umbraroze

joined 2 years ago
[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I literally got Signal because my sister told me to get on it. That's the only contact I have on Signal.

When the Recent Fascist Takeover happened, an American friend asked me for app opinions - I told him Signal was great, aside of the fact that the desktop app keeps getting updated every femtosecond. ...we're still talking over Discord, sad to say.

Signal keeps suggesting I add a contact for my old boss. (Who was a cool guy, but not cool enough to keep in contact with years afterwards.) Actually, when I had an internship a few years afterwards, the new boss's preferred app was Telegram, so, uh, a red flag? ...Yeah, didn't get that job.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Perchance you should start measuring things in hamburger units, or express your distaste of paywalled articles, or how you want to remove all of the mild everyday annoyances from the reality because, you know, they mildly bug you. Or just talk about the proletariat.

...I dunno, I'm not on the list either because I don't talk about this stuff much, I guess.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most of my microblogging stuff has been just shouting in the void about stuff I've been doing. And random brainfarts. I follow cool people on social media so I can see them shout in the void about what they're doing. And their random brainfarts.

I'm happy Mastodon still lets me do just that. Perfect platform for that sort of stuff.

The Algo Lords decided people don't actually want to see that, they want "popular" things and engagement bait. Yeah no, not what I want.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago

I don't care how "open source" the printer claims to be. Both hardware and software belong to Belzebub. Such was the dark pact printer makers signed in blood decades ago, and all land shall obey by those words. We shall hit the print button and wallow in torment forever.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

You're saying an actual human called that thing both "pen & ink" and a "typewrite"?

It's Ben Garrison! Dude can't get an erection unless he labels every single goddamn thing. While being barely coherent. He's been doing this for ages!

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

3D printing working, safe-to-handle and durable guns is a pretty complicated technical problem. Don't need to be a genius to figure out that making 100% plastic guns is asking for trouble. Tiny explosion = big plastic cracky.

Meanwhile, any monkey can bash together pieces of scrap metal and produce a durable gun that way. And that was a thing long, long before 3D printers existed.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I decided back then I would probably not renew my subscription this summer. And I didn't!

Funny thing, I thought I was more productive in MS Office because the user interface is more polished. But even when LibreOffice is at times janky, I'm actually far more productive in it, it turns out. Sure, my attention is always drawn on the tiny little things that trip me up, but if I look at the sheer amount of text and spreadsheets I can churn out, I'm doing much better on LO.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, an industry advocate organisation saying stuff that just proves they have no idea what the industry is actually doing, or what's actually good for them?

Not really shocked.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PDF2 is capable of a lot more

[quietly contemplating all of the shit that got added to the PDF 1.x spec that nobody uses nowadays, like support for 3D objects and goddamn Flash]

OH PLEASE NO ADOBE DON'T DO THAT

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago

To me, Larry Sanger always struck me more as an Ideas Guy. Specifically, the kind of an Ideas Guy who didn't always have the best ideas. He keeps dissing Wikipedia, but just look at the absolute trainwrecks his supposedly better other projects turned out.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I do watch television. The Finnish public broadcaster, so no ads. Really good use for tax money, people tend to say. The streaming service is incredible considering it's free and has no ads.

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