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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • I don't know Matt Mullenweg, but I'm afraid to ask
  • I love the nonsensical misleading QR code onliner, conflictingly using both echo "<URL>" | and mac-only getoutput("pbpaste") (yuck).
  • It is famously easy to maintain a job and mental well-being when you have no stable home and few sets of clothes! Famously you don't need a registered address to open a bank account, and you don't need a bank account to get a registered address!
  • I guess you could run the GPU for 1000 years.
  • One needs to learn that interpolation = confabulation = useless bullshit.
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

that one-liner is just ...... mental

imagine the fucking brain it takes to go "okay yeah I'll put this through opencv" instead of literally clipboard-paste | qrencode | clipboard-capture

just whole brain genius levels of bad

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Oh my god, the incredibly important numpy import and the way it's not even reading the piped input but the clipboard using a shell command of all things are sending me. Is this the expertise you can gain in two weeks?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

mullenweg is a rentseeker in latest wordpress saga, look up last stubsack and one before that