Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org

I just saw someone claiming "anarchists don't want chaos". Are anarchists officially the least sensible people on the political spectrum? With commies you at least have to go through a couple of steps of destabilisation and corruption to arrive at an absolute dystopia, so it's reasonable that with enough desperation and wishful thinking it can seem like a good idea. With anarchy chaos is literally a part of step one.

Imagine when consumer smartphones get proper 3D object scanning capabilities and it will become a possibility to send someone an actual scan of one's penis. That's sure to generate headlines…

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/two-weeks

#comic #smbc

The access to high-speed rail is something I always treated as a given, and it's wild to me that this is not the case in northern America. Many of the trips I took throughout my life would be impossible or at least unaffordable if my only options were car or plane. Granted, buses exist, but they are super slow and awkward.

The amount of fucking arcane knowledge required to get the simplest things working in #Android is mind-blowing. I just spent a day trying to figure out why the bottom navigation menu isn't working, unsuccessfully. I finally ended up creating a new project based on the bottom navigation menu template, which worked. I then compared the bloody things literally line-by-line, coming to the conclusion that the thing I'm missing is apparently virgin sacrifices, since the code is identical except one version works and the other doesn't.

There's one upside to dealing with all this bullshit: with every passing day front-end development, which until now I considered the bottom of the barrel, becomes more attractive by comparison.

Imagine going to a software dev conference and they have a talk about good UX presented by a Facebook engineer. Just let that sink in. It's like having a conference on social issues and inviting Hitler to talk about minorities.

#php #code #meme

it was interesting to learn that most mammals are fat enough to float on water without much effort; with the notable exception of hippos, which decided to go for the tungsten cube approach and became so dense they can run on the riverbed.