Notices by Mighty Orbot (mighty_orbot@retro.pizza)

Goddammit, I just noticed that HBO Max removed all their #DoctorWho episodes while I was still in the middle of a season.

Good thing I own them on DVD already. Streaming video for the convenience, physical media FTW.

@morph Malcolm Jamal-Warner has been doing quite a bit of acting since “Cosby”, including almost a hundred episodes on “The Resident”. I last saw him in a guest stint on ”Alert”.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912528/

(I just don’t think he should be remembered as a child actor, is all.)

@MaryAustinBooks Rich people don’t commit crimes because they’re rich. They get rich because they commit crimes.

@cstross Any chance of a Humble Bundle containing the old Laundry Files stories?

@rootfake My neighbor destroyed Elon Musk’s testicles with a spinning kick last week, and the very next day his son called for the first time in twenty years! 🥲

@evan So you agree: it’s not okay to encourage shoplifting just because a store copied some art without permission.

@inthehands For the second time today, please don’t quote posts and then add comments that have nothing to do with the post you’re quoting. It’s just confusing to the rest of us.

@inthehands “Moderation” and “social internet” usually imply social media. A storefront isn’t “social internet”. And it has nothing to do with this: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113182678876034236

I’m not sure what you’re complaining about otherwise; surely we all know it’s a bad idea for Apple NOT to screen apps before making them available for download.

@inthehands Well, they’re definitely not social media here. This is about Apple refusing to authorize an app for sale/download because it (supposedly) doesn’t meet their requirements.

@inthehands Only it’s talking about app reviews, not social media moderation.

@inthehands Did you quote the right post?

Finally saw #DeadpoolAndWolverine tonight, and it was everything I could have hoped for, right down to the multiple comic-book references during the Wolverine montage. A-plus comic-book-movie geek flick.

“The researchers found that [board] games help relieve social anxiety, which is experienced at higher rates in those who have #autism than in the general population. There's a rigid structure to proceedings, with less need to make small talk.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-link-between-board-games-and-autism-may-finally-be-explained

@actuallyautistic

@ben Stack Overflow has already been monetizing your answers with ads for years. If “used for profit” is your main complaint, you’re a little late.

I spent all this last week at work fixing bugs in someone else’s code.

And by “code”, I mean low-code scripts created using a user-friendly “clicks-not-code” solution that was designed to cut down on the time required to customize software.

Turns out that even low-code solutions still require a WHOLE LOT of variable checking, edge-case testing, and optimization before we move it into production.

Anyway, this is what I think of whenever someone says that AI will eliminate professional coders.

@thomasfuchs Who’s claiming that fully human-replacing AI is "just around the corner" or even "here already"?

@pluralistic If these anarchists want to abolish time, would that make them anachronisms? 🤔

Today’s QC comic is worth sharing. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5214

In unrelated news, I’m re-reading the QC archives instead of working and now I want this t-shirt.

#Transformers

@roadriverrail Meta can slurp up public timelines now, it’s true, but that could be blocked at the IP address anytime by individual admins or by an update to the Mastodon software as a whole.

Having Fedi content posted directly to their Threads servers in real time is far more reliable.