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Or just actually learn the library.

That is not what I said.

Of course Ukraine should defend itself and not just roll over.

What I meant is: Starting a war is pointless.

Now please don't reply with a comment saying "Ukraine didn't start the war". I know, and that's not what I said.

I'm curious.

Way into the future, once all armies are equipped with such killer robots: who are they going to kill? Other robots in a fight?

I'm genuinely not sure how I feel about this, except that it makes war even more pointless than it is today.

Thoughts?

"The most sustainable phone is the one you already have".

That's what they said in an email reply to me. Not sure what question I was asking, but they were very upfront about it.

Sure, you can get second hand phones, but: 1. You won't get any security patches (or not for long) 2. I don't think I can trust a 2nd hand device to not be modified in some way. Feels like an easy way to get valuable data.

So if security is a concern at all, I think new phones are sadly the only way to go.

I do recommend a good, hard journey in your life though. Take your shoes, or a bicycle, and go somewhere. One week, two weeks. Enough to be tired and want to go back home really hard. Enough to have to deal with a problem without a credit card (good example: bike broke down 10 miles from the closest city, not a soul around to help you).

But most importantly, enough to enjoy the moment despite the hardship.

Once you discover that it is possible, that it is logical, then a new life awaits.

I don't see the point in keeping the marketing material for dead companies. Why would you use resources on that?

As far as history is concerned, a wikipedia page describing the company and it's activities would most likely suffice.

So you believe that your website made today will still be a good marketing tool 100 years from now?

Look, how old is internet right now? How much did it change since the beginning? How often do you look at a product online on an early-90s website and think "oh, that's good marketing"?

I don't think any serious business should see this as a "perfect use case". Just a big waste of money, that is.

Yes, because everything is always exactly going according to plan. Right?

Sure, let's pollute outer space, earth isn't enough.

Can't wait to see the reaction when one of these barrels inevitably hits something important to someone.

Pretty sure it's not immune to bit rot.

Have any data to back your claim?

Guess I was unlucky then.

Yeah, screw them.

I've also been banned one day for posting ads for my pictures. Just portraits, nothing special.

I got zero explanation and could not recover my ad credits.

More recently I was shadow banned for including links to YouTube on my fb post. Got a reach of 21, where it was usually above 1000. My page didn't recover yet.

It's time to let meta die.

Same. This is creepy AF.

There is no suggestion, that's the whole point.

One word: battery.

Boy watch? Or lightweight and out of the way?

For me, the ol' F-91W is the only watch I can bear to wear.

Performance is adequate, security is up to the dev.

Wow that hits rather hard actually. I never knew him other than through the welcome message on Vim, but he made one of the tools I rely on the most in my daily life.

Thanks Bram, have a good afterlife.

I'm considering adding an RSS feed, but I doubt any of my client even knows what it is or its existence.

> and it’s already changing the Web that we know and love.

Nitpick, and clearly off topic, but right now I don't love "the web".

It's increasingly controlled by a handful of companies. They dictate what content is made visible (meta, google) or what email goes to the spam filter (ms, google).

Right now I don't love the web, far from it. It's a constant struggle to be heard even by the people who chose to follow your activity.

Essentially, most of my communication happens in real life or in private chats. (Also, have I said how messenger for business is terrible and unreliable?)

To me, something needs to happen to the web as it is today. I don't know what, I don't know how, but I certainly welcome change.

Ooh, just when I needed one! Will try it, thanks for sharing :)

Sure. Do you mean we should stop caring?

Then let that stay over the US. I'm sick of seeing my sky polluted with moving dots.

"But it's not much" you'll say. Yeah, wait another 10-20 years, with all the additional shit launched into space.

Whether you know it or not, you have used libjpeg-turbo. In fact you are probably using it every day, it's just behind the scenes, just like openssl is.

These projects deserve funding, if at least from giants like facebook & co.

There's no point in having 4K res if your lens isn't sharp enough. Just sayin'...

I'm not saying they're not the best. I'm just saying they're not the only ones.

Stripe is not the only option for payments. Why not switch instead of giving up? Sounds like a neat product.

What's "astroturfing"?

Oh, I made an AOP library for python when I started uni back in 2008. That's actually where my nickname comes from: aspyct (a concatenation of aspect, python and aspyc).

Sadly I lost the contents of the old wiki. I did pour a lot of energy into that :) But I still have a page on my old blog: https://www.aspyct.org/aspyct/ (funny URL though \o/)

It's never been a huge hit, but from time to time I would get emails from students who were investigating it for a university project. That was fun :)

Is was adding some interesting features (notably pointcuts), but ultimately it didn't bring enough added value compared to a simple decorator in python, and I ceased development.

It's still available on SourceForge, for those interested: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aspyct/files/aspyct/

EDIT: wow that was 15 years ago. I'm not getting younger :p

But not necessarily about the solution they envision. Case in point: I worked with one customer who wanted to add a search box at the top of a list to search through ~50 elements. I showed him the standard browser search with ^F and he was delighted. Saved us a day of work.

They know their problem, you should figure out a solution.