Roland Kreuzer 🦥

Software Engineer. Procrastinator. Video Game Enthusiast. Cat Person.

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@jhleath The pitfalls of truthiness are why I like to use native boolean types. Outside of C there is little reason to tread everything as an integer

[M.Esserschar-Fee 🔪🔥 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @Exallerliebst]

Wir hätten, als Deutschland krank wurde, einen Arzt holen sollen.
Keinen Totengräber.

[E L H O T Z O @elhotzo]

September wieder über solche Wahlergebnisse freuen müssen

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@MonikaFisc80449 @lauriewired But Linux has around 4% OS marketshare.
Arch, Cachy and SteamOS are (based on Steam's numbers) around 40% of those Linux (gaming) installs.
SteamOS can be comfortably used without ever even starting deskop mode...
I think it is fair to call the AUR niche as malware vector

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Programmers today: "boo-hoo your language sucks! 😭"
Dijkstra in the past:

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Accountability

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Solving problems

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Range of emotions

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Sometimes I take a little solace in the knowledge that climate deniers will be remembered as liars, conmen, and fools.

But then I remember that most history is very low-resolution so, actually, they won’t be remembered at all and that’s even better.

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@twink_death I've never head anyone deny pre-colonization history.
But US English uses "America" as a synonym for USA, which limits the definition of "American cities" significantly.
It's not fair to all other countries on the continent of the same name, but language shapes perception

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@FrenchResponse You're free to express the opinion that this law is stupid and outdated, even in Germany.
Breaking existing law might get you fined, nonetheless.
Since nobody accused Facebook being responsible in any way I don't see why the State Dept cares

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@UnderSecPD The first amendment does not apply to things Germans do within Germany.
You're free to express the opinion that this law is stupid and outdated, even in Germany.
Since nobody said anything about how the platform is responsible for the comment I don't see why the State Dept cares

[Sarah’s Scribbles @scribbles_sarah]

Sarah’s Scribbles
By Sarah Andersen 04.17.24

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@Farmer_Christo @maddenifico Lutnick said he sold a thousand in a single day.
You are saying there are 388 applications being processed since December.
Still a pretty big discrepancy, isn't it?

[Boris Alexander Beissner @boris_beissner]

"Wir unterrichten bereits in den ersten Semestern, dass Verbrennungsprozesse viel ineffizienter sind als die Erneuerbaren. Und was man jetzt momentan vorhat, ist ungefähr so, als wenn jemand zu euch nach Hause kommt & sagt: Der Induktionsherd, muss raus. Jetzt wird wieder auf offenem Feuer gekocht." #Lesch #München
https://t.co/UxcmEksxZz

[Roland Kreuzer 🦥 @Goaserer]

@MichaelAArouet In the years since 2000 Germany had nearly 18 years of conservative/center-right governments.
Whatever you think of the country's decisions, it has little to do with left-green policies