Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 31

@stadion Sharing because it's funny, not because I think this is a good attitude to have, lol

If you ever want to be someone's friend, just about the worst thing you can do is trying to get close to them by always being there, and always agreeing with everything they say.

C:\DOS>

C:\DOS>RUN

RUN, DOS, RUN!

*nervous laughter*

I used to think that owning a flatbed scanner was actually important. As it turns out, using a scanner app on your smartphone produces perfectly acceptable results. All you need is a reasonably flat surface, and there's your "scanner" bed. Snap picture, app auto-crops it and removes the lens/perspective distortion, converts it to black and white, and hey, there's your PDF.

@debbie They should consider renaming themselves to Cloaca.

I'm munching on chocolate rabbit poop again...

If this wave of AI research isn't a fad, I just hope I won't need expertise in the field to stay employable. Every AI paper I've read is dense in equations, and I really hate reading equations. I can grok code, even functional code, but mathematical notation just doesn't agree with how I think.

The AI business seems like a fiercely competitive one. It would seem that a lot of smart minds are working on AI problems these days, and I basically only know the basics of perceptrons, because no one cared about AI until very recently, and ugh, learning an entire new field at age 35? Sounds exhausting.

@tiphra And I think that, as the Internet saw wider usage, the hackers who first made up the majority of the Internet were overwhelmed by the mainstream users who joined later on, in vast numbers.

I'd say that screen names still exist in several contexts. Instagram has them, and so does Snapchat, I believe, together with Twitter. It doesn't seem to have gone out of fashion.

Facebook wants your real name because they are data vampires.

@tiphra I don't think using screen names was universal. On Usenet newsgroups, people mostly used their real names. I also suspect that most early academic Internet users would've used some version of their real name.

The tradition of using screen names actually comes from hacker culture. Before the Internet, most hackers would hang out on bulletin board systems, and even there, some systems expected a first name and a last name.

@mkwadee

@mkwadee When it said "the joke is on" and ended in "us", my eyes ignored the mistake in the middle. I had to go back and check when you pointed it out, lol

@mkwadee I actually misread that in exactly the same way as you did.

Don Hertzfeld's Rejected, now in glorious HD, remastered for BluRay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JyjZI3LUM

@mkwadee I think Norway has always been the weird one who doesn't party together with everyone else, and sits on the mountain playing the mouth harp instead.

@mkwadee The EEA is what our politicians snuck us into after the stupid plebs (us, the voters) refused to do the right thing and join the EU, like the political establishment wanted us to. They tried twice, in 1972 and 1994, and then gave up, so we ended up stuck in limbo in the EEA, that they had signed us up for between the two referendums, in the expectation that we would eventually get to our senses and vote yes. And no, it's still not gonna happen.

@mkwadee If you're going to pull a Norway, what is the point of leaving? Less influence and all the same rules as before, including the EU freedoms? I mean, I don't see the point, for a country that's already in the EU...

@mkwadee Ah, yes, fish and funny letters. That's definitely what defines us as a nation.