I think mastodon should have an option to play a gunshot sound when you block someone I think that would be very satisfying especially if you could block them multiple times.

wow #fedora 41 just straight up ships broken unstable software. the package for the gimp targets an unstable development branch

what the actual fuck

I wonder how many zillions of hours of lost productivity are caused every year by "build" and "rebuild" being adjacent in visual studio 🤬

@aud "bring your whole self to work" is funny advice because my authentic self mostly just wants to sit in the woods and think about shapes

@aud are you sure LaTeX isn't a fetish thing though

@erincandescent @ireneista @CliftonR it's amazing to me that this shit doesn't get flagged as spam. I checked just now and gmail's spam filter still exists (it caught a friend's news letter I forgot about lol). I wonder how much they pay google to put ads in my inbox.

@ireneista @erincandescent I don't think I count as The Kids These Days anymore (I'm in my late 30s), but I can't say that email has been a place where cool things happen, just an endless deluge of spam and notifications that I can't keep under control. Between my work and personal email I have 8170 messages in my inboxes, most of which are unread. I've tried "inbox zero". I have tons of filters set up. I just can't keep up.

The fundamental problem is a lack of control over the signal / noise separation. A magic filter that turns all signal into noise is a joke at best.

Part of my job is monitoring project communications of literally hundreds of people for stuff that's critical for my team to know. Slack and Teams should be providing me professional quality power user tools for this, not a notification toaster and an offer of magic beans.

An interesting thing about the push to put machine summarization features into work focused email and chat programs is that in theory they're meant to solve a problem that I actually have (filtering several endless fire hoses of rapid communication for the few very things I actually need to pay attention to), but the proposed solution blatantly misunderstands the fundamental problem so bad it only can create worse problems if I were to actually use it.

@glyph No, first I'm hearing of it. Never learned about it in school.

I like that the wikipedia article leads by blaming concurrency, but the root causes section at the end has all sorts of horrifying things like this "However, some errors which endangered the patient merely paused the machine, and the frequent occurrence of minor errors caused operators to become accustomed to habitually unpausing the machine."

@aud inspired: this regex is bad and I will make it much, much worse >:3

I can't wait until we start seeing cheap furniture with obvious AI generated wood veneer.

@aud wish I could recommend the games industry but it seems to be doing the opposite of hiring right now you'd be a good fit for rendering

@aud what sort of job are you looking for in terms of skill set?

you ever think about how people never pick the any of the fucked up inbred dog breeds for their fursonas

Question for smart Linux people that is not a solicitation for personal opinions. Please don't guess.

I'm running Fedora Linux with Gnome. If I install KDE will it break important system wide configuration stuff, and if I decide to uninstall it will it leave a sea of wreckage on my computer?

Last time I tried to do this I was running Debian and it broke my audio because the defaults of KDE and gnome were in conflict, and I had to manually remove 100s of packages to undo it.