SirQuack

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[–] SirQuack 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've recently started working in a company that uses old tech, and there is a minor interest from me to actually follow the COBOL onboarding. It seems like a pretty cool language construct to know, alongside my years of OOP experiences with stuff like C# and Java.

And there are still courses being offered, as it's far from eradicated (although everyone wants it gone).

[–] SirQuack 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I really like Here maps. Hosted in Eindhoven, NL (apparently) and has cool stuff like panning when using spoken navigation, so "turn left" comes from the left speaker, which is something I would otherwise struggle with.

[–] SirQuack 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So far I've always installed a filter (at work, school, and privately) that removes the "high priority" flag from any mail.

If it can't wait, call me.

[–] SirQuack 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn't anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

[–] SirQuack 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dang, I removed my account before the bans started flying.

I did have to re-delete a lot of comments very often, and then the bulk deletion app was suddenly enshittified

[–] SirQuack 3 points 3 weeks ago

Notepad in wine ^(/s)

gnote usually works

[–] SirQuack 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I've said this on reddit before, but once for a joke I tried to make a windows program to play doot.wav during October at random, and tried programming it on Linux.

Sinds playing audio and working with the system tray was tricky, I ended up with electron.

So yeah, an atrocious 120 mb application to play a 6kb wav file with a Math.random(). I don't remember the memory consumption, but it was probably just as gross.

[–] SirQuack 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

Eh, if you're careful and know what you're doing (e.g. Google stuff), it's effectively screws and copper. Nothing too special about it.

[–] SirQuack 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

That's enshittification for ya.

Meanwhile, all "lifetime pass" holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.

[–] SirQuack 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure if reddit devs are even aware of it

They likely are, but management is also likely rejecting any attempts to fix it.

[–] SirQuack 3 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe they're using xdg-dirs? That might work, won't it?

[–] SirQuack 5 points 4 weeks ago

They were far too springey to be made out of wood, which was what I initially thought.

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