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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org for your consideration: reproduce them with a mimeograph as your ancestors did. Bonus points: you make the stencils by typewriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

@futurebird@sauropods.win I feel like this is exactly what the parable of the wicked steward is about, but almost two thousand years later the gospel readers aren’t ready to have that conversation

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org someone else trying to sell you some mail order meat?

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org For the kids playing along at home: if it’s got a radio in it there’s a good chance you can download a pdf of the manual from the FCC database. The more you know!

@mcc@mastodon.social the prisoner’s dilemma but trying to figure out if the counterparty in the other cell will give a 3 or a 4

ELEVATOR PITCH: We need more First Bloods Every TV show with a weirdo and a cop partnered up solving crimes together is copaganda Cops don’t give a shit about solving weird crimes, let alone care enough to team up with someone who could piss off a beat cop in under five words. Look at the clearance rates for any major city First Blood got this over forty years ago: some weird guy shows up and they arrest and beat him, and then he burns their entire town to the ground Any show with a weirdo cop with a normie partner would be better with the First Blood formula, look at Jack Reacher GEORDI NO: Sweet Dee is AuDHD and solves kidnapping cases for the LAPD GEORDI YES: Sweet Dee is AuDHD and takes on dirty LAPD cops with Rube Goldberg Hitman traps

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org also see what happens when you leave out nuclear powered radio repeaters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident

Wondering if the intellectual justification to fire all the QA departments came from Rails TDD the same way that the intellectual justification to fire all the DBAs came from Rails migrations Because let me tell you, TDD out in the trenches is an XKCD-class thought terminating cliche: “I heard that to write unit tests you have to do TDD and write the tests first, and that’s too much work so I don’t write tests

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org this is a variety on literally The Oldest Con in the Book, the “pig in a poke” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org “Roadside Picnic” (bad ending)

I hate that I miss the days when someone would make a nice software product at a decent price and then blatantly and abruptly sell it off to a tech giant who would assimilate or kill it Now we get open source leaders taking slop payola to become influencers. You can be sure that they aren’t gonna be able to retire on that money The surprising thing about people in the US who spied for the KGB is how little it paid

@somebody@circumstances.run @alamarw@mastodon.social @cyberquixote@infosec.exchange this rhymes with Robert Moses and the infrastructure projects of the 1950s leading directly to the slash and burn of the Bronx in the 1970s also, I have heard it said that the administrators of these estates, or dioceses, ended up becoming the bishops of the western Catholic church

@davidaugust@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org they don’t actually have enough room in there for meat but they cab put you down for twelve months of steaks and chops with a free ten pound box of frozen burger patties

@rujasu@kind.social there’s a joke about the PS1 game in here too but I’m striking out send toot https://oldgames.app/games/ps1/einhander-ps1-9146

@healyn@normal.style this sounds like the first episode in your season of The Big Lebowski (2027-2032, FX)

[staring at Scrabble tiles on conference room table as superheroes argue in background] CHOOSIN TEXAS [rearranges tiles and everyone else in room fall silent and gasp in horror] TOOCHIN SAXES [KENNY G blasts out a killer solo]

@atax1a@infosec.exchange @joe@f.duriansoftware.com @pinskia@hachyderm.io shot: unlocked ancient memory of being a week into introductory Turbo Pascal taught by a sexagenarian math teacher who drew the short straw and pinning the irritation on “why aren’t we doing C like grownups” chaser: Standard ML, despite the superficialities, does not irritate on contact in the same way

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org see also: The Blob

Problem: in the days and years ahead there will be power and communications disruptions. The cellular network or even the internet may fail for days or weeks. Two way radio is a cheap and reliable way to keep the community together during these times, but how do you get people into it without being That Weirdo? Approach: Halloween is coming! It’s the one day of the year when children are still allowed to walk in the streets after dark and talk to strangers. And even adults will commit to the bit when there is spooky shit Make it something fun with FRS because that’s the lowest common denominator? How do we make this happen without being, ah, creepy?

