bestboyfriendintheworld

@ bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works

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bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Buy food that you can eat without cooking it. Or where cooking is extremely easy.

Meal prep? Just cook more than you need when you cook. Then you have leftovers.

Buy: eggs, tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, fast cooking pasta, canned fish, bread, cheese

1w ago

WDYT about GNU

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Systemd is more important than GNU.

1w ago

Iran’s reopened underground missile sites show limits of US bombing plan

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

The air campaign against Serbia in the 1990s was successful.

2w ago

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Red Hat is the biggest power on Linux.

2w ago

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

California software companies have serious lobbying power.

3w ago

New mrbeast video is dark

I’m poor and would do it for 100.

3w ago

.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

They are both pretty extreme.

3w ago

Stay fit

Because weak leftist’s soy boys don’t exercise.

Source: I’m a weak leftist spy boy that doesn’t exercise.

3w ago

I mean...

50% of fediverse posts talk about the fediverse.

4w ago

How to balance work, career development and personal projects

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Do something fun and nourishing in your free time.

Complex work projects will always suck in one way or another. Just accept it. Do what good you can. It’s all you can do.

Be kind to yourself. No need to hold on to unrealistic expectations.

4w ago

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Fossil scm does that

1mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

Sure. Tim Cook was great at driving costs down and selling more devices and services.

Design is how it works, not just how it looks. Apple has focused much more on the looks instead of functionality and usability since Cook took over. You can even see it on Apple’s website. It’s looks flashy and elegant, but finding technical information is a hassle. The user interface is optimized to look clean and elegant in screen shots, not for usability.

I recently used an older Mac and was delighted with using it.

macOS has gotten noticeably worse in many aspects. The Human Interface Guidelines are often ignored. Some system applications like Disk Utility were rewritten with less features than before. QuickTime only has a fraction of the features of QuickTime 7. Hiding UI elements like scrollbars, excessive transparency made usability worse. The new System settings are a convoluted mess compared to the old one. The way permissions and app notarization are implemented is user hostile, while giving only marginal security improvements.

Also on the technical side it has been meh. Swift if a good programming language but it suffers from endless feature creep. Compile speed and debugging is still worse than Objective-C.

Apple used to dogfeed new APIs in house first for a few years and then open it up once it was working. They have changed this completely. New APIs are first introduced for public use while in an unfinished state.

SwiftUI being a major example. It’s a giant framework introduced with the idea of being cross platform between all of Apple’s platforms. However, it hasn’t managed to do that. SwiftUI is different on all of them. It even makes it harder to write proper Mac apps. All while being much slower, more buggy, and more limited than UIKit and Appkit.

Or look at the options for scripting and automation. Shortcuts is cross platform. However it’s limited and can’t do everything that’s possible with Automator, AppleScript, and shell scripting. It also doesn’t integrate with the existing Services menu in macOS. The share menu still feels kind of alien on macOS.

iPadOS is held back by lots of limitations. For example the file manager is a joke compared to Finder on the Mac. It’s still bogged down by design decisions that were made for the first iPhones that had extremely limited memory and no swap. The windowing and multitasking are clunky and inelegant.

Liquid Glass is so bad usability wise, the guy who lead it left the company.

The yearly releases of major versions for operating systems led to a less stable platform. Every year millions of developers spend time to test adjust to the new version. This means they can’t work ok features or other bugs. This has lead to lots of abandoned software especially on iOS, that could still work if Apple didn’t break stuff every year.

1mo ago

Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst

https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/euro-med-human-rights-monitor/

They don’t even pretend to be objective. Compare their reports with ones written by HRW or AI and you will see for yourself how they operate.

Their reports on other countries in the region are comparatively sparse.

1mo ago

klown show 6 x-treme

I still miss iPhoto. Photos can’t even do drag and drop properly.

1mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

Steve Jobs gave a shit and is the reason Apple products had good design. Since his death Apple has been coasting and iterating aimlessly.

2mo ago

Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

There have been major protests by key members of the military like pilots against the planned judicial reforms before October 7th. That event unified the country like nothing else since the Yom-Kippur-War.

Israel is loss averse because of their citizens army. That bleeds over in their tactics as well. This manifests for example in destruction of whole houses and roads instead of clearing explosive traps, mines, and IEDs one by one at a higher risk to soldiers.

A large part of the secular left in Israel hates sending their children to defend fanatical settlers in the West Bank.

The war against Hezbollah in 2006 was cut short because of losses and protests.

Universal conscription isn’t a perfect solution, but it creates stronger bonds between military and the general population.

2mo ago

Thousands more LGBTQ+ Australians can now donate blood after major rule change

The tests are not 100 percent.

So if the test is 99%, then you get 100 infected blood donations from 10,000 donors.

Even one blood bag infected with HIV is a disaster.

The additional restrictions on risk groups cuts the risk of false negatives down immensely.

Risk groups typically are: people with often changing sex partners, drug users, prostitutes and their customers, men who have sex with men.

It’s all statistics, not discrimination.

The last time I wanted to donate blood I was rejected because I had three sexual partners over the last three months.

HIV is also not the only possible pathogen in blood donations. High risk groups are also at higher risk for other diseases.

2mo ago

Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst

Scams are widespread, especially on social media.

There’s also a long tradition of smaller organizations collecting money for Palestinian children, and then the money is funneled to Hamas.

If you want to donate, great, but be careful where you send your money. There are legitimate aid organizations as well.

Cadus does fantastic work in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere. They don’t have such a huge overhead of promoters and admin like other organizations.

2mo ago

Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst