Notices by The Doctor (drwho@mastodon.social), page 13

Toots not being searchable was actively requested as an anti-harassment tool.

Full-text search allows bad actors to search on words representing viewpoints they don't like (for example, "Quran" or "abortion") and attack the people using them.

I mention this to provide context, not as a defense of the idea.

"She held out her hands, palms up, the white fingers slightly spread, and with a barely audible click, ten double-edged, four centimeter scalpel blades slid from their housings beneath the burgundy nails."

-- Page 26, Neuromancer

like holy shit, goals???

So apparently, mastodon.social "forgets" past images after a certain period of time and those that don't leave the actual /media/ link are basically gone

E.G: https://mastodon.social/@cypnk/18858868

This has happened to almost all of the older posts I've made months ago, which is a shame because I don't have original copies for a few of them

hey if you dont like mastodon and you're on mastodon.social... maybe try another instance before giving up on it entirely?

ProTip: Do not reply to trolls with logic. Reply instead with the Deepak Chopra Quote Generator

http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/

It's immensely satisfying to witness the confusion (and doubled rage) of someone yelling at you when they see "Non-judgment is only possible in intrinsic success"

Or "Quantum physics belongs to existential abstract beauty"

Or "The invisible serves irrational mortality"

Or even "Elephants are llamas"

SEATTLEITES: does anyone in Seattle have the equipment to convert a VHS tape to a digital file? this is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

Dear non english native ppl. How do you deal with the language barrier (to english) when trying to #teach #programming to #children?

@Elizafox if we all try hard enough, i think we can start a moral panic about systemd

2008: "Includes support for Windows, Mac, and Linux"

Oh wow, how convenient! I really appreciate talented developers who write good cross-platform code and accomodate to users of multiple operating systems!

2018: "Includes support for Windows, Mac, and Linux"

Oh great, another fucking Electron app 🙄

@drwho @ajroach42 check out user lurkinggrue on redbubble for Infocom & Zork shirts. Doesn't have the Babelfish one though.

"The RISC-V authors aim to provide several CPU designs freely available under a BSD license. Such licenses allow derivative works, such as RISC-V chip designs, to be either open and free, like RISC-V itself, or closed and proprietary."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

#cpu #opencomputing #openhardware

@jjg A couple of years back, I worked on this for the Zero State to help accomplish that very thing alongside Quantified Prestige as the reputation management protocol. It's kind of old, I wrote it back in 2010, so take it with a grain of salt.

https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2017-06-16/notes-toward-the-network-25-unhosted-social-network-application

Making offline backups of a Linux machine using Backblaze. https://drwho.virtadpt.net/entry/making-offline-backups-of-a-linux-machine-using-backblaze

@jmwright @tinker

https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

#selfhosted

I kinda wish there was a cheap (and ideally open) implementation of the Alpha CPU to be had. I loved that hardware.

Hate VMS with a passion, but love the Alpha.

I could go back to that easily. Run BSD on it.... That'd be nice.

My Multia wasn't much, though. Nice internal DNS/jumphost/space heater (seriously, I used to use it to heat my old workshop in the winter).

@djsundog Like a computing fabric that's a sea of logic using only matrices of NOR gates?