Neat! Maybe I can motivate myself now to get started with blender. I would really love an open source 3D Modelling tool.

Doesn’t like everyone and their cat have herpes?

Custom firmware and own VLAN with no access to the Internet on mine

People using smart glasses with outward facing cameras can go kick rocks. Truly the second generation of glassholes.

You guys use editors? Real programmers only need a mechanical hard drive, a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

The problem lies with the way the “modern” internet works by loading everything dynamically. Static pages to index are becoming more rare. Also a lot of information is being “lost” in proprietary systems like discord. Those also can’t be indexed (easily)

I added my answers. Good luck on your thesis!

Because capitalism and Greed. You pay money for some piece of hardware and expect to own it? In what world are you living?

Joke’s on you, I always use 64 bit wide unsigned integers to store a 1 and compare to check for value.

I read the headline in the article preview and my first thought was “why is DOS used in windows deployment services?!”

Amen! I remember the good old days of speciality community forums based on VB or even phpBB or in some cases Woltlab. I miss the simpler times.

I find the switch to hosting communities on proprietary closed platforms kind of bad in terms of access to the vast knowledge and archiving it for future generations. When discord will go full enshittified, it will just charge a subscription fee to access the “servers”. Also they will sure as hell comply with anything if it threatens the bottom line.

This is democracy manifest!

Uh oh, Mr Strulovitch’s Seat will be in jeopardy if true :))