Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co), page 19

@rick_777 @doctorflappy here is another link, not sure if it will be better for you. I wind up my blocking/privacy settings to preserve my sanity, so I sometimes miss those things.

https://www.firstpost.com/india/as-outrage-over-twitter-indias-alleged-bias-grows-journalists-and-activists-migrate-to-mastodon-how-to-join-this-open-source-micro-blogging-site-7618741.html

But if you don't want to venture onto a spam site the TL;DR is that an influential lawyer was brigaded/trolled/mass reported by political opponents and Twitter, as is customary for them, sided with the oppressive bullies.

@rick_777 @doctorflappy sorry about that...seems to be getting more difficult to find news sites that arent garbage in one way or another

@doctorflappy one background on the "trigger event" that got Mastodon attention in India...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/social-media/social-network-mastodon-is-trending-in-india-should-twitter-worry/article29908054.ece#

@envgen

Tired: more cowbell

Wired: more trumpet

@djsundog if the micro SD comes taped to a jar of jelly each month then I'm in!

@mdhughes @djsundog I liked when software was distributed as BASIC program listings in magazines.

Maybe a modern twist on software-as-printouts would be source code presented as pages of giant QR codes. Easier than typing, but still sufficiently useless.

...long lasting.

https://canoe.com/news/world/indestructible-decade-old-mcdonalds-burger-fries-still-intact

@thegibson so like 80%+ of the job description are periodic "reviews" and "analysis" of the kind done weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly.

The one little section in there "help desk requests" with its dozens of "security reviews" is basically the whole job on a daily basis. Sounds like tedious drudgery with little point.

And all that emphasis on review and analysis seems like the employer is very indecisive.

#BullshitJob

@zardoz perhaps Peter picked peppers from pots of peppers, previously placed and pre-pickled.

@mwlucas well screaming obscenities and SNMP go together like peas and carrots so...

@ink_slinger I'm glad I got LASIK some years ago...don't miss the "new glasses experience" at all.

If you have progressive lenses or astigmatism correction the position of the frames on your nose is more than cosmetic obviously...Just to add insult to the financial injury of having to pay so much for a complex prescription.

On another note if you saw the "error elephant" it wasn't your eyes failing you; I had to reboot a server lol.

Also

@sean notwithstanding the great people and places in the Bay Area...

@squeakypancakes

FACEBOOK is CAPITALism run amok

@apLundell Awww...it's Johnny zero-point-five! The shortest little circuit of all!

Maybe #Facebook decided to become FACEBOOK so it would have a consistent appearance on old computers like the ORIGINAL APPLE ][ that have no lowercase letters in their character set.

Not JUST so old people can KEEP THEIR CAPS LOCK ON and still feel at home.

@ink_slinger I suspect this one from @snowdusk_ would probably fit right into your playlist

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@snowdusk_/103075826355315449

@enkiv2 my ex from high school showed up in a social media feed and she apparently has two grandchildren and shifted a bit rightward so maybe I dodged a bullet there?