Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.

So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.

But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅

And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.

Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:

I’m not a signature, I just clean here.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Not sure, I can articulate this thought well enough, but I feel like there’s been a split between “personal” and “impersonal” social media.

Early internet forums were usually about some specific topic and pseudonyms were paramount, but each person was still given room to present themselves.
So, what I mean by that, is that forum posts had signatures, big profile pictures, as well as typically some additional information about the user, like “Rank: Lord Supreme – Joined: March 2005 – Posts: 3 trillion”.
The forums generally weren’t focused on the people, but you still knew the regulars.

Then came Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon etc., which put people into the focus. You were discouraged from using pseudonyms. You were encouraged to post pictures of yourself. You were encouraged to broadcast any random thought you had.
And while you can use these networks to read or talk about certain topics, you’re really supposed to follow people and get to know them.

And then, sort of as a counter movement again, you have your “link aggregators”, i.e. Lemmy, Lobsters, Reddit etc…
Discussions only happen when there’s a topic, i.e. a post, to talk about. You can’t just broadcast thoughts without context, but rather have to sort them into specific topics/communities.
And while there’s a tiny profile picture next to posts and we do have some regulars that are more widely recognized, most users are not.

Yeah, have not heard about any of these problems before this post…

Back in 2010, the OpenOffice devs had to abandon that name for trademark reasons¹, so they renamed to LibreOffice and continued developing under that name.

OpenOffice theoretically also still exists, but it’s hardly getting updates. Unless you specifically like software from 2010 (including some security vulnerabilities, I believe), you want to use LibreOffice.

¹) The OpenOffice trademark was owned by Sun Microsystems, which got bought by Oracle. Oracle has a very bad reputation, so the devs did not care to wait around for Oracle to fuck everything up.

I don’t think there is a way to do that. It does not seem like something they’d make configurable, if it was implemented.

It does seem like something they might want to implement, though. You can vote on it being implemented here (where someone else already submitted the idea): https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/drag-handle-on-firefox-browser-too-limited-add-ability-to-also/idi-p/104103

Side-note: In case you are on Linux, you may prefer the operating-system-wide shortcut to move any window from anywhere on its surface by holding either the Windows-key or Alt-key (varies between desktop environments) and then left-click-dragging on the window. If you do a right-click-drag instead, it resizes the window.

Does it make a difference, though, if I only put acid into the pre-wash, so no detergent? I was hoping, it would get flushed out before the proper wash cycle.

I mean, I will check, if my washing machine has a separate hole to put fabric softener in. It does sound like the more appropriate place for it.

Yeah, was gonna be my suggestion, too. I get small white stains on specific fabrics and one of my shirts’ colors looked completely washed-out. And yeah, I can get rid of that with citric acid in what my washing machine calls “pre-wash”.

I’m not sure, it was just leftover detergent for me, though, because while I could wash out some of it by hand-washing the clothes with water afterwards, a lot of it stayed. So, my assumption was that it’s actually just calcium build-up, which of course also goes away with acid.

We deployed a client software in a Docker container on Windows 10. It could not connect to the backend, even though we saw SYN packages originating from it.
So, we ran WireShark on the Windows host and saw that the SYN-ACK packages from the backend were arriving there, too, but no ACK came through to complete the TCP handshake.

Eventually, we rolled out a network debugging container on that Windows host and then could see in the tcpdump, that the SYN-ACK packages, which arrived on the Windows host, just did not show up in the container. Hyper-V or something was quietly dropping them.

Other network connections were working fine, just the SYN-ACK from our backend triggered this.

For me, it’s a matter of infrastructure for regular downloads being free. I just upload the distributable into a release on Codeberg and I’m done.

Whatever is needed to provide a torrent is just additional complexity, where I’m not sure it actually benefits anyone.
Of course, if I wanted to become more independent from my code hosting platform, torrents would be something to consider. But my projects are far too unknown to get seeded, so it would still just be a direct download with additional hoops.

I like not being particularly recognizable. Treat me like everyone else that you don’t know.

Ah, I thought you mixed them up, because they both look Windows-y in their default configuration. 🙃

Mint doesn’t use KDE out of the box. They have an own DE called Cinnamon.

Ah, I thought there would be a male bird involved still, but I guess that example just explains ovulation. Still quite optimistic that everyone shares the same understanding here, though…

This post made me realize, I’ve only ever heard “the birds and the bees” referenced, but never actually how it’s applied during sex ed.

But uh, turns out this does not make any sense in that context either. It’s just two separate examples to explain sexuality, so bees pollinating flowers and birds laying eggs. They’re just used as examples, because they’re visible in nature and somewhat resemble the mechanics of sex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

My thinking was that bees are the ones that pollinate, so male.

But they certainly don’t pollinate birds, so I don’t know where that was going either. 🫠

Where I live, we have a food that’s basically flatbread with toppings. One of the popular toppings is apple slices and raisins, which looks just like an apple pie. And we do like to joke that pizza is simply the tomato variant of it, too. 🙃

I feel like this isn’t really a new development. Back when LAN parties and local multiplayer were still a thing, games like TeeWorlds, Worms etc. were popular, because they ran on potatoes and you could often get them for free.

The actual fun then came from dicking around with or competing against your friends. The game itself does not need to be ground-breaking for that.

Hell, it technically started even earlier than that, with physical card games and board games and such. Just play them with friends and it’s fun.

I have caught myself genuinely thinking that management needs to unearth more budget, if they so desperately want us to use these AI tools, so that we can onboard another person to compensate for the productivity hit.

Unfortunately, they believe the opposite to be true, that we just need to use AI tools and then our productivity will be through the roof…

I have not looked into these myself yet, but Apertus is supposed to be fully open: https://programming.dev/post/36791696

And I recently heard of StarCoder, which was also said to be like that and which is optimized for coding assistance: https://github.com/bigcode-project/starcoder