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Technical debt shitpost 

"If technical debt is a debt, does that mean you can go to debtors prison for it?"

Yes. It's a cubicle in the programmers wing. All it has is a crufty Pentium desktop, a heavy CRT monitor, and a small bookshelf with Visual C++ for Windows 95 manuals.

"Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3" -- Randall Koutnik

Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin

Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know.

andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-ant

You know who's sexy? Discord moderators that /ban 1081004946872352958 to pre-emptively remove Clyde AI before it can even appear in their server 😘 😳 🥺

Give a man a fish. Just give him the fish. He's hungry. You have extra fishes. Hand it over fuckface. He doesn't have time to go to your shitty fucking fishing school.

i opened 17776 to show part of it to some peeps here

and

fucking hell i forgot how good it is

give it a browse if you havent already

sbnation.com/a/17776-football

Parents, please make sure to decompile, and analyze your kids Halloween candy before letting them eat it. You do not know what kind of executables could be in the candy.

Which is the original, and which are the covers? Or are they all three covers of a single that never made it onto Billboard's charts?

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On 1960-05-30, two singles titled "Alley-Oop" broke into the Billboard Hot 100: one by the Hollywood Argyles, the other by Dante and the Evergreens. They reached their peak positions, #1 and #15 respectively, in the same week as well: 1960-07-11.

A third version by the Dyna-Sores premiered the week after the first two (1960-06-06), but it peaked at #59 and lasted only three weeks.

All three versions are about the comic strip character, have virtually identical lyrics, & are in the same style.

Okay, so there's a technicality. I could also install Firefox from the Android subsystem's Google Play app, but it would be the phone/tablet version, not a desktop/laptop version, which means the UX, UI, & add-on ecosystem are significantly restricted.

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@arielmt assuming the distribution you're on has manpages and the software to render them installed by default!

The only reason I use flatpak at all is because, in Google's tightly controlled walled garden of ChromeOS, it's literally the only way to install Firefox.

Mozilla Support, "Run Firefox on ChromeOS": support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/r

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The flatpak "app" system has always felt like amateurish techbro crap to me, but today I finally put my finger on why.

The website is loaded with how-tos for installing it & packaged applications ("apps"), but there's not even a hint of how to maintain, manage, remove, or update them.

It has a set of halfway decent manpages that *do* say how to do these things, but there's literally zero reference! You have to just know they exist, & you have to just know `man flatpak` is how you start.

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