nightoo

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Some great quotes from the Italian Open Source How To book I was reading.

"As humans, we have the power to change the world around us, complaining is right only when people eat pineapple on pizza"

"My colleague and associate, Eugenio [...] I know that he uses Fedora and Gnome and I use Debian Sid and KDE, but I am trying to ignore this problem"

It's crazy how quickly you get used to "slightly bowing" in Japan in everyday interactions.
I still do this after leaving Japan and it takes weeks to shake off that mannerism every time.

I've seen many Japaense learning tools pop up over the past couple years that are effectively some useful tools integrated with, or a thin wrapper around, a spaced-repitition flashcard system.

There were several that seemed really useful and I would've liked to try them, but every single time I decided against it because I really don't like the idea of having my flashcards be locked to that platform. It's such a shame.
All of these would be way more appealing if they just integrated with Anki.

Wäre dieses Feature nicht irgendwie traurig, könnte man ein paar dieser KI Ideen quasi 1-zu-1 als Parodie bringen...

Dieses Magus Bride Thumbnail... und warum ist YouTube davon überzeugt, dass ich so gerne über Openings rede, ich habe *eine* Topliste vor knapp 10 Jahren gemacht :D

Game Publishers keep dropping support for games they have sold to consumers, leaving the games unplayable.

The "Stop Killing Games" European Citizens Initiative demands the EU propose a law to force developers to leave games in a playable state!

It has reached 500k of the 1m needed signatures (deadline July 31). We need your support!

EU Citizens Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#EUpol #StopKillingGames #VideoGames #ConsumerProtection

One of these rare chances to get your hands on #curl stickers materializes tomorrow in Rotterdam when I appear at the Joy of Coding conference with a load of stickers waiting for new homes.

Less importantly, I will also talk. https://joyofcoding.org/daniel_stenberg.html

Joy of Coding 2025 - June 27, 2025

A one-day conference that celebrates the art, craft, science but foremost the joy of software development

So when it works, it's pretty nice. Having a test runner complete with benchmarking functions built-in is cool.

Turns out normal testing flags are ignored *only* on the Hugo repo btw, everywhere else they work normally. Just another day in my life.

Go's design does seem weirdly opinionated though. E.g. the compiler completely prohibits execution of any code that contains an unused variable with no way to deactivate this. What a weird choice.

Pünktliche Züge brauchen ein modernes Schienennetz. Darum will die Bundesregierung mehr in die Bahninfrastruktur investieren. Das hat das Kabinett mit seinem Entwurf für den Haushalt 2025 beschlossen.
Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off

Contributing to Hugo and I'm finding Go really painful to use...
It takes an hour to build Hugo and requires 20GB disk space for the build, which is insane... that's more than the entire entire clang compiler debug build on my system.

Tests also take super long to run and half the testing flags just... don't work? I cannot run benchmarks and I cannot run a specific test, the flags do not work the way they are documented. How is it this badly broken??

Also single dash long flags are cursed.