I absolutely love perl, I’ve fallen out of professional development but I would take a job to maintain a legacy perl codebase in a heartbeat.

Huh TIL thank you, suppose I should make the leap to learn bash properly instead of clinging onto my perl scripts

It’s crazy to think that a handful of people who have floated around Obsidian/Interplay/Black Isle have created (in my opinion) some of the best games to have ever existed.

You put a name like Chris Avellone or Tim Cain onto a project and I’m going to pay more attention to it than any AAA with millions put into trailers and other bullshit to sell you down the river.

Think I’ll support the people trying to bring awareness to a humanitarian crisis rather than the people who have arrest warrants issued by the ICJ.

Cute rant though.

Luckily for Google, its predictive AIs were clairvoyant on this one and it has been running at 110% evil so any cuts to evilness do not impact peak evil performance.

parries your article

Lmao get rekt

This is honestly the reason why it’s going downhill, forcing people to do Y or use Z because of some problem irrelevant to the question being asked.

It limits creativity and depth of discussion on a forum designed to discuss all principles of programming

Thanks for the summary and a reasonable opinion on it.

Coming to you soon, a brand new remaster… Command and Conquer: Alert ™

Oh you poor fool, if only you knew how good things could be…

Migrated away from Google because they’re just genuinely useless.

Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can’t actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you’re looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.

Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.

Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.

Don’t even get me started on the shit show that is Android.

I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can’t. I’m the furthest away from the big tech corps than I’ve ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.

Damn dude, I’m glad you got so much out of FO4 I did one playthrough when it released and tried to play it again this year, barely got into it.

That’s when Bethesda died for me, didn’t find Skyrims simplifications all that good either but it was still a fun game

Feels like Bethesdas modus operandi is to make a game that appeals to everyone and that’s unfortunately coming at the cost of its established fan base

4chan is back online just so you know

Pfft we got rid of that yonks ago, now you just have to have an AI rewrite your documentation as a million shitty tutorials that are all search-engine optimised on different websites and hope the user finds one semi-legible.

It’s a piece of piss, literally.

Good point

Smuggling is easier than you think, being stupid is a requirement for law enforcement. Especially in the USA

Just observe the system, go through a couple of times, you’ll see the cracks and should be able to figure it out from there, especially if it’s just to circumvent tariffs and not import illegal goods.

Ask yourself, is it worth the legal system to pursue this matter if it’s relatively minor?

Chances are you’ll just get a slap on the wrist, but there is ALWAYS risk when it comes to this stuff, so also ask yourself is it worth doing it in the first place?

Happy smuggling and remember borders are imaginary! :)

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Sweet as, I’ll buy a dedicated box and spin up a few instances

For anyone curious to do the same thing, lenovo thinkcentre mini pcs are cheap as chips second hand and make good little homelabs

After WW2 the world was split into 3 categories: first world (Western nations), second world (the Eastern bloc) and third world (everyone else)

America and the USSR both vyed and destabilised a lot of nations to solidify their place as super powers, America gained its power from the British when its economy shifted to war production to support them.

America made a lot of smart moves, like establishing the IMF so the US Dollar is used for international trade, and America has historically honoured all debts through the IMF.

So lots of nations had to kowtow to America to an extent if they wanted to have decent international trade.

Under Trump America is giving up its soft power for isolationism, and you can see a large portion of the world trying to shift away from Americas system through things like BRICS or incentivising different energy systems instead of oil

There is a lot more to this, but I think that’s at least a start to your question

Consistently voted against their own interests, going so far as to harp on about climate change like it’s a force they had no part in enabling with their opposition to climate policy.

Heads up champ, financial bankruptcy is the least of your concerns but at least you won’t starve to death like your kids will because you destroyed the planet with your uneducated bullshit.