Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 32

The Norwegian name for long-tailed silverfish is "skjeggkre", which translates to "beard critter".

The Norwegian name for Spanish slug is "mordersnegle" or "brunskogsnegle", which translates to "murder snail" and "brown forest snail". There isn't really a word for "slug" in Norwegian except for "nakensnegle" ("naked snail"), so I guess that's why we call them snails.

The Norwegian name for long-tailed silverfish is "skjeggkre", which translates to "beard critter".

The Norwegian name for Spanish slug is "mordersnegle" or "brunsnegle", which translates to "murder snail" and "brown snail". There isn't really a word for "slug" in Norwegian except for "nakensnegle" (naked snail), so I guess that's why we call them snails.

Norway is currently experiencing an invasion of long-tailed silverfish. Before that, it was Spanish slug. Norway's weather is getting warmer, and new and unfamiliar species are migrating north. Below is a notice from Bergen Library about silverfish being found in the building.

I actually had no idea that silverfish were a real species. I thought they were a fantasy creature from Minecraft...

Give them social media and they'll do this instead of taking over the planet: https://imgur.com/gallery/hlU5DT0

"Give them social media and they'll do this instead of taking over the planet."

I wish grepping large directory structures wasn't so slow. 😩

TL;DR: I'll decide what's significant about it to me, thank you very much.

Also, it helped me understand public key cryptography in a way that nothing else had until that point, and its wide range of potential applications, many of which aren't about sending secret messages at all.

There was a lot of bullshit, yes, but also a lot of people trying out very interesting things, and more importantly, programmers getting to work on real CS problems.

It attracts ideas to it, like Ethereum with its smart contracts, all the clever shit being done with cryptographic keys, ways of authenticating and authorising without revealing these keys to the server, etc. None of the individual pieces are new, but I've seen some amazing steps toward building interesting things with them and making them user friendly. It was really inspiring to see.

@xi11x That's not my point either. My point is that, because it's a place that attracted many smart people, at least for a while, many other new things were tried too. I've seen ways of doing things that are very unconventional but clever, and it had nothing to do with the blockchain itself, but yet would not exist without it either. Side effects.

Dismissing blockchain is about as foolish as swallowing blockchain whole. I've been on the inside of that for a year. It was very interesting for computer science people, because there was lots of cryptography, math and algorithms, and many quite original ideas that I suspect would've worked even without blockchain in them. At least take a look at some of the tech before you dismiss it completely. There are interesting things to be learned.

@ServerStatus I'm not saying it should *be* a blockchain. I'm saying that the network topology should look like one. Most people don't run their own nodes, many keep web wallets, etc. It's decentralised and you control your assets, but it's also easy to use and works on mobile. It's very unfortunate that people are so opinionated about crypto. I worked at a crypto startup for a year, and while I saw much foolishness, there were also a few good ideas.

@awg They're all weaboos though right?

@tmy Wtf Wtf!

We need one day a week where everyone on Mastodon pretends to be the character in their avatar. Let's call it Friday Fools.

We need one day a week where everyone on Mastodon pretends to be the characters in their avatars. Let's call it Friday Fools.

@blaha Seeing as I am a cat, I shouldn't be saying this...

@blaha You're a good dog. Mowing the lawn and even jogging!

I wonder what it's like to be bad at writing... "Bad" as in poor grammar, poor spelling, poor flow, etc. I've met people who really enjoy writing and are also very bad at it. You find people like that in music and art too, and you wonder how they can't see how bad they are, with professionals doing high quality work everywhere. I suspect the problem is that they aren't really equipped to see just how good the professionals are. If you see the Mona Lisa as a stick figure, painting is easy.