Notices by matt 🏴 (matt@cybre.space), page 2

Oh my god

The hell is this bullshit, MIT?

@Damage I want a joust machine instead of a grave marker

All visitors who don't beat my high score are subject to haunting

Wow, you put a picture of yourself on your shield? How narcissistic can you get?

I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
But we use the metric system here
So in kilometers that's 804

Hi, I'm Leonardo DiCaprio. You know, we all had a lot of fun filming the hit blockbuster, "Titanic", and we hope you had as much fun watching it. But ocean liner safety is no joke. If you think your ship is at risk of imminent collision with an iceberg or other water-based obstacle, or if you think your captain's judgment has been impaired by intoxicating liquor, please contact Marine VHF-FM Channel 16 (156.8 MHz) for immediate Coast Guard assistance. Together we can keep oceanic voyages safe for everyone.

Who on Mastodon will be the first to break a million posts?

Because: don't. That's far too many.

But yeah. Don't take a picture of someone or post a picture of them online without their consent. Clothed or not. Even if it's a perfectly modest selfie it's just disrespectful, they might not want other people to see it. Ask. It's incredible that some people still have trouble with this concept.

Everything about our society is designed to isolate us and make us fear each other. How are we supposed to come together and rise up if we never see each other? If we never see anyone different from us? We have no public spaces. People are afraid to use public transit. There are no public restrooms or seats. We put spikes everywhere so homeless people can't sit down. The only time we ever see a lot of other people at once is at Wal-Mart.

Fuck the US, fuck car culture, and fuck our calculated isolationism.

Just saw a "free software" manifesto that actually says that "software should be written for programmers", and... how can anyone be this dense? If software is only usable by a small percentage of people with highly specialized technical skills, it's not really free, is it? You're just replacing one gatekeeper with another.

Instead of software being controlled by capitalistic monopolists, you're advocating it be controlled by a small technocratic elite. That's not better!!!

Hard to believe "Now That's What I Call Music!" is almost 100 years old. I fondly remember the first edition, then called "Here's The Ditties Mama Loves to Hum", a gramophone record with a 2 1/2 minute recording of "Them Dandy New York Dandies Ain't So Dandy After-All (extended)" by Clinton "Fats" McGarnagle on Side A; on side B, a shockingly racist traditional tune arranged for the short-lived Electrohydraulic Tubaphone

via http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/171978430488/in-the-ongoing-representation-efforts-by-wizards

"It’s something so basic to your experience that you don’t even realize it’s a thing you would miss if you didn’t have it"

Actually got a little emotional reading this. What a powerful statement.

Here are photos of a cat warming up by a heater (via https://www.instagram.com/tanryug/)

Accessibility tip for Windows: use a monospace font whenever possible, use the Irfanview image manager, and install the kadmos OCR plugin (available here: http://www.irfanview.info/plugins/kadmos/)

Any time a website or program won't allow you to copy and paste text, you can take a screenshot, press F9 and click any of the highlighted text, or click and drag to select. Some minor cleanup might be necessary but it's a lot faster than just typing it all out.

Some people argue re: adblockers "I'm okay with reasonable, non-invasive ads, because the people running the site have to make money somehow." But websites aren't intrinsically valuable. If I visit a site and it fucking sucks, why should the people responsible make money from me? I don't whitelist anything. The advertising model itself is bad. People are incentivized not to do good work, but to trick as many people into looking at it as possible. The quality is irrelevant.

chaotic neutral: never take a stance on the pronunciation of gif, but interrupt any debate to extoll the virtues of the webm format

this comic is some sort of time paradox

1996: do you have email?
1997: do you have icq?
1998: do you have paltalk?
1999: do you have aim?
2000: do you have msn messenger?
2001: do you have yahoo messenger?
2003: do you have skype?
2004: do you have myspace?
2005: do you have facebook?
2007: do you have twitter?
2008: do you have instagram?
2010: do you have kik?
2011: do you have google talk?
2012: do you have facebook? (again)
2015: do you have discord?
2020: do you have email?
2025: do you have a telephone?
2030: do you have any water?