🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

I remembered this epic quote from Good Will Hunting and now I need to watch it again:

You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart.

Not sure how accurate this chart actally is, but I know they used to use symbols.It was way cooler.

I love how Zephod Beeblebrox, a man who had a huge ego and thought he was very important to the entire universe, was the only man to ever survive the Total Perspective Vortex. He came out and basically said: Pretty much what I expected.

Douglas was a genius.

Since a few of you really liked the weather ascii porn, here is the output for the current moon phase. Gotta love the ASCII moon :) and yes, the ASCII image of the moon changes with the phase.

Woot! Finally no rain tomorrow. I think I'll need to do a little human safari to the city!

An explanation of rhe Total Perspective Vortex, by Douglas Adams:

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.

For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire "intelligent" population of which lives permanently in one fairly small and crowded nut tree. In which tree they are born, live, fall in love, carve tiny speculative articles in the bark on the meaning of life, the futility of death and the importance of birth control, fight a few extremely minor wars, and eventually die strapped to the underside of some of the less accessible outer branches.

In fact the only Oglaroonians who ever leave their tree are those who are hurled out of it for the heinous crime of wondering whether any of the other trees might be capable of supporting life at all, or indeed whether the other trees are anything other than illusions brought on by eating too many Oglanuts.

Exotic though this behaviour may seem, there is no life form in the Galaxy which is not in some way guilty of the same thing, which is why the Total Perspective Vortex is as horrific as it is.

For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here."

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.

To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

This one is to convince @realcaseyrollins to finish watching Futurama.

Pretty much me anytime I program anything.

#programming #software #cs #it #funy #meme #joke #jokes

TL;DR Allowing editing without deleting in mastodon would be a significant benefit to the blind and sight-impaired community.

Thanks to @n0btc bringing it to my attention I have tried to be more mindful of captioning my photos. It seems an important effort that only works well if we all try and do it and be considerate. I absolutely support this.

The problem is I have decades of not doing this and posting memes is very much automatic at times. I see something funny and I post it a few seconds later with my own 2 or 3 word blurb. Problem is I often forget to caption the photos.

Now you can argue I can just do delete&redraft, and this is true, in fact if I catch my error before the post has any activity this is what I do. But I find most of the time it is hours later or even days I forget. So its far too late to do that without loosing all the boosts and orphaning any comments. Not to mention it would annoy the whole fediverse to see the same meme or photo pop up in their feed twice, hours apart. People have even contacted me about that complaining because they see it as repost spamming not realizing it is a edit.

The solution I use is to just add a comment with the picture description when I realize. But I'd imagine this is very inconvenient for the blind & sight-imparied as they would have to look through the comments before they even know if there is a description or not.

This is why being able to edit-in place would be a huge help to them, we can add technical corrections we simply wouldnt otherwise add. The easiest solution I could think of is to keep a revision history and otherwise allow it.

Anyway, hope @gargron considers this as a feature soon.

We recently had a flat-earther. I was tolerant of this up until the point he got aggressive in private messages when asked about if he is a STEM student or professional. So the situation mostly resolved itself, he is no longer with us.

With that said how should we handle people who are otherwise respectful but post almost 100% flat-earth content (basically people who are explicitly anti-STEM)?

Im a dog person but llllaaawwwwllll

#cat #cats #humor #joke #meme #jokes

Someone just sent me someones lab reports, full name and details.. accidentally to the wrong email.. wow

Someone is about to loose their license ::forwards to HIPAA::

To go with my profile picture