@maciejasjmj
I'd be more worried about the other gibberish in that dialog.
Posts made by asdf
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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
It's ugly enough over there, let's not spill it in here...
I wasn't trying to do that. Sorry if it seemed that way.
@rhywden said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
Has the moron in question still not figured out that I literally cannot read his posts anymore?
No idea, but it was the most downvote-worthy post I've seen in ages. I hope he was happy to get one of my rare "fuck you" votes.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
(yes, that's a lame Godwin-point joke...)
Someone literally just told @Rhywden to shut up because he's German (and therefore a nazi) in the garage, so you're in good company.
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RE: Lenovo's are shitty garbage
@bulb said in Lenovo's are shitty garbage:
I repurposed it as the compose key.
I'm pretty sure that's the only reason why they still put a caps lock key on keyboards.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@rhywden said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
Not quite. There are states (Hessen ("Volksklage") and Bayern ("Popularklage")) where citizens can initiate this process without being a target of the law suspected to be unconstitutional (the "Abstrakte Normenkontrolle")
But that only affects the states' constitutions, which are pretty much irrelevant nowadays, right?
And, of course, if you are the target of this law and initiate a lawsuit over it, the court can initiate this process as well (the "Konkrete Normenkontrolle") if the court comes to the conclusion that the law they're required to apply is unconstitutional.
Ah, yeah. I wasn't sure how exactly that worked, so I didn't mention it.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@antiquarian said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
@asdf said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
Here in Germany, the process of challenging a law's constitutionality cannot even be initiated by normal citizens, only by members of the parliament.
Wow, so you're really letting foxes guard your henhouse?
Since we have proportional representation, there is almost always enough opposition in the parliament. Also, note that you can still challenge the constitutionality of court decisions based on questionable laws.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
It isn't really easy to do here either, and I think that you cannot do it as a normal citizen (a lawyer must do it for you).
Ah, you missed my point, so let me be more clear: Here in Germany, the process of challenging a law's constitutionality cannot even be initiated by normal citizens, only by members of the parliament.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
Out of curiosity, what are the circuits for checking for constitutionality?
I don't know the exact details, but challenging the constitutionality of a law is really complicated, and not every citizen can do so.
Challenging the constitutionality of a court decision is an entirely different thing, but also complicated AFAIK. I think you'll have to get to the highest regular court first, via appeals.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
And, let me guess, the reasoning behind the new law is "OMG terrorists!!!"?
Yup.
Even worse, in Bavaria, they can now hold "dangerous people" for 3 months without charging them with anything, or having any evidence of a specific crime that was about to be committed. That's so unconstitutional that it hurts, but the law will be in effect until our highest court reaches a verdict in approximately two years from now.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@remi
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@timebandit said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
@asdf said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
In Germany, they just passed a law that allows the police to force "witnesses" to testify without a judge's order.
Germany is becoming a
Nazitotalitarian state ?At the very least, someone slept through his history lessons. And this change was of course sneakily attached to another, more reasonable law, to make sure it passes.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Maybe they'd have to define
NaBFILE_NOT_FOUND?YMBNH
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@timebandit
In Germany, they just passed a law that allows the police to force "witnesses" to testify without a judge's order. I fail to see how this could possibly be abused.</sarcasm>Our current justice minister is the worst we've had in a long time…
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'd really have expected it to return NaN.
Why? The minimum is defined as the smallest number, and NaN is not smaller or greater than anything.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@pleegwat
Yes, there is a case where the result would be potentially undesirable: Think of the case wherea
isNaN
andb
is a regular float.fmin*
does the right thing in that case:1-3) Returns the smaller of two floating point arguments, treating NaNs as missing data (between a NaN and a numeric value, the numeric value is chosen).
Edit: 'd because I added the quote. Goddammit!
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RE: Let's Make Up Business Requirements!
@no_1 said in Let's Make Up Business Requirements!:
Ah, yeah. I remember a long conversation with the developers of a certain Magento plugin who tried to parse addresses using regular expressions. All addresses in the center of Mannheim broke their code. Fun times...
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@wharrgarbl said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Macros always end ugly as fuck
Why is why you should use a variadic template instead.
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RE: MPS Banned?
@kt_ said in MPS Banned?:
@asdf said in MPS Banned?:
@jeff_s said in MPS Banned?:
She said something interesting: when debating with someone who is completely irrational, who repeatedly insults you and makes no effort to discuss reality, pay attention to what they say. Each insult, each accusation, each thing they complain about is a perfect reflection of themselves.
That is, an irrational person will continually call you a "liar" when they are lying themselves; they will accuse you of name calling and being immature just as they are calling you names. And so on.Sorry for the flamebait, but this description matches a certain orange individual perfectly.
