Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 13

I just ordered this ASUS thing for my landlord's desktop computer, since he doesn't want to use a cable.

You don't really see this grade of equipment deployed with consumers very often. I'm not sure why. Sure, it costs more, but people are often willing to pay if the equipment is good.

Is there some kind of perception among IT professionals that only they should have access to the good stuff?

I just ordered this ASUS thing for my landlord's desktop computer, since he doesn't want to use a cable. Why does every other IT professional seem to want to proffer crap on their customers? Are they trying to keep the best equipment for themselves or something?

Blizzard isn't concerned about the US midterm elections.

@Sviundt How dare they *shakes fist*

@Ricardus Their coverage of international events tends to be pretty similar to that of the mainstream domestic media here in Norway.

CNN International as opposed to CNN America is actually quite sane. The difference between the two is rather jarring.

@Ricardus BBC World News. The BBC is known to lean left, but compare that to CNN America...

Deliberately following the European coverage of the US midterm elections. Slightly more coolheaded than the US media.

Now picture that this was instead about leftists and immigration or gay rights. You, the leftist, would immediately categorise this as hate speech.

Good lord, Twitter doesn't make it easy to rip their video clips.

If you dig through the source, you'll find a link to an M3U8 file, which contains a link to more M3U8 files, which contain links to a series of TS files, and if you give one of the M3U8 files to ffmpeg, it'll download the H.264 video for you.

I have an iOS shortcut for ripping YouTube clips to your photo album. I'm not sure if one could be made to download these M3U8 files, though...

Every website in 2018.

Source: https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/1053646859686809600

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

— Anonymous

“design patterns” are concepts used by people who can’t learn by any method except memorization, so in place of actual programming ability, they memorize “patterns” and throw each one in sequence at a problem until it works

— Dark_Shikari

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Oath of Fealty

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

— Fred Brooks

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

— Henry Petroski

Took me a while to stop saying "Enginks" and start saying "Engine X".