I live in the countryside and my better 3/4 has always had horses. We've had many cats at the stable and one in particular swam in bowls that the horses drunk from. One horse in particular preferred the water that tasted like cat.

My father is a leftie and as a young child I found it cool that he could do stuff with left hand while I was only able to use my right.

That inspired me to learn how to use both arms and that really has been a blessing - being ambidexterous is awesome. It was especially great when I finally learned to stick weld with my left hand. So many impossible corners are just corners now.

To my knowing there's round 5% of people that are totally left handed or totally right handed. Every one else, please learn to use your non dominant hand.

There's also the fact that in Finnish it's properly ihmissyöjä (personeater or some such). Kannibaali is quite used loan word but we do have our own.

I'm ancient, websites with little to no CSS (and absolutely no client side scripts) are refreshing. I don't know if I'd like all of web to be like that, but there's something to be said for the absolute individuality of everybody writing their sites from scratch.

It's way too easy to spin up a Wordpress installation and be done with it.

Salute!

+1 to this one. I cut my teeth writing boring in house business software, some 15 years of that. Time went on and the company started to automate, so as the in house software guy I ended up messing with various pieces of industrial automation. It has been interesting, I've learned a lot and coming from outside sometimes I can think non conventional approach to a problem.

Oh, and find a laptop with real RS-232 -port. Protect it with your life.

I don't want to be too much of an asshole. In any case, I'd like more Germans being the meme Germans and less of them being the fax using, sending random pictures as Excel files and demanding answer in snail mail.

And yeah, I do work with quite a lot of legacy German industrial machinery. The average German I interact with is quite possibly closer to the end of their career than to the beginning. But on this particular lemming said experience is taxing.

That's the funniest thing - I'm one of those senile Digg to Reddit people. Digg to Reddit was something I felt and dreaded. Reddit to Lemmy was a relief. There is not as much to click but everything is worth a click.

As I'm in no position to demand company wide switch to a sane operating system I'm constantly in awe of new and innovative ways Microsoft has managed to make my day suck. One such thing is that they have decided that Win 11 Notepad will convert everything it touches to UTF-16. That's kind of a problem when an external system expects ISO-8859-15 and users have decades of experience in editing said config files with Notepad.

The article has some really weird parts underlining somebody's anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian while discussing Gaza/Israel -situation. It's like there's one larger eastern power killing indiscriminantly a smaller population west of them. And per article it's horrific when it's Gaza but somehow it's US and UK imperialism when Russians are killing/raping/pillagin in Ukraine.

I'd take the source with a grain of salt.

I do live in a bit of a different part of the globe. It is a losing battle here on side of humans. Trees pop up and every year there are less people around.

I like it here, may it make me a hillbilly on a flat ground or not.

What I really don't get with tankies is their reverence of Russia. Their history can be summarized like so: and then everything took a change for the worse. To this day Russia is an empire where white people use colonized people to die for bits of field in parts they already starved in 1932-1933.

If Debian has to be something on four wheels it'll be a lorry. Something that does nothing fancy but absolutely essential and is doing alright thank you very much.

Not to be snarky, in programming there's rarely (in situations like this) a reason to keep count. Computers are exceptionally good at counting integers so they'd just count individual client id's (however they've implemented that system), not keeping toll on how many clients are in a group chat.

So one client, be it at position zero is a one client group. Add another client at position one and you have two clients and a two person group.

That's pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn't and just opens the application just like they've always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they'll grumble and get on track.

The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It's like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn't even need remote exploits.

And hello fellow Linux user :)

Quite a few of them/we/us end up in thrift shop/second hand/army overflow.

That makes it so very frustrating when one tries to determine if somebody is a nazi or an elder goth.

Some animals are truly more equal than others. Years ago we had a really smart horse. (And those of you who have been around horses much do know what an oxymoron that is.)

So this cat moves in. She was one of those that just moved in, no chip and no other luck finding her home. And she was pregnant and made a little nest and had her kittens.

And the smart cookie of a mare that I began this with made sure that we knew where the kittens were.

Then there's the normal horse experience where there's been a rock close to road for years. Then on one random occasion the rock is an apex predator.

On the last paragraph: it is quite common for a horse to be perfectly comfortable on a particular route. Be it from stable to field or on regular riding track. And after half a decade something that has always been there is just unbearably scary for them. A rock, a fence post, a post box, literally anything.

And on those kittens - horses are quite elaborate on their body language. That cat had made her nest behind the wall of said horses stall. Behind that stall was an area mostly relegated to tools - wheelbarrows and shovels and such. Said mare was also extremely interested in food, when something is more important than evening meal it raises eyebrows. First thing that comes in mind on situation like that is illness.

But that time she was clearly healthy and happy. Every time we'd get close by she was neighing and pointing with with her head. And sure enough, there was a nest behind the wall and sure enough the cat and those kittens needed a bit of help.

It kinda depends on on distance. I live in a country with a long shared border with Russia. Putin, putinists, Ukraine and whatthefuckcanwedoaboutit are regular and well researched debate in here.

In here American politics/elections are not in daily discussions but they surely are a thing to follow/be aware.

So here on Fediverse it is what most active users see and do. It's pretty American (and German). Far away from the war and Putin.

It's not like Finland is a perfect country. It's just least shit one.

Leave it to the Internet to be the best (and worst) of all.

I'm at best a poser punk but the diy ethos always rung true. That said one of my favourite places online is a local old school punk forum. It's niche enough that with its own problems there's still a community.

In my experience that's kind of what an online community needs to be. Not exclusive, but niche enough. I too used to be on Reddit, got there when the great Digg migration happened. Those days it was small enough to have have a community on some subreddits. Gradually it got the point that when I'd read the article or had a reasonable thought about the question there were 11000 replies and anything worthwhile was already said.

These days Lemmy feels kinda similar to the old Reddit. Maybe things stay the same or maybe they change and there'll be another place I log on.

All that said, what OP posted is profound. What you posted is too.