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nixCraft 🐧

The best programming language to learn?

The one you get paid to use

put all nonsense aside

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Mähder

@nixCraft Is there one that is beneficial to learn in order to understand all others better or that makes it easier to learn other programming languages?

TintedKiwi

@nixCraft Truth. I would love to learn and use Python and Rust but we use C# and the .NET stack at work and I don’t have the time or energy atm to learn new languages and their frameworks.

astra0081.

@nixCraft Python if you want to start easy and gradually level up to learn harder programming languages like c++ or java. Starting from c++ is also good if you want something challenging.

nixCraft 🐧

Google is doing everything to drive Firefox users with adblock extensions crazy. Some Firefox users are still experiencing a 5 second delay when trying to view YouTube content.

YouTube's response: Pay for premium, switch to Chrome or disable your ad blocker.

Google is doing everything to drive Firefox users with adblock extensions crazy. Some Firefox users are still experiencing a 5 second delay when trying to view YouTube content.  YouTube's response: Pay for premium, switch to Chrome or disable your ad blocker.
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ollo

@nixCraft Fake news doesn't get truer as it gets older. That was a bug that was quickly fixed...

scrottie (he/him/them)

@nixCraft yt-dlp still works, for now. I suggest downloading everything of value then figuring out where to post it later.

DELETED

@nixCraft Damn, I just don’t want Internet sites know which internet browser I use.

nixCraft 🐧

To celebrate the 30th birthday of DOOM, here's a thread of everything that I've found that DOOM can run on. Some are real, some... maybe not. It's up to you to figure out which 😉

Let's begin with:

DOOM... on an ultrasound scanner. Full thread here on X/Twitter twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1


DOOM... on an ultrasound scanner.
DOOM... on a Disney Princess TV.
DOOM... on a thermostat.
DOOM... on an oscilloscope.
nixCraft 🐧

It's OK to say, "I don't know” to many tech problems. It is of great value to realize that we do not know answers to everything even though we are connected online 24x7. Just saying…

vascorsd

@nixCraft aren't we connected 24/7 for the memes? 🫣

RF

@nixCraft
Saying 'I don't know, let me research it' is something I say weekly at work, no shame in that. Much worse is my coworkers that say they know, but it's wrong. My other favorite are 'no' and the 'Decline Meeting' button.

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Marcus Jenkins

@nixCraft I've been a happy Labrador since a stack of SLS floppy disks in 1992. Ubuntu since 2005.

But I do hate Windows.

ElectroFetish

@nixCraft We were taught at school (a long time ago) that there are no other systems except Windows. The office is only from
Microsoft, proprietary is the best. After that, I got angry

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@nixCraft you're going to offend some chihuahua's today

nixCraft 🐧

Heads up: YouTube premium prices are going up again. Ugh. How many times are they going to increase the price? Didn’t they also crack down on adblockers? It is getting ridiculous expensive now. I would just go walk outside instead of watching stupid videos

Heads up: YouTube premium prices are going up again. Ugh. How many times are they going to increase the price? Didn’t they also crack down on adblockers? It is getting ridiculous expensive now. I would just go walk outside instead of watching stupid videos
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Joanna Holman

@nixCraft For people who watch mostly educational/non-fiction content I'd recommend seeing if Nebula meets their needs. It's a creator owned platform and during sales can be as cheap as USD 30 a year.

@foo HAS MOVED

@nixCraft the adblockers move was so bad, now adblocks starts the ad and scrolls it to the end with a yellow screen

collappsar
@nixCraft I pay in Turkish currency. Cheap as fuck.
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:eeveecoffee: Kingu

@nixCraft

Yesterday, I went to a site where "copy" was disabled in the menu....

(but ctrl-c worked just fine...)

Rae Patterson

@nixCraft

Absolute Enable Right Click is brilliant, once you realize that you have to enable it for each site you want to override
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

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Dr. G. Power

@nixCraft another thing that's very broken today.

Is there a Bugzilla for world problems? How can we submit this as a bug report for printer makers globally?

Григорий Клюшников

So strange that inkjet printers are still so popular in some parts of the world.

nixCraft 🐧

Do you need a fun game for the kids for Christmas this year? 😰🤣

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David Croyle

@nixCraft I used to manage a Performance Lab at a VOIP company. Most of the company's labs looked like this, but not our's. The one exception was when we let some engineers install an ethernet switch on their own, which they installed UPSIDE DOWN and they ran most of the cables through the middle of the rack. :eyeroll: 😆

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erroddy

@nixCraft driving with a dog is not hard.

Cleaning the mess, the mud and the hair is the hard part.

lamitpObuS

@nixCraft The guy on the right may be an average employee of a large German electronics store.

PS: I am not of the opinion that the majority of employees are like that. It depends on the market and the particular employee who gives this impression.

ketchup71

@nixCraft That’s why I call it harddisk. 😉😁

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Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?

Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?
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Christophe Porteneuve

@nixCraft I started with 4.0 in 1991. First IDE ever, kinda sprang fully-formed in a world of CLI. Love at first sight.

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@nixCraft
When I worked in a used bookstore people would bring in boxes of books for sale. Often found other things in there...

Floppy disk labeled Turbo Pascal
Sn4il

@nixCraft@mastodon.social
The only bright memory from school years
​:blobcathearthug:​

nixCraft 🐧

I will never recover from this student email. 😂

I will never recover from this student email:

Good afternoon Professor Penniman, Hope you had a great break! I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use sources from the late 1900's for our final paper (I found an interesting paper from 1994). Is there a cut off date of publication? See you tomorrow,
nixCraft 🐧

GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in github.com/orgs/community/disc I guess they are trying to block bots (especially AI bots) like everyone running a website with useful data. Every major site is now restricting access because data is the next gold mine to train shitty AI bots

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Hugo 雨果

@nixCraft Searching code without being logged was also not possible around a year ago. I don’t think that this is a new thing.

Still awful, just not new awful.

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ssh://thepinkhacker.com

@nixCraft Chase still only lets you do two factor auth with SMS.

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@nixCraft

When you're remote and the IT support needs to troubleshoot something and they look at your internet connection and you're connected to "hey why don't you go fuck yourself" and you realize aw geez. Didn't think that one through the whole way did ya K.

Acvaristul_Lenes

@nixCraft as someone noted: 3 wrong attempts and you lost.
This reminds me of a sysadmin who asks users to set long email passwords in order to avoid brute force attacks. Wondering whether his server is configured to ban after failing attempts.

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mcSlibinas

@nixCraft just leave mouse cursor on last pixel.

richrockster

@nixCraft still do (more for loading screens these days though)

Шуро
@nixCraft I still do this except I move another window to the progress bar edge.
nixCraft 🐧

Here's a helpful tip for those using #Linux or #Unix web servers. Before you hit that reload command, it's always a good idea to test your server config file for syntax errors. You can do this easily as follows:

- For nginx: nginx -t
- For lighttpd: lighttpd -t -f lighttpd.conf
- For apache2: apache2 -t

If you want to check for syntax errors on other Linux/Unix servers, I have compiled a complete list for you cyberciti.biz/tips/check-unix-

Here's a helpful tip for those using #Linux or #Unix web servers. Before you hit that reload command, it's always a good idea to test your server config file for syntax errors. You can do this easily as follows:

- For nginx: nginx -t
- For lighttpd: lighttpd -t -f lighttpd.conf
- For apache2: apache2 -t

On my way to edit the web servers config file 

( A picture of bomb disposal unit person )
Farshid Hakimy / فرشید

@nixCraft and you can reload nginx with no downtime with `nginx -s reload`

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