Show the sad rat in the corner. Ready to retire with its one leg shot off.

Ayaya ayaya!

Just put an MCP on it and let the AI play the game at the slowest speed ever

Install windows so you can join in on the pleasure of wiping windows!

There must be an Icelandic community that complained about suddenly seeing English letters in their text https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1559

Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL

Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?

Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.

While I dislike the look and GNOME’s approach to things (“we know better what the user wants than they do” aka the crApple approach), I do appreciate that they do provide an alternative for crApple users. They also write a lot of libraries and software that are undeniably good and useful. No one is forced to use GNOME so I’m glad they exist.

Of course this blog post only has one view of the issues and I’m not going to spend a morning going down the rabbit hole to make an opinion on it. But if System76 really does have a problem with upstream for whatever reason, they are free to fork their stuff and cut all communication. Since they did write COSMIC, it looks like that’s their goal. Good on them. It may just decrease the drama and make GNOME developers’ lives easier.

If the EU dedicates itself to digital sovereignty before the US starts turning the wheel back away from self-sabotage, we might actually have a chance.

I upped my donation to them this year. They really do deserve it.

Why is that better?

Description lists?

Richtext? Like this or this ?

SVG handling? I’ve never seen a manpage with SVGs nor have I seen a manpage with images, much less image captions.

How should strings be terminated? Should they always be a tuple of length in bytes and data?

Groff is indeed such a crap format to write documentation in. It nearly reads like zalgo.

I can’t wait for the anti markdown people to come out of the woodwork though and complain that it’s “the progressivist agenda” to be more user friendly because devs aren’t users.

“If you can’t write Groff, maybe you dont deserve to read the output”

“The markdown evangelists are so annoying. You can’t just rewrite everything in markdown”

“When will this markdown craze stop??? I can’t hear it anymore!”

Identity politics entered the developer arena.

Looks like I’ll be checking that out.

We all have limits. For some communicating with those who tolerate genocide is alright, for others using their software is fine, and for even others they will happily give money to them à la “it’s not me, so why should I care?”. But if the number of people who don’t care is not enough to sustain that software development, it will have an effect. We can wait to see if we get that far or do something about it.

I’ll check out Piefed and Mbin as that seems to be most common answer here.

I write opensource software, I donate to opensource, I use opensource. I however can’t do everything. That is why the question is “we” not “hey @gerowen@piefed.social why don’t you make a fork, you lazy bastard”. Code is not the only way to contribute to a project and I’m willing to donate to lemmy alternatives while it is still possible for me.

Piefed might be where I start donating. Gotta check it out first.