Notices by 🚲 (dx@social.ridetrans.it)

“I’m sorry, Ms. Delacourt, but your son has tested positive for Linux.”
“Give it to me straight, Doc. How bad is it?”
“It’s terminal.”
[anguished cry]

@kingrat I can see that. I grew up in a non shouting family, while my partner grew up in a shouting family. It doesn’t bother me, but I remember being a kid and being vaguely shocked when visiting friends’ houses where they would carry on a shouting conversation between floors.

“Name?”
“Jim.”
“Is that short for Jimberley?”
“What? No, it’s short for James.”
“Yeah right.”

I don’t think anyone who hasn’t had exposure to it appreciates how very stupid even “smart” people are. Even if Musk were a super engineering genius (he isn’t), it would still be a bad idea to listen to anything he says about government or anything else that isn’t engineering.

@kingrat Random thought: Imperial would be a great name for a Metric cover band

I drew a silly one

And for discussion: which apps are these?

Maybe I have more exposure to science and government than your average person, but I’m seeing a lot of friends and family *directly* impacted by these attacks.

Are there any web browsers where I can easily (without installing an extension) create more than two instances that don’t know anything about the data in the other ones? Chrome and Firefox can easily do two by using a regular window and a private/incognito one, but any additional windows/tabs will share data/state with those. I know there are extensions that let you do this, but I’m curious if any browsers support this out of the box.

I mentioned to my wife that Notepad prompts for a sign in to a subscription service in the latest Windows, and she said, “What’s Notepad?” “It’s the thing you write text files in.” “You mean Word? You’ve always had to pay for that.”

My mind is a bit blown that somebody could have used windows for years and not have ever encountered Notepad.

I don’t go on LinkedIn regularly because why would I, but I have an account because I need to be employed to afford life. Anyway, I logged in today and what a bizarro world. The shit people are saying in there versus a place like here…

The internet is so dysfunctional and broken that all the browsers had to add a “reader view” just to make anything legible

I was trying to sell somebody on Mastodon and they were unconvinced said, “I don’t know, I just hate all the ads on social media.” I blinked for a second, “Oh, well, yeah, there aren’t any ads on Mastodon.” and they immediately grew more interested. I forget how nice that is, and that it would be a major selling point.

I refuse to install node/npm on my personal laptop.

Here’s the same joke but I drew it instead

You spent HOW MUCH on monkeys and typewriters, when all you needed to do was pay a human writer a living wage?

Real talk, one part that sucks about being remote is having to be your own IT help.

@pikhq Two other options, easier but very circumstantial: If you’re filthy rich, simply buy citizenship, or simply apply to and attend higher education in the country of choice. Right to live there for the duration of the degree, and depending on the country, right to stay and work afterwards if you get a job offer. I’m guessing neither apply here but I thought I’d mention

Well, that’s a new one. This pip install just failed because I don’t have rust installed on this computer.

Very frustrated that the indie board/card game crowd has centred on blewski. I’ve gotten some of them to enable bridging by reaching out directly, but that’s a pretty big ask from a stranger. I am utterly uninterested in making an account in the brand new Nazi bar, but there’s a lot of content I’d like to be seeing.