Ayo @ayo@niu.moe

I sometimes hike in places I've never been before, and while I try to avoid cheating by looking at maps, I have to say I'm surprised at the quality and detail of #OpenStreetMap. With OsmAnd I have every little path in the entire country stored on my phone, with such detail that I can find my way without even looking at street names. Technology is amazing (sometimes).

@ivesen Obviously I'm not sharing my more embarassing findings.

Hint: Don't read through your old email archive if you don't want to be reminded of embarassing things you did in the past. I just learned that I invited 6 other people to Gmail back when that was still invite-only.

Ugh. The local supermarket installed a large advertisement screen at the cash registers. Because nothing beats watching annoyingly flashy advertisements while waiting in line, right?

#ffmpeg's ffprobe tool very helpfully marks images and text files as "video"...

@amiloradovsky There's a big difference between safety and security. Sure, there's a whole bunch of safety regulations right now, but security regulations are far behind.

Specifically, I can't get over the fact that manufacturers of IT security devices and software (firewalls, IDS, anti-virus) can get away with major vulnerabilities that leave you less secure than if you'd never used the product in the first place.

@amiloradovsky Likewise, I can't wait for the time when vendors are held accountable for vulnerabilities in their products.

I've been entertaining the thought of creating a GTK app, but I've been living on the commandline for so long that I don't even know what they look like anymore.

@wasamasa Ah, the movie is out? I haven't caught up on it since I saw the trailer. But my initial reaction to that was similar: "But that manga is *old*! Why make a movie about it now? Also damn, those models look ugly. This can't be good."

@amiloradovsky If you're unhappy with that choice, it suggests you have reservations about H****ll as well. Out of curiousity, what are those?

Random observation: Perl has comparable performance to Rust in debug mode.

@t0k Good question. I'm sure the other major tech companies will be able to profit from such an event. Let's just say I wouldn't mind if those companies suddenly got so heavily regulated that only new players would be able to enter the market, and with only a single product each. 😉

I can't say I'd mind if Google crashed and went out of business overnight.

#MPD upgrade wiped my playlist. 😭
But I had a backup, restoring the state file did the trick. 😄

@amiloradovsky That's not really been my experience, some projects I've started have become surprisingly successful. (And others haven't, of course. It's been pretty much a coin toss)

Either I need to start working more on other people's projects or I need to get others invested in mine. Solo projects aren't always ideal...

@applehq

@abs You must be confused, it's not Halloween today.

It's Valentinoween.

Having real data to test with is incredibly valuable.

It made me realize that the #ChiFS file browser needs pagination. Stuffing information about 20k+ files on one page is actually quite slow.