#5 Programming Languages

[heycerulean]

the difference between this

and this

block just ate up. like. half an hour of my life. and i'm not sure how i feel about that

[12neonlit-stage]

I go by no pronouns but not as in my name, more so like my pronouns are an undefined variable in shell coding

[benetnvsch]

anyone wonna talk to me abt knkd/z as I procrastinate doing 5 other things

[nabaart]

One more to the collection!

You can listen to the japanese version of the song HERE. Lyrics below the cut:

A TERRA INTER [The Land In-Between]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Conatur invenire viam ad vivere [Trying to find a way to just live] Quod altare in silva fractae memoriae [I reach the altar in a forest of broken memories] Ego orate ut in quo intelligatur me [And pray that's where I'm meant to be]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Conatur locum et recte vivere [Trying to find a place and time to live justly] Offero meam animam fractum in altari [I offer my broken soul at the altar] Et ex hoc aliud spes nascitur [And hope something else is born from this]

Cantatio in vento est [There's a song in the wind] In silva, in vocis nostris hic [In the forest, in our voices here] A pueri rebus perditis [A child's lost things] A vale audiat ne quis [A farewell no one hears]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Manes nostri alibi invenies [Our ghosts will find elsewhere to be] Cum partes animarum clavis [Usings parts of our souls as keys] Et spes dulce potest nasci hic [And hoping something sweet is born from this]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Conatur invenire viam ad vivere [Trying to find a way to just live] Somniam altari in quid memoriae sunt fractae [We dream of the altar of broken memories] Et orate id est ubi nos pertinere [And pray that is where we belong]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Manes nostri alibi invenies [Our ghosts will find elsewhere to be] Cum partes animarum clavis [Usings parts of our souls as keys] Et spes dulce potest nasci hic [And hoping something sweet is born from this]

(x2) Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Conatur invenire viam ad vivere [Trying to find a way to just live] Somniam altari in quid memoriae sunt fractae [We dream of the altar of broken memories] Et orate id est ubi nos pertinere [And pray that is where we belong]

Vagi inter somnium et rem [Wandering between dream and reality] Manes nostri alibi invenies [Our ghosts will find elsewhere to be] Cum partes animarum clavis [Usings parts of our souls as keys] Et spes dulce potest nasci hic [And hoping something sweet is born from this]

[cemeterym]

today's lesson is teach your kids to use public transport so they do not end up like me bc holy shit

[kamaradka]

i will order myself a tattoo gun + supplies + start practicing tattooing blueprints + architectural sketches of castles OK

[daddyissuesnatural]

Going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out sam winchester's major at stanford

[onecooooooolcat]

one of the weirdest things abt uni is that they just let literal babies in there cri

[odysseys-blood]

now more than ever i think i need to rewatch gullah gullah island

[diffidentalice]

Stretch the truth as much as humanly possible. 4 years at college? 4 years of experience. That shit was work you had to pay for. Worked at mcdonald's for a summer? 4 months of experience.

Skills section. They're asking for Javascript experience with 5-7 years worth? Well if you started dabbling in a little bit of programming for whatever reason (taking a class, modding a game, ANYTHING) within the previous years include that all the way up til now as years of experience in that skill.

All else fails, fucking lie. Lie your ass off. These companies don't know what the fuck they want and most of the time if you're someone who can work 40+ hours, show up on time, and learn without going insane then you're probably a good fit.

And in any case, if you're still falling short of their requirements? Then just keep applying anyways. Sometimes companies will auto filter you out but some actually need to fill the position soon and guess what? Lots of your fellow workers applying to that position are similarly "underqualified". You may just be the best of the bunch.

ENTRY LEVEL MEANS NO EXPERIENCE. IT MEANS NO PORTFOLIO OF RELEVANT SAMPLES. ENTRY LEVEL IS ENTRY LEVEL

[florasongs]

I keep acquiring new Interests™ and it's getting really hard on my wallet, but fortunately, my newest interest is really cheap because it's palaeontology

[thunderlina]

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

[rastronomicals]

September 10:

On the 10th of September, 1990, Neil Young & Crazy Horse issued Ragged Glory, their sixth album.

