Notices by Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social), page 9

@tk When I get back from my doctor's appointment I'm going to give this assertion the thrashing it deserves. That is, if my back can ...

God dammit.

My hat is off to anyone who can manage to get Social Security Disability Insurance. As far as I can tell with my condition (rectal cancer) unless I'm a gibbering mound I'm ineligible because I can "still do the work".

Even though my energy has been sapped with my treatment. Even though near the end of my last chemo round my brain was like a stick of butter.

I'm not mad. I don't fault the folks who qualify, or the folks making the decisions. I'm just wondering how far this disease has to go before the "disabled" bit flips.

Guess we'll find out.

@mwl Welcome to why I put Note: at the end of everything.

@CarlCravens @mwl Craig "Assume we've had this conversation before, and both of us found it delightful" Maloney.

Wikipedia's new mobile-first redesign reinforces my belief that mobile first is a disease.

If your only posts on the Fediverse are from 2022 how you're disappointed in Musk and are looking to put in the effort into finding a new place to build upon and folks are retweeting your recent Twitter posts via crossposters I'm just going to assume that effort was, to put it mildly, minimal.

@atomicpoet I think you mean:

Facebook: Old people who don't know why they hate computers

Mastodon: Old people who know exactly why they hate computers

Presented without comment.

"These one-page tabletop RPGs lampshade Twitter’s demise and frustrations with Mastodon"

"Players use a single six-sided die to determine what Mastodon Events demand their attention across a week of time attempting to rein in the unruly prehistoric proboscidean (did you know that “pachyderm” is scientifically debunked?) When these occur and how they affect the player are decided by a few simple tables. The Mastodon might “decentralise all over the carpet” or lock you out of playing with it until you muster a password not within your memory. It might also simply decide to sit on you."

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/one-page-tabletop-rpg-lampoons-twitter-mastodon-elon-musk

Open yourself to new friends and new experiences. Run chmod -r 777 /

The lifecycle of a chat program for me:

1) Ugh. Who the hell would want to use that? I have X and it works fine.
2) Huh, someone mentioned it again. Wonder what this is.
3) (Installs)
4) (Plays around with it)
5) Holy shit! This is life changing! Breathtaking!
6) (Spends the next few weeks cajoling my friends to try to use the new hotness).
7) Ugh. Who the hell would want to use that? I have Y and it works fine.

Rinse, repeat.

(Note: Not a call for your process or your chat program du jour. I have Y and it works fine.)

@evan I always keep forgetting about this.

also, very cool to see you on here! (Bows in your general direction)

Want to join the hottest chat client on the planet?

You should check out email.

* Millions of users
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* Use whatever client you want
* Will be documented by world-renowned author Michael W. Lucas.

Email. It's not the chat client you want but it's the chat client you'll eventually use so use it already.