Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

The most Mastodon thing I’ve seen on here so far is someone CWing a picture of a cat because the cat is making eye contact.

Please Fedi-Friends,
don’t forget to use Content Warning to hide your toot if you as discussing spoilers from a tv show, movie, game, or book so that others can enjoy it too! 📺🎬🎮📘✨

@alexwild I have a bit of nostalgia for the time that Yahoo was trying to keep all pages in a defined categorised tree.

Now I can't even get Amazon to return search results related to or even containing the words in my search string.

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com Being on fediblock is just a sign that your instance is properly federating across the network. It's an inevitability and there is nothing you can do about it.

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on spotter@referentiallabs.com.

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript

Anti-SLAPP win this morning. Dear CA plaintiffs and lawyers: just a reminder, under CA law even if I take a case pro bono you have to pay my fees, at rack rates, if I win an anti-SLAPP.

Hydrogen: A non-starter for transportation.

And that's coming from the editor of Hydrogen Insight Magazine.

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/no-more-hydrogen-trains-rail-company-that-launched-worlds-first-h2-line-last-year-opts-for-all-electric-future/2-1-1495801

#Hydrogen #Energy #EnergyTransition #EV

Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

I saw someone argue that shitposters can't succeed on Mastodon because their posts won't go viral due to the lack of an algorithm.

As a counterpoint to their belief I would like to introduce exhibit A, whatever the hell this account is.

Do you own/lease at least one vehicle? If so what kind is your daily driver? Please boost for reach.
ICE: conventional Internal Combustion Engine
Hybrid: Non-plugin gasoline electric
PHEV: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
EV: Battery Electric Vehicle
#CarsOfMastodon #EV #PHEV

@jon I love that the owner paid for the electricity for the entire shindig and as a result the town is considering installing an EV charging station. Look how much farther EV owners get when they cultivate a reputation for generosity instead of being total jerks.

🎵 Recharge your EV from a public outlet? Well, try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road. 🎵 #electricvehicles #ev #tech https://electrek.co/2023/07/29/this-tesla-caused-quite-a-buzz-when-it-bummed-a-charge-in-a-small-town/

"Everyone needs to touch the stove"

Happy to tell them it is hot. And how heat works. Ways to identify and avoid touching hot stoves.

But 99.99% of that will be ignored.

Until they touch the stove, scream in agony, and out of their own will and insight, re-stumble upon a thing that was said to them a dozen times. But now they are seeing it with fresh eyes.

Even then, they'll understand 20% and fill in the rest with some batshit theory of their own. Which is a vast improvement!

#gamedev

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.

Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.

Everyone: Okay.

Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

Gerontocracy has failed us. Let us kill it with fire and not look back.

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.