Notices by Niclas Hedhman (niclas@angrytoday.com), page 5

@DrFell

"Nothing to see here... LOOK OVER THERE, Russia is attacking Ukraine."

@Moon

That covers about every politician ever.

@lupyuen

Stefano Mazzocchi (early Apache leader) once said (~2000); "Only the combination of Great Ideas and Poor Code will generate Great Communities.", as in; if code is "too good", there is nothing for other people to fix and community will not flourish.
From this the "Community over Code" was derived somewhat later, possibly when the Apache Incubator was forming in 2003 or shortly thereafter, and went on to become the most central aspect of Apache Software Foundation.

@mangeurdenuage
I don't think any 3D games could run in 120kB, but a lot of 3D demos with music did.

Here is a printout of the original Doom requirements; https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a4yi5t/original_doom_system_requirements_from_my_25_year/

@RedGreenLibre

@aral @mariosiniscalchi

@tk I have been around a long time, but never seen it anywhere.
Large corps had Token Ring and we poor folks had 10Base-T and I even installed ArcNet for my dad's company.

@Moon
Tried that long time ago, with my regular and busy personal account... Didn't help. GMail must have white-lists of "acceptable sender no matter what"

@Polychrome

In case you want to know; On my Mastodon it looks like this, and some pixel movements.

@Polychrome

Question, because I am curious; Does people actually read the "Federated Timeline"??
I mean, how else does the "abuse" show up on one's timeline.

I only read my own timeline which is filled with "Following" posts and toots, and if I am unhappy with someone, I just remove my "Follow".

So, is "laziness" the root cause of this "abuse"?

@Polychrome

The problem is; "to get investments" is really really hard, or should I say "requires good work and a decent amount of luck" or "you have succeeded before" (successfully financed businesses don't agree with the second half).

But count me in; If you can raise the finances, I can make whatever you think we should do. Maybe even make it profitable.

Lily; Love the movie!! Thanks for reminding me.

@LilyVers

@charlie_root

Part of the answer is that there is now a huge parasite in societies, called the "public sector", that was tiny back then, and now needs to be fed, and fed well.

@aral

From Snatch; "You people spawned this language. How come none of you can speak it?" (from memory, so could be off a bit)

@goatsarah

@Polychrome

Calling instead of "dig" ??

@rberger

@siege That is a staged demonstration. In reality they are often "pins up".

I agree the UK system is better than USA. But the EU one is better.

@siege I just did my own little test;
4 different cables, dropped on floor 5 times;
All cables landed with pins down, at least once. 2 cables landed with pins up 3 times, 1 cable landed with pins up once, and 1 cable landed every time pins down.

Perhaps there is a tendency with pins down. But compared to the standard European cable;
Type "straight" and most common; Unable to land with pins up.
Type "angled"; (don't have any) but I think they tend to land on there side, depending on cable shape

@siege
Not important in and of itself.... But I am irritated that many people claim "UK plug is best", without extensive experience with all types of plugs. I can't for instance speak of the Aussie one, but between UK, Europe and USA; USA clearly loses, and UK vs Europe is probably more a personal preference.

@siege

...for you.

@corduroy
My brother used to do these kind of things 10-20 years ago (not e-ink, but...), and the biggest problem he had was vandalism and theft.
Solar panels were stolen, whole display units were stolen and he has a lot of stories about how vandals destroyed "vandal proof" equipment. Will work in Japan, China and where surveillance is ironclad (which is then a bigger problem), but put it in an American big city and see how long it will last...

@Polychrome @SigmaOne

Larken Rose is again expressing an important concept of voluntarism -- Being nice to Evil (IRS, police, bureaucrats, ++) gives positive feedback and a signal that it is Ok to continue.

If everyone expressed their disdain for all government employees, telling that they should get a real job instead of being a piece of shit, then not many people would want those jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY05nlqUK5s

@lain Looks like preparing a meal in a sandwich toaster.... ;-)