Notices by Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)

@GossiTheDog
When good search engines were very new, the "dark web" just meant "stuff behind a paywall that doesn't get indexed".

All the Americans on the fediverse are tragically reminding me that #EggNogg in the US is not the boozy posset it is in the rest of the world. I remember growing up drinking horrid vanilla-nutmeg heavy cream from tetrapak cartons in the 80s, and wondering who found that enjoyable. It wasn't until I left prohibition-scarred America that I found out what the rum-and-egg-white drinks are actually supposed to taste like.

@penryu @evan Same.

@luis_in_brief @jessamyn I remember @joeyh published a blog post once that was sort of a Jane's Guide to Thread Structures. You could see from screenshots of the thread indicators whether something was a dogpile (lots of people responding to one post midway through a thread, but no further engagement after that), or "get a room" (two people replying back-and-forth, for screenfuls), or any number of other common patterns.

Of course he also set up the mailman-haters list, which I recommended use the controversial "moderate unsubscription" feature, so nobody could leave...

@amoroso And I think that derision of BASIC as a "toy" language by smug 6502 or z80 ASM programmers caused some smugness to rub off against REPLs as a concept for a decade or so.

It's important to remember that BASIC was used in some heavy-duty production workloads! The lighting system for A Chorus Line in the mid-70s was all managed by a PDP-8 running BASIC, and it was at the time the most complex lighting plan of any stage show in history.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X1060.91

@amoroso And worse code density, for some use cases!

@evan @penryu Jail for Evan! Jail for a thousand years!

Me? Oh, I'm anti-prescriptivist except I support the death penalty for anyone who says "a software".

@penryu Do people say "A hammer is a hardware"?

Do people sit on "a furniture"?

Do you turn on "an equipment"?

@GossiTheDog Yeah she does that on purpose.

@evan This your first ClimateTown?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0r_yJafmg ← New #ClimateTown drops in 2 hours

@thomasfuchs The plural is "MacBooks Air".

https://www.theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-junior-1819565735

@RichPuchalsky
But that very system will now prevent those fascists from even forming a coalition, unlike the plurality-take-all systems like Weimar or the US or UK.
I understand your later point, but systems that prevent sudden seizure of power are an important step forward.
@Hex

I had used gandi.net to host my domains for years, partly because I looked at the FSF and EFF and saw which registrar they used. I reasoned those were two groups that vetted their registrars heavily for fair dealings.

But with the price hike, I need to find a new one. Is there one as reliable and solid as gandi used to be?

EDIT to add: I have one `.net` domain and one `.com` domain to manage, and my wife has a `.tech` domain, if that narrows the parameters down any.

FURTHER EDIT: Also, I only need one thing: registration of a domain to point to my nameserver and its secondaries. I don't need any sort of hosting, or even DNS itself. I run my own postfix and BIND servers, as well as my own Web servers.

@evan I just grew a beard so I could tug at it in frustration! Shucks, I say!

@evan curse you, edit button!!!!

@evan You don't have to honour this deal, Evan. Mark can't turn you into a poll no matter what his title is.

@emilygorcenski **stops short right after passing through a fare gate**

@evan I feel like I roll my eyes until they come up sevens every time I see a "Noxigen is now Stabulent!" rebrand, but I totally like that it's considered normal in a way that I think people's names should be.

I remember my mother commenting on someone having a "made up" name, by which she meant "not named after a Byzantine saint". I just said "Yeah but *all* names are made up."