This might be a subjective thing, but living in a village makes looking out for each other not only easier, but feel more natural. The old woman two houses over, whose doorbell you rang at least once a week as a small kid because you or your sister accidentally kicked a ball into her garden, falls and struggles to get up? Of course you want to help! And luckily, while her daughter (across the street) isn't there, her granddaughter (another house further) is.
Denian
@Denian@chaos.social
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Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
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Software Engineer
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Reading, swimming, games, talking about stuff I know nothing about
Way of Life:
ADHD, and proud of the chaos I cause
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Sarcasm protects the world from introverts, not the other way around.
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Denian
@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
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MS teams now hides its core functionality - chat - under "other apps" for me. That's like Windows only working as an operating system after you convince an AI that it should, so I expect that update sometime next week.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
So... I'm using Duolingo to learn Japanese. Dubious life choices aside, those of you who use it probably know it has pronunciation lessons with dodgy voice recognition.
I currently have a slight cold, and my voice sounds about half an octave higher and rather nasal. My "accuracy" in those exercises is about 25% higher than usual.
Not sure whether I should report this as discrimination against myself or against the Japanese.
I currently have a slight cold, and my voice sounds about half an octave higher and rather nasal. My "accuracy" in those exercises is about 25% higher than usual.
Not sure whether I should report this as discrimination against myself or against the Japanese.
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Denian
@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
There's exactly one thing missing in the lineup of Steam android apps: The voice chat.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Could somebody please tell me why, in 2026, the "accepted" answer to "why the heck doesn't the ssh agent just start automatically" is still "just add this dodgy eval snippet to your bash profile"???
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Denian
@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
"Mister God, This Is Anna" might just be the strangest book I know.
For one thing, I've read it at least once a year since I first found a copy in my school library when I was fifteen or sixteen.
It was the first book I deliberately bought in English, by the way, since I tried reading the German translation once, and I find written German dialects to be atrocious. A horrible crime against every single letter in the alphabet.
For one thing, I've read it at least once a year since I first found a copy in my school library when I was fifteen or sixteen.
It was the first book I deliberately bought in English, by the way, since I tried reading the German translation once, and I find written German dialects to be atrocious. A horrible crime against every single letter in the alphabet.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Sometimes, clouds are shaped way too distinctively... And sometimes, "but turtles don't fly!" is a perfectly valid first thought when you see one of them.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
There are some really strange moments in video games. Like the moment you realize that the only beds in the entire town are the ones in the inn you're staying at. Or the moment you realize that there are, at least as far as I can remember, exactly two places with toilets in the entirety of the Final Fantasy 7 world. I mean, it's obviously not like all those other game worlds where people don't need toilets at all, so... Why so few?
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
@netopwibby My brain just goes "is it actually Windows 98, not 95?", because I remember 95 as the one with the green/teal default background color, and 98 as blue 😓
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Could somebody please explain the science behind packaging - be it cardboard or plastic - always being strongest precisely where it's perforated?
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
A friend has bought a house and needs to do some electricity planning - the old wires weren't worth saving, so he already removed them. Does anybody have a recommendation for software to plan this kind of thing - hopefully something beginner friendly, since he'll only be doing this once?
Boosts are welcome.
Boosts are welcome.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Does anybody have experience running Stalwart (https://stalw.art) Is it a good choice for someone who really doesn't want to spend a lot of time setting up and/or managing a mailserver? Dovecot and postfix kind of traumatized me during job training.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Two important lessons you learn as a programmer:
1. Decisions grow on trees, and if you ignore any branch, somebody is almost guaranteed to end up regretting it.
2. Customers, project managers etc. are completely ignorant of the fact that decisions grow on trees.
1. Decisions grow on trees, and if you ignore any branch, somebody is almost guaranteed to end up regretting it.
2. Customers, project managers etc. are completely ignorant of the fact that decisions grow on trees.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
Do you get nervous when using git rebase or similar, because "rewriting history is evil"? Don't worry - these days, we have AI to do that for you.
As a side note, telling an AI "hey, the first commit you made on this branch is kinda big, can you split that into reasonable steps so I can proofread it more easily?" kinda tends to drive it to commit suicide.
As a side note, telling an AI "hey, the first commit you made on this branch is kinda big, can you split that into reasonable steps so I can proofread it more easily?" kinda tends to drive it to commit suicide.
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
chaos.social
@MicroSFF Am I the only one who doesn't see any indication that the willow prevents you from dying during those 100 years?
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@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
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@MicroSFF Huh. Pokémon being called Science Fiction... Now I've seen everything.
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