I was trying to remember at which point I unfollowed him, and I think it was exactly this nonsense
froztbyte
tangentially: I've been getting reminded of a bunch of services existing, by way of pointless "your year in review" bullshit
fuck spotify for starting that misfeature, and fuck everyone else for falling over themselves to get On Trend
let me spell it out for you: don't be such an ass.
a swing with a double miss
I've seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it's a lot
not sure I'd say it's unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless
no to this, kthx
still don’t get it
what
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that in my comment: drop PIA. Never touch anything owned by PIA or Kape. Ever.
GPUs: not even once
I am in the same boat, except all of the software I’ve ever written has been TeX
I'm sorry
giving contrived examples to undergrads to demonstrate why
dp[i][j]
is a shit table name or why∞
is better thanfloat('inf')
orMAX_INT
in pseudocode
that sound you can hear is my despairing screaming[0]
VPN client where ... jump through the hoops of learning a new shitty client
(not a pitch, but multiple commercial references) I really liked how simple tunnelbear made this for a lot, and also quite like how slick the wireguard desktop-style handling is (you can see this for example with fly.io's integration to that). I think there's long context here, and if you buy me a beer I could rant in detail
PS: There is Goldwarden
oh good, it's in Go, my other code allergy
shitposting aside, re the password manager thing: @self and I have co-ranted in dms, and about similar gripes.
so, by way of idea, loose laundry list for foundations/design: modern crypto (jfc why is so much still going "yeah gpg is fine"), crdt sync, a sane fucking language to build everything on, own-devices friendly (in the "you can sync device to device peer-wise" sense, vs the "there's a remote server broker" sense), and pretty okay(tm) interfaces for client building/extensibility
full service plagiarism! bet you we'll see whiteglove variant of it next