90% of the time I run into some interesting new tool for programming it's text-based.

Fårk (read: fuck, but emphasized) it's annoying. I don't want everything on my screen to be drawn using monospaced ascii characters.

I have literally millions of pixels on my screen, why must they be limited to displaying a single set of ~100 symbols in a 80x25 grid?!

Does anyone else remember the good* old days where newcomers to the fediverse where welcomed with pineapples 🍍

Back when the coyote still rotated in the profile.

(*not actually good-er, just selectively remembered)

@ekaitz_zarraga nevermind

@ekaitz_zarraga can we start the talk with mentioning that the Stockholm syndrome is fake and (probably) doesn't exist?

What is the AltGr button even used for on english keyboard layouts?

(Yes, I'm continually lowkey pissed that programming is designed from a US-centric view, such that I - on a scandinavian keyboard - have to use both shift and altgr modifiers to access all the special characters that's mandatory in all common programming languages)

@ekaitz_zarraga @neauoire the image descriptions says it's by "Emmanuel Depoorter" :)

@ekaitz_zarraga hm. Couldn't find it just now, I'll have to look more into it tomorrow. But thanks! It'd be nice if I could actually use inkscape for this.

@ekaitz_zarraga oooh, I can save it as "regular svg", which only adds ~30% extra bytes of metadata....

@ekaitz_zarraga how? where is that option (and why isn't that the default when opening an svg that isn't originated from inkscape?)

Whyyyy does inkscape add so much metadata to svg files?! Just opening and saving one of the icons at work makes it double in size.

I just want to scale*, move*, trim and mirror, surely there's a less crufty tool for such modifications of svg files.

(*as in actually change the coordinates of the elements, not just embedding matrix transforms in it)

@NGIZero Clicking the link you give here leads me to a page with a cookie popup with only a "Yes, I accept" button, asking me to accept all cookies including advertising cookies.

Not giving access to the website without accepting advertising cookies is a clear GDPR violation - i.e. illegal.

For added ridiculousness, I can't even read the privacy policy linked in the cookie popup without the accepting same cookie popup.

@ekaitz_zarraga just now, or twenty minutes ago when I posted it? Because I _just_ fixed my dns issues ;)

Oh, now I know why my mastodon server is acting weirdly. It's DNS issues.

(You probably can't see this post as I write it, because my server can't find any ip addresses to send to - but it can receive just fine)

@rune @ekaitz_zarraga after taxes (45%) and monthly rent (~€1000), there's approximately €500 left and that's about 100 boxes of delicious danish cookies per month.

Unless you want any other kind of food, or want an internet connection of any kind, or new clothes or gadgets at any point in your life.
Oh, and remember to save up for a dentist if you eat that many cookies :blobcatcoffee:

I just want to write parsers 6 hours a day, is that too much to ask?

Me as a teenager: I have trouble getting assignments done on time, but I don't have ADHD

Me in my twenties: I just can't concentrate on stuff I don't find interesting, also where did all these panic attacks come from?

Me in my thirties: Maybe I should get checked for ADHD

Hot take: Everyone in Frankenstein is named Frankenstein.

The villagers are also all named Frankenstein. It's one big extended family.

I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that anger seems effective at driving away the anxiety and fear.

I'm pretty sure it comes back once the anger goes away, and I can't sleep angry.

Gggrrrrr

Y'all should pop into @nuhn's stream on twitch. She's playing Stardew Valley, she's cute and entertaining, AND I'm lonely in the chat.

She's playing for another 15-17 minutes, so be quick :D

https://twitch.tv/nuhn90

@ekaitz_zarraga @valerauko even with IPA I think it's next to impossible to explain to monolingual english speakers. They don't even have the vowel represented by "e" in IPA!