I hope forgejo’s federation efforts come along. Being able to host projects on my own instance, yet receive contributions without having to allow people to register on my instance, would give me the push to completely abandon Github.

How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

Out of curiosity, where on this curve lies “20k lines of Nix config”? (Asking for a friend 👀)

I guess it’s a matter of taste then. I really enjoy the vibrancy and fluidity of animation we get today. And I find them to be no less expressive.

Yep.

Those older movies are beautiful achievements for sure. But it’s disingenuous to say that there isn’t a plethora of movies and shows today that rival and surpass those older examples visually. Not to speak of just how much more fluent animation has become.

Many of the people who worked on those older masterpieces are still in animation today, and have only become better at their art.

They are still being being painted by hand. On a graphics tablet, for example.

I’m currently re-reading Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos, and something struck me. If this had been made into an HBO/… show, like, 8 years ago, it could have been a genre- and generation defining TV event akin to Game of Thrones.

But if it was to be produced today? It would be a cringe, plastic-feeling knock-off akin to Netflix’ Last Airbender.

Piefuckers

I miss the Be Like Bill memes

This is about as useful as the assholes going “It’s not Pedophilia, it’s Hebephilia!”.

I haven’t seen a “37” in an analog clock.

There’s a 7, there’s 8, and there are four spaces (which may or may not be marked) in between them.

??? There’s also no 40 on a clock. And what, are you only able to read a clock to an accuracy of 5 minutes…?

analog clocks all my life—which, again, is not something that should be assumed nowadays

bullshit. Everyone knows how to read them, and they are everywhere.

I was told to “count by fives”. Hence: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 00.

Now, when we were taught the multiplication table for 5 (maybe it’s just my teacher) we revisited how to read off minutes from the clock (digital displays are still rare back then).

I guess we just had different lessons.

And if it’s pointed to 37, a prime number? Do you have to have your tables memorized up to 37x37 to be able to read that?

It’s knowing how to count, at best. But out of curiosity, do you really go “long pointer at 8, 8x5=40” internally when reading the clock?

I’d imagine most people would just go “40”.

Case in point: in school, we learned how to read a clock before we learned anything at all about multiplication.

What, and I mean this in all sincerity, the fuck?

Sorry, but: where in that is multiplication involved?

Bonjour from the German/Belgian border!

I live right at the German border, but not in Germany. I am German. I’d shrug, since by your rules I remain German.

Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.

In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.

Yeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me their content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.

Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decade ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.

I also have a second “swipe” to the homescreen (with about as many apps), but I make a point to keep apps installed to a minimum, and everything else is not used commonly enough to justify a place on the homescreen. 95% of my app opens are probably Firefox, haha.