Well, looks like I’ll be using IBM software after all … 🤣 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)

@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.

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

😅

@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 Oh dear. 😭

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

@bender lol 😂

So you don’t feel a bit weird when you say “Windows” or “PowerPoint”? It’s just a brand, nothing special?

Ich frag’ mich schon oft, wie das für die englischen Muttersprachler sein muss, all diese sogenannten Markennamen zu benutzen. „Ich benutze Fenster 11! Das hier ist eine KraftPunkt-Präsentation. Den Kode für dieses Skript habe ich vom Deppendrehkreuz.“ All sowas. 🤔

@mckinley My process hasn’t changed. (But the Gopher hole is gone. Here’s the file from 2023: https://movq.de/v/72fddfd8fe/2023-05-31–backups.txt )

What is your backup target btw? This NFS drive you’re speaking of is probably hosted on one of your local servers running in your apartment/house?

@bender 🤣 Bug free code, I wish. 😅

On a more serious note, how’s the adoption of Archive Feeds going? If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds? 🤔

(I’m kind of thinking about truncating my history, to be honest. There’s a lot of twts out there, many of them out-of-context by now. They’re of little use except maybe for showing that twtxt/Yarn is an “active platform”.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s great to see so much “green”. 👌

The sequence of photos makes it look like you throw this (pretty creepy) snowman to the ground. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Goes to show how arcane that system has become. 🥴 I saw in another video today that Microsoft Office used names like PMWord and PMExcel.

There was a time when Vobis (you remember them?) sold PCs with OS/2 pre-installed. Those were the days, man! 😂

It’s already very quick.

That’s because it’s not running on a hard disk but a Compact Flash card. 😅 My Warp 4 box is on an HDD and scanning directory trees takes quite some time there. 🫤 Spinning rust is crazy slow.

Me feed just rolled over. Let’s see if something breaks. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org https://pixelfed.de/p/islieb/656813914793363318