Notices by acb (acb@mastodon.social), page 2

@impressia Yikes.

And that’s from someone whose mobile apps are janky piles of React Native that sort of work? Pot, kettle.

@collectifission @cstross Its address space was only 15 bits, i.e. half that of a typical Z80/6502 machine, though I’m guessing the CPU used the other bit as a flag of some sort? Presumably in the USSR in 1975, having 32k of addressable space was seen as ample

@jwz sounds like affinity fraud

@dalias Though servers keep sunsetting all the time (botsin.space being a recent case). If traffic drops off, more admins of small servers might decide that they could divert their time and resources to something more useful, and larger servers that rely on donations may shut down due to lack of funding.

@dalias Unless traffic in the fediverse drops off completely due to everyone flocking to the hot new engagement-pump casino, to the point where servers start shutting down due to lack of interest and funding.

@jwz I wonder if there’d be scope for a project to crowdsource a user-ID → username mapping

@WarnerCrocker The problem is, they’ll never, ever make that connection and realise that they wrought their own misfortune. Not when they can blame minorities or “elites” (i.e. the college-debt-burdened bisexual barista, not private equity vampires). One more pogrom’ll fix it, bro.

@cstross Cottagepunk in the queer sense of both words?

The latest abuse of OpenType scripting: a font that disassembles Z80 machine language from hexadecimal values to assembly language opcodes:

https://github.com/nevesnunes/z80-sans

@feorag @cstross Someone pointed out that, being canonically an Englishwoman born in 1974, Hello Kitty is statistically likely to be a TERF

@dansup Flickr is not in the same category as Instagram. It has publicly available APIs and feeds, and can be accessed without using an official slot-machine-style zuckerpump app (indeed, its official app leaves much to be desired). The engagement-farming age has passed Flickr by.

@gerikson @cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”

I caught the #aurora over #Stockholm tonight, for only the second time since moving here. It was quite impressive tonight.
#AuroraBorealis

@thomasfuchs Hey, don’t bring the weirdo community into this. Creeps, not weirdos, are the problem

@ariadne They sort of do that in Japan, where businesses hire random American/western dudes to sit in meetings and tell the boss his idea is wrong in a way that would be a faux pas for a Japanese employee to do

@Gargron @Noshir Mariage Frères are great; I remember buying some of their Alexandra David-Néel flavoured tea on a visit to Paris, and still have some left.

@davidgerard They’re unownable and dangerous for anything that’s more than a novelty, but they do an excellent job of flooding the zone with Augean quantities of bullshit, which may be convenient for those who don’t like democratic culture being viable. In other words, maybe it’s not about the blanket but the smallpox?

As the old adage goes, a libertarian is someone who knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction

@akareilly @rysiek how does WW2 fit into this? Because we deliberately killed a lot of German and Japanese civilians to stop the Axis war machine.

@DarthPutinKGB @cstross The key is Campism: Ukraine and Israel are both linked to Washington, whence all evil flows, so anyone who stands against them is by definition on the side of liberation. Especially if they’re blood-soaked tyrants, as “human rights” is a bourgeois value.