lutoma @lutoma@chaos.social

i've been watching the fediverse for an hour and the main themes have been:

- hungry
- horny
- art
- hrt
- socialism

which im pretty sure is actually maslows hierarchy of needs

ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

current mood:

TIL – Using conditional entries in .gitconfig to automatically manage #git identities based on the working directory. Nice!

https://dev.to/maxlmator/maintaining-different-git-identities

@ebassi @federicomena if you think about it, web browsers are the ultimate destination of the Unix philosophy:
- alright, then we'll just send an computer program over the pipe first to interpret all the other data we're gonna send.

office goals

facebook's lpt on how to get past adblockers

@tA @tealturtle

That reminds me of the biggest "dumb, but it works" hack I've ever heard of. The USSR had a televised talent contest and wanted everyone to vote on their favourite performers. But the phone system wasn't up to the task, so they had people turn their lights on to signal approval, and off to signal disapproval. Then the power company measured demand to judge the winners.

“Just install Linux on it” is the “just change the engine of your car” of tech.

Not everyone is a mechanic, not everyone wants to be a mechanic, and, if we want a world where freedom is the norm, we must stop expecting everyone to become a mechanic.

Note: this is not because these people are too dumb to be mechanics. It’s because they’re brain surgeons and space-shuttle pilots and they have three kids and they care for a loved one and they don’t have time to also be a mechanic.