Hisham
@OhOkKay @RickiTarr The thing is that people who have a private plane don't feel happy every time they use it. They sure felt the first time, but now they feel normal.
When you and I endure our economy class flight we don't feel happy that we're not having to travel 1500km by horse.
My personal take on the folk saying is: Money doesn't bring you happiness, but lack of money brings you sadness.
Hisham
@mral @linux_mclinuxface Dragonfly uses the BSL, so it's not OSS either. KeyDB is BSD-licensed, which is OSS.
Hisham
@UkiahSmith thanks! I try hard, so it's very appreciated :)
Hisham
I'm very self-conscious that my word order choices are often awkward in English, and that this is a sign of lack of command of the language... but I'm realizing the word order in my sentences is often weird in Portuguese as well.
Hisham
A day in the life of a Twitter user:
"Wow, 18 notifications this morning! Something cool I said must have made the rounds?"
"Oh no, I posted a harmless reply to a tiktok repost that I totally forgot about and two randos decided to have a fight over it"
Hisham
RT @andre_videla@twitter.com
This paper hits different https://t.co/MaaNowzeiR
๐ฆ๐: https://twitter.com/andre_videla/status/1489680094339682308
Hisham
For those of you under 30: are you aware of the free software (as in GNU) vs. open source (as in OSI) debate?
Please RT for visibility, I think my immediate circle is mostly older people ๐
Hisham
"I think we should stop doing this by hand and automate this"
- plain
- invites questioning
"I trust the silicon more than I trust the carbon"
- a freakin' alchemist right there building trust relationships with the elements
- nobody wants to cross an alchemist
Hisham
htop 2.1.0 is officially released! and you heard it first here on Mastodon!
Hisham
haha the boarding line for Ryanair Berlin-Brussels looks as if I'm in #FOSDEM already
Hisham
@xs I found a whatsapp-purple library, but apparently WhatsApp is pretty aggressive at blocking whenever it detects a third-party client. Since accounts are tied to phone numbers, I can't risk getting my account blocked :(
Hisham
Star Trek Discovery: I would love it if in the mirror universe, the evil Terrans used imperial units.
Hisham
@chr I saw "Lol." (written like this) in a NYTimes (or was it BBC) piece last week. It's the kind of thing etymologists will use when validating the formal use of the word in a dictionary 100 years from now.
Hisham
Unfortunately the NES adaptation of Rocketeer wasn't up to par, but that was almost always the case with movie adaptation games.
I seriously wonder: now that...
* we have the tech
* we love nostalgia
* big cos like to bet on established stuff
...why don't they make new AAA games out of old movies?
Seriously, imagine what a modern-day BTTF game would be like. Or Sean Connery's 007.
The only examples I recall that were made were Ghostbusters and Godfather...any others?
Hisham
It's amazing how early design mistakes of successful software end up getting after-the-fact justifications that are ardently defended by its fans.
Example: /usr was the disk for users data in the original Unix (old docs use /usr/ken in examples after K. Thompson). When the root disk got full they started storing programs there and /usr/bin was born.
People now give backronyms for "USR" and justify the /usr though the rigid "partitions" model is flawed (and was even abandoned in Plan 9).
Hisham
I ended up putting the GoboLinux account at @gobolinux (do follow!).
That GNU Social instance has been running since 2010, so that's an impressive record that makes me quite confident about them.
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