citizen428 @citizen428@chaos.social
Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist. Taming bits for a living. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ are my two natural states.
Joined Nov 2020
YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/yc-advises-founders-to-plan-for-the-worst/
"Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually."
Great fundraising gimmick for a new programming language (@hare):
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The #clojure community keeps blowing me away, even after all these years.
Woah, oldschool Beasty Boys vibes here.
Woah, oldschool Beasty Boys vibes here.
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"Victor, I think we've got a connection, a correlation."
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"It's incomprehensible."
Space: 1999: Season 1 Episode 1 - Breakaway
Complex words like these would not be allowed in today's serials ..
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👴 OK kids...
Before #Mastodon, before #socialMedia, before the #Web, we had the #BBS.
If you wanna learn from those who came before, here's a comprehensive 5-hour #documentary about bulletin board systems. 🤓
(Of course, given the world back then it's mostly 5 hours of old white guys. So it goes!)
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A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:
If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!
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For those of you who are coming from Twitter expecting a Twitter replacement or Twitter killer:
Mastodon may have a twitter like interface on the surface, but at it's core it's a completely different animal.
If you came here expecting Mastodon to be just like twitter your expectations will fall flat.
Treat it like something completely new and different. Take time to get to know each other.
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reminded of Here I Stand, the only board game that simulates the Protestant Reformation from 1517 to 1555 in enough detail to require a Henry's Wives' Pregnancy Chart and Excommunication Cubes
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#Gitea is joining the fediverse 🎉 We can now announce we've been accepted into the #NLnet funding round that we applied to. https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/
Thank you to @NGIZero @dachary @forgefriends and so many others for getting us to this point.
We are very much looking forward to many wonderful things that federation within forges can support.
“The number of W3C specifications grows at an average rate of 200 new specs per year, or about 4 million words, or about one POSIX every 4 to 6 months.” 🤯
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attestation-of-personhood/
TIL there was a Simpsons Doom mod and it looks way scarier than the original game.
Issue 65: Burn out edition https://citizen428reads.substack.com/p/issue-65-burn-out-edition
So apparently aptitude can solve Sudokus, now that's a surprising side effect of having an advanced SAT solver for dependencies.
Package Management Sudoku https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/
Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist. Taming bits for a living. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ are my two natural states.
Joined Nov 2020
