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fredbrooker

@fredbrooker@witter.cz

Game dev veteran (330.21 ppm #CO2), digital musician, foley sfx artist, PWA programmer and Linux sysadmin. #genX #ENFP ♊🇨🇿🍻

💻️ #Ubuntu #Docker #PHP #jQuery

🎶 #Reaper #Mixcraft #Dexed #DecentSampler #Vital

🕹️ Microx, Achtung Die Kurve, Fish Fillets, Hesperian Wars, Flying Heroes, Vietcong, Crime Boss

#gamedev #games #zasežerou #brno

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_L1vY_ , to random
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What on earth! I saw a little insect scurrying on my kitchen windowsill; after a moment I realized it was a winged black ant.
Looked back at it 30 seconds later and it was struggling with something, I thought maybe stuck on a tiny smear of honey or something? It was stepping on its wings. Then the wings started coming off! One, two, three, and four. It appeared intentional. And then the ant scurried off, wingless.

Thought @futurebird could reassure me I witnessed something normal for . 😂

fredbrooker ,
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@_L1vY_ @futurebird

oh you're doomed 😂 😂 😂

fredbrooker ,
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@futurebird @_L1vY_

this looks like from Rick and Morty 😂

kenshirriff , to random
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To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15

fredbrooker ,
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@kenshirriff great article! 😂

fredbrooker ,
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@kenshirriff we use NFC mobiles / Google Pay and standard NFC cards for transportation in Brno / Czechia (2nd largest city from Prague, the center of the fictional story of Montréal's studio Eidos - Deus Ex Mankind Divided)

RickiTarr , to random
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Have y'all ever had someone act like you were hurting them somehow by just liking a food?

Any time I buy or make kimchi, my Mom says it's so gross and she doesn't want any and just on and on. I never offer it to her, or make group food with it, but for some reason she seems offended by it, and I don't know why.

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@cherylgk @RickiTarr @RolloTreadway

some shitter adds sugar into mayo? 🤔

fredbrooker ,
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@cherylgk @RickiTarr @RolloTreadway

mustard contains sugar for sure, about 3 grams per 100 g

ben , to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

Email from Stack Overflow. Text reads: Hello, We're writing in reference to your Stack Overflow account: https://stackoverflow.com/users/392350/benui You have recently removed or defaced content from your posts. Please note that once you post a question or answer to this site, those posts become part of the collective efforts of others who have also contributed to that content. Posts that are potentially useful to others should not be removed except under extraordinary circumstances. Even if the post is no longer useful to the original author, that information is still beneficial to others who may run into similar problems in the future - this is the underlying philosophy of Stack Exchange. Extensive deletions take a lot of effort to repair; please read "I’ve thought better of my question; can I delete it?" for possible alternatives. Because of the amount of disruption these incidents can cause, we have placed your account on hold for 7 days while we reach out to you to avoid any further misunderstandings. Once this matter has been resolved, your reputation score will be restored and your account will resume as normal. We sincerely hope this is just a misunderstanding, but we understand that you may have an exceptional reason to remove this content. If so, let us know by replying to this message. Regards, Stack Overflow Moderation Team
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    fredbrooker ,
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    @ben OpenAI are thieves - everybody knows - just jail 'em

    rbreich , to random
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    What do these companies have in common?

    T-Mobile
    Netflix
    General Motors
    AT&T
    Bank of America
    Citigroup
    FedEx
    Molson Coors
    Nike

    They paid an effective federal income tax rate of

    fredbrooker ,
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    @rbreich

    they use Amazon AWS? :)

    dansup , to random
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    Imagine getting paid to work on @Mastodon full time!

    They are looking for devs!

    Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/de1e4d8a-5639-4b6a-86d7-97bd9c768b02

    fredbrooker ,
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    @dansup @Mastodon

    still wondering why using so obscure language

    fredbrooker ,
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    @grishka @dansup I'd go for Golang, Rust or PHP

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    @dansup @Mastodon X is obscure itself

    fredbrooker ,
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    @dansup @Mastodon

    I know none Rubyist

    many PHP devs, some Golang or C

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    @grishka @dansup

    you can run anything on top of shit, no problem

    fredbrooker ,
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    @dansup @Mastodon

    nobody is using Shopify here, Github is a specific dev stack, 50 % of the web runs PHP and jQuery

    fredbrooker ,
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    @dansup @grishka

    that's it was the only reliable server language in 1998

    fredbrooker ,
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    @dansup @grishka

    Go, Ruby, and Rust differ in their syntax, concurrency support, runtime performance, memory safety, community, and learning curve. Go focuses on simplicity and concurrency, Ruby on expressive syntax and flexibility, and Rust on memory safety and performance.

    then you go for Java 😂

    rbreich , to random
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    Who do you trust more with TikTok — China, or American billionaires? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-do-you-trust-more-with-tiktok?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    fredbrooker ,
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    @rbreich Mastodon

    fredbrooker ,
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    @TheImpressiveX I have W11 cracked in VBox

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