socialSavant @socialSavant@octodon.social
Caring, Coding, Cruising, Creating, Competing, Contesting, Cooperating, Contemplating alliteration.
"Silence the RFID chip in your passport" this sounds like such a fucking bad idea on so many levels especially in a post 9/11 world.
Unless you LIKE cavity searches and being detained and treated like the government's bitch.
Facebook reminds me of a bar full of old men sitting around drinking beer. They are all lying to one another. Everyone knows that everyone is lying and it is no big deal in the bar. Unlike Facebook, however, what goes on in the bar stays in the bar. In the bar one assumes that everyone is drunk and lying but for some reason people have this quirk that makes them think that what they see on Facebook is truth.
One of the most moving pieces that I've heard in recent memory. Thank you 99% Invisible for producing this bit of satin for the ear and somewhat sad solace for the mind.
"This Is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake"
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/chance-anchorwoman-great-alaska-earthquake/
Yes! Yes! Yes! Who's gonna queue-camp with me?! Take my money already!
Netflix is working on a Dark Crystal prequel series
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/18/15659326/netflix-dark-crystal-prequel-series-teaser
RT @vurpo: You know what they say: the "S" in IoT stands for "security".
Source: someone on Twitter maybe I can't remember
in the aftermath of #wannacry, I think that a shoutout to all sysadmins and security teams who patched promptly and prevented the issue is in order.
thanks for having our backs.
"Dune was revolutionary in a shocking number of ways—which is unsurprising, considering that [its designers] Olotka, Eberle, and Kittredge were the brains behind Cosmic Encounter, another game that paved the way for modern gaming."
A very nice review of a very classic board game: the namesake-novel inspired Dune.
Pop quiz: "with fingernails that shine like justice"
Seattle has a long history of not just using the largest boring machine on Earth to cut holes through hills, but of removing them entirely!
'Too High and Too Steep': when Seattle's hills came falling down
http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/too-high-too-steep-when-seattles-hills-came-falling-down/
Quick! Somebody check the temperature in Hades! Have there been reports of winged pigs yet?!
Linux and iTunes in the Microsoft Store
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/apple-itunes-coming-microsoft-windows-store-end-year/
do you ever just like
go outside
and immediately realise that the shit you argue about online doesn't matter to anyone around you
When to use a "for" vs "while" loop. Discuss!
Question: if you had to bet on what programming language Skynet (or something like Skynet) would be written in, what would it be?
From Mastodon to Commodore 64: A mind is born. (A demo in a toot.)
Video: https://vimeo.com/214832833
Original demo: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
Based on the @chr's toot (https://cybre.space/users/chr/updates/25695)
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/pURLRtfZr4E4HLAOEd0
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard
As Mastodon grows, at some point there _will_ be a meltdown of some big instance into which tons of people put their trust and then the admin turns out not to be trustworthy (like the MtGox incident in Bitcoin). Even if it's a few hundred people affected, it will be major negative news.
People need to be educated about the role and power of instance admins.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. – Thomas Edison
Fantastic Boosts and Where to Find Them #mastodonmovies
Kill Bird: Vol. 1 #mastodonmovies
