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compiler-specific posts:
every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:

• libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake
• Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github
• Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake
• Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev
• GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an "easter egg", and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though
• Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids
• snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the "woke mind-virus", but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license
• Google Squeebular (deprecated since 2017)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20854187

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Boethiah posts:
[a screenshot of a comment by BrokenHomesSmal…]
"Just put this bread into the oven for the first time. What on earth does "satin-smooth" mean? I am not a painter or a communist, I cannot work in such flowery terms as this. The fascists at the NSA wouldn't allow this - I hope when they read this comment they will immediately take down this wishy-washy recipe and replace it with a concrete scientific methodology that is more suited to the delicate and precise nature of baking." [screenshot ends]
this reads like Disco Elysium dialogue

autismgod replies:
this is like something an NPC says to you at the bakery in the witch alps version of Disco Elysium

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20788922

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agnesmontague posts:
devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait

agnesmontague replies:
before you go on lamenting the death of media literacy on the post of some guy who may, perhaps, have a financial incentive to get as many eyes on their slop as humanly possible, take a second to assess whether this "literacy" you speak of could apply to you in this very moment, because otherwise, brother, i bear some bad news

agnesmontague replies:
(quoted tumblr tag)
#anybody got pointers for those who don't know the signs of bait? (end quote)
i'm glad someone asked, though unfortunately i don't think there is any set of rules or pointers to abide by; my principle is that if a take is "too hot" (worded in an inflammatory way, way overbroad or generalized, reads offensively) on a platform that rewards engagement (twitter, tiktok, or youtube, mostly, though not confined to those), it's likely bait for the sake of baiting, although to be honest i have never once found it a loss to simply ignore/block any take online that pisses me off regardless of whether i think it is sincere or in good faith. so my rule of thumb is to just not engage, generally

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20548023

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dry-gold posts:
Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles

astercrash replies:
Goblins and hobbits both make their homes underground

cool-bacon-dude replies:
Funniest answer for why gandalf didnt use eagles to carry the hobbits to mordor

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20105297

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hbmmaster posts:
common misconception! Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet. it was actually patented by Alexander Cumming. what Crapper invented was the floating ballcock.

perjuryfan replies:
dude i just looked up that cumming toilet crapper ballcock thing they were talking about, that's true. that's like 100 percent- everything they said was true. the ballcock is real and it was patented by crapper, it's the ball inside the toilet that floats with the water
Smiling friends screenshot, Yellow guy with phone in hand talks to small purple guy.

eh-fandomtrash replies:
Guess who just decided to fact check this post and found out that yes, the information above is correct…

relevant-wikipedia-articles replies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cumming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballcock

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19986432

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yeoldnews posts:
A few of the more creative spellings of christmas i've come across while looking for dear sanda letters in old newspapers this year:

Krismus.
cresmys
mary chismasx.
crimas.
Chrisms.
Crimus tree.
crimes
Cresmus
meey Chrismats

beggars-opera:
cropped screenshot from the "Merry Chrysler" vine

[Post 1] badjokesbyjeff

A elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests.

First she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Walmart.

"Walmart?" the preacher exclaimed. "Why Walmart?"

"Then I'll be sure my daughters will visit me twice a week."

[Post 2] badjokesbyjeff

Jokes aside, personally I only have two requests for when I die. I want my remains scattered around Disneyland, and I don't want to be cremated.

((User gondwana 5d ago)) Do pigs still eat slop?

Farmers don't stop their hogs anymore

It's over

((User wolfwarrior142 5d ago)) If it makes you feel better. Our pigs' favorite meal is a bucket of rotting whole cow's milk that we specifically let get gross before giving to em cuz they love it that way. Its not their main food, cuz thats grain, but they still get a lot of disgusting milk. So thats kinda like slop I guess

((User gondwana 5d ago)) Ok (heart emoji) yay (heart emoji)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19021817

thanks for coming to my rule

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lastfmuser
imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster

scribblestheunicorn
It’s him,,,

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