This is just a childish description of projection. Something that @morbiuswilters actually correctly identified.
That doesn't change what I said in any way...
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RE: MPS Banned?
@jeff_s said in MPS Banned?:
She said something interesting: when debating with someone who is completely irrational, who repeatedly insults you and makes no effort to discuss reality, pay attention to what they say. Each insult, each accusation, each thing they complain about is a perfect reflection of themselves.
That is, an irrational person will continually call you a "liar" when they are lying themselves; they will accuse you of name calling and being immature just as they are calling you names. And so on.Sorry for the flamebait, but this description matches a certain orange individual perfectly.
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RE: Stop it. Stop it now.
@boomzilla said in Stop it. Stop it now.:
Right now, companies like Apple have to build APIs–basically a software bridge–involving all sorts of standards that other companies need to comply with in order for their products to communicate. However, APIs can take years to develop, and their standards are heavily debated across the industry in decade-long arguments. But software, allowed to freely learn how to communicate with other software, could generate its own shorthands for us. That means our “smart devices” could learn to interoperate, no API required.
Sounds like somebody is trying to reinvent WSDL using a neural network.
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RE: OWL Web Language
@onyx said in OWL Web Language:
That'll show you how long ago I stopped using that shit :P
You've obviously never had to use Magento. Because if you had, this would have been great news for you, and you'd know about it. ;)
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RE: OWL Web Language
@onyx said in OWL Web Language:
<?= requires short tags to be enabled
That hasn't been true since 5.4:
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RE: OWL Web Language
@dkf said in OWL Web Language:
MySQL itself managed to largely get its shit together
[Citation needed]
I mean, we're talking about a database which allows you to mix tables that support transactions and foreign keys with ones that don't in the same database, and silently swallows
CHECK
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RE: terrible video games that should never be made
Also, another dumb game idea: Worms 3D. Because everything gets better by making it 3D, right?
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RE: terrible video games that should never be made
@yamikuronue That's fake news. He didn't.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@e4tmyl33t said in Outlook being Outlook:
Seriously though, I always have problems with Outlook search.
At least you only have problems with the search. Since the last release, my Outlook doesn't even connect to the Exchange server at all. I have to use fucking IMAP, which defeats the whole purpose of Outlook. And as an additional bonus, replies sent from another computer sometimes won't show up in Outlook, despite being saved in the correct folder.
Outlook 2016 is a buggy piece of shit and should die in a fire.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@anonymous234
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RE: WTF Bites
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@zecc Can't be. Look, let me show y-
gets Bing search results
Oh, for fuck's sake, Microsoft! You could have at least made it a direct link!
Seems like Bing is Microsoft's solution to their inability to provide permanent URLs for their documentation and FAQ. Suddenly it all starts to make sense, and all the layers of are slowly being exposed...
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RE: Blakeyrat's JavaScript Is Rusty Thread
@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat's JavaScript Is Rusty Thread:
Weird; so it's basically a bool that says "for only this event, ignore the normal event bubbling process and put me at the head of the line"?
Nope. Events are always captured from the root element down, and then bubble up again. You're not ignoring the normal event bubbling process, you're simply telling the browser to execute your handler in the first phase instead of the second.
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RE: OWL Web Language
@arantor said in OWL Web Language:
triple quote to start multiline quotes.
That's pretty standard in languages other than PHP. TRWTF is that the PHP developers chose that awful Bash-like syntax.
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RE: Cross-browser AJAX library
@blakeyrat said in Cross-browser AJAX library:
But remember to put the -d BEFORE the -o
I hate shitty broken tools like that. In any sane CLI interface, the order of the options shouldn't matter at all.
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RE: WTF Bites
WebEx is great… provided you've got enough bandwidth.
…and provided you're not on Linux.
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RE: News You Can Use
@boomzilla
What's the target group for this? Porn stars? Insecure 16-year-old girls? Married women who haven't had sex in years and want to seduce their husbands?...OK, shit, there are actually sufficiently large target groups for crap like this.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@blakeyrat said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
Like I said, I bet a big part of Ubuntu's problem was they hired people big in the open source community instead of hiring quality employees regardless of their open source status. It's a theory, but it sounds good to me so I'm going with it.
I don't want to destroy your great theory, but to my knowledge, this is actually completely wrong. Canonical was actually criticized for not paying the people who were already maintaining the projects they used - unlike Red Hat.
So: No, they're just incompetent.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@buddy said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
Instead of trying to compete with the big companies on an axis where they were completely outclassed
So, you're saying that GNOME 3 was completely outclassed by Windows 8, design-wise?
