RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117361302182846377
The EU is microsoftmaxxing and offering the 234958729th Maybe Later option in case it might become a Yes.
And I have no words for how disappointed and deeply hurt I am by a Union I thought was a good place.
I wonder if @yvanspijk ever delved into it. Now that I ran across a post in Trending again, I know who to tag XD
It kinda bothers me that lepény in Hungarian is apparently of unknown origin, while everyone else has the *hlaibaz derived loaf, Leib/Laib, chleb, lev, leipä, etc.
And they feel awfully similar.
Hey fedi, if you have a #Perl job in EU (pref. de, nl, nordics) or E/SE Asia (pref. jp, sg) please speak up. Willing and able to move (in a few months) and I speak hu/en/de/nl want to learn ja; experienced with Perl and PostgreSQL but also have rusty and "needs guidance and some tutoring" knowledge in Ruby and Python... been wanting to get into Rust but the opportunity never came.
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117008496054741922
This is what the European Commission wants for the EU when it wants to turn us into an "AI continent", whatever the fuck that means.
I'm still finding it remarkable (remarkably stupid), how invested greens (especially in Germany) are in being anti-nuclear, while they lack the same vitriol against coal and other fossil fuel power plants.
And we'd be in a much better place in terms of climate change, had they not gone all-in on the anti-nuclear propaganda.
Was looking through my photos and ran into this again, some ad display panel from Doha Airport last year. There's a certain PETSCII quality to the image (holy crap I'm only just realising it's a distorted QR code!), and I guess @adelfaure might find it interesting.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116556568612044151
And somebody decided to print this crap.
Haven't bothered to look into this yet (never been more than a user on the fedi and its precursors (hi bang group tags of identica!)) — how much of the #Mastodon privacy model is AP's fault, and how much is it Mastodon? (thinking about the often criticised followers-only post level that for example doesn't take into account the thread; or some other privacy levels not present in current Mastodon) Can something like Pixelfed, Loops or Lemmy have different privacy constructs respected across AP?
Thing that just bit me because #Perl is not quite dwimmy sometimes:
```
my $foo = pop split(/bla/, $str);
```
(can't pop scalar in modern Perl and this construct puts split into scalar context I guess and that's not fun for pop)
(wanted to avoid the ugly `(...)[-1]` construct)
At some point the corporations realized that Clarke's logic works in reverse, and any sufficiently advanced sleight of hand is indistinguishable from technology
A new Git version just dropped and it comes with a new experimental `history` command!
`reword` can be used to change commit messages and `split` can untangle a single commit into multiple ones.
No more interactive rebase. 🎉
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116440915047958376
What the fuck is it with European countries doing this kind of thing again and again?
I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.
I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.
The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.
A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.
When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.
2 plus two half beers in, like a true alcoholic. How did this use to fit in me with ease? I feel so old XD #FOSDEM #FosdemUnofficialBarMeetup?
Amidst all the doom-retooting, and inspired by @norbertwoehnl, here's a few pictures from a trip I had about a year ago.
(Why are almost all of them ships?!) (Not that that's a problem)
These were all taken with a Sony HX-99 that I bought for its size and extreme zoom capabilities (40×, hell yeah!) — yeah most of these are in the high-mm end of the range. The dynamic range is a bit meh, focusing is weird, and some of the decisions Sony made are stupid, but it's a good kit for casuals like me.
Oh I forgot how utterly cringe SQLite's CoE was.
Turning Point USA is a pro-gun and anti-vax propaganda machine.
Its founders are both dead: Bill Montgomery from Covid and Charlie Kirk from gun violence.
I'm just stating facts.
Hey, it's time to embarrass myself again! Here's a #perl question/musing.
So we have /PATTERN/ which is m/PATTERN/ which is "match $_ (or the content of the variable specified by the =~ operator) against PATTERN".
We also have qr/STRING/ which is "make a regex PATTERN out of STRING".
As such, passing a // (m//) "call" as argument to things like split feels ever so slightly odd as we're not actually matching at that moment, but just providing a regex pattern split should match against. Right?