Notices by Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻 (suetanvil@mastodon.technology), page 12

@bobjonkman @GetTogetherComm

Maybe?

The problem with Facebook is that network effects make it a necessity for most people. I’m thinking that the best strategy for replacing it with something humane may be to attack different use cases separately.

@demonsthenes13

They were totally phoning it in when I saw them open for DHI in ‘94.

Tech tip: when installing or updating macOS, pay careful attention to the Introductory Tour. That’s the list of things you’ll want to remove or disable afterward.

@Are0h

Very Tim Powers-esque. Sort of a Declare for the Civil war.

Nice.

@ajroach42

A way to think about it is that Unix can be:

1. An operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s.
2. An umbrella term for a family of operating systems derived from Unix(1) or clones of Unix(1).

also:

3. A trademark and certification that nobody cares about.

Ironically, Unix(1) does not qualify for Unix(3) but some versions of Windows do.

Dear Lazyweb,

I'm thinking about updating my Macbook Air from 10.11 (El Capitan) to 10.13 (High Sierra, aka last year's release). This is mostly a precaution against needing a more recent version sometime in the future and not having time to do it then.

My question is, should I update to the intermediate version first, or is Apple good enough at this stuff that I can just switch to 10.13 and not expect anything to break?

TIA,

--Chris

"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than your ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."

- Why The Lucky Stiff

@jplebreton

Hmmm. If the piece is just left out in public with a warning that it will do that, is it still illegal?

@Xibanya

So is the third rule that you never eat food or drink beverages prepared by country club employees?

@QwyrdoAD

You may want to look into Julia. It’s a language for scientific computing that’s trying to be both easily interactive like Python while also being really fast.