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RE: Finding max element of an array using two heap-allocated arrays and a bubble sort
@khudzlin said in Finding max element of an array using two heap-allocated arrays and a bubble sort:
You can do it in linear time, though.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@blakeyrat said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
@asdf The fact that X completely ignores user permissions is even more ridiculous. Linux is supposed to be "the secure OS", right? But any GUI app can read the contents of any other, regardless of which user it's running under. Whaaa?
X has always been a wart when it comes to security. I mean, on most (all?) distributions, it still runs as root.
The DPI scaling doesn't make sense, since AFAIK Wayland expressly does not do that, it offloads that work to the application.
But at least Wayland doesn't prevent them from implementing it correctly. AFAIK, there are fundamental problems with having different scaling factors on different monitors in X.
And, from what I've read on the Nvidia Wayland discussion, they seem to be making sure that the Wayland protocol exposes all relevant information to the application for toolkits to be able to implement this correctly.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@magnusmaster
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@adynathos said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
So what is the benefit of wayland then?
That it's not X, with all its outdated cruft and hundreds of protocol extensions. That's it.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@blakeyrat
Frutiger is a really old font, and they are very similar:I wouldn't have let them patent that design, either.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@adynathos said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
The major selling point of Linux is that you can customize it an no one is telling you how you are supposed to use it.
No. That's what the (loud!) group of power users likes about it. Its major selling point is that it's not Windows, and that it's free.
I'm not saying customizability is bad. But that's not what the average Joe wants; you will never increase the market share of Linux this way. Also, even those who want customizability, want sane and consistent defaults. A standardized default Linux desktop benefits everyone.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@kt_ said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
@asdf said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
@kt_
I agree with some of your points, but Unity was never the answer, for two reasons:- Canonical was never really interested in cross-desktop standards, and cooperating with upstream (GTK/Qt). They created their own, incompatible interfaces and simply called them "standard". 10 years ago there was a lot of talk about cross-desktop cooperation, like merging Evolution Data Server and whatever KDE was using at the time. Or creating common interfaces for password managers. (The latter may have actually happened, not sure about that.) Then Canonical came along with a huge "fuck you" and the cooperation efforts pretty much died.
I wasnt aware of that. But are you sure of the causality here? Couldn't it be that the cooperation efforts died as they usually do on the OS communities?
I obviously cannot prove the causality, but the fact that Canonical created both additional friction and additional development / support costs - because everyone had to deal with their new stuff - certainly didn't help.
- It is painfully obvious that many of the engineers working on Ubuntu's desktop (Mir/Unity) were simply incompetent. The competent people left Canonical for greener pastures a long while ago.
Why do you say that?
I was involved in the Ubuntu community for a while, and my personal impression was that the competent people left because of Canonical's lack of coordination and competent management. I won't go into details here, since it'd be extremely doxxy.
Also, Canonical cut funding for the desktop and its desktop platform long before they abandoned Unity. Launchpad is dead, Ubuntu One was a train wreck and was killed instead of fixing it, and the Ubuntu translation coordinator was fired 8 years ago.
Launchpad is not a very good example here and Ubuntu One was a failed endavour. They still continued work on Unity, though.
Launchpad is part of their ecosystem; and they tried to get people to develop commercial software for Ubuntu for a long time. I wonder why they were not very convincing...
Also, yes, they technically continued work on Unity, but did they really put enough manpower into it? And was the whole Mir project managed by competent people? If you take a look at the last few years, you have to conclude that the answer to both questions is "no".
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@cartman82 said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
It looks like a shitty version of the Google and Apple logins / ecosystems.
Highlighted the problem for you. It was basically a bunch of integrated services for Ubuntu (file sync, music shop, SSO), developed at a time when alternatives, like Google Play / Drive, were not as popular as they are now. If they had actually managed to produce applications that don't suck and had been willing to invest enough money, this could have been a huge source of income and provided great value for users. But they fucked it up, as usual.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
Also, I cannot stress enough how disappointing it was to see Ubuntu One die. If they had actually invested enough money in it and hired competent developers, they could have made it work. A lot of people were excited about it at the time, and would have paid for the service.
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RE: 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault
@cartman82 said in 2018 won't be the year of Linux on desktop and it's @boomzilla's fault:
It's been a while since I tried Gnome 3, it might be the closest to what I might like. But I haven't heard any extra feature that is so good in Gnome to get me to actually try switching. They need to actually innovate, offer something more.
I wonder what GNOME 3 would be like now if Canonical, who made the most popular desktop distribution at the time, had actually supported it and contributed code/features.