Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

I often think about this scene from Patrick Farley's great web comic The Guy I Almost Was.

It was a reference to the Mondo2000 era but seems baked into the DNA of the modern web

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/

Serious question, boost for maximum responses please? Trying to learn something here

Would you be worried that someone was trying to scam you or was fishy if they didn't use a Gmail address for their email? For example, they used Yahoo, Tutanota, Proton Mail, etc?

wait red hat wants to take rhel closed source? it's linux, shouldn't the GPL make that impossible?

@vertigo

i'll have to dig into this; there are certainly mechanisms for code sharing that do not involve dynamic linking (like message passing & interrupt service routines) but i'm struggling to imagine a code-sharing mechanism based on linking that's not a variation on dynamic linking (even if it's static linking plus a kind of emulation of dynamic linking)...

When faced with a poll with a joke answer, do you tend to answer with the joke answer? (please reach for boost!)

absolutely losing my entire mind at this web site that decided to take their irritating distracting "chat with us" popups that no one ever asked for and make it *fucking bounce around like the fucking dvd logo* what the fuck is happening

I wrote some software¹: git-backdate allows you to change the dates on a (range of) commit to a given time frame. For perfectly good reasons. 😇

Includes flags to keep the commits inside of or outside of business hours. Also for perfectly good reasons. 😈

https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate

¹ some time ago, naturally

WAT, I just put this here. Have a beer

Amazingly, I made this several years ago

Topless chicks in short skirts

we need to figure out how to get javascript working in the browser. there are so many libraries just going to waste being used for nodejs when they could also be used on the client-side. we gotta stop reinventing the wheel guys

Suggestion: Reach out to your local government, emergency service provider, and/or news org. Let them know that Twitter has ended public access to content and that Mastodon is a working alternative *today*. I did this on the weekend with my local emergency folks and this morning I got a reply back saying they had noticed the embedded Twitter feed on their webpage was broken.

They didn't realize Twitter had cut that service. Now, hopefully, they are considering their options including Mastodon.

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of Mastodons

Back when Windows 95 came out you could drag "The Internet" icon to the bin and it'd pop up a message that said "Are you sure you want to delete The Internet?" and we thought it was hilarious but in hindsight maybe one of us should have said "yes".