swiley @swiley@octodon.social
Liberty University CS student: My second try with mastadon, prompted by the #deletefacebook thing. I love to play guitar and build robots.
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wtf is up with this design pattern on web apps where there are huge text fields for username and password on the home page and so you type in your username and password only to realize that the button below it says "Create an account!" and then you have to hunt for the tiny "ˢⁱᵍⁿ ⁱⁿ" button in the upper right-hand corner in order to actually sign in to your existing account?
(answer: because the only kpi reliably communicated to ux and devs is the number of new signups and they don't actually care about providing the service of the application as much as they care about hockey puck user count graphs and gathering your data for resale and sending you e-mail newsletters)
@jordyd I really like the small cross body bags, I don't know if you think that's still too bulky.
this is a good instance thanks admins
how to get followers: be nice.
This is what happens when marketing gets a whiff that you have something whimsical in your programming language:
I for one am glad my family members are unaware of Mastodon so that I can toot without them being able to confirm that I'm awake and ignoring their texts
@grainloom It was more just for watching people ask questions and learning that way.
@boobs_idiot Sherlock Holmes is kind of fun. Didn't you guys start one of the first orphanages? Also Tim Burners Lee was born in London.
@ajroach42 There is a very old computer manual written by Allen Turing that takes that to a whole new level.
@ajroach42 I'm not sure boycotting things like that really makes sense/is practical. For example: I would consider the manufacturer provided OS image on Lenovo Thinkpads unsafe.
@MightyBigCar @Mainebot If there are that many options just run mount with no arguments to see where things are mounted.
Isn't that what Ken Thompson's ACM acceptance speech was on?
@Mainebot They will show up in /dev as block devices (so as root you run mount /dev/partition /mountpoint) you can use blkid to read disk labels and find the appropriate block device, some distros run a deamon that will automount them in /media for you
Homes not spikes!
So there a lot of gay people following me. I don't mind that and think you're all great people, but I'm not gay so don't follow me just because you think I might be.
If what you're saying isn't original and constructive you probably shouldn't go shouting it.
(sorry for tooting something that isn't all that constructive, everyone seems so loud today though)
