@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.

No, it’s not IBM. 😅 I won’t say what it is. 🥴 I don’t think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause that’s what I grew up with), but really no idea what they’re up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. That’s a bit scary.

Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? 🤔 We lost a modem once, but that was it.

Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html

😅

After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.

Thank you very much, everyone!

Wishing you a swift recovery @bender@twtxt.net

@bender It is very proprietary, yes. 😂😭

@bender Get well soon!

(And thanks for not being one of those “it’s just a cold” guys.)

One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.

Even Word 97 could do shit like that …

@bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞

@bender Oh dear. 😭

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I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.

@bender@twtxt.net A: Yes

@bender@twtxt.net Yup! It maybe should try to detect a pipe maybe too?

And yes @bender@twtxt.net pods will reintroduce old root Twts like this back into active caches 🤣 Just not the ones in/between (old replies)

Funny how well shit works that we’ve collectively built 🤣

@jdtron@tilde.team As did I 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I know! 😅 I’ve checked their blog and mastodon earlier. That’s what inspired me to replay to their twt, just in case.

@jdtron@tilde.team you’d be surprised!
I just did :)

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😝

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂 I tried to even read the blog post, but I couldn’t. In all bluntness and honestly the layout and style of the website is total garbage, not to mention it’s written in a language I cannot read, but because it’s just so poorly written the translation service can’t translate it properly 🤦‍♂️ So point across FAIL