Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

Fred Brooks, architect of the IBM/360 and its OS, author of The Mythical Man Month, and advocate for the 8-bit byte (enabling lower case letters!), passed away today.

Few in computing have influenced so many.

It's called "pop" culture because just like soda "pop" it is made out of corn syrup. They replaced carbonation and sugar in "soda" with corn. They replaced folklore, heroes, and myths with spiritual corn syrup in "culture."

There are entire corporate brands (cults) which exist solely to replace these specific staples of human life with corn.

@rats @slightlyflightyone you don’t have to be a free speech instance to get defederated for being a free speech instance

oh my god is this the fucking origin of the pleroma NSFW image :what:

picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals

I heard there was a secret note
That William Carlos Williams wrote
But you don't really care for sorries, do you?

It goes like this, they're cold, they're sweet
You saved them for a breakfast treat
But from your fridge, I took the plums and screwed you.

Are you new here? New being defined as shorter than 2 months. Today is Nov 6.
I am interested to see how far the fedi reaches.

Please boost. #askfedi #new #poll #toot

- Lennart pushed most of the major distros to switch to systemd
- Also pushed a bunch of important projects to tightly integrate with systemd
- Moved from Red Hat to Microsoft
- Still working on systemd
- Microsoft is now the new lead company behind systemd

Things are coming up Microsoft.

#linux