Treczoks

FTFY: 1000 years.

I bought and installed gallery rails in the living room. We wanted to completely re-arrange alle the framed stuff there, and I didn’t want to turn the wall into swiss cheese. The hooks I’ve bought have been a bit beefy for some things I needed to hang, so I had to put a few of them to the grinder, but all in all this made the walls very neat, and easily to rearrange later.

Do you have to break your fingers, too, to switch them off?

There are tools with which you can drive out the pins. They are only good for straight bands, not the tapered ones (unless you don’t care for the looks).

Yes, of course they have complained to the courts. That’s not the point. This simply will go nowhere, or do you expect that the court will somehow separate Activision out of Microsofts hands again to fix this? Or punish the managers at Microsoft and make them withdraw the execution plan to remove redundant jobs?

At the end of it, Microsoft will eventually pay a small, symbolic sum which they consider “cost of conducting business”. Nothing more.

As if they would care. What is the FTC going to do about it? Most likely do nothing, or issue a stern warning.

Before browsers even existed, there already was the internet. We had social media (NNTP and IRQ), online multi-user games (MUD, et al.), browsing (Gopher) and file hosting (FTP).

I was introduced to the web and the Arena browser with the words “It’s just like Gopher, but with hypertext.”

Maybe because this is (still) the more adult place?

The main product line of our company is basically all architectured and programmed by me.

Spot on.

Maybe add a 5) needs to be able to export to LaTeX. It might be nice and easy to write in typst, but you’ll sooner or later hit the wall of “We accept submissions in Word and LaTeX only.”

Freshly certified like Staplerfahrer Klaus?

For those who don’t understand the language: This is the parody of an officially sponsored training/education film. The speaker is a well-known voice for a series of traffic safety videos that were shown weekly on TV in the 70s. It starts with the ceremony of handing out the forklift operator certificates, and then follows one of those nwly minted forklift operators, describing things one should not do around or with forklifts.

This so much needs English subtitles…

The article just describes the how, but gives no reasons for a why.

So, why would anyone move away from the de-facto standard bash, except for some rare circumstances like having a small system and using busybox?

Die Frage ist aber: Was, wenn ein heikler Gegenstand wichtig ist? Bei einer Party damals (bei der ich nicht dabei war, aber der Fallout davon machte definitiv die Runde) hat ein Teilnehmer voll in Papas High-End-Musikanlage gekotzt, Schadenshöhe irgendwo im Wert eines Kleinwagens. Man könnte natürlich argumentieren, dass eine Party ohne Musik nicht so weit gekommen wäre…

Wer saufen kann, kann am nächsten Tag auch putzen.

Im Prinzip schon, aber wie putzt man die Brandlöcher aus dem Teppich und Mamas Lieblingsvase wieder zusammen? ;-)

Warte ab, wenn sie als Teenager Parties machen (und vorher dafür sorgen, dass Du währenddessen aus dem Haus bist).

Which would actually a big improvement over Reddit.

I worked with Unix before Windows was a thing. I’ve worked on windows, saw what a shitshot it was (and still is), and work with Linux instead. I do have Windows PCs at the lab for some renitent software, too, but it is always a step backwards when it comes to data procession.

That joke didn’t fly, either.

Bin auch knapp am Bund vorbeigeschrammt. Mit -9,0 Dioptrien war ich noch “Wehrtauglich mit Einschränkungen”. Deshalb musste ich noch den Eignungs- und Verwendungstest mitmachen. Bund: “Was machen sie so?” Ich: “Abi, aber nebenbei verdiene ich mein Geld mit Programmieren, ca. 30 Wochenstunden.” Bund: “Nicht tauglich für EDV-Bedienung”. Das einzige, zu dem ich Taug hätte, wäre Musiker oder Funker gewesen. Halbes Jahr später: -9,5 Dioptrien => Untauglich für Wehrdienst.

And I’m waiting until bcachefs has sufficiently spread so I can see whether it really works or not.