[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

GNU Image Manipulation Program (or Project)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically

Nope. Firefox does not, because either Firefox is running, or the PC is down or sleeping. So I have to close Firefox, open a shell, update that snap shit, and restart Firefox. Which pisses me off to no end, apart from the point that snaps are a waste of resources and a bad idea in general.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Absolutely. When I read the way a round is handled in 5e my first impression was: How many movie and book heroes signature move do they want to cover with this jungle of rules? "Oh, I've seen X in movie Y doing Z! That was awesome, and I want my character doing that move in D&D, too!"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I'm boykotting Canon and Birkenstock. The first for being total idiots, spurting "open source is theft of intellectual property!", the second because I know the owner family (the son was in my class) and they are assholes that would make Trump proud.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I've read the documentation on that feature, and still don't get over it. How can anyone with knowledge of computers be so dumb to even consider such an idea, lest implement it?

This feature is just a BIG flag waving "AbUsE mE!"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No, you bought magazines back then which had pages and pages of printed source that you typed in. And hoped that you didn't make mistakes. That's actually why I learned debugging before I learned to code ;)

And this also was the way I earned the money for my second computer - I wrote about 50 games on my own for my first one, some of which I sold to such magazines by saving them on casette tapes with a modified casette recorder. I wrote so many games, they published them under aliases...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, ok. that clarifies it.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Quoting from memory: "Remember the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The article is quite vague on how this is implemented. Does it require JS to be activated to work? That would be a big NO for anyone really looking into privacy, but could work for those who use TOR basically as a free VPN to escape stupid geoblocking rules.

And what will prevent DDOSers from just creating dummy requests without the intention to ever wanting to solve any PoWs? It will still allocate resources on the other side.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It was called "Water Carrier". It was a simple labyrinth game that - because I had no way of saving it to a tape, disk, or similar - I had to type in line by line whenever I wanted to play it.

Yes, I'm a bit longer in the business than most of you.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

"all those COBOL developer jobs" nowadays probably fit in one bus. That's why every company that can afford it moves away from COBOL.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It is not exactly sudden, it's creeping for the last 20, 30 years.

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