A software engineer by day, a #foss / #floss / #freesoftware contributor and #security enthusiast by night. Secretly a crustacean.

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Do we call them “world leaders” because “the fuckers that are going to be the death of us all” is too long?

vifon ,
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@aral The term "world leaders" implies they are filling the world with lead. Lots of lead.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Like, I cannot stress this enough, imagine saying:

"I'm glad Hitler is okay." "I am praying for Mussolini and his family." "Political violence against the Nazi Party is never acceptable."

And for your Adult in the Room fedi liberals:

"Be civil about Hitler!" "How dare you hope Mussolini dies." "It is always wrong to gloat about wounded Nazis." "Have some respect for the Fuhrer."

You folks aren't just bad antifascists, you're a stone around our necks in the fight against fascism.

vifon ,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites We don't even need to reach for the last century. We have Putin right here and now to fit in this example.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Developers who don't use syntax highlighting in their code editors are clearly psychopaths. I mean, who willingly chooses chaos?

vifon ,
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@nixCraft I know one such dev fairly well. It made me realize how arbitrary the common syntax highlighting systems are. It's just a rainbow-colored soup that has little logic to it, apart from coloring comments and strings, and maybe keywords. Everything else is very arbitrary at its best and very inconsistent at its worst. Especially before the advent of LSP and tree-sitter.