Notices by Sydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW Type (sydneyfalk@mst3k.interlinked.me), page 2

@djsundog @noelle

ah, my mistake

I thought QA stood for Quarter Ack

well, I can give it my best, coach, maybe we see how training goes? ^_^

pro life tip secret hint weird thing:

any time you hear a new word, automatically ask, "oh, right, those! what are those sausages made from again?"

if that thing is a sausage you look smart as heck

if it's not you still get an explanation about what the thing actually is

@djsundog

fren + optional digit + three nonoptional letters + optional digit + optional letter = lotsa frenchfrisee frens

fren0bur5e

@djsundog

(which is NOT tootropology, although the two are often confused by laypeople)

@djsundog

tootcheology

@djsundog @thecyberwolfe @catoutofbed

I think it's less that we took that as a guiding principle as that it's humanity's defining characteristic

we are the Rube Goldberg species

@thecyberwolfe @catoutofbed @djsundog

per a user from Perlmonks, ages ago

"Makeshifts last the longest."

JP Barlow has left the building; may his name always be spoken.

But we're all going to have to pull a little more slack on the internet's weirdness factor to make up for it.

Sorry, I don't make the rules.

@djsundog

all I can remember is being a kid and finding out about the EFF, and thinking, "that needed doing"

not everybody who sees a thing that needs doing will do it, I already knew that

so I was glad someone was

maybe we as a species need to move past the idea that some of what was "good" ten or twenty or thirty or forty years ago

is still "good" now

good is a moving target, quality changes

Dickens is impenetrably dense and unrealistically plot-convenient now

is it "good"? uh, a hundredsomething years back, sure, it was fuckin' fantastic

it's crap now

move on

@djsundog

you spinfrasound me right round bb

within guitars we have "air" and "electric"

yet within quotes we only have "air"

we have no electric quotes despite sending humans to the fucking moon

WHAT GIVES

RISC-V

Really Interestingly Spiced Chicken mark V

every acronym with a C in it is chicken somehow

I DON'T MAKE THE RULES

@dredmorbius @noelle

The problem isn't complexity, IMO.

I mean ink and paper are actually shockingly complex things, but the 'interface' of 'writing on paper' has been relatively standardized in the collective human mind at this point -- but that's still pretty recent. The evolution of pens, of water-soluble ink, of papers made with varying materials and thicknesses and purposes, etc. It took a long damn time.

So computer interface use may not be 'standardized' for a much longer while yet. :\

@noelle

"So this car is HACKABLE, huh?"

"It...drives itself to whatever address you give it, knows when it's running out of gas and finds a gas station FOR you, and almost never hits anything ever at all."

"Yeah. Because COMPUTERS. So it's HACKABLE."

"..."

@djsundog

excuse me

that's a copyrighted slogan of Cybre-O's™ cereal

you may not use that word without the express written consent of Major League Cybre and the first person(s) you ever had sex with

@mallaidh

Q. Not even yourself?

A. Not yourself. Not even AN ELF.

@djsundog

:sydneythink:

@gdkar @djsundog

I imagine this as a three-part reaction

1. YAY BECAUSE SHORKS!
2. RUN BECAUSE SHORKS!
3. OH SHIT SWIM BECAUSE SHORKS MY BAD