It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…

Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and after a rot13 transformation.

Python on the other hand is the only language that will cause your application to stop working because you mixed up tabs and spaces, even though it looks perfectly fine on your scr.

And lisp is hard to say if you have one.

Edit: aa -> after a

Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.

As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?

I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.

I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.

I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.

Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.

It absolutely is.

It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.

I think that every single provider tracks your activity and the vast majority of them use it to optimise their service income from you, either by giving you better engagement, ie. making you use the service more - endless searching for content for example, or by selling the captured tracking data to the highest bidder.

I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.

Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.

It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.

Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.

I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.

Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.

You could use a cron job to grep through the file and reformat the output into a webpage, markdown, or plain-text file.

Reddit support to the rescue…

It’s really simple to use, and markdown is essentially plain text.

I’ve seen this type of issue multiple times. If I’m really interested in the item I’ll contact the supplier and often they’re just as flummoxed as me.

Of course then there’s the "other"response as well, where the supplier has no interest in actually shipping outside their own country, but that’s a whole different thing

My go-to for this is pandoc, it takes markdown and can generate html, pdf, word, OpenOffice and other formats.

Because it uses markdown, you can use version control and grep on your documentation and include it with your source code.

A.I., Assumed Intelligence

A.I. or Assumed Intelligence

Is it just me who is sceptical about anything new from Intel at the moment?

Mind you, this is not the first time that this feeling has existed, there was a standing joke amongst IT professionals in the mid 1990s that the sticker “Intel Inside” was actually a warning label, referencing the Pentium FDIV bug.

All I’ll say is that I’m glad that I’m neither your child, nor a member of your software development team…

So, a profitable half and the one that will go bankrupt?

And many of them are heading to BlueSky…

“Groan…”

He’s now been indicted:

https://www.yourerie.com/news/international/telegram-ceo-indicted-in-paris-court/