Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.

So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.

But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅

And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.

Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:

I’m not a signature, I just clean here.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Not sure, I can articulate this thought well enough, but I feel like there’s been a split between “personal” and “impersonal” social media.

Early internet forums were usually about some specific topic and pseudonyms were paramount, but each person was still given room to present themselves.
So, what I mean by that, is that forum posts had signatures, big profile pictures, as well as typically some additional information about the user, like “Rank: Lord Supreme – Joined: March 2005 – Posts: 3 trillion”.
The forums generally weren’t focused on the people, but you still knew the regulars.

Then came Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon etc., which put people into the focus. You were discouraged from using pseudonyms. You were encouraged to post pictures of yourself. You were encouraged to broadcast any random thought you had.
And while you can use these networks to read or talk about certain topics, you’re really supposed to follow people and get to know them.

And then, sort of as a counter movement again, you have your “link aggregators”, i.e. Lemmy, Lobsters, Reddit etc…
Discussions only happen when there’s a topic, i.e. a post, to talk about. You can’t just broadcast thoughts without context, but rather have to sort them into specific topics/communities.
And while there’s a tiny profile picture next to posts and we do have some regulars that are more widely recognized, most users are not.

Yeah, have not heard about any of these problems before this post…

Back in 2010, the OpenOffice devs had to abandon that name for trademark reasons¹, so they renamed to LibreOffice and continued developing under that name.

OpenOffice theoretically also still exists, but it’s hardly getting updates. Unless you specifically like software from 2010 (including some security vulnerabilities, I believe), you want to use LibreOffice.

¹) The OpenOffice trademark was owned by Sun Microsystems, which got bought by Oracle. Oracle has a very bad reputation, so the devs did not care to wait around for Oracle to fuck everything up.

My personal interpretation was the guy is just overly tan and potentially covered in mud, because he’s so tough and runs around on battlegrounds all day long.

Well, and the color palette is gray-brown in general, because we had an abundance of those, especially military shooters in the early HD era.

But yeah, who knows, could also be that the post originated from 4chan or the like and is just racist.

Earlier today, I signed up to a service and immediately got the “Become a member” badge.

Well, and I had signed up to upvote an existing post, so I also got the “Team player” badge in the same moment, for that singular upvote I had made…

Does it make a difference, though, if I only put acid into the pre-wash, so no detergent? I was hoping, it would get flushed out before the proper wash cycle.

I mean, I will check, if my washing machine has a separate hole to put fabric softener in. It does sound like the more appropriate place for it.

Yeah, was gonna be my suggestion, too. I get small white stains on specific fabrics and one of my shirts’ colors looked completely washed-out. And yeah, I can get rid of that with citric acid in what my washing machine calls “pre-wash”.

I’m not sure, it was just leftover detergent for me, though, because while I could wash out some of it by hand-washing the clothes with water afterwards, a lot of it stayed. So, my assumption was that it’s actually just calcium build-up, which of course also goes away with acid.

AI slop turned into ASCII art. That’s a new one…

What country is it from?

Yeah, it feels like those consoles would be more expensive, for hardware that’s not going to be terribly stronger, to play games which don’t need the visual upgrade, and all of that wants to be paid by players with less money to spend.

I like not being particularly recognizable. Treat me like everyone else that you don’t know.

Ah, I thought you mixed them up, because they both look Windows-y in their default configuration. 🙃

Mint doesn’t use KDE out of the box. They have an own DE called Cinnamon.

Yeah, I virtually only use --force for moving tags around (which one could definitely argue isn’t really a thing you should be doing regularly either)…

Yeah, we always try to automate as much as possible with generic language build tooling and scripts, so that ideally the call in the runner is just a single command, which can also be triggered locally.

Unfortunately, if you want to be able to re-run intermediate steps, then you do need to inform the runner of what you’re doing and deal with the whole complexity of up-/downloading intermediate results.

--force-with-lease* 🙃

I feel like this isn’t really a new development. Back when LAN parties and local multiplayer were still a thing, games like TeeWorlds, Worms etc. were popular, because they ran on potatoes and you could often get them for free.

The actual fun then came from dicking around with or competing against your friends. The game itself does not need to be ground-breaking for that.

Hell, it technically started even earlier than that, with physical card games and board games and such. Just play them with friends and it’s fun.

The crush probably had some incriminating evidence they needed to be disposed of for sure.

Yeah, Rust is a lot better in those regards. You are still in more direct control of memory, but if you fuck up, that’s a compiler error, not a runtime error, and the compiler error messages even give you pretty helpful suggestions for making it work.