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Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

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  • My biggest concern is the whole “removing powerful features = user friendliness!” mentality that these big tech companies have been pushing for years.

    Why make users smarter when you can make software worse and charge more for it?

    The dummies don’t get the bigger picture, they just see “nobody needs powerful features that make things too confusing for me!” My hope is that they don’t flood Linux with this drivel - profit margin or not, it’s a toxic cultre that has already been created in commercial software.






  • Why would it surprise me in even the slightest? It surprises me that people would default to a specific gender when all there is to go by is a username - I would expect they/them/[username] to be the typical reference.

    What surprises me more is how judgmental and hostile people are here in the absolutely horrible assumptions they’re making about me, because of a very obviously sarcastic remark I made about changing the only thing I could think of having a gendered term to a gender neutral term in the documentation for an application… My bad for mistaking “documentation” for manpages, and for somehow thinking a thread about Ladybird would be about the project’s previous name and a myriad of other projects. How foolish of me not to be psychic in a thread calling out people for trying to be psychics in commits and code comments, right?









  • The tl;dr of events:

    • Dude was gifted some cases of beer from his boss.
    • Took a swig from a can, and died a few days later.
    • Turns out boss was part of international drug ring.
    • They got the cans mixed with legit cans of beer, they would process the ones with meth and give away the rest.
    • Boss accidentally gave away one of the meth cans

    Slightly more info:

    • He gave a can to his buddy at the same time, buddy’s can was fine. He tasted the tainted can and spit the sip out right away.

    • The boss had a warehouse with a bunch of cans where they’d process the drugs and such. They had footage of him there which is how they caught him and figured things out.

    There’s a lot more to the whole thing, but he didn’t just buy laced beer from the store… if that makes things any better/worse