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Shot in the dark here: did you, or anyone you know, work at the #Harvard Office of Information Technology (#OIT) circa 1997-98, AKA When Everyone Quit At Once over the summer? (Before or after the quitting is fine.)

If so... I have some questions which you are probably no longer legally enjoined from answering! 🤣

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fedi meta 

remember when we all panicked about threads?

that shit's never gonna federate, is it

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Discovery: It is currently impossible in Google Image Search to search for "Underware", the 1995 Macintosh extension that animated your desktop image. It searches for "underwear" instead. It does ask "Did you mean: 'Underwear?'" but it no longer gives an option to say no.

Searching "Underware" in quotes does not help. Searching "Underware mac" gives you about 50% results related to Underware for Macintosh and 50% pictures of underwear.

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@eniko then you need to write a linter to force you to write the if and else.

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@ianbetteridge funny that the worst people from Twitter making Bluesky a cesspit are also pushing hardest for traditional moderation there.

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The only solution to the male loneliness epidemic is a mandatory foxgirl for every man.

Now if you think this is ridiculous and unreal, the alternative is to explore the decay of the social structures that once gave every other person the opportunity to create a social net that allow them to feel safe and to create healthy and long lasting bonds.

So, back to the foxgirls.
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Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

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I didn't realise just how absolutely bizarre and honestly petty these reasons for blocking other instances were.

This is worse than letting little children run their own instances and bullying other children for the minor of differences.
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Periodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars.

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Big, wonky win for #FairUse in US #copyright:

cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opi

TLDR: If a tech standard becomes part of a legal standard, you can share it freely online without fear of liability for infringement.

“Many private organizations develop and copyright suggested technical standards ... We hold that the non-commercial dissemination of such standards, as incorporated by reference into law, constitutes fair use and thus cannot support liability for copyright infringement.

@dangillmor of course, some people have been saying journalists should leave Twitter for a long time.

Not generally people journalists like to listen to, but hey.

@jasonpettus of course, in 1995 the premier web browser was Netscape Navigator 2.0

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are pro-biotic or anti-biotic

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