josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@LydiaConwell@exile.social I'm sorry to break it to you, but neither was a very good joke, theirs nor yours.

BTW, DNS is the Domain Name System, which translates domain names (i.e., exile.social) into the IP addresses that computers actually understand. “What is an IP address?” I'll let you look that up.

@ErickaSimone Ramones, “Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)”

@radiofreefedi

To be honest, I never stopped trusting books over the Internet, and, depending on the topic, older books over newer ones.

After all, before MGC, there was SEO, and before that there were stupid blog authors who wouldn't do proper research.

The only problem with books is that certain fields changed so quickly that they made books obsolete after a very short period of time. Also, editors got progressively worse at their job, to the point that I'm beginning to suspect they may no longer exist.

I can't wait for tiktokers to watch _2001, A Space Odyssey_ and make videos saying: “OMG, the Barbie song!”

@jaruzel They usually say so, so you can filter out #retrogaming if it disgusts you that much. You'd be getting pure, unadulterated #retrocomputing posts.

Keep in mind, though, that some of those are about machines that were mostly used to play games, so you risk missing out on interesting stuff.

My advice is that you use the hashtag to find retrocomputing-related accounts and follow those.

@MudMan

@coolboymew Sad that Amy Dallen got fired. She was cool.

Aunque en este caso concreto se puede deducir el país e incluso la ciudad por la instancia y el prefijo telefónico, lo suyo sería aportar esa información explícitamente.

@lydiaconwell That's your fault for not having him muted like every (other) sane person does.

@lydiaconwell Maybe they didn't like her original colour and said: “This is our chance!” Or they thought: “Mom's hair is showing her age. We should dye it” “Sure, but what colour?” “I don't know, but I like chestnut.” Or, third option, she had grown white hair and they decided to dye it in order for her not to freak out when she woke up. Problem was, they had forgotten her original colour and tried something different. That seems plausible to me. I don't pay attention to anyone's hair colour. Unless it's red. Then I do pay attention because I like it.

@johanmynhardt Honest answer: I don't know.

On one hand, they seem to have managed to monetise their products, so, at least in the short term, it seems sustainable. That said, we're not really talking about AI, so it may happen that the trend wears out, or that some system makes a catastrophic mistake and we decide it's not worth it anymore. (By ‘catastrophic’ I don't necessarily mean a nuclear accident or launching missiles, but a medical misdiagnosis or any other error that costs its company money.)

@lydiaconwell I've only been in coma for two days, so I wouldn't know, but I believe it is normal to groom people in that situation, clipping their nails and all that. It makes sense. After all, they're people, not trash.

Nobody believes me, but this article that I haven't even clicked on confirms what I've been saying all along, namely that cats are evil.

@veer66 I've been using XFS for many years now. I'm no filesystem expert, but it's always worked like a charm for me.

@jloc0 There's already an unofficial repository of packages for -current. Maybe you can talk to its maintainer if you don't want to duplicate efforts:

https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds

The best book about Ruby still is, and probably always will be, _Why's (Poignant) Guide To Ruby_:

http://poignant.guide/

#ruby #programming