Removing physical buttons from hardware was one of the worst product design decisions in history and everyone involved should be publicly shamed.

I'm curious about the relationship between smoking/vaping, and wearing respirators.

So, do or did you regularly wear a mask or respirator to prevent virus spread, and do you smoke or vape?

Chewing tobacco is not considered smoking or vaping for the purposes of this poll (unless you also smoke and or vape, of course)

What is a computer?
A miserable little pile of circuits.

chat, i’ve installed lazyvim and now i can’t stop using it, it’s so good, what do i do, send help

Yop

• Build 77 should have fixed the markdown rendering issues
• Build 78 should have fixed the GoToSocial char limit issue

#MastoBlaster

mystified by how the very long wikiquotes page for Spinoza is 10% quotes from the works of Spinoza and 90% quotes of modern authors mentioning Spinoza in passing

one of those quotes is "Spinoza is a thinker far more famous than known."

Happy #Marchintosh to those who celebrate.

#MARCHintosh #notesart #mastoart #art #illustration

https://www.folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html

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A simple line drawing of a person with a large body and a small head. The person is wearing a hat with a brim. Their head is the blue Mac OS logo: the classic one that looks like a smiling face logo divided into two blue halves. They are carrying a suitcase with an icon of a small compact Mac on it. On the front of their shirt is a minimalist, colorful painting of a compact Mac. For the most part, though, the composition is a canvas-colored tan. This, as some might recognize, is Mr Macintosh, a drawing initially commissioned by Steve Jobs from the Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon. He wasn't carrying a System suitcase in the original version, though. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Ah yes, the forgotten ELP speed of VHS video cassette recording.

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Table from a 1982 magazine showing the different tape speeds of Beta and VHS video cassettes, including VHS's EP speed (a.k.a.) misprinted as "ELP".

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

pov: you wake up to receive a package with a vacuum chamber and discover that the vendor is a crackhead and a menace to society

this is a vacuum chamber. the power supply that comes with it has a type-C connector and it puts 12V on Vbus unconditionally. the pump works off both 5V and 12V, so it can pull vacuum off a normal type-C power supply. but the solenoid release valve (that lets you open the chamber once you're done) requires their illegal type-C-shaped power supply. also, not only does the chamber not support PD negotiation, it does not even have a CC pulldown.

to add insult to injury, it's using a NEMA 1-15P plug.

"If confidence was torque, he'd have no drivetrain left."

Your snac posts can be fancy

Line breaks are respected and output as you write them.

Prepending a greater-than symbol in a line makes it a quote:

This is quoted text

All angle-prepended lines are grouped in the same blockquote

  /* this is preformatted text */
  struct node {
      struct node *prev;
      struct node *next;
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• One level bullet lists
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Links can also be written in standard Markdown style.

Some emojis: 😆 ❤️ 🍺 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Image URLs written in standard Markdown style for images are converted to ActivityPub attachments.

Three minus symbols in a line make a separator:

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These acrobatics are better documented in the snac(5) man page.

WHAT IS THIS SNAC THING?

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susie, snac's girl

Business idea that I’m working on:

Home appliances that are as analog as possible while being efficient.

My washing machine doesn’t need wi-fi.

My stove doesn’t require a subscription.

My fridge doesn’t need to have a screen shoving ads in my face.

And all of them should be trivially repairable.

I know there are enough people who have guns pointed at their printers in case the printer develops an attitude; I’m certain there are people who would go for this.

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116140098318631474

«Technology culture used to celebrate technical competence. Not as gatekeeping, not as elitism — as genuine, infectious enthusiasm for understanding how systems worked. The BBS scene in the eighties ran on self-taught systems operators who understood their hardware and their network protocols well enough to build infrastructure that had never existed before. The early web had a “view source” ethos: you saw something interesting, you looked at how it was built, you learned from it, you made something of your own. This was the entire pedagogical model of the early web and it worked extraordinarily well.»

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

I have an old mac mini intel box that I can wipe and do whatevs with.

What can I do with it that is in line with #permacomputing / #neighborhoodfirst / #solarpunk

My skillset for coding/dev is firmly in the “your worst cowboy QA engineer nightmare” but I am willing to learn to do things better.

Current aspirations would be to set up one of those digital prepper systems that could provide weather, agriculture, knowledge system/archive.

Thoughts? pointers? and even “learn to set up a linux server at tutorial N” etc is welcome.

[mysterious music intensifies]

I hope this email finds you interesting as a human being.

Check my latest album out on Bandcamp, it's in Pre-release there's like 6 tracks you can check out on it right now!

https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com/album/delusion-illusion

Push the means to production

Have I told you lately how much I love my Dirtywave M8? 😍

Today's stream is all about the sweep! Filter sweeps and beyond, in theory and practice. Come hear me expound on the how and why of one of my favorite sound types. Starts in minutes (12:30 PST/Pacific/Los Angeles time)!

https://youtube.com/live/AlNP0TQmUmc?feature=share

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