when I was a young Werther weaned on DOS and Turbo Pascal, the idea that I had to create a user account to use my Linux install was strange look at a calculator or a wristwatch or a walkie talkie. The only thing that makes it uniquely yours is that you have possession of it with a null modem cable, if the person on the other end starts some shit, they know you can walk over and clothesline em with your keyboard minicomputers are a weapon of the enemy

@healyn@normal.style translation: I fucking dare you to explain to everyone why this is a stupid question”

@healyn@normal.style prefacing a question with “this may be a stupid question but” delivered as a threat

ROU (Don’t) Hack the Feds https://www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed-fbis-own-hacking-unit-remote-operations-shinyhunters/

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org and then you are left holding the bag

Turns out that the game ‘Falken’s Maze’ was about not getting tricked into thinking that the WOPR was an intelligent, conscious entity, and nobody in the movie WarGames even knew they were playing it

@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt as a Bell Atlantic kid, I now hear “sextile six nine” in the voice of James Earl Jones

@macross@infosec.town I don’t want hams to have anything to do with it, FRS is one step up from shouting out the window. That being said, the only thing worse than trying to get people interested in something is succeeding

@atax1a@infosec.exchange —how much do you pay a month for your chatbot and can you afford it when the price goes up by 20x? —mumble mumble local models

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town in my day, “Butt Rock” was what the dude who wore Stussy called Journey and Foreigner

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117295067361939622 Google Space Program (Bad Ending)

@futurebird@sauropods.win I can see what it’s taking about but I don’t know what it means, either

@XennyG@social.vivaldi.net @rujasu@kind.social I love that game it’s peak Bizarro Squaresoft

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @pikhq@social.treehouse.systems I think of this as a good time to evaluate the tools I use and evaluate them by whether they do things the easy way or the right way

@futurebird@sauropods.win I’ve heard it said that ‘a good cop knows you’re full of shit but lets you keep talking’ but I think that might be talking about the “good cop” and not a “good” cop

@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology this could have been a conversation from 2006 about Ruby getting railed (“If only matz knew what david hh was doing”)

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @LieschenrelleuM@kolektiva.social How wide/ tall is that pole? Concrete footings? I wonder if you could build a wood and rope lashing structure and then cut out sections of pipe like they way they disassemble construction cranes

@paninid@mastodon.world thinking about how Obama had to sleep on the couch for six months after he yukked it up with Trump at Carter’s funeral and now look how the turn tables

@pikhq@social.treehouse.systems It’s that “eh it’s almost good enough” that’s the key: they never quite finished it and the culture is full of old dudes fighting over credit for it. It’s like MS Word in that there are things that are difficult or impossible to do so you either stop doing them or you add another layer on top of it

@BRicker@fosstodon.org I tell people that a bad test is better than no test at all, but that they should keep working to make the tests better. Nobody listens to me unless I’m signing their paychecks and even then

@maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town EY EY EY https://youtu.be/QavS8lbjADM

@Viss@mastodon.social then PIZZA will send out for YOU

@BRicker@fosstodon.org somebody said “type hints are free unit tests” and I feel like a lot of TDD is a substitute for that I have to deal with the type of guy who gets mad about type hints and insists that they are busywork that impede his creativity and he knows what he’s doing but all his unit tests are “assert hasattr”

@enobacon@urbanists.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Ocean’s Eleven Photographers

@micchiato@kolektiva.social War never changes https://www.radiox.co.uk/features/x-plained/why-did-massive-attack-change-their-name/

@healyn@normal.style this is the setup, then there’s a missing buildup, and then the punch line is the entire Adam Sandler movie where Josh Gad fucks Q*Bert

CERTE PER CÆLUM VOLA / ESTO LIBER O ESTO LIBER

@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social I have the cover off and a new belt and shear pins from last year, I think that counts as already started

@atax1a@infosec.exchange we would have also accepted “gas station / travel plaza in Elizabeth, NJ”