Diane @alienghic@octodon.social

@craigmaloney given his skills at negotiating, i was trying to think what kind of deals he was going cut with north korea. Some ideas, In exchange for ivanka garments made at north korean work camps, puerto rico is now a north korean colony. In exchange for coal he provides them more uranium.

@Are0h i deserve that criticsm...

@Are0h see communication is hard... That wasn't for you it was for the white guys following along. And i didn't say it right.

@Are0h given how easy it is to misunderstand your friends, in person, pause for a moment and think how much harder it is to understand a stranger with significantly different experiences from you

@highvoltage konsole or gnome terminal depending on desktop environment. Because they fit the desktop theme and both support all the features i regularly use. Good emulation, scroll back buffers, search terminal for string, tabbed windows, and detecting links and making them openable.

@Are0h i wonder if a Bayesian spam filter could recognize a majority of harassing messages.

@jjg it is vile. I frequently worry our prison system will be trying to get away with extermination camps soon. They're hitting all the dehumanization stops and people already are dying from mistreatment in work camps.

Feeling a bit sad after finally getting around to cleaning out my jabber roster of old AIM and Yahoo Messenger friends.

I couldn't bring myself to delete the gmail ones, though I think those connections are dead forever too...

xmpp is looking emptier and emptier.

I wish I was better at convincing people to get off of google.

@Are0h "Its a trap" and some of us keep walking in over and over again.

(this was intended to be funny.... I hope it was... social media makes it hard to recognize when you made a faux pas)

@gamehawk It was actually a test to determine blood type, and in a rare while someone would discover that their father couldn't have been their biological parent.

Needless to say schools started to be more cautious about the experiment.

@nolan unfortunately people are people. There's also the problem that once a social network get big enough it stops being a party with your friends and a few new people and turns into a stadium filled with football (soccer) hooligans.

@gamehawk ah...the problem with the high school biology blood test experiment.

@CobaltVelvet so, like when you filter your email into folders?

@rotatingskull I must acknowledge my amusement with more than a click. as a #GNU + #Dread sufferer

@remram44 @angristan Also all of us who were using github were still compromising on the ideals of free software. It'll take a while before we start to see if they'll start to push more difficult compromises on us.

@jjg @donblanco

Before access they had ODBC and VB could talk to a the Jet database engine? though I think that was also used by Access?

@jjg Ah I never wrote vbscript, I thought it was closer to visual basic.

Microsoft's unwillingness to let go of vbscript is why we ended up with javascript. But it's possible a Microsoft with better predictive power might've released VBscript to an open standards body and the web might be written in a different language.

@jjg i agree its not great... But i think vb had modules back then which would've been an improvement over the early web

@jjg anyone else wonder if the web would have been better to develop for if visual basic had ended up being the scripting language?

Yesterday voted in CA primary, today trying to figure out who I should vote for for Python Board of Directors.