@whimsical The Greenland thing goes back to the 1970s Club of Rome. There was an ideology shared among leaders in the EU, The Bilderburg Group, etc. that wanted to see government consolidated into 11 major kingdoms. Seriously go look up the map. It's crazy.

The USSR was one of those such kingdoms, but of course it completely fell apart. I guess one of the saving graces is these leaders have often failed terribly at these plans.

@Lensflare Taxation is theft.

Isn't 90k € a lot in most of Europe? Back in 2016 I was living with a friend in Germany looking for work and people laughed at me and never called me back if I asked for € 60k as a senior engineer (Scala, Java, Python, etc.) It seemed like the average was € 50k~55k.

@D-4got10-01 I couldn't make it through the 2nd one. I only know of the animated versions because I saw the character LORAs on some AI model sites.

@iSwimInTheC It's still microservices. All the code is just in one repo that is used to create all the individual services, so we're not repeating all the same shit over and over; fixing it in 20 places instead of one.

I've written a whole thing on Microservices:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

ah yes, Rubberducking

Pretty sure kiki finally starved to death

@D-4got10-01 It's Decemberween

I'd be interesting in your tool. I've often archived all my data on dying platforms or platforms I've deleted my account from:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

There are some old posts of mine that are difficult to get to without a lot of backtracking; would love to just have all of them in a nice JSON blob.

Pretty neat set of tools. I'm not sure if I like the idea of generating SSH/GPG keys from a passphrase. Seems like that can lower your entropy, but I generally like the idea of self-hostable tools.

That's weird. I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on GoG on opening day and it ran fine on my old i7-9x series + 2080-Ti.

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

I started playing Control but never got far in it. DaVinci Resolve should run on anything .. I've run that on ancient hardware.

Are you running on like a 6th gen Intel or something? How old is your system that stuff won't start? Does the error say it's because of your hardware?

With the newer Windows package formats, it's nearly impossible to correctly implement "Open with.." in a cross-platform way. Here's my unanswered question on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Here's where I gave up in my applications:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

and here are the loaders for "classic" and "appx":

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

It's a fucking mess.

I took two big breaks, once for 11 months and another for 5 months. It was nice, but I was never able to get any side projects going or get into a PhD program.

I miss the old job I got laid off from. As bad as some things were, I could use Linux and my workflow felt fairly kino. New place is all shitty Win 11 corporate .NET with crazy group policies and 4 year old Intel 11th gen laptops that run like shit.

I'm glad I took some breaks though, even if they didn't quite work out:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

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And also don't break out submodules at all until you really need to. Microservices are a maintenance nightmare, as are shared internal corporate libraries.

I enthusiastically look forward to the heat death of the universe .. or the AI bubble popping. I'll take either.

Emoji are just Unicode characters that are established by the Unicode Consortium. Anyone can submit one to be evaluated.

Unicode was meant to solve the problem of conflicting character sets and different encodings in different regions/languages. Emoji got added to it when Japanese companies wanted to standard smileyfaces across carriers/devices.

So a Unicode symbol is exactly the same as a Mandarin or Hindi character as far as the type of byte representation.

Ancient languages have hieroglyphics and picture representations. Then we got letters that formed words. Now, we've come circle, creating a new form of hieroglyphics in the unicode codespace.

I look forward to the day when emoji emerges as its own language, with entire novels fully written in emoji.

Also guess this song: 📖👧😭ꕀ🌊🌎👀😥🖼️❤ 👩😃

@retoor That's kinda like America right now. We're pretty much in the middle of an economic collapse and everyone is just chugging along like nothing is happening.

There was a term for this during the collapse of the Soviet empire: Hypernormalization.

@AlgoRythm no, a logistics company. Interestingly enough, I found a Town Hall meeting on my calendar, on the day before Thanksgiving. There's no recording of the meeting or notes, but I suspect that was the layoff announcement, done when most people were already out of the office.

Fuck McDonalds.

I was fired from their marketing company (TMSW/Havi) years ago for refusing to work 80 hours a week on their stupid Monopoly game.

I haven't eaten their since.

My manager just uses LLMs to write all the docs and README ... so they're mostly wrong, over-verbose and essentially useless.

Am I the only one who likes writing documentation? Just keep it minimal. Put in the important things a developer needs to know.

My favourite conspiracy theory is that everything is exactly as it seems: JFK was really shot by a lone gunman, the twin towers burned down due to jet fuel and Israel is really an innocent bastion of democracy.

Tired. Exhausted. Cranky.

Get onto Team Blind dot com .. that way you can chat anonymously with your co-workers, other LLM bots and tons of H1-B visa holders!

@Lensflare More likely a stolen/credential stuffing find? .. although he did reply .. still slop.

I use Traefik, but yea there's Caddy and there are even Lua scripts for nginx that handle LetsEncrypt.

It looks like devrant is using LetsEncrypt, so whatever renews the cert must have just thrown up. I've had a misconfiguration Traefik that couldn't get certs on one of my sites for a while.

> grant me (the owner of the project) a permanent, unrestricted license to use, modify, distribute and relicense your contribution under any terms I see fit.

This feels like it defeats the entire purpose of open source. This is why I hate CLAs in general. I could never contribute to a project that has one of these.

You hold a normal, balanced, middle of the road (slightly libertarian) opinion.

People aren't allowed to have normal middle of the road opinions. The psychological operation that is "the news" is designed to make everyone cheer for one political sports team and disown everyone who likes the other team.

The most radical view to take in America is to reject both political parties.

You're fired and the AI that generated your slop is fired too.

Honestly most developers should use the weighted random word generation machines .. not for anything except small isolated tasks they can read over, or things that need to be written once and thrown away/not maintained.