Well, systemd developers made one of the classic blunders a software developer can do: make a program that has to deal with time and dates. Every time I have to deal with timestamps I'm like "oh shit, here we go again".
Anyway, as I understood it the reason this is in systemd is because they wanted to replace cron, and it's fine by me because cron has it's own brain-hurt. (The cron syntax is something that always makes me squint real hard for a while.)
Good thing about having a 80s/90s station in the region is that they have to dramatically rebrand before they can branch out to more recent decades.
But it would have been great for a Shakespearian minor joke character bit.
GUARD: "See, milord, how in this year's almanack the booba hath been veil'd, compared to last year's edition."
KING: "Greatly?"
GUARD: "Yes, greatly indeed! Two inches of cloth more!"
KING: "Thou art a nutter and I ought to throw thee in the madhouse."
GUARD: "But you wouldn't dare, sire? Tales of your treachery and oppression already circle widely."
KING: "Thou shouldst consider thee lucky that we have to get the Hell onward with our plot."
Nah. ...Well, don't get me wrong, the rich absolutely should be taxed, sure, but that's a different debate.
We don't have a nationally mandated minimum wage in Finland. Because the unions set their own minimum wages (which they adjust frequently to market conditions) and the unions also have actual legitimate power.
Maybe they should try this stuff in America too. It's fucking awesome.
"Because at this point, why the hell not"
—Elon Musk, probably
Some of the things that helped me:
- Regularity. I also have ADHD so actually getting me to catalog daily/weekly things that I need to do was hard enough. But now that I have like 5 todo lists things are looking up.
- Cataloging things. I love photography and writing down interesting ideas. Someone looking through my photo collection might wonder why I take photos of random shit. Simple reason: Something managed to brighten my day and I just had to put it in on the record. I feel happier when I know that those moments won't ever disappear if I can at all manage it. Similarly, if I have cool ideas that made me happy for some reason, I write them down.
- Crap social media is the worst. Be on the social media to fearlessly shout your cool ideas to the void if you have to. Don't be there to passively and silently afraid to speak up and stick around with people you barely know and watch them slowly turn nazi yes-men. (Yes. It has happened. Before Elon bought Twitter. Can't even imagine how shit things are nowdays over there.)
We old people were raised well, dammit! We had wired earphones! Then Apple cocked up and tried to make expensive wireless earphones fashionable. And look where that lead us. That's right, kids not knowing what earphones even are. Fuck you technobros, you can't do anything right.
(Posted from my HMD Global Nokia 5.4, which does have a headphone jack, thank you very much) (Sorry if abrasive, mildly drunk)
Most recent time I was awestruck by a thunderstorm in a game? Forza Horizon 5. One of the early missions involved heading out in the jungle during a massive thunderstorm and it was just legendary. Visuals, audio, everything.
I can imagine nothing more miserable than having a day out on a massive expensive yacht... on the Baltic Sea.
(Regular rich people might have some fun on the ferries, but billionaires probably don't, because this involves buying a ticket and sharing the ship with the rabble.)
One day, I wish I had a shitty old fishing boat and go slowly puttering through the rain and gloom. Living the real life.
I'm getting old. I get anxiety from phone calls if people don't text me days in advance that they're calling. But if they do, I'm fine!
(I used to have this one cheapo phone that worked fine on WiFi but would randomly stop working on cellular and there was no way to tell until I tried to use mobile data or whatever. So if I was expecting a call, I was constantly rebooting the damn thing.)
(Edit: Oh yeah, I have to pay extra for voice mail to the phone company. Yet, the only people who regularly call me for legitimate reasons are, like, the employment office people, and they don't do voice mail. Dammit, another scam!)
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As we said in the last millennum, "'Nuff said".
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...or, a very brief 3 hour summary of all the not so fun things Facebook has done, in case you need a reminder.
I watched that one CK2 series by Many a True Nerd. The proper title is "Cocking Mercia".
Reddit's backend is absolute junk and not designed for efficiency from the ground up, they just keep throwing more servers in and solve the efficiency bottlenecks with a shitload of caching. A site whose meat and potatoes is text comments and links just shouldn't be this crap at it.
Lemmy has the benefit of hindsight in design and the fact that each server is only really responsible for a subset of all Lemmy users.
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Come on now, if this had been posted in the 1980s, it'd be peak cyberpunk. Actually, it holds up today! Synthwave dudes rock.
When I was a kid, on a trip to Paris, I went to the zoo, and the highlight of the whole trip was seeing an Aldabra giant tortoise (listed as vulnerable by IUCN). Now, even when this was 1990, I was still like "ooooooo cool turt". I didn't expect the buddy to jump around and munch pizza. Just a tortoise doing tortoise things slowly.
(The other highlight of the trip was seeing a public Minitel terminal. Holy shit guys, we were only mildly approaching that level in Finland.)
I'm actually fine if the subtitles have to be truncated to communicate the same meaning in less space.
I actually find it harder to comprehend the subtitles when someone tries to be as accurate as possible, especially if the subs transcribe every little stuttering. I'm here to learn the stuff they people on screen are trying to say, I'm not interested in the subtitler's scholarly digression into the finer points of what they're hearing.
