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Cake day: November 7th, 2023

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  • “macOS” is not the same as “Mac OS”!

    “Mac OS X” was rebranded to “macOS” (or rather, “macOS” is the successor to “Mac OS X”, but really just is the same but newer, the “upgrade” was just like any other update between Mac OS X versions afaik), and “Mac OS 9” does not belong to “macOS”.



  • well, the problem is not that forums are not real time. the problem is that people use real time chats for things that should’t be done in real time. like guides, which should stand on their own as an organized post, easily searched and found.

    “real time” chats, that is, instant messengers, have their time and place. they have been around for a while, but they never really replaced forums. until discord came, which kind of then did. which i guess also resulted from facebook groups, twitter, instagram, and reddit first kind of partially replacing forums, after which then forums really fell out of favor, and discord really is way easier and better to interact with than any of the others mentioned (aside from maybe reddit). people are also just lazy and jusy use whatever works.

    and people then started using discord like a forum since forums are almost dead and discord is just simple and easy. so many guides, info, announcements, etc. are put in discord like it is a forum since the admittedly amazing features for roles and bots make it convenient.

    it all gets lost in a sea instant messaging organizing. to find something, one must go to one of a a bunch pinned messages in one of the bajillion channels that links to a post (i say oost, it is actually a message) which in turn links to a series of messages where someone knowledgeable posted something useful intertwined with shitpost messages fromither people. if you are lucky, someone made a google doc for a guide, but those also suck, and they are also not easily found unless you know the guy who knows the guy who knows which pinned message in which channel has the link to it.



  • I honesly feel like a jew living under nazi germany

    i am sorry, but i am not sure if you know how ridiculous and hurtful this sounds for people who have witnessed the holocaust and their relatives.

    you do not know how it feels to be a jew under naxi germany.

    i do not doubt your suffering and oppression, but this is a bit insensitive in my perception and i think these are things we shouldn’t compare until there are comparable things happening.

    anyway, yes, that sucks. i am sad that your government is like this in an authoritarian way and that everbody else is ok with everything.


  • oh ja absolut dies.

    ich hab auch schon oft versucht dieses sentiment klar zu machen: informatik ist nicht “wie benutze ich einen computer”. das wäre, etwas überspitzt, wie ingeneurswissenschaften im vergleich zu autofahren.

    obwohl wir tatsächlich “richtige” theorie über algorithmen und so dann gelernt haben, fing das erste semester bei mir in der schule (keine ahnung 7te oder 8te klasse, bin 2013er abi jahrgang) an mit “ok erst word und powerpoint lernen, und dann, aber ganz vorsichtig weil das ist voll kompliziert, excel, für die fortgeschrittenen unter euch”. das hatte mich damals schon aufgeregt, obwohl ich noch garkeine erfahrung mit informatik so richtig hatte, wusste ich, dass das eigentlich nicht sinn der sache sein sollte.

    ich hätte es am geilsten gefunden wenn die uns alle vor ne konsole gesetzt hätten und wir so alles gelernt hätten. wir hatten zwar basic gelernt, was mit bock gemacht hatte, aber dann sind wir relativ schnell zur bunticlicki-hölle namens borland delphi gewechselt. wer isr auf diese grandios dumme idee gekommen? besonders geil weil wenn man damit zuhause spielen wollte musste man sich ne lizenz von der schule iwie holen und als ob da jemand außer den strebern wie mir (der sich auch noch nen windows emulator für macos geholt hatte) bock drauf hatte.

    das sollten zwei verschiedene kurse sein: computerkunde und informatik.

    btw ersteres ist schon iwie wichtig: anscheinend durch das ganze smartphone und app ökosystem verstehen kinder heutzutage angeblich nicht das konzept von ineinandergeschachtelten ordnern/verzeichnissen und wie daten auf einem computer konzeptionell strukturiert sind. oder dass google nicht “das internet” ist sondern eine suchmaschine. und so viele andere ähnliche sachen die ich natürlich den kindern nicht übel nehmen kann…




  • i live in germany and to me telegram doesn’t feel niche at all.

    a lot of younger people use it a bit like discord, like for group stuff. organizing (like e.g. political activism), finding apartents in berlin, and yes, getting drugs as well. also some worklplaces use it (which i think is terrible). it is also preferred by a lot of people to communicate via telegram over signal or whatsapp in situations where people don’t want to give away their number, like online dating.