We deal with a bank that sends us data by zipping-up a CSV and emailing it to us every day. They told us they'd have an API in December 2022 so they're a little late on that.

Usually the CSV headers are in English, but sometimes they're in German, and sometimes a mix of English and German. Sometimes the file is UTF-8 and sometimes ISO-8859-1. Sometimes dates are dd.mm.yyyy, sometimes dd.mm.yy.

I'd really like to know how things work on their end. Again, this is a BANK.

They’re trashing our rights, man.

They’re trashing the flow of data.

They’re trashing! Trashing! Trashing!

Hack the planet! Hack the planet! Hack the planet!

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/794759180750864384
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting in front of a whiteboard, where Green has crudely illustrated a hole, a table at the bottom of the hole, and two foxes sitting on the opposite ends of the table. Holding a pointing stick, Green taps at the board, as Blue listens attentively. Green: We dig a hole, and then set up our game table there. Blue: Right. Having drawn a cover over the hole, Green taps at the addition. Green: Then we cover the top and wait for an unsuspecting victim. Blue: Huh. Green taps at the whiteboard again, pointing at the most recent addition to the drawing: A startled third fox falling through the cover at the top. Green: Eventually someone will fall through. Blue: I see. Last, Green's illustration looks the same as it did in the first panel, save that there are now three foxes sitting at the table. Blue turns to look at Green with suspicion. Green: And they'll have no choice but to play with us. Blue: Are you sure this would work?

So, windows 10 will not be supported anymore soon.
How long after that is it gonna be safe to keep it?

How I imagine people who say they like powershell: "Oh well actually after a while you get used to the pain and you even start enjoying its awful syntax. In fact after doing all these mandatory company courses on how amazing Powershell is and how great it is do windows sysadmin stuff I have been able to understand that pain is a normal thing in life and it's perfectly fine to live in constant suffering"
#powershell #win10 #win11 #sysadmin

Dell seem to be suggesting that my laptop will arrive early. meanwhile @sneexy@booping.synth.download is waiting longer and longer for his mini PC. hmmmmmmmm

Eve was gender goals when I watched wall-e

RE: https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/users/ivy_gay/statuses/114979245731057974

do you think it feels good for the computer when you plug something into every single port

I like winter. Winter is good. I wrote about winter. The writing is alright.

Read my alright writing about winter, which is good. That is, winter is good. Not the writing. The writing is merely alright, as was previously stated.

We’re on the same page now? Good. Good like winter.

https://vale.rocks/posts/winter-rhapsody

@julia@eepy.moe @49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud today's experiment ; does removing a robots ram module make them extremely flustered and dazed or does it just crash them

ℹ️ it's probably safe to eat the ruben goop . maybe . maybe

It's rude to show AI output to people

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

all fedi software could be improved in their own unique ways

- Sharkey could stop sending quote and fep-044f
- Mastodon could start allowing markdown or increase the default post length to at least 800
- Iceshrimp.NET's frontend could be improved
- GoToSocial could add emoji reactions
- Wafrn.
- Snac could scale even a tiny bit better to more than 1.5 (one and a half) users
- Wordpress could fucking explode
- Akkoma can stop 💥ing the database
- Pleroma can stop being used by bigots

/hj

lowk status=progress should be default for dd

the state of Instant Messaging in 2025:

• have you gotten nitro yet? please?? come on, we even give you 1-day trials if you're doing some quests :3
• have you gotten premium yet? please ​ oh and we let problematic people and governments thrive on our platform if you don't mind :3
• the ones who accidentally leaked your phone number for a while (during the initial introductory phase of usernames, that has since been patched now) while also limiting you to 5 paired devices, while also requiring a working camera on the old(!!) device when you're transferring chats on iOS
• *** DecryptionError: Unable to decrypt complaints about this messenger. ***
• get a bouncer or you're out of luck (in terms of message history).
• you'd have to trust a bunch of nerds to keep the servers up and running (and we won't save chat history).
• look, we took email and turned that into an IM! isn't that great? :3 oh and you should look into setting up our own email server solution (or just use our own servers) instead of using your already-existing mail server since those might rate-limit you heavily-
• get an iDevice or you're out.
• get an Android phone or you're out.
• throw money at us for a one-time purchase tied to either apple, google or our own licensing system (you can't transfer between them at all!) or you're out. oh and we're not that open source either.

why i don't use most IDEs the blinking lights are antithetical to focus https://aus.social/@morachbeag/114844153527621778

i haven't had any mice in the traps in about 2 weeks now. after getting the doors replaced and fixing where they were getting into the garage i think they've run out of ways to get in. that's good, but also, they're little and i love looking at them a lot.

Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:

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(by AO3 user scratch is the best): For the curious, the reason this happened is because someone placed the two billionth, one hundred and forty-seven millionth, four hundred and eighty-three thousandth, six hundred and forty-seventh bookmark on the site. That's the largest ID that can be stored in a tyoical database column. To fix it they have to migrate the entire database to use a different type for bookmark IDs. Except, of course, this will take a while, because there are two billion of them, lol. Good job, guys. You used all the bookmarks. There are no bookmarks left.

the thing i like about openrc is that it gets the job done without shitting all over my computer

US House of Representatives White Noise to Study, Relax to