@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"
"bicycle" and "vinyl" are two words that always trip me up when spelling because it FEELS to me that the y should be the longer vowel of the two.
by + icicle = bycicle vy + nil = vynil
I always have to remind my self that's bi- as in 2, then cycle even though it's pronounced cicle. And for "vinyl", well, I just tell myself that's the "other way around".
@OhOkKay@RickiTarr The thing is that people who have a private plane don't feel happy every time they use it. They sure felt the first time, but now they feel normal.
When you and I endure our economy class flight we don't feel happy that we're not having to travel 1500km by horse.
My personal take on the folk saying is: Money doesn't bring you happiness, but lack of money brings you sadness.
@mntmn imagine building your own computer down to the motherboard PCB and then having the *distro* have the gall to tell you you can't use the keyboard any way to like aaaarrrggghhhhasdsfhjgdsjsaoeuiuehekdbdqwertykduegqwertzwixhdbgsazertykduegeb
Day 0 - being a Pascal and Lua fan, I prefer 1-based counting, but as usual for an eurotrip from Brazil, it actually starts the day before. Just flew POA-GIG. Flight departed a few mins late, which made my tight-ish connection even tighter. But the GIG-AMS flight had a similar delay, so all is well!
Two people have already complimented my Firefox T-shirt.
I guess I need a new profile picture (or a haircut? 😆), because @Gargron didn't recognize me at first, but he definitely did when he asked to see my profile pic (just kidding! ...plus it was a lot easier to recognize him in front of that banner!)
Day 2 - woke up way too late, lunch in Amsterdam (to the sound of Brazilian bossa nova!), then train to Brussels with Jack, where I ran into @catwell 's brother (a sign that it's a small world when we FOSS people get together!). Dinner with friends and we finished the night at the Delirium, where I had at last a pint of Red. Typing this from the bus on my way to hotel and I'm making way too many typos...I hope I'm not hung over tomorrow for the conference! Looking forward to the morning waffles!
Day 1 - Arrived in Amsterdam. On the train to my hotel, I spotted a young British couple, and she was actually using a paper map (one of those touristy ones you get at a kiosk or hostel). That was a nostalgic sight, from back when I used to rely on those to find my way around! Google Maps is convenient, but less poetic.
I'm very self-conscious that my word order choices are often awkward in English, and that this is a sign of lack of command of the language... but I'm realizing the word order in my sentences is often weird in Portuguese as well.
Still coding free software — Created htop, Teal (typed dialect of Lua), LuaRocks package manager, GoboLinux distroPhD @ PUC-Rio, interested in dataflow, PL ∩ HCIstay tuned for occasional music and cat contenttoots in pt_BR: hisham@masto.donte.com.br