Mike P

@FenTiger
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Mid-40s techie living in #Ely, #Cambridgeshire, UK. Player of #Ingress, under the name "Wrongfellow" (and I've used this name elsewhere, too). #Dog and #cat lover. Drinker of #ale and #cider. Occasional #CAMRA and #beer #festival volunteer.

This account is mainly used for random drunken wit and shitposting. If you're interested in my technical projects, you might prefer to follow my Hubzilla account: @fentiger

Website:https://www.mythik.co.uk/
Weird:https://weird.mythik.co.uk
Codeberg:https://codeberg.org/FenTiger
GitHub:https://github.com/FenTiger
@dtl What will they do if they look at a woman's phone and find that she has five different period tracking apps installed, with different data recorded on each of them?
someone at mozilla may want to prioritize this for firefox android as a likely security issue : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1970151
1970151 - tweakers.net - Links are not redirecting to the linked page

NEW (nobody) in Web Compatibility - Site Reports. Last updated 2025-06-14.

@dysfun Non-Fungible Token Ring?
@X00001 TVs with tuning knobs. No channel buttons - they came later. To watch a particular channel you had to start by looking up how many MHz it was...

I thought I had a reasonably sound understanding of #Git, but current events at work have led me to appreciate it on a whole new level.

Specifically, that it's easy to be productive with it even when one of your colleagues is being a complete numpty and repeatedly pushing changes that make no sense and break the entire system for everyone around him.

This is presumably by design. I bet Linus sometimes has this problem too.

#BangHeadHere

As a programmer, I'll likely be making off-by-one mistakes until the day after I die

I thought I had a reasonably sound understanding of #Git, but current events at work have led me to appreciate it on a whole new level.

Specifically, that it's easy to be productive with it even when one of your colleagues is being a complete numpty and repeatedly pushing changes that make no sense and break the entire system for everyone around him.

This is presumably by design. I bet Linus sometimes has this problem too.

#BangHeadHere

@anon_opin Also: Legalise bass-seeking missiles. ;)
@gsuberland What if he's a coffee drinker?

@simontatham yeah, we came up with a line yesterday that we're really pleased with

the one thing you can never pay a vendor to do for you, is give a shit