Steven Sandoval

@adarsh@ruby.social @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange Some ideas:

• ROAR: Ruby on Alternate Rails.
• Dreamstone (see Chrono Trigger).
• Opal on Karts (OOK 🦧).
• Detritus (another Discworld reference).
• Phosphophyllite via Post (PvP or “Phos”).
• Core in Dump (pun on the Aluminium (III) Oxide crystal comprising Ruby and Sapphire: Corundum).
• AlOx (abbreviation of Aluminium (III) Oxide)

Children of Strife, third sequel to Children of Time (2015) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, is being released on Tuesday in the US. https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/346728749/children-of-strife/adrian-tchaikovsky/ #bookstodon

Happy 2069th Anniversary of Stab Your Dictator Day. #idesofmarch #ettubrute #LittleCaesars

I imagine people during World War 2 would have hesitated to call it that until the US got itself involved. Similarly, I think the current conflict may be known as World War 3 even though China has yet to get directly entangled. #israel #us #iran

God, I hate the #Apple store, forcing me to maintain an #iPhone just to get a code from to prove my identity when I want to help a friend prepare for #CollegeBoardʼs stupid eugenics-adjacent career-required exams.

I updated my command-line cheat-sheet with include a table of my most frequently used commands. https://reboil.com/mediawiki/Baltakatei%27s_Useful_CLI_Commands#usage

Usage info from: `$ history | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -hk1`. Your `awk` expression may vary.

Autocracy is the boring strongman default with the worst average need satisfaction and resource distribution across a population. Democracy is a rare dissolution of central power that allows those resources to be allocated not to the most sociopathically ambitious but intelligently to address relevant needs since democratically elected leaders are selected not according to nepotism from a microscopic set of loyalists but multidisciplinary competence from across the entire population.

When an evacuation order is given for an airplane, the overhead bins should all automatically lock themselves to prevent passengers from delaying egress hauling their carry-on luggage with them through emergency exit routes.

@scathach@stereophonic.space I couldn't find the exact page of the source from the artist's Pixiv, they are so prolific, but I figured I'd post a link for more manga-fied memes of the same style. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/35601322

Now would be a good time to test working backups *not* at us-east-1.

If you arenʼt going to go full GPLv3 with your LLM, at least use your proprietary control over the technology to deny the military access, not facilitate it. #openai

Housing is not an investment. If your literal beating heart is not physically within throwing distance of your property at least 10% of the year, you should be taxed up the wazoo.

That applies to landlords and mortgage owners as well as deed holders. Your mortgage was sliced up and mixed into some financial derivative? Everything in that mix gets taxed according to the rate of the most physically distant shareholder.

Professor Oak's theme shares a motif from the Nutcracker Suite. https://youtu.be/E_r_umMbLWs&t=641 #pokemon

You know things are bad when you have to VPN out of your mobile data because #Cloudflare blocks your access to sites. #att

Landscaping fail.

I like to think “magic” is the pursuit of knowledge that supports life and the harmonious enjoyment of it with others.

I stand by my comparison between Neal Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson. https://sopuli.xyz/comment/20594460

Fix your app, #Marriott. Trust the location's time zone, not the user's time zone.

I wish I could mute everyone whose username ends in numbers.

Whenever I see something sponsored by “Jeep”, I mostly imagine #KosekiBijou and #KaelaKovalskia 's #Minecraft sheep. Intellectually, I know some US automobile manufacturer is involved, but… #Jeep! #Hololive #Biboo #GSH

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

If you post a tearjerker story, you need to post verifiable proof that whatever tragedy or accident actually occurred or I assume you are wasting my time karma farming lies.

When you can't recognize your family members in-person because they always use AI filters…

#Pokemon came out 60 years ago today! #PokemonDay おめでとう! https://youtu.be/X618m65s3Gg