i've been using twitter/x since 2007 and it has not gotten way worse -- specially if you try comparing to truly bad era of the #failwhale.

i've always used double dashes -- because i once i setup a osx shortcut to change those into em-dashes, but i never bother to setup this again in other computers.

so now, i just use double dashes for everything.

(shit, i wonder when llms will start doing this instead of normal em)

Then we start using triple dashes to throw them off and then when they catch onto that we can reclaim em dashes!

same. i still remember how painful it was to setup services without systemd.

having to manually deal with daemons was so painful, to the point of being exoteric.

The worst was editing an existing service for the distribution. With systemd you just need an override file, without, you have to patch the file and review it each time it is upgraded to check the differences.

Only if your config sucks at /etc/ management. But ultimately you change the default config then it's good to be notified when there are upstream changes to it so that you can decide for yourself if they are important/irrelevant/harmful for you and adapt your version accordingly.

Exoteric is the opposite of esoteric, which is the word you mean :)

i've been to a bunch of concerts here in the netherlands and they do the most basic checks.

last time, they checked my wife's purse without a torch (so she could've hidden anything inside) and didn't check anything on me so i got in with two 1g edibles.

I think marijuana is legal in the Netherlands

for people that don't get the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj8DzA9y8ls

>I wonder who they actually tried to impress with that?

investors?

yup, same. slack thread with a lot of comments with people praising it.

others were quite skeptical, specially the ones that actually perused the code.

sure. he wasn't beaten to death.

but:

1. do you really wanna get into a fight because of this? because dude, i have a family to take care, so i would rather just not say anything.

2. you can easily die from a single punch

Nobody is suggesting he deserved to be punched or that there are some unreasonable violent people around. Yeah, he could have died. But saying he actually did is a lie deployed to get attention, I can't stand that.

i've seen people get beat up because they asked an anti-social c-words to turn the volume down.

some people just cannot be reasoned and the amount of people like this is growing HARD.

I’ve never really understood that. I’ve never been beat up over it but people have gotten extremely defensive over it.

Is it some kind of minor evangelism on their end? Like they think the music is so wonderful that obviously everyone should be listening to it?

It's really not that big of a deal

I don't know what makes you think passively aggressively playing the sound back at a person like that would illicit any better a response.

>Do you know of anyone declining to work on a project For ethical in their view ( non military non killing) ?

o/

i was offered a high paying job, with relocation to a 1st world country (at the time, i was living in a 3rd world country with high murder rates), to a industry that i consider quite shady (and it's not military and not around killing -- i have no issues with both of those). i politely refused.

most of my friends, at the time, told me that they would've have accepted without even thinking, but for me, it's just not worth it.