Wolf480pl @Wolf480pl@niu.moe

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Why the hell is web still using passwords in 2018?
SSH has been using public key auth for over two decades now...

*at this university

The Web Applications lecturer, after explaining how `this` and `new` works in JS:

> As you can see, this is pretty
> stupid, and you'll probably never
> use it because of that.
> So why am I telling this to you?
> See, at the end of 3rd year,
> there'll bee an exam, with
> questions from all subjects
> that you had on this university,
> and a question about `new`
> or `this` in JS is likely to be there.

And now it is the end of 3rd year...

The openssl_certificate ansible module feels like nobody ever used it.
It has bugs and crashes left and right. Some of them can be worked around, but not all of them.
Ended up copying it to my $PLAYBOOK_DIR/library/
and makinga couple fixes.

I should probably upstream them. But now I'm tired.

Improvement request:
Mastodon frontend should detect if the display name of someone is empty or consists solely of invisible characters, and if that's the case, display the username instead.

Because it's very hard to click on a link whose length is zero.

Actually, I think that non-culture is more like Asherah.
Especially considering how non-verbal it is.

What's the Nam-shub of Enki then?
Also, did Neal Stephenson change his mind between "Snow Crash" and "Commandline"?

Except it's not.
Nam-shub of Enki didn't just make you immune to others' influence. It made you think on your own.
Or was it just a side effect that showed up only in the context of Mezopotamia, and doesn't happen in today's society, because people don't need to think in order to survive?

Or maybe I'm looking at it in a wrong way.

Maybe the purpose of the USian low-effort meme was to suppress other low-effort memes, like the ones that caused the recent events.
So it's not that it was wrong, but more that it wasn't good enough.

Riiight, non-culture is the Nam-shub of Enki.
It makes you unable to hack, but also makes you immune to hacks.

Low-effort memes have been used to sway the uncritical public to the extremes, to the point where it had real effects.

I think I should read "In the beginning was the commandline" again. Read part of it today, and found a part that I forgot about.

It states that the USian culture of lack-of-culture ("nothing is good or bad, don't judge" + focus on non-verbal / low-effort memes) has been designed to "neuter every person who gets infected by
it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands", which is supposed to prevent WWIII.

But aren't recent political events a counterexample?

To most people, commandline is magic, right?
But looks like this person found out that those people are willing to learn magic:
https://coolguy.website/rituals/enchantment-ritual.html

Observation:
people replying to your venting makes you mad.

Python is so annoying....
you'd think that when you have a dict d of {x: y} and you want a dict of {x: foo(y)}, you'd just map(foo, d).
But no, that'll just take d's keys (xs) and apply foo to them, discarding the ys.
Ok, so maybe there's another function to do it?
Nope.

Damn it, I swear, functional programming is easier to do in SQL than in Python...

I need a tape drive so badly!

I wish there was a way to take all those files that I probably won't need in the near future and stash them in a basement or something.

If only there was a storage medium that doesn't need to be fast, but has very low cost per gigabyte...

Some people put Python or C++ stickers on their laptops, but I wouldn't want any of those...

I think there should be a "right tool for the job" sticker.