McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

This, plus the uncertainty in scholarship/financial support from the local government really gives me second thoughts about postponing my master study until post-covid, even if I get accepted. On the other hand, getting a job working exclusively free software is equally hard, especially when I'm lacking expertise in lower-level computing and relevant theoretical knowledge.

Ugh the open day/night is using Microsoft Teams )-;

What a gift that keeps on giving: https://torrentfreak.com/adobe-goes-after-27-year-old-pirated-copy-of-acrobat-reader-1-0-for-ms-dos-210315/

At this point I have serious issues distinguishing what's real and what's parody: they're all equally absurd and nonsensical.

@huy_ngo, the site is pure evil and is made to abuse search engines for clicks. This reminds me of https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/17/Better-than-DuckDuckGo.html

@huy_ngo, *cough* cov-news *cough*

Well at least yours is readable.

@onan, this reminds me of Spell It Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr9y40F3qu4

Just downloaded a 10 MB rar ball which contains a 1 MB epub.

The program I'm applying to requires transcript of records (among other things) in form of a spreadsheet. Following my classmates' suggestion, I pdftotext'ed the preprinted document, preprocessed it and used sed one-liners to fill in 43 courses' grades in less than 5 minutes (including the time to look up for that one-liner). I'm so proud of myself: I saved so much time that otherwise would be wasted on manually inputing the data and managed to use it to watch how otters are S-tier mustelids.

> One notice even claims ‘copyright’ on the word “outstanding,”

https://torrentfreak.com/overbroad-dmca-takedown-tries-to-remove-dictionary-entries-from-google/

@appelgriebsch, @huy_ngo, real sysadmins use chroot

Use free software and stop 'murica from spreading freedom: https://drewdevault.com/2021/03/06/Corporate-surveillance-murder.html

@huy_ngo, meet Julia Franklin, my personal web developer!

In contrast to the most thoughtful thing ever of integrating shell and package manager into the REPL, #Julia's error messages are just poorly formatted nonsense garbage, at least to someone who doesn't know the language.