I think I’m getting allergic to grift. Thirst traps, click bait, thumbnail face, weird flexes, reaction shots… there’s a weird greasy feel to it all, like too much codeine.
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Garth Kidd
@garthk@eigenmagic.net
mastodon 4.5.18-eigenOnline since the BBS era. Fluked being in the right place at the right time to help early era podcasting. Nowhere near as rural as my hat might suggest.
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This post wasn’t about Microsoft and responsible disclose when I started, no, but I see how you got there.
FFS one of my Mastodon clients quietly tossed replies I tried to post from a more relevant account
“The Aristocrats”, only the punchline is “shareholder value!”
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How very dare you!
It’s a vendor consortium, not a cartel.
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@CoralineAda@ruby.social ikr and the ride from “weird but ok you do you” to “that pays; respect” to “what have you motherfuckers done”
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz you’re SO close to being able to score post-codes on how cursed they are. I’ll just leave this here https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/sqlite-tg
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Righto, timeline cleanse… the Student Showcase from @pyconau was one of the funniest 90 minutes I've spent, full of heart, and like @freakboy3742 I recommend you watch it. http://youtu.be/Z60fVOQJzpc
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@paul I know, right? Neither did Eran Hammer, so he walked. Good on him. https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a48f
“This isn’t an accident. This is…” not as well schemed as it seems in hindsight, I reckon? We don’t need a conspiracy to explain it: incentives are enough. We’re livestock to them, sure, got it; how are we going to get out of this pen?
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Like, you can turn guys to ash by feigning ignorance of the sound of a 2400 baud modem, but institutions run by grown-ups without grudges is some ancient fucking history.
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Goal: screen print T shirt for joke before context flushed to the Lethe.
Quality goal: bootleg Bauhaus T-shirt, Melbourne, 1990.
UV transfer with a resin printer LCD sounds quick and fun but I can’t find an off-the-shelf design and I’d never finish home-brewing one.
Cricut® shite is too stiff on shirts; any of you tried ironing it on screen film?
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org was it you with the HOA strife recently?
RE: @grimalkina@mastodon.social
New tic: BECAUSE INCENTIVES
I’d ask how many of you have “enshittification” muted, but…
“Horses weren’t retired out of malice. They became uneconomical to keep. There is no economic law preventing the same happening to humans.” https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
“This is a powerful argument against the containerisation of shipping.”
— @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net, “The 9pm Capybara of Hope with David F Porteous” (2026)
(wheezing)
Weird: @ivory@tapbots.social has been setting my post visibility to “followers only” by default. It’s not a bad default, but I’d prefer my default to be “public” for the first post in a thread and “unlisted” from then on. Sent email; will report back.
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net hahaha I thought I was the only idiot putting basic CLI demos into every module but noooo the standard library is full of them?
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@glyph@mastodon.social @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems we’ll be maintaining Python 3.6 code until 2029 because EL8 /usr/libexec/platform-python
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@adhdjesse@mstdn.social Duolingo’s gamification just nearly did that to me for learning a language. The abusive “oh no you’re going to be demoted” mechanic kicked off a week-long binge that burnt me out.