Some person in reddit once did a hilarious thing where they whipped out a full blown IPA transcript and started analysing the finer dialectual points of a viral video, trying to pinpoint the origin of the speaker. It was hilarious. Probably even more hilarious to linguists. But the point is, that whole thing was not what we were there for, we were just discussing a viral video.
It's a tale as old as the game industry itself: The company releases an okay game, everyone goes "hell yeah, a solid 7/10". ...except by now everyone expects the company to make nothing but absolute masterpieces.
It's an okay game with lots of little janky bits I don't like (surprising in sense that I of course expected there to be some jank, this is Bethesda we're talking about). The game seems to be amusing enough that I enjoy my time while playing it, but it doesn't have the magic sauce that would make me eagerly get back to the game the next day.
Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.
...Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it's the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk
Moderators will now have to submit a request if they want to switch their subreddit from public to private.
But do they have to submit a request if they tell the audience "fuck it, this is now a sub about X, we'll remove everything that's not about X"?
...In fact, fuck any particular topic - if the mods approve of it, every subreddit can actually be about whatever people think it should be about, now that we think about it. If the mods don't do it, will the admins do it? The answer is: Highly unlikely
I was politically ambivalent as a young voter.
Now, I'm pretty much convinced the rich people (and the parties that represent them) are just out there to screw everyone else over. And every single year just adds more evidence to the pile.
I don't think there is any conceivable scenario in which anyone can convince me that free market will magically fix all problems. It's nonsense.
The conservative stance on climate change is quite a mystery. On one hand, they believe anthropogenic climate change is not real and it's impossible for humans to change climate. On the other hand, they believe the US government has done nothing but fuck with climate through HAARP for their own nefarious ends for 30 years. So who knows what the actual policy is, really. Your average voter is probably not interested of this question - they just want the gas price to go down.
Quick scanlation from Finnish comic book Pahkasika, issue 9, published in 1981.
Modern update: Flight AY286 + HSL's metropolitan P train will actually get you to Helsinki in 1h 55m. Ah ha! So the trains fix this shit! However, as a Northern witchy biaatch, I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that Jyväskylä is in the southern Finland and they don't even get a Pendolino link to Helsinki. We do, here in Oulu. Please do get better, scrubs.
\* Edit: Fucked up the last line in the scanlation. Jyväskylä to Helsinki, obviously.
\\ Wait Lemmy let me also replace uploaded fuck-ups? This is the best platform ever
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So, this will be a metal remix of a song from a game that not a lot of people even have heard about, but I swear it's worth watching.
See the incredibly blatant trademark violation dude (legally speaking it was OK because serial numbers were filed out) running around in one of the C64est of the C64 games ever made while awesome music plays even more awesomely than it did in the original, while 100% keeping with the spirit!
(Made by System 3, the same company which made The Last Ninja games, and you can tell. You can really tell.)
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Yes. The 1990s demoscene song by Edge (Kalle Kaivola) of the demogroup EMF (Electromotive Force). The file was bundled with Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3 software, one of the most influential music software packages of the era.
A lot of demoscene songs just lend themselves perfectly to cyberpunk vibes, you know?
After years of secrecy, we can now get a glimpse of Todd Howard's ultra-rare achievement, as his exclusive 1,000 Gamerscore Xbox achievement has been revealed.
From Bing.
Nothing special about the prompt - I've been using variations of "kids petting giant tortoises" in image generators for a while now. Because I like turtles.
Anyway.
There are so many questions I have about this image. That's not a normal position for that turt! Why aren't the kids helpin the poor turt down from the tree stump? And what's up with the turts in the background? Or the hair of that person over there? It's all very confusing. I don't know.
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This game made me a lifetime advocate of recycling and bottle deposits. I mean look at that cool dude. Going down the highway with his skateboard. Picking up Coke bottles. Fucking awesome.
I usually massively regret my drunken shitposts, but I hope people enjoy this one. Just for c/retrogaming.
I don't know if the Twitter account "Threatening Music Notation" posted this, because I'm no longer on Twitter. This is, however, music notation which is kind of threatening.
Football chant originating from 2014: "Putin is a dickhead! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la." (etc.) (Repeat until sleeping off your hangover. However, in the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Moscow, it was more like "repeat until disqualified" I suppose. Because Russia couldn't do "repeat until dead" at that point. It would have been too blatant. Little green men just quietly made Ukraine not qualify on the games. No one can explain that.)
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Aka the anti-nuclear-war movie that traumatised me as a child.
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BONUS PERIOD ACCURATE MACHINIMADOTCOM MEME: Yes, I Am A General
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Original title: [Super turbo mega hella fucking cursed] "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero" - Trade Martin
The final say on US patriotism.
My random tales:
One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. "Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets." (I almost sent back a message saying "thanks for your concern, but I'm in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you")
Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. (Edit: Actually I think it was a retweet of someone making a Disney meme about Pluto the Dog)
Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying "the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff".