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I love the fact that Linus is wearing a Doom T-shirt with a signature of Dave Tayler from id Software in this picture.

@nixCraft Pretty cool. Honestly, I thought this was Bill Hicks, Anthony Kiedis, and Ricky Gervais at first.

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Nvidia : Learn farming, not programming.
Farmer : [Jailbreaks tractor] Ok, now I can actually use it properly.

@nixCraft Aye, I did raise an eyebrow over the "Don't learn coding, kids, let AI do it". Noteworthy coming from someone rolling in cash from the AI train.

@nixCraft AI is doing nothing to help with the loud spinning fan noise and crashing proprietary driver.

“I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.”

—Don Knuth https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt #donknuth

@nixCraft unsafe { <write your program here> }

@nixCraft Finally all the C and C++ books I purchased on Humble over the years pay off!

@nixCraft I remember when ADA was a preferred language for NATO (?) contracts for the 'if it compiles, it works' rationale. So, good luck refactoring the kernel of choice to rust.

@nixCraft 😂😂

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Oh I hope he buys microsoft! The year of the linux desktop!

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Probably never bought the laptop, just heard someone else say it ans thought that would be good to tweet, everyone will have something to say, driver traffic on twitsville and I will get reported in the media, so it looks like twitsville is still relevant

@nixCraft I expect that going public will show what a big, and quickly exploding bubble reddit actually is. I won't get anywhere near those shares. I will spend my money on more worthwhile investments.

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It has always puzzled me why anyone would post to (support) such an obnoxious platform with its unbelievably terrible interface.

@nixCraft Frankly, if anyone still moderates reddit then it's most probably because of the power fantasy. Why would you fuck up your daily life to do clean up 12hrs a day?

@nixCraft WezTerm FTW.

@nixCraft utterly worthless.

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I'm wary of closed source terminal emulators, even though I have to admit some look damn nice and usable : https://panic.com/prompt/

@nixCraft almost fell asleep using an electric saw :blobsweats:

@nixCraft Turn keyboar upside down, get cotton, hot glue it to the keyboard, order new keyboard, sleep

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If you do succumb, make sure to post a picture of what key-imprints were left on your face, afterwards.

@nixCraft with cover drawn by director of Toy Story.

@nixCraft WHY IS THERE PEOPLE???

@nixCraft Even as a developer I'd say they should have made a setup.py or a pyproject.toml since it's a Python program, but they don't have any of these.

@nixCraft Textbook example of why you don't steer end users to a Github page. Github may be great for tech people and devs organizing a project, but the UI/UX is possibly the worst fscking thing for any regular person who doesn't know how to navigate Github.

Make a separate project page and put your binary releases on it for those people. If you're putting out software for end-users, you have to understand that audience.

@nixCraft How to move people to stop using password managers 😂

@nixCraft Directly from the author USB

@nixCraft I swear some sites have this. Just an hour ago I tried to log into a website using my password manager: incorrect username/password. I went to a different page and hit login there. Got brought to the same login screen, but it let me in just fine this time!

@nixCraft don't boost teeth. that's just uncomfortable

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It mostly looks like an Eastern-egg 😀

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There's another group of Nginx developers that forked off earlier, and already have a product: Angie.

Someone posted this earlier on another thread about this.

https://angie.software/en/

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I did exactly that before.

$job: "We're enforcing MDM to use Slack on phones"

Everyone: "Ok, when do our company phones arrive?"

$job: "Yeah, we didn't really plan to do that at all"

Everyone: *uninstalls Slack*

That weekend, large outage.

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I had my laptop dock/hub break, and applied for a replacement, and was denied because supposedly that's not approved for work-from-home employees.

I told my employer that I wouldn't use my external monitors or mouse because they didn't provide methods to use those with my USB-C only laptop.

They decided that giving me a replacement dock/hub was in their best interest.

@nixCraft funnily enough i worked for a company that was entirely remote but we were explicitly banned from working off the clock to comply with labor regulations

this meant if someone called in sick, they weren't tasked with finding a replacement. in fact, no one was. because we didn't call people when they weren't working.

we just overstaffed a touch and if it ended up being a bit too much overstaffed we offered voluntary undertime and usually someone would be happy to take it

@nixCraft *whispers* unions

@nixCraft That became obvious when they switched the name of the department from "Personnel" to HR. As in, Tools.

@nixCraft The name says it all. "Human Resources". HR sees employees like laptops or desks. Resources that can can used, depleted or replaced.

@nixCraft Hell yeah, Emacs always wins

@nixCraft Emacs FTW :⁠-⁠)

@nixCraft Emacs is a great operating system, it just lacks a decent text editor.

@nixCraft Syntx error! But aye. Working with bastions, this is a life saver.

@nixCraft Seriously, does anybody know what happened to make kids not understand technology? I thought we'd be hiring people with a basic understanding of computers by now...

@nixCraft laughed so hard 😂

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@nixCraft @ojuliocampos olha isso hahaha