i wish all <software whose setup flows don't let me specify a password, forcing me to copy paste a randomly generated password into a login prompt and then go to the account settings page and set my password to the one i actually want instead of just letting me specify it during setup> a very <fuck you>

this includes mastodon but this is the least of my angers about that particular software's user experience

i've been experimenting with discord's global push-to-talk on linux and i've made a discovery. discord's push-to-talk detection only works on xwayland applications, so if i run discord under wayland proper, push-to-talk stops working when discord is focused. every time i want to talk i have to tab into xeyes, then press the push-to-talk button so discord can detect it, and then tab back into discord

bitcoin doesn't fix a broken heart

highly important purchase

hey tech bro stop pretending that bitcoin invented proof of work. your thoughts on nostr are clearly secondhand. you are not obligated to give your opinion, especially if you got it from someone else. hashcash used proof of work for spam prevention in 1997, 11 years before the bitcoin whitepaper. it's not like the concept of hashing a string is somehow fully owned by cryptocurrency

if you're writing a component for inputting math equations and you make it so that, when you switch tabs, the cursor resets to the end of the input, i think they should put you in some sort of metal cube and weld it shut for all eternity and then maybe blow it up with nuclear warheads