David Arnold

@tomminieminen@mastodontti.fi @kamstrup@fosstodon.org catalog vs catenate. The perils of abbreviation (not something UNIX is afraid of).

@cordova5029@dragonscave.space @Unixbigot@aus.social the Apple NewtonOS contacts app had a feature that would play DTMF dial tones through the speaker, so you could call someone by holding it near the phone mic. It did not (to my knowledge) support the “blue box” tones, a sad omission given Apple’s history.

@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa I see my task, fundamentally, as programming computers. So I call myself a computer programmer. Software Engineering is a lie, trying to claim status without responsibility. Developer always struck me as a slimy dude in a bad suit trying to sell land that floods at high tide …

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social what is (or has been) their motivation to destroy the post-WW2 order, in your view?

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social thanks. I hadn’t considered the religious angle.

@len@nyan.network @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa I’ll call myself a software engineer when I am legally liable for bugs I create.