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Rose

@ umbraroze @piefed.social

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

  • Slrpnk.net is down

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  • All the good luck with that!

    These things happen, can't expect five nines from every server.

    —Sincerely, some girl who once ran a minimal resources server off of DSL and janky Debian hax

  • Pam Bondi tried to steal a 4-year-old's dog

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  • Lollipop snatching? Amateur tier. Now let's do some bronze tier stuff.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • You can register on a Piefed instance and use Lemmy's subscription export feature and Piefed's import feature to retain your subscriptions. Porting comments/posts isn't a thing.

    There's work underway creating migration scripts for Lemmy databases to be imported to Piefed, but that is a tool for instance administrators only, of course.

  • For Reddit old-timers: This was, back in the day, the hardships of transition to the new service.

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  • Well, the .ml folks are often espousing authoritarian points of view and I fail to see how that will bring forth a more positive society. I think authoritarian societies have been problematic in the past. But that is just my opinion.

    But there are a lot of societal issues that need to be improved for good though!

  • For Reddit old-timers: This was, back in the day, the hardships of transition to the new service.

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  • I remember the comic being much larger than I expected back in the day.

    Technically it was a three parter: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Just that it was published in Flickr which really wasn't good at this whole "webcomic" thing.

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
    Rose @piefed.social

    For Reddit old-timers: This was, back in the day, the hardships of transition to the new service.

  • Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group

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  • Random Republican, transported through time from 15 years ago: "No no no no no! You see, gerrymandering has everything to do with census data. It's completely impartial! There's no way the process will fail us."

    [Gets shown the footage]

    Random Time-Displaced Republican: "Excuse me, but... Who the hell is in the power right now?"

    [More footage]

    RTDR: "Ohhhhh shit I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY TIME!!! ...What do you mean you can only time travel forward in time?"

  • One media player to rule them all

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  • Me, upon installing Debian KDE distro, and having Dragon Player pop up: I ALREADY INSTALLED VLC, WHAT THE HELL DUDES

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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  • Boeing CEO: "We're always innovating, and sometimes we need to boldly embrace the wisdom of the past if it can be re-examined in light of current technology. From now on, our airplane navigation systems will be based on the Flat Earth model. This makes navigation so much more computationally efficient, guys."

  • What would you do if you found out someone was drawing hentai of you with very exaggerated features?

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  • [Random glance at the Krita recent files] [Ponderous inhale] It sure would be weird if someone hypothetically would be doing that, but I'm not sure I would be able to do anything about that.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist.

    Literally 99% of Windows tech support is

    Have you right clicked on Windows menu, selected Terminal (Admin), then entered sfc /scannow and then DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth? ...ohhh shit you're still fucked up - well, maybe you need to completely reinstall windows, well, here's the page on how to do it.

    That's the difference with Linux. Your average user never uses terminal, and when they do, they find the tools suck.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to "memorise" them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (...what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

    ...except you don't have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • I've used Process Explorer.

    "What file handles are open that match

    <This drive letter and then some>

    ?""Well there's Dropbox now.""Oh. Again?""Dropbox, I think.""Again.""Maybe nothing???""OK, let's try ejecting now." (It fails again.) "Are you sure no file handles are using this drive?""I'm positive.""Well fuck this then." (Unplug USB)

    Now. I said I've used Process Explorer. I didn't say I've used Process Explorer. I wish to be, one day, one of those frightening people who live and breath Process Explorer every day. There's still a long journey to get there, I know.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Which is exactly what I do if sufficiently annoyed! Problem is, Windows is usually hella vague about which particular devices have Quick Removal™®© enabled.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Told ya, Process Explorer just told me nothing, except Dropbox maybe.

    But it doesn't change the usage scenario. I don't care what programs are using the drive. I just need to tell them to fuck off, I need to unplug this drive at this moment.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Basically, if you, as a regular user, cannot unmount a device, you can usually just go to root shell (sudo -i), see where the thing is mounted (just use mount) and then unmount it (umount /media/blah/floop). If it says the device is still busy, as root you can remount it as read-only and then unmount it (seeking documentation left as an exericise to the reader, as I'm sitting at a Windows system now).

    There's also lsof ("list open files") tool, which can be used to see which exact programs are using files on that device, which you can then use to kill those sneaky processes (ps, kill).

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    Always happens at the end of the Pride Month I guess

  • Some things don't change

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  • Or: "The algorithm and data structure theory stuff is still pretty relevant. However, all of the examples are written in a language no one really uses any more. If they can get away with it."

  • Fox news trying to explain github.

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  • Pollo Request. What Walter White was always getting on his phone.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    The 1,000,000,000th repository in GitHub has been created! And it's something alright.

  • Malphabet.

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  • Alphabet starting with M? Hey, prescriptivist dingdongs, you can't just say there is now apparently an alphabet that starts with M! Those things don't exist in vacuum - if you make something like this up, you have to go all the way and define such an alphabet clearly!

    Rules mean nothing unless they clarify established language use conventions! Which is why I think descriptivist approach is better in most cases.