, понял.

@sarahquartz @mittorn @nillerusr

@dside Yeah. That fucking Perl one-liner.

Also, yes, those VT-100 conventions clashing with desktop conventions are also disorienting as hell if you don't know what's going on.

As for command naming... Well, keyboard shortcuts can also be counterintuinive, the advantage however is that you need to learn them once. But yeah, Pacman sucks for this.

@dside Yes, I agree about forcing people to learn discouraging the adoption of, but all of this is actually beside the point, and we digressed.

Most of the guides ain't really about learning, they're about getting shit done. You need something done, find a guide, you follow instructions, and never look at it again.

@dside Uh... You seem to be under impression that I'm assigning some vauation to either CLI or GUI themselves, like "this good, this bad", or smth. This is not the case.

What I'm saying, is, if I'm ever to write some guides or something in that vein, given the choice, I'd probably prefer to throw together some commands to making screenshots and describing mouseclicks. Because I'm lazy, and it'll work. So that's what happens more often. And this affects the perception of the platform as a whole.

I'm also not saying that it's good or bad. Just that it happens.

I think, part of the reason why The Dreaded Terminal is still so prevailant in the perception of Linux is that it's just SO MUCH easier to write manuals for.

I mean, it's way more efficient to say: "run `apt install firefox` to install firefox" than "to install firefox, open the software center [screenshot], search for firefox [screenshot]", select firefox in the application list [screenshot], click install [screenshot]".

The results are the same. Why waste more time drawing a comic book when you can tell a person to just type one line in a box?

Today, 23 years ago, was the day freedom died.

The terrorists hoped that these attacks would send the entire civilization into the death spiral.

And they were right.

Almost all of the surveilance/security theater/thought police/war on terror bullshit we're dealing with today everywhere in the world, can be traced back to that very morning.

The whole "anti-terrorist" shebang scored way greater body count than the attacks themselves.

It's like we're in a bad timeline. I was alive to see it happen, and the world has never truly recovered from it ever since. Instead, it just collapses ever deeper into self-perpetuating self-consumption. This sucks.

@pixelfed Do you migrate with content, or without?

@a1ba By the way, I remember I wanted to send something to you to take apart. Can't quite put a finger on it though.

I'll get beck to you once I recall.

@th3rdsergeevich

@a1ba glow or no glow, it's still a nice decompiler.

Wish it was not on Java though... Bleh.

@th3rdsergeevich

Fintech is ultimately "taking advantage of people who are bad with money"-tech.

@yogthos Just to play Devil's advocate:

What are the alternatives?

XMPP might be, but they haven't been able to get their shit together for a decade and a half regarding... well, everything. Jabber is in shambles, especially regarding E2EE:

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/

Matrix just has awful protocol design that crumbles under its own weight. Don't believe me? Try visiting #matrix:matrix.org.

So... We're kinda screwed, aren't we.

@krom What is your homeserver?

@yogthos

My key-value storage has that big dict energy