Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 2

the thing about digital community software is that setting one up takes about 0.00000001% the energy it takes to actually run a community

to be differently-specific: running a community is frequently fairly rewarding with little effort required for lots of good times, but then occasionally someone takes a dump on the floor and you have to put on the latex gloves and clean it up and put little signs around the affected area, and you have to be willing up front to do this an unspecified number of times at almost any time of day. none of this is in the software manual.

Those of you whomst have already switched a repository away from github to self-hosting, how did you handle the github repository? Did you archive it read-only? Where did you list the URL of the new repository?

I don't know who wrote these luxon docs, but holy crap are they right

every fucking website has a popup box on it.

We somehow put a stop to alert() and target=_blank popups but now people just shove a centered div in your way.

WHY

@bjarni Oh right, having ourselves be blocked without knowing about it would cause what you describe for sure. Can't say I have a problem with incentivizing the usage of smaller instances overall. Villages over mega cities.

Make up your mind...

@codesections @alexbuzzbee
They did have a lot of 80486 chips fail QC for the FPU early in the release history of the chip, but eventually demand for the chip with the lower price point exceeded the defect rate so chips were diverted from the line and the FPUs disabled instead of tested. It was absolutely infuriating, but that's not late stage capitalism

Late stage capitalism is the 80487. The support chipset for the 486sx came with a socket for a math coprocessor. The 487 was actually a 486dx with 80487sx silkscreened on it. When seated in the coprocessor socket, the 487 took over all CPU function, but only if a 486sx was detected in the system

flitting between realities like a fey child, astounded to disbelief by the sensation of living.

Floppy drive controller support is "pretty much dead" in the Linux kernel: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/26/retrotechtacular-the-floppy-disk-orphaned-by-linux/

I mean, sure it is. I haven't even seen a floppy in years and years. But still, what an era to be at the end of. Wow.

"come and dance with me" says the elven queen, "come and dance forever"

Try an app for your phone and computer that reduces the blue light on your screens at night.

I'd really like to see a graph of number of floppy disks manufactured by year.

For instance, my home NAS has about 24TB of storage, or the equivalent of approximately 30,000,000 Amiga 880 KB floppies. For what years did my NAS's storage exceed the size of all floppy disks manufactured that year?

I love using Friend Camp (the instance I administer) to test out features for Hometown (the Mastodon fork I'm running). This morning I deployed what I'm calling "Exclusive Lists" -- a list where, if you put an account on it, that account doesn't appear in your home timeline anymore.

Link to Hometown, since every time I mention it someone asks for the link: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

"Consider it a part of your civic duty: driving up the costs of data breaches for corporations so they have an incentive to invest more heavily in security." https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

I am unaware of any venomous crabs.