Notices by Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange), page 2

@thomasfuchs one weird trick, eh?

@thomasfuchs believe me, I've lived that life to the hilt and it is exhausting. I'm tired, man.

Someone, and let's just say for the sake of argument it happened to be a well known Atlantic writer, just asked me "what is the difference between justice and social justice" and I am so enraged I am just barely keeping my shit together RN. But I will.

@thomasfuchs are you from eastern europe originally? Did you grow up there?

"Let me repeat that: the people who created the first Super Mario Bros. game are still at Nintendo 38 years later." https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

@thomasfuchs together we build the world we want to see, my friend

It's strange, but I feel the overarching lesson of Twitter was "how snarkily funny can I be" whereas on Mastodon it's "how kind and generous can I be" and good lord I am so here for this change, even if it results in less clickbait and "engagement"

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

"The death of cached sites will mean the Internet Archive has a larger burden of archiving and tracking changes on the world's webpages." 😬 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

@thomasfuchs @GossiTheDog my money was on Applebee's

Total Knockout

@Montag I always liked this comic

@kevinteljeur @jkottke @anildash thank you very much but Anil and Jason are far better at this than I!

@thomasfuchs survival is a feature

The Last of Us, once it finally came to PC.. that's when I found out it was no mere video game, it was an amazing work of art, a profound, deep statement about the human condition. I still think about that game, almost every day. (and yeah the show was good too, but the show was almost a literal carbon copy of the game, minus the outstanding bottle episode). Easily top 10 all time for me.

I feel like nobody wants to hear me on this, but for VR to really work we need massive advices in basic physics & biology, like, being able to project images/video/sound directly into the brain and eye so they are literally indistinguishable from "reality". I do think Apple's device is an important and useful step forward -- the first one actually worth trying -- but a baby step nonetheless.

it's like the whole "self driving cars are just around the corner!" and "sentient AI is just around the corner!" arguments. Hard things are hard. I do think eventually we will get there but not on the timescale journalists can get excited about, because they'll all be dead by then.

sometimes I do get sort of aggravated that I wasn't born a thousand years in the future where this stuff can actually happen. Consider that today's most advanced medicine will be considered the equivalent of bloodletting and leeches in 100 years, for example. They'll be horrified by what we were doing, but it was the best we had at the time. We have miles to go before we sleep.

current status of Texas

“Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, “It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,” and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate.” https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html