Notices by Yer ol' Pal Gordo (gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs That would make far too much sense. Let's just continue reinforcing the hamburger essay format for four years of high school without any content on actually making a convincing argument. (/s)

God I really hope this has gotten better since I was in school.

@skinnylatte Unfortunately not at all surprising. It's actually nucking futs how deeply ingrained this shit is, to the point that even consciously forward thinking, "enlightened" men will show this glaring blind spot about women in highly technical fields, to the point that they can't even tell in the moment that it's happening.

Especially stuff like this that crosses over with "enthusiast" stuff. The moment there's a bit of feminine energy in the room, it's like the normies are invading their special nerdy place (meanwhile, [insert first half century of digital computing history, e.g. grace hopper, ida rhoades, {so many more it's almost an insult to name drop just two}], but I guess because they were monochrome in photos it means they were rare historical outliers?)

@skinnylatte ⚰️

@thomasfuchs Is it ever not?

@skinnylatte Cars are an even bigger can of worms because they combine the psychological/identity marketing we've all grown to adore, the perverse incentives of sales commission, and the bundling cable companies use to force you to buy 5 or 10 channels when you really only want one (except in this case, you have to buy a bunch of stupid plastic trim bits to get access to a specific kind of paint, and it costs $9000 instead of $10/mo.). And of course stir it in with the same can of worms you get with consumer electronics because now your car is decked out with microphones and an eSIM, so they are most definitely listening to everything you say, and selling your data, with the added bonus of data about your droving behaviour so insurance companies can buy that data second hand, and either increase your premiums in the future, or just choose to not insure you at all (though by the time you get to that point, one could argue that—ignoring the dystopian overtones—they might just be providing a public service lol).

@skinnylatte Woah. I would laugh in his face and walk tf out.

@thomasfuchs I just need a 32GB kit 😭

I had one lined up on Marketplace for $75, but qas waiting for a deposit and lost it. Then everything immediately went to shit and RAM shot up everywhere.

@thomasfuchs I hurt.

@thomasfuchs They especially don't work when your reasoning is "this could be cool" instead of "this could be better for everyone involved" or when the person steering the ship has apparently done zero thinking about what made the platform so appealing in the first place. And I say this as someone who hasn't been much of an Apple fan for a while. I still remember what I appreciated about it way back when, and everything they've done in the past, idk, decade? seems to be in service of erasing what's left of the character and culture.

Curious if this rings true to someone who didn't go 180 on the entire ecosystem over a decade ago?

@thomasfuchs I once got retweeted by Kids in the Hall. Oh wait nvm... I told everybody (obviously).

@thomasfuchs Really? I mean, I know transformers are relatively simple things, but that feels *too* cheap. Then again, the average NA outlet is rated for 15 or 20A, so I guess itt doesn't need to be that beefy a transformer anyway 🤔

@thomasfuchs Oh boy. I wish I had a step-up transformer that would let me run UK electronics on my Canadian 110v power. I mostly play the NES version of Elite because it's the easiest to get up and running in an emulator, without having to figure out where tf the F0 key is lol

@thomasfuchs (sorry in advance) shawty thicc

@inthehands Severely underrated banger of a post.

@al3x ...has recordings of past shows somewhere.

As far as vim and neovim, I'm sure @RL_Dane and @benjaminhollon already have you plenty covered down below. Linux thoroughbreds, and delightful conversationalists.

@al3x There's an entire Jazz instance! Jazztodon.com, there's also a fellow who I've followed for a good long while who does a regular show spinning records of all kinds. Not always strictly jazz, but definitely jazz adjacent. Depending on the kind of jazz you're into, it may very well appeal to you. Gimme a sec, and I'll find the @ (these things were shorter back in the bird site days lol)

Got it: https://sfba.social/@markmetz

Plays lots of cool stuff. Definitely worth checking out. IIRC he also...

@sotolf @benjaminhollon @RL_Dane @al3x I know the day will come, but muscle memory is worth a lot, and Sublime and I go way back. That being said, the more time I spend working for extended periods on multiple files at a time over SSH... yeah, it may very well become vim time.

I recently worked on a project where it was that for a couple days straight, and nano wore on me very quickly, and micro was better, but wow, those default keybindings were clearly designed in a vacuum...

@RL_Dane @sotolf @benjaminhollon @al3x Wtf are arrow keys?

@RL_Dane @sotolf @resuna @benjaminhollon @al3x ISO, ANSI, I'll take 'em both. Can somebody just call the keyboard people and tell them to give me back my damn Menu key!? 😭

I was so offended when I found out even Lenovo had forsaken me.

@resuna @RL_Dane @sotolf @benjaminhollon @al3x There was a time when figuring out what it did was more obvious, because it always did it's proscribed function. It's become more and more common to encounter applications that don't respond to the context menu key at all, when focused on a UI element that does in fact have a context menu.

Part of the problem is that both desktop and laptop keyboards have been omitting them for years. I don't think they were ever an Apple thing anyway. The other...