HN has this thing where it would automatically "fix" submission titles.

I always enjoy it when someone makes "obsolete" hardware natively talk to modern network services that it was never meant to talk to. And bringing an entire browser to a system this old is a serious achievement. I don't own any hardware that can run classic Mac OS, but I'm gonna try it on an emulator later, really curious how it handles several of my own websites.

Though the fact that the author uses AI is kinda meh.

Or Alisa

Thankfully, once something is on the internet, it's here forever.

My notification setup is more elaborate (for one, I do keep social media notifications on, but silent) but yeah I agree in general. It frightens me seeing some other people's notification shades where they have 20+ spam notifications from all kinds of things that I wouldn't even consider installing an app for, and they're somehow fine with it.

By the way, there's one Cyrillic programming language still in wide use today. It's part of 1С (1S), an ERP system that's absolutely everywhere in Russia.

The language itself is quite similar to Visual Basic. It's awkward to write with a regular Russian keyboard layout, but I was told that there exist special layouts just for it.

I’m curious, why is it awkward to write with a regular Russian keyboard layout? Presumably due to punctuation and not due to the Cyrillic characters?

Some symbols may not be readily available, e. g. <> or {} or [] and you'll have to either switch to English or install and learn a modified layout. But this is mostly a Windows issue, I think; the Russian keyboard layout on Windows is barebones compared to that of Mac. As a result there are other custom-made layouts in circulation, e.g. a typographically enhanced one.

I've been using Mac for ages but I use the layout Apple calls "Russian — PC". These characters are still not really that available. There are some alt-shift-whatever contortions you can do to type them, but it's easier just to switch to English and back again. Apple's default Russian layout is even worse at the very least because the period is shift+7 instead of the key between Ю and shift.

I think I still have a book on C-in-cyrillic somewhere. Like, just all keywords just translated to Russian.

I've seen a meme where someone did that with a bunch of #define's

Meme's a meme. That is a hardcover, printed in at least 10s of thousands.

So is it really a book about something like

    #включить <стдвв.з>
    
    цел главная() {
        печататьф("Привет, мир!\н");
        вернуть 0;
    }

Yup.

There's also Kumir, which is an educational programming language used in Russian schools

Hm. That must be new, I was taught Turbo Pascal

Somewhat new, or at least wasn't used in schools until fairly recently. It's a programming environment with tools like Turtle Graphics built in, specifically for teaching the basics of coding. There are even some tasks in ЕГЭ for it.

https://www.niisi.ru/kumir/

The website screenshot shows it on Windows XP though, don't know if it actually existed back then or if it's just typical Russian institutions still using Windows XP.

In fact, the language itself dates to rhe 1980s I think. No idea whether its use in schools is recent though.

I had to deal with 1C once for a client who insisted on reconciling his (mid-9 figure) assets into it. The good part of it is that a competent 1C programmer (of which he had 2) can basically make it do anything, exactly like SAP, but the out of the box experience is terrible.

You still sit at home, alone, in front of a screen to talk to these people. It's still really depressing.

I sincerely miss working in an office, but with my current job it would've been impossible anyway (everyone is remote in different countries). I've only once met some of my coworkers irl a few years ago when we went to a conference together.

Smithereen, my fediverse server, contains a bytecode VM for the `execute` API method: https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/execute

I plan to eventually use it for things like automatic spam filtering as well.

Indeed, but there are counterexamples as well. In the UAE you enter as a tourist and get a resident visa while you're there. They take away your passport for at least a couple of weeks so you can't leave either.

Long-distance trains in Russia are still like that. They often have a dedicated restaurant carriage.

Though I don't know who would want to spend a week traveling from Moscow to Vladivostok on a train when you can just fly, and that'll be cheaper as well.