Endymion_Mallorn

If Fediverse software starts encouraging monetization, I don’t think the userbase will even maintain the current strength.

Wait, you didn’t just set up a second account that had a 1970 birthdate?

I wanted to like Google+, but the way they forced it into YouTube ticked me off.

I want to use ed as a proper text editor, but xed has so many features I can’t turn it down anymore.

Mint includes both ed and sed.

No, for an SSD, you have to remove it from power and either apply load to specific capacitors, or use concentrated bursts of radiation.

I always thought it was “What You Give Is What You Get”.

So what? The best outcome is that someone issues a pull request that teaches you how to do what you did in a “better” way. The worst outcome is that someone starts using your code in an LLM and vibecoders learn your style.

Threads in microblogs baffle me too. Doubly if replies occur mid-thread. Tagging should be limited to the person being replied to and the OP, not everyone.

Oh, so the good idea from Bluesky of Starter Packs is now fully in Mastodon. I know that repost-quotes are in too, which is fun.

Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It’s because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.

It used to be that we considered things. We were rational. Logical. Contemplative.

Almost forty years on Earth, and I’ve never once experienced that. Humans have always been irrational, judgmental creatures, given to tribalism and social pressure. Maybe we’ve gotten more vocal about it as a result of the Western world being mostly peaceful for four generations, or maybe social media has made us more likely to interact with more people than we used to. But when were we rational? When our ancestors hanged or shot people over horses? Were they being contemplative while they burned people (or otherwise killed them) at the stake because they didn’t conform to the tenets of a book?

Was it rational and logical to force whole societies to perform certain tasks, and then deride them and try to harm them for performing those tasks?

It’s always been a crab bucket. It’ll always be a crab bucket. All you can hope is that you’re high enough up to keep your shell intact but low enough down that you don’t get grabbed for the stewpot.

Congratulations to both of them. I’m glad they’ve had the money and connections to get the medical care they needed, and I hope they can pay it forward to others who need the same help.

I mean, Barclay has three programs like that.

I mean, BMP does still work as an uncompressed, artifact-free format.

Compatibility is an advantage.

Because I’m tired of all this nonsense where just because a thing is a mature technology, it’s considered obsolete. Stop constantly pushing for the next thing. Keep the things that work.

Lynx is the best browser.

No, I have WebP blocked in my about:config. And I use Pale Moon, which actually blocks the things unlike modern FF. And I don’t load PNG either.

I just use old JPEGs. Not JPEG2000, not PNG, not WebP, not JPEG XL.