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Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 02:34:39 EST 
Alexandre Oliva
what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99
think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of decades of use. how screwy and irresponsible is that? -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 27-Aug-2021 08:11:00 EDT 
Stephen Sekula
Vaccine conspiracy theorists become even more desperate after full FDA authorization That is the horror of a conspiracy theory: it is a living mass of all possible logical fallacies, incapable of being reasoned out of existence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/26/vaccine-conspiracy-theorists-become-even-more-desperate-after-full-fda-authorization/ -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 15:28:49 EDT 
Bob Jonkman
#Stroopwafels FTW! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 21:23:36 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Reminds me of a riddle I heard in high school (around the time Canada switched to metric): If it's 0 Celsius here, and twice as cold in Ottawa, what's the temperature there?
Conflating both the #ZeroIsNotMinimum problem and a negatively worded question about positive values.
Think of "If it's 273 Kelvin here, and twice as cold in Ottawa"... would that be 546 Kelvin in Ottawa, or 136.5 Kelvin? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Oct-2021 22:43:35 EDT
Alexandre Oliva
funny thing, when I read stuff aloud, it's like DMA, it doesn't go through the CPU, and I can't recall what I've heard. I only retain what I read if I read it quietly -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 25-Dec-2021 14:35:45 EST
Stephen Sekula
A joyous day. 378 years ago, Isaac Newton was born. He laid the firmest foundations for the laws of mechanics, which today were used to launch a new space telescope. That telescope was made possible, in part, thanks to his foundations for optics. This new instrument will help us understand the first stars in the universe. -
Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 06-Dec-2021 05:33:38 EST 
Aral Balkan
Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to c… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 23:59:13 EST
Bob Jonkman
Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 15:35:27 EST
Alexandre Oliva
remember when web site designers worked really hard to cut down the amount of nonsense on the web page so it would spend fewer server, network and client resources, and would load faster? those were the days. that was before surveillance capitalism took hold, I suppose. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 16:18:11 EST
Bob Jonkman
Some of us still do that - make the content the most important thing on the page, rather than the chrome and the flash and the bling... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 01-Nov-2021 11:35:54 EDT 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"htyps" is the secure typos protocol. This should have been "https" instead.
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