@afaIk

Yup. Flash was the definition of vulnerability. But I've got to admit it was a lot of fun for creating animations and such. I created, among other things, an animation called fellatio.swf. It was about a bloke who stuck his banger into a vacuum cleaner, then got swallowed whole and spat out on the other side as mince. Hope he had a splendid sexperience. RIP.

@iSwimInTheC

Yes, unfortunately.

@CaptainRant

Haha, that figures :D

@D-4got10-01

Yeah, I wouldn't apply for such a job.

@CaptainRant

I respect your opinion, although you're actually the first one ever to praise Confluence. Sure enough, it is one place to gather documentation. But so is a garbage heap.

Update: Copilot hs actually improved a lot since I made this rant. Gone are the things I hated about it, such as the annoying autocomplete and being confined to Edge only. It runs fine in Firefox and is now my preferred LLM chat. Meanwhile, ChatGPT has only become uselessly slow.

@whimsical

DarkBasic was a fun toy, a little like AMOS but for Windows. I doubt that it was ever used professionally.

@whimsical

Haha, true! :D

Here comes my programming journey (if I remember correctly):

1984 Basic on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 16

1986 MSX Basic on Canon V20 and the SVI. C64 Basic. C128 Basic.

1988 AmigaBasic and a little Pascal

1990 AMOS Basic

1992 MS Basic

1994 A tiny little bit of Assembler

1995 QBasic

1997 C

1998 Javascript

1999 C++

2002 ASP + VBScript. DarkBasic

2006 PHP

2014 C#/.Net

2018 RPG and ColdFusion

2020 Luau/Roblox

2024 Unity (C#)

@gitstashio

By not having it on the country list. It used to be there, but then they removed it.

@Grumm

LinkedIn used to be good. Then they started discriminating my country so now I hate them.

@gitstashio

That's a good point!

I agree with @Root. That's not burnout, it's just ordinary wear/boredom/procastination. I usually read the news, check my e-mail, play some online chess och read up on what's going on at devrant :)

@retoor

Are you being ironic or do you seiously consider those so called "advantages" as real advantages? Anything called modern isn't quite modern, but the same shit revamped.

One of the fundamental problem with LLM is, it never admits that a task is too difficult for it to solve. It's like one of those salespersons working on commission at any store. If you ask them a question they can't answer, they'd never say "I don't know", but instead go yapping as if they had a clue - often with confidence at that.

Swenglish could sound something like this: "Where seventeen have you kept house your slowfuck?" (Var sjutton har du hållit hus din slöfock? = where the heck have you been, you slowpoke?)

@whimsical

OK, now I get it. We have the same thing here, but Swenglish (Swedish/English).

@BordedDev

I still don't follow.

I already look like my profile. Well, almost. My hair isn't quite that grey just yet. And we don't have only one orange cat....among other colours. What can I say? My gf loves pets and our semi-domestified animals in the surrounding forest.

Ah, I notice now you're addressing whimsical :)

@whimsical

Parse error: "With two hours I go to beach." Did you mean "Within two hours"?

@BordedDev

Sure, it sounds good. But there's just one thing: It's from Google. it's the cancer of the internet.

@BordedDev

Dunno, havenät tried it yet. AHh, thatäs interesting. I experimented a bit the OpenAI API last year. The drawbacks, which I gusess might go for all AI models, were: slow, costly, and limited memory.

@BordedDev

OK, but Ollama can host several different LLM:s. Have been thinking of trying DeepSeek R1 in Ollama. But it would probably not run very well on my old hardware.

@BordedDev

Which standards committee? There are many. I used to work in one such committee in the 00s, IEEE/MGIF, and found it rather pleasant. No fighting at all, rather a discussion club. To be completely honest, I don't recall our many lengthy discussions actually resulting in any revolutionising standards, or anything at all. But at least we had a nice time in good company, got tasty grub and fine dining in various cities across Europe.

@kiki

Actually I didn't. It somehow works now, so I don't bother.

Every time Atlassian makes an update, one needs to open the dev console, select the Network tab and click Update - despite having disabled cache. I consider this a flaw in Firefox.

I just read that Linux is also better at running Ollama.

@BordedDev

Not even that. Less than two weeks and I replaced it with Windows 98 - the regular one that actually worked.

@D-4got10-01

Yes, you're right. I should have done that, but somehow never managed to figure it out. The user interface isn't a 100% intuitive.

@whimsical

AI?

I wouldn't consider what we do at devrant as fighting. Hardly even bickering. IMHO the discussions here are rather civilised and nice, actually.

I just realised that Ducky's lack of an "app" for configuration of RGB is actually an advantage. Configure it once on the keyboard itself, and your settings stay, even when attaching it to another computer or reinstalling the OS. Now that I updated Windows 11 at work, the G-Hub software vanished, as did the nice colour scheme for my G513 :(

P.S.

Updating Windows 11 with the latest patches didn't help. It's still the worst OS since Vista.