CEO: “Why do we even employ 60 testers when our software have always been mostly bug-free on release and patched within a week?”

The QA who spent the last three weeks pressing the same button 4000 times in different situations:

We’re adding new, different symbols to the confusing mess of old symbols and keeping both? Neat!

The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

• Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
• Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
• Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
• Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
• Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.

Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!

I’m willing to bet that 95% of Wordpress users just want a one-click solution to their non-technical needs and don’t give one shit about “innovation”. Otherwise they wouldn’t be using Wordpress.

While I wouldn’t accuse him of having the intelligence to make a “calculated move” – he has an extensive history of making decisions based on how it might make him look in the eyes of his suckers naive gamers. If you remember the beginning of his beef with Google and Apple – Epic prepared an entire 80-page lawsuit and an animated short film before intentionally breaking ToS, positioning themselves as the messiah that will save the gamers from the evil corporations.

He obviously has something to gain from voicing a dissenting opinion. Remain skeptical, question everything.

I currently run Nextcloud inside a Debian 11 LXC container on Proxmox, together with Apache, Mariadb, and PHP. I followed this guide. Once Apache and PHP were running, the rest of the process was straightforward.

expecting a return

It’s called taxes. In many normal places, some people qualify (based on secondary education grades or other things like military service) to receive free higher education (basically sponsored by the government) that is paid off later over the years by taxes or contributions to the GDP.

That’s the point. It’s a list of words that may or may not mean something and I can’t make an assessment on whether or not it’s bullshit. It’s coming from Apple, though, and it’s about privacy, which is not good for credibility.

by using high-level multimodal feature descriptors, including visual similarity scores; locally stored geo-signals; popularity; and index coverage of landmarks (to debias candidate overweighting)

…and other sciencey-sounding technobabble that would make Geordi LaForge blush. Better reverse the polarity before the dilithium crystals fall out of alignment!

It’s pretty sus and way too perfect, but the explosion actually happened.

Starting the year with a bang, huh?

You mean a service that translates between ActivityPub and another API? I’m pretty sure that’s just a bridge.

As for the challenges:

• It would have to be maintained constantly.
• It would have to be updated to reflect changes to an API in a timely manner.
• It would need to handle different versions of APIs (goodness knows even Lemmy instance operators have trouble with that).
• It would need to handle features that don’t translate one-to-one between instances.
• It would have to be transparent enough to allow a non-technical user to use it, but opaque enough that a non-technical user doesn’t blame issues with the bridge on the connected services (see for example: the Bottles packaging kerfuffle).
• …and so on. Lots of challenges.

How Frostpunk 2 didn’t win the best music is a fucking mystery.

My paranoid side says it’s likely the seed of another “us vs. them” situation, like how boomers are blaming every wrong in the world on millenials.

Command line cheat sheet (with bonus vim controls):

I am fork, forced to exist in soup.

No, I made it in Inkscape because I was pissed

Solitaire too. The entire game is based on cards’ relative values and matching suits. A player might recognise the connection to other games where a French deck is typically used and use that knowledge to learn several hands used in games of chance. Extremely dangerous, I’m sure you’ll agree.

I could easily showcase the worst examples of real gambling in modern games in eight minutes (except maybe Diablo Immortal because the microtransaction hell they’ve created is actually impressive). The problem is that publishers get to select what parts of the game is presented to the board, so they can simply not include the real gambling parts.