Posts by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #9qSfU604wYzqwP4cBE by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-29T15:38:23Z
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@bortzmeyer That's what the M4 macros are for. Did you read the entire post?
(DIR) Post #9qSh14XfUCPZve4Zzk by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-29T15:55:33Z
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@bortzmeyer I didn't think I needed to belabor the fact that I'm using M4 macros mixed in with my raw HTML. That's what the makefile is for.
(DIR) Post #9qXARNUnJWcZXpSq5A by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-31T19:44:08Z
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@ParadeGrotesqueTrue, but you can identify the absence of systemd as a virtue of every BSD, and of any true GNU/Linux distribution that hasn't sold out and become #Poetterix instead, like #Slackware. :)@feld
(DIR) Post #9qXBsul1r4ukTekgYi by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-31T20:00:18Z
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@ParadeGrotesque The reasoning does seem to eventually come back to systemd's absence, as is the case for my position:Why use BSD or Slackware?1. They work.Why do they work?1. The developers know WTF they're doing.2. No systemd.:cat:@feld
(DIR) Post #9qXCsB21xjDecDutM0 by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-31T20:03:54Z
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@feld Not familiar with SMF (but it probably doesn't stand for "sick motherfucker" in this context) but I get what you mean regarding launchd in OSX.systemd is an overdesigned, overengineered solution in search of a problem.@ParadeGrotesque
(DIR) Post #9qXpDzYf6A59ex0bnU by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-01T03:21:03Z
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@snowdusk_ Good kitty.
(DIR) Post #9qYGHTGzlxJ7Ryd3dQ by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-12-30T02:49:46Z
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@a1batross Please CW your lolis and shotas (and anything that looks like a loli or a shota).
(DIR) Post #9qaxm9LQbJFwxuUtKS by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T14:35:24Z
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@mwlucas Use "Computer Modern". Grimoires should be as readable as possible because if you mangle a pronunciation or squiggle a line that should be straight when drawing a summoning circle, you're gonna have a bad time.
(DIR) Post #9qbKcg9i3MxcmDT8jI by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T19:56:59Z
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@publius Not saying I agree with <i>that</i> shit. It's more like, "Hmmm... here's a new kind of bullshit that I've never seen before."
(DIR) Post #9qbLLhmWr1NMqq63E0 by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T20:05:12Z
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@publius Thanks. I hope you'll pardon my using your previous response as an opportunity to clarify my own position for those who didn't grow up on Spock. :)
(DIR) Post #9qbNfwBBEYH5CkP06q by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T20:16:08Z
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@feoh Nothing wrong with that. But I think you can tell from my own answer that I don't love any particular programming language.I just like not being broke.
(DIR) Post #9qbOER56qZNItL0r7A by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T20:37:29Z
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@publius @feoh This one time back in 2015 I got drunk and wrote a rant on Medium (yes, I know) called "Programmer Passion Considered Harmful". It's still available via #WaybackMachine.https://web.archive.org/web/20150316170604/https://medium.com/on-coding/programmer-passion-considered-harmful-5c5d4e3a9b28
(DIR) Post #9qbSvX1F2w5RZk0bmC by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T20:18:32Z
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@Elizafox I've been cancelled since kindergarten. We just didn't call it "cancelling". We called it "shunning" people, or "ostracism", or "leaving people out".It hurt a lot at first, but I learned to harden my heart. Nowadays, I LOL when somebody tells me I'm cancelled.Conversely, I have no compunctions about blocking people for no reason at all. I know it won't encourage them to change. It just allows me to pretend they're somebody else's problem. :)
(DIR) Post #9qbak3PLbCbyBaK1wm by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-02T21:30:59Z
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@GuerillaOntologist I'll concede that audio/video is often easier to make because people are more likely to be comfortable talking in front of a mic/camera than they are sitting down and a keyboard and writing, but I'm talking about accessibility on the consumption side.As a sighted and highly literate person, I can read plain text quickly and easily. If I were blind but hearing, I could get the text fed through a screen reader. If I were blind and deaf, there are Braille displays.
(DIR) Post #9qbkjWtRUES4swmsaG by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T00:49:37Z
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@publius Nothing wrong with that, either.@dirtycommo
(DIR) Post #9qd9sgXJh9VxPYrQCO by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T15:51:57Z
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I don't say "hello" when picking up the phone any longer.Instead, I say, "Who dares?"
(DIR) Post #9qdDEGRzf6NwjzLtho by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T16:57:17Z
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Apparently there are gamers smart enough to run #Linux but dumb enough to buy games published by #EA, and they're getting banned en masse from #BattlefieldV because the anticheat software only seems to recognize Windows.I know I should be sympathetic, but I just can't. This is what people get for buying EA games. Dumb fucks.https://forums.lutris.net/t/ea-banning-dxvk-on-battlefield-v/7810
(DIR) Post #9qdEc2keLXAf9qyt6m by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T17:59:05Z
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@malin Ethical, schmethical. Didn't anybody ever tell you that if there isn't a native Linux client you shouldn't buy the game? WINE isn't good enough. #NoTuxNoBucks
(DIR) Post #9qdEpXcms7DEfqjvYe by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T18:01:21Z
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@feld The only games I install on my real computers (as opposed to my PS4) are games available in OpenBSD ports. Fuck #Steam. Fuck #WINE.#PlayOnBSD
(DIR) Post #9qdFbD3YeBR4mazX2e by starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-01-03T15:26:59Z
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I just found this little site for people who might appreciate visual explanations of how #unix #shell commands work.https://www.explainshell.com/Cons:1. Uses Ubuntu man pages.2. You have to know the command already if it isn't one of the examples.3. Depends on JavaScript