Notices by Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net), page 2

Tom Scott's "Lateral" from a couple days ago prompted me to make this image.

@patrickcmiller https://www.myabandonware.com/game/full-metal-planet-1ul/play-1ul

@joeyh This is where I am always grateful that the GPL baked "the preferred form for modifying the work" as the standard for that.

@aral @Loukas 404?

@aral Veitch is a known professional e-mail troll. He was probably hoping to get an interaction he could turn into another TEDx talk.

@Loukas @aral I mean you can look up his talks about baiting spammers/scammers on YouTube if you're curious. They're entertaining enough, if it's your first experience of the genre.

@goatsarah I looked this up and it looks more like it was someone covering the event who joked that he said this. I'd love it if it turned out to be true!

The #HTTP 418 response is in the 4xx client error section, meaning it's YOUR fault that I'm a teapot.

I'm not mad, just disappointed. You really should have tried harder.

@thomasfuchs @mwichary Untitled Goose Gamer Chair

@evan
European toilets need more active cleaning than North American ones, but don't clog like NA ones do.

@emilygorcenski It's "en pointe" not "on point"!

@emilygorcenski "en flique" not "on fleek"!

@evan @aaron People have said that they would prefer teleportation if it were available. I think that's a reasonable stance to take: "I prefer rides on mode X; unfortunately those rides are not available here."

@evan @joeyh I would feel embarrassed to even have someone find out that I have an old laptop that uses tape over the camera and a software cut-out for the microphone instead of physical disconnects. Suggesting that I use these snooping things even once seems like an insult.

@evan @joeyh But people who never use the things won't want to even engage with this poll.

@evan Anyway, I wasn't kidding.

I tend to print long documents 2-up, double-sided or 4-up double-sided depending on the font sizes. Black text on a white background is too much eyestrain for me on a backlit screen, and I often want to mark the things up and spread a bunch of stuff around on a table side-by-side.

Computers are pretty good for HTML or epub or whatever, because they just reflow to fit and you can just style them for dark mode. But PDFs are designed for printing, and have things like "pages" built into the model. If you don't want me to print it out, don't use a print-specific format like PDF!

@evan You're right. Computers run on electricity from coal power plants. Best to keep them running full-tilt ALL THE TIME. You'll show that filthy coal: you'll BURN IT ALL UP!!!

@evan LaserJet.

@robdaemon I once saw a Brian Behlendorf talk where he admitted that he named the project in haste, somewhat arbitrarily after the musical track (he was a DJ as well as a programmer), and that he realised it was not in the best taste and he thought the project owed something to the Apache nation as reparations.

That was 25 years ago. What's taking so long?

@cwebber I just wish I had the original Dublin Core data to add to this photo of a young @evan greeting some rock stars in his kitchen.