jorty (deprecated aspect) @jordyd@octodon.social

Welcome to my toot space, where you will find the shittiest of shit posts, a truly fine selection of genuine shit, pushed out by yours truly

One time I tripped over a speed bump while walking and said "gotta go fast" #introductions

Macros can be useful but I feel like we should ban certain people from touching them.

For example, imagine if someone were to use the C preprocessor to create an elaborate object orientation system for C, calling it GObject, and then create an entire graphics stack up to and including a desktop environment, called, say, GNOME.

I think that's the kind of person who should no longer be allowed to use the C preprocessor.

I think the most important lesson to learn from free software is that after people have enough money to put food on the table they're willing to put time into something with no monetary benefit

You: Intel architecture
Me: Actually, Intel is the manufacturer. You're thinking of Intel's monster.

For Whomst the Bell Tolls

$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/reminder
#!/bin/sh
wall "You're forgetting something."

Also, the phrase "you can't scrub-a-dub-dub with no suds in the tub", triggered by the fact that my soap doesn't make any suds and it's very upsetting

I've had the words "Olive Garden: When You're Gay, You're Family" repeating in my head for a week now and idk how to get rid of it

(Woody voice) there’s a toot in my boost

It was as if one part of my brain was like "you're gonna like this, boost it" and then the other part was like "ok.. wait what haha that's good"

Somehow I boosted something but the laugh came a few seconds later

I’d have to reformat it so that it read like a kind of dialogue. Like,

“Is this really notable?” BoingBoing69 inquired, “I can’t seem to find any mention of this via a Google search.”

Ohhh even better: a dramatic reading of the /discussion/ page for “Reliability of Wikipedia”

If I were to actually do this I’d have to print out the page and bind it so that I can dramatically turn the pages while I look up at the listener

Watch my new video wherein I give a dramatic reading of the Wikipedia page “Reliability of Wikipedia”

The cost of hubris

Fun fact: when I got a MacBook in 2013, first thing I did was see the magnetic cable, and held it close enough to the port to feel it start to tug, and let go of it. It went in, but in the process it chipped a little piece of plastic off the inside of the port and the connection has been finicky ever since