Notices by Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz), page 44

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.

Clowns take their makeup seriously - it's bad form to use someone else's makeup and hairstyle. So Matthew Faint runs the Clown Egg Register, a gallery of clown faces painted onto eggshells that serves as a sort of "copyright register" for clowns. https://www.ft.com/content/56cac980-e8f9-11e2-aead-00144feabdc0

@djsundog @bunnyhero @sydneyfalk @viTekiM @squirrel @somarasu @theZacAttacks https://turtleacademy.com/

Here's a fun typography fact for you: Old English and Middle English had a single character for the "th" sound, called thorn. It looked like Þ in the capital; the lowercase is þ.

(If you crossed the upper bar, like so: Ꝥ ꝥ , it was shorthand for "that". "I like ꝥ kitten.")

Thorn largely died out when printing presses were imported to England. Because the typefaces were from Germany or Italy, they didn't have thorn. So they replaced it with a letter ꝥ rarely occurred in the same place þ did: Y.

Broadening a thought: We'd be better off if we stopped talking about "the internet of things" and started talking about "computers don't always look like we expect them to".

Instead of saying "internet-enabled" it might be wise to say "regardless of what it looks like, that's a computer and you should treat it like one".

"Somebody hacked my fridge!" Yes, your fridge has a computer built into it and you should treat it like a computer (and demand that the manufacturer treat it like one).

Pro tip: Like split infinitives and ending a sentence with a preposition, grammarians of the 18th and 19th centuries proscribed the singular "they" not because it was actually bad English grammar but because you can't do it in Latin.

It is my great misfortune to report that Frank Beard is no longer the only clean-shaven member of ZZ Top, having elected to grow facial hair in the mid-2010s.

We can :blobpats: if we want to
We can leave your :birdsite:
'Cause your :birdsite: don't :blobpats:
And if it don't :blobpats:
Then it's no :birdsite: of mine

@djsundog Hardly fair to hold Uncle Walt accountable for that - he died ten years before the first major revision of copyright, and more than 30 years before the Sonny Bono Act.

Anything can be a symbol for anarchy. If someone complains about the symbol you use, ask if they’re trying to impose rules on you.

TIL about the Cagots, a group of people in France and Spain who experienced systemic hatred and discrimination because... they were Cagots.

They weren't any different from the other people living near them - same skin and hair color, same language, same religion, etc. - but if you were born to a Cagot family, you were a Cagot, and the rest of the people hated and shunned you. And nobody nowadays knows why; the origins of the discrimination have been lost to time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot

I had no idea that Powerman5000's second album was named after an actual short story. #TonightTheStarsRevolt! https://elekk.xyz/media/0ipF_oSUj4qK7FtBAnQ

happy GNU/year, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus year

People are talking about New Year’s resolutions and I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as New Year’s, is in fact, GNU/Year’s, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Year’s. A year is not an time period unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU months, days and minutes comprising a full calendar as defined by POSIX.

when used as a package suffix, "JS" is pronounced "jizz". For example, "AngularJizz", "ReactJizz"

your page is loading https://elekk.xyz/media/Fxa2JGn6jMbKaXQYVNc

In Firefox's "couldn't establish a connection" page, the cute Mozilla is having trouble connecting two cables together. The stress lines imply that he's pulling but can't get them to meet.

But the cables both have visible slack in them. The image implies not that the connection CAN'T be made, but that Mozilla doesn't WANT to.

This bugs me. https://elekk.xyz/media/MecB2KDeh83SDPbxlPQ

Man, I kind of want a #WWIV interface for Mastodon. Instead of streaming, just load the posts since you last loaded, and have different "boards" for Home, Notifications, LTL, FTL, and Lists...

Anyone remember the #Laser128? (It was an Apple IIe clone back in the 80s.) A friend is asking if it had a disk operating system; the manual suggests not, so we're looking for first-hand experience to confirm!