@kiki have you been to the year 3000? Let me guess, do they live under water?

My current employer, when?

Probably for the best. That knowledge won't be much use when the apocalypse comes.

I used to have an apple mouse, bought by work. I kinda liked it but it's kinda small. It's the all touch one (magic mouse maybe), scrolling was the worst thing about it so a physical scroll ball sounds like an improvement.

Me suddenly realising my threshold for dark humor is abnormally high...

@retoor I'm single.

*Puts on finest Joey accent*

How you doin?

For me, brains and attitude. I'm a cocky little gobshite and need someone to put me in my place.

@jestdotty I can trauma bond with just about anyone (I'm hard to kill and a lot of things have tried) and I also don't judge so people tend to bond with me. Also I'm cute, so women try to jump me.

But ye, people are assholes. I'm a total bastard but it's only fun to pick fights with people that start the fight. So in some ways I'm nice.

@jestdotty women have a tendency to take their clothes off around me regardless of the bonding over music. You're one of those people that watches porn for the story aren't you?

@jestdotty 😅 the lyrics to that song start with
"This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts"

Which is what your comment reminded me of and my reply was a play on. My ADHD brain doing wildly tangential thoughts.

@SidTheITGuy nerds on the internet will do most of the work. Look at Pokemon ROMs. Look at World of Warcraft classic. Hell, look at Good Old Games quite literally named for the work they do to keep old games alive. Look at Steam and the work they've done to make old and new games compatible with Linux.

Tell me you don't know shit about this industry without telling me you don't know shit about this industry.

Nerds gonna nerd.

@SidTheITGuy meh. The Crew could have very easily been made offline only. Instead they killed it to force people to upgrade to the next game. That's not "idealism" thats the problem, that's greed.

@YourMom person that doesn't play games says what?

@jestdotty https://youtu.be/bhSB8EEnCAM

@jestdotty is this where you heal your hurts?

... Who are you?

The spammers working out image uploads are working before we do makes me chuckle

https://nbcnews.com/news/amp/...
Emergency services called to ASD cerebal palsey kid in crisis, police arrive and shoot him.

That sounds like a joke. It's not, that's just what happened.

Aaaahhhhhh wait till you meet graphemes. Hangul is it's own special hell. I wrote a grapheme clustering thing a while ago and compared mine with 3 other implementations of the unicode standard and got 4 different results. They were all wrong in some way or another.

No. The kids with ADHD hate it too. Don't speak for us.

@CoreFusionX I think it's pretty nice to be able to assign in a loop, I kinda see the point with conditional but less so.

Ya can do it in python too. Meet the walrus operator.

if (x := y - 1):
...

IDK I'd rather deal with people that knowingly believe things that are illogical than deal with people that believe without proof that they are logical.

Thing is, this kind of algo speak has been rampant in China for ages. The main thing you should take away from them is this kind of censorship on the internet doesn't work and nerds have a sense of humour. It's cat and mouse. There was a study like, 15 years ago by Facebook showing they could manipulate people's emotions by changing what was shown on their feed. There was a lot of backlash and they stopped publishing their research after that. I suspect in western culture it's an attempt to circumvent attempts at manipulation rather than attempts at censorship. Given how divided western culture is, given Musk's control over X and support of Trump. Anyway, thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

Devs don't give a shit. Managers think their opinion is important. Lawyer's opinions are important. Devs just knuckle under.

The link @kiki posted was missing the page extension .html

Enter philosophical discussions about whether the Web should be implementation agnostic or whether we can accept redirects if the implementation ever changes

https://snek.molodetz.nl/register.h...

@jestdotty we actually handle a lot of medical information so for data contracts and regulation requirements we have to do a lot of HIPPA and GDPR training so that does actually make sense.

And what we cover does apply to us but there's very little about what you can do. How you can exercise your rights. What to look out for that might be of concern. What steps you can take. That said, I'm asking them to explain their handling of my medical information and I expect them to lie about what I don't know about, which would be even harder to prove. But I'm an obsessive methodical little bastard and they're like the kids in the corner eating glue compared to me.

That said, regulations are weird. I used to work at RBS in the phone centres doing corporate support and we could quite literally look at the balance and transactions of any company that banked there. We just got told if we fucked around and accessed stuff not for the purpose of helping a client or did anything based on what we saw we'd get fired and go to jail. Way less data protection training. Just "these things are illegal, sign this saying you won't do it and bear in mind we'll check".

@jestdotty I'm hard to kill. I'll drink the poison if they do. One way or another, my problem is solved.

@D-4got10-01 hotdogs are great. It's hard to get a good hotdog in the UK.

@D-4got10-01 country about to start another war says what? Country with most school shootings says what?

Have you watched the newsroom? I feel like America needs that show today.