Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
@mayintoronto Reminds me of being at a startup a couple decades ago, where we had an offsite meeting day to team build and re-align and all that jazz.
Entire development and operations teams were building something completely different than what management thought was going on. Management was flabbergasted at this revelation.
I think the thing that got built was better than management's ideas, despite them using their concept to raise money.
This is my self hosted #iceshrimp instance for me, myself, and I.
Related, I have a self hosted #vernissage instance where I post things I find while wandering around with the cameras. You can find those at @another
My toots are ephemeral and might be deleted at any time. (I run irregular sweeps of my posts and zap them when I feel like it.)
I prefer to stay away from politics, when possible. I may boost or create a #shitpost or #meme about them from time to time. Those are more likely to be deleted sooner than other posts.
At the start of the pandemic, I had been already working from home for about six years and was very comfortable with the video meetings.
The majority of the company was new to it though, and they were doing video calls for the first time due to offices temporarily closed for the plague. When I attended some meeting outside of my usual group it was a revelation for many that you could have fun with it.
Most didn't know about having custom backgrounds, for instance.
Our pedestrian crosswalk beg buttons say "WAIT!" in a semi-urgent male voice when you press them (or wave at them closely in some cases). Meaning, wait for the light to change and the walk sign to light up.
Tonight we encountered one that said "Change password" in a non-urgent female voice. Couldn't get it to repeat that, nor give any more audible output while we were there waiting for the light to change. Pushed it a zillion times. (Usually you can push them and get it to say WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!)
In the early 90s I worked with Data General Dasher D2 serial terminals that are the inspiration for the computers in Severance. The D2 was in the printer room and was used to control the print queues. The keyboards were shit, partly because even at that time those terminals were long in the tooth (introduced 1977), and the keyboards were starting to go.
My favourite as far as looks went was the D200, from 1979. I was also able to type reasonably ok on it and used an in house Oracle Pro*C Forms application in my main job as well as monkeying around with rewriting printer queue management scripts for the new AViiON DG/UX system that replaced a pair of MV/8000 AOS beasts.
Back in simpler times, I set up some mailing list software and added any spammer that found my inbox to that list, then injected their spam back to the list. This was when the majority of spam was sent from real accounts. From fields were not forged, generally.
There were clear instructions in the email headers on how to unsubscribe.
The indignant chaos of them fighting with each other demanding to get off the list and to stop sending them spam was priceless entertainment.
UPS cross border is always a shit show with customs etc. No way for occasional non biz user to pay online to release from customs. 800 line recording says to go to a ups.com/guestpay and of course that does not exist at all. So, waiting in telephone hell queue to pay. (I had no choice what courier the seller chose to use)
Shipping (and payment) notification email just appeared for something I apparently ordered three years ago. Some kind of kickstarter-like thing. I had completely forgotten.
Thanks, past me. I guess I will have some beam spring keyboards to play with in a week or so.
@mayintoronto Reminds me of being at a startup a couple decades ago, where we had an offsite meeting day to team build and re-align and all that jazz.
Entire development and operations teams were building something completely different than what management thought was going on. Management was flabbergasted at this revelation.
I think the thing that got built was better than management's ideas, despite them using their concept to raise money.
Imported all my evernote junk into a #SelfHosted paperless install a while ago. It's like pulling teeth from a croc to get the account deleted at Evernote.
@GeePawHill ... but not so hard to believe that there's people who believe it was staged. So many flat earth and other willfully ignorant nutters out there.
First mow of the season completed. Some really dormant bits of grass under/near the evergreens as they really suck the water up.
Sprinklers running for the first time, no busted heads or valves this time, yay. (Yes, the sprinkler system gets isolated and air purged in the fall, but sometimes things still go awry during winter
Dogs are out in the yard, and will be getting wet. Hope they stay out of the flower beds. (muddy paws in 3, 2, 1 ....)