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Busse Woods, Acid King's album.

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Volume 5/6, The Desert Sessions' EP fix-up album.

And,

On the 10th of September, 2002, The Mercury Program laid upon us A Data Learn The Language, their third album.

[kaurwreck]

the way you do research and how intensely you feel about it sounds a lot like monotropism!!!

Hi, anon. Do you want to email my psych, or should I.

[misseyres]

didn't get the internship either 🫠 two rejections in 1 week this is brutal

[leveragehunters]

CoPilot in MS Word

I opened Word yesterday to discover that it now contains CoPilot. It follows you as you type and if you have a personal Microsoft 365 account, you can't turn it off. You will be given 60 AI credits per month and you can't opt out of it.

The only way to banish it is to revert to an earlier version of Office. There is lot of conflicting information and overly complex guides out there, so I thought I'd share the simplest way I found.

How to revert back to an old version of Office that does not have CoPilot

This is fairly simple, thankfully, presuming everything is in the default locations. If not you'll need to adjust the below for where you have things saved.

Click the Windows Button and S to bring up the search box, then type cmd. It will bring up the command prompt as an option. Run it as an administrator.

Paste this into the box at the cursor: cd "\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"

Hit Enter

Then paste this into the box at the cursor: officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17726.20160

Hit enter and wait while it downloads and installs.

VERY IMPORTANT. Once it's done, open Word, go to File, Account (bottom left), and you'll see a box on the right that says Microsoft 365 updates. Click the box and change the drop down to Disable Updates.

This will roll you back to build 17726.20160, from July 2024, which does not have CoPilot, and prevent it from being installed.

If you want a different build, you can see them all listed here. You will need to change the 17726.20160 at step 4 to whatever build number you want.

This is not a perfect fix, because while it removes CoPilot, it also stops you receiving security updates and bug fixes.

Switching from Office to LibreOffice

At this point, I'm giving up on Microsoft Office/Word. After trying a few different options, I've switched to LibreOffice.

You can download it here for free: https://www.libreoffice.org/

If you like the look of Word, these tutorials show you how to get that look:

www.howtogeek.com/788591/how-to-make-libreoffice-look-like-microsoft-office/

www.debugpoint.com/libreoffice-like-microsoft-office/

If you've been using Word for awhile, chances are you have a significant custom dictionary. You can add it to LibreOffice following these steps.

First, get your dictionary from Microsoft

Go to Manage your Microsoft 365 account: account.microsoft.com.

One you're logged in, scroll down to Privacy, click it and go to the Privacy dashboard.

Scroll down to Spelling and Text. Click into it and scroll past all the words to download your custom dictionary. It will save it as a CSV file.

Open the file you just downloaded and copy the words.

Open Notepad and paste in the words. Save it as a text file and give it a meaningful name (I went with FromWord).

Next, add it to LibreOffice

Open LibreOffice.

Go to Tools in the menu bar, then Options. It will open a new window.

Find Languages and Locales in the left menu, click it, then click on Writing aids.

You'll see User-defined dictionaries. Click New to the right of the box and give it a meaningful name (mine is FromWord).

Hit Apply, then Okay, then exit LibreOffice.

Open Windows Explorer and go to C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\wordbook and you will see the new dictionary you created. (If you can't see the AppData folder, you will need to show hidden files by ticking the box in the View menu.)

Open it in Notepad by right clicking and choosing 'open with', then pick Notepad from the options.

Open the text file you created at step 5 in 'get your dictionary from Microsoft', copy the words and paste them into your new custom dictionary UNDER the dotted line.

Save and close.

Reopen LibreOffice. Go to Tools, Options, Languages and Locales, Writing aids and make sure the box next to the new dictionary is ticked.

If you use LIbreOffice on multiple machines, you'll need to do this for each machine.

Please note: this worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, check you've followed each step correctly, and try restarting your computer. If it still doesn't work, I can't provide tech support (sorry).