Notices by [intentionally left blank] (drunkenmadman@aus.social)

Remember when you could just buy a newspaper for like $1 at a shop?

Imagine if you went to the newsagent and they were like “$25 please”

“Huh? That’s steep”
“Oh that gives you a month of access”
“I don’t want a month of access, i want a newspaper”
“We’ll also flyer your house every day”
“I don’t care, I just want a newspaper. Today’s newspaper”
“You also get access to our other newspapers in other towns”
“I don’t care, I want a newspaper for here, today”
“Oh it’s not just for today. It’s for a month. And three months after”
“Wait, what happens after that, is that it over?”
“LOL of course not. It’s $35 a month after that”
“What? Why?”
“Introductory offer. Also we’ll tell a bunch of other companies where you live and THEY’LL flyer you too”
“Know what, it’s fine, I don’t need a paper”
“I’ll send you a reminder in a week”
“STOP. FFS”

And they wonder why online news makes no money.

@boomfish @siege

Sure, I’m good with that. Maybe my UK upbringing and my shitty google cookies have fucked me over here.

One mo.

@boomfish @siege well fuck me dead. Ok. My brain is yelling at me that it’s not a pine but Wikipedia - and you - are right.

Thank you for correcting me. I genuinely appreciate it.

@siege I mean, totally 100% fine if the pine thing came from, let’s say, scandinavia.

There’s a shedload of English that came from Norse immigration, which has Germanic roots, with a bunch of latin melded into it… but l guess if pines aren’t endemic to the Italian peninsula, then we’ve got cultural migration.

@siege there’s no end game, I’ve just lived around a bunch of places with pine trees and none of them have had Mediterranean climates.

@siege are pine trees actually endemic to Italy? I’m… skeptical

I am officially unemployed as of today.

GoodHuman’s appointed administrators wrote to all staff today terminating our employment and asking for our laptops back.

But simultaneously, pointed out that key staff will be required to maintain and transfer IP to a new owner, should one be found. Slight paradox there. How are we meant to do that without laptops and without an employment contract in place? It’s a mystery, so I’m doing exactly nothing until this is clarified.

I am, however, very much available for work, should you require a Senior DevOps guy with management experience. Multi-cloud, multi-OS, terraform & python, powershell & bash, CI/CD enthusiast, automator of all things and haver of ambitious ideas.

@goatsarah this is true. Being deeply depressed is “I don’t want to do anything”. And suicide is WORK.

It’s a genuine effect.

They had to WALK to their inevitable deaths. That’s DIGNITY.

“It is nothing like the holocaust. We haven’t put them on trains”

I do like it when I have the time and focus to legendary my #duolingo Daily Refresh. Even if I do occasionally pop a rookie error like using “pull the door/tynnu’r drws” when I mean “close the door/gau’r drws”.

In my defence, I do actually say that sometimes. Could be a Swansea upbringing thing that when leaving the house you pull the door, but coming back you close it.

#dysgucymraeg

@aral we had this debate in the late 90s when Netscape 4 and IE4 implemented differing DOMs.

Ultimately, the w3c standard won out, but the browser wars, as intense as they were, were even less polarised than now. I do worry about this.

@goatsarah might a suggest a higher dosage?

@goatsarah I just got some of those.

Weather's been bloody awful though so I haven't been able to try them out on the bike, which is why I bought them. Need to see the road *and* my GPS device.