Unix Herder @hippiegunnut@oldbytes.space
Unix sysadmin, mech keys fan, Amiga collector,
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Joined Jan 2019
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Before joining Mastodon had you participated or were active on BBS (dial-up) or forums (vBulletin style) in the past?
Boosts are appreciated for better sample sizes.
@foone wow flashback - I too have made a blood sacrifice for too many PC repairs.
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TBH I have no idea what I'm doing here yet; or even if I'm going to stick around. But I am not enthused by the prospects for twitter in view of yesterday's news ...
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I felt a great disturbance in the Cloud, as if millions of birds suddenly tweeted out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Oh look an evil billionaire is buying the bird hellsite - I better dusk this off again.
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You'd think it would be hard to film "For all mankind", what with the decade and a half time jumps each season, but remember the actors are living through the great pandemic, so they're actually aging slightly faster than the time jumps account for.
@saramg I’m almost tempted to try doing that deliberately now.
Almost.
The fun thing with WebUIs is they can combine the consistency of X in the '90's with the ability to mix in bits of other sites and a design led by people who want to trick you into doing things you don't want to do.
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And thus the floodgates open. Chinese and Spanish added since that previous toot, and three more pull requests for Italian, Turkish, and Dutch.
@saramg You get something similar with systems too especially in academia where you still sometimes find unix systems that have been administered by a succession of random postgrads that haven't been updated or sometimes even rebooted in years but have had extra functions bodged on as it seemed like a good idea to... someone...
@saramg Yeah, I don't want to favourite that but...
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I wish I didn't understand why software starts out usable then *intentionally* degrades to utter crap through the addition of poorly thought through "features".
I wish I could wonder in ignorance, but I can't. I've seen the sausage get made by the same cookie cutter mediocre no talent hacks over and over again, and they always fail up.
@saramg It's probably time I gave Absinthe another try. I think I'll try a slightly less headbanger version this time though.
@saramg Last time I did Absinthe it was Hapsburg at a ludicrous ABV and I eneded up with a very bad head the next day (add water - no more water than that!). So how is your head today? 😀
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When 2020 is getting you down, just remember that nearly a century ago, Australia declared war on Emus, and the Emus won.
Feeling the "I need to ditch facebook" thing again today:
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1298759918892265476
Need to persuade more of my friends to try alternatives. <sigh>
Oh yeah just incase I know anyone who's geeky enough to be on here and /doesn't/ already know about it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2
Hmm, not used this thing for a while. <fx: sets up apps and goes to find more people to follow>
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I feel seen
RT @selfawaresoup@twitter.com
As pride month comes to an end, I made a little something this morning for my trans siblings who are also into electronics. 💜⚡️
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/selfawaresoup/status/1144923006751379458
Today’s Molly is brought to you by the words “Very High Pollen Count” <fx: waits for the antihistamines to kick in>.
Unix sysadmin, mech keys fan, Amiga collector,
She/her (or they/them)
Joined Jan 2019
