josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@SirBemrose Ignorance is not understandable (or forgivable) at all. That's literally why they made a meme of it.

Sex (and sex-positive) education is a must in every school.

@realcaseyrollins

@coolboymew Just use Seamonkey's own Developer Tools (Ctrl-Shift-C) and modify the CSS on the fly. (Of course, you'd have to write the values down and edit the actual files later, because you're not really editing the page with the Inspector, just previewing the changes.)

@raccoon

@Kyrylys A ver, entiendo que esa comparación te parezca apropiada e ingeniosa cuando la persona que lo dice no te da ningún otro argumento, pero en sí misma es un poco infantil: “Si te gusta lo que había antes, eres un viejuno y un reaccionario. Hala.” Así suenas tú.

A mí el papel me sigue permitiendo, entre otras cosas, comparar dos o más páginas de un vistazo (por ejemplo, para ver una gráfica y el texto que la explica, o la definición y el ejercicio) sin tener que hacer el pino puente ni dividir una pantalla, limitada en tamaño, en $n$ partes.

Además, el acceso a la información me parece mucho más rápido y cómodo en un libro impreso que en cualquier otro formato, sobre todo cuando sabes en qué página está, pero también cuando no.

(Luego está, por supuesto, la belleza y la sensualidad del objeto físico, pero eso es otro tema.)

Y te lo dice alguien que ha sido editor y consumidor de libros electrónicos en casi todos los formatos (PDF, EPUB, mobi...).

¿Quiero decir con esto que los libros electrónicos no llegarán nunca a ser iguales o mejores que el papel? No. Es posible que algún día inventemos un formato nuevo que aúne las ventajas de los que ya tenemos, pero (en mi opinión, siempre) aún no estamos en ésas.

@maestrapaladin Yo tenía un profesor de Literatura que se paseaba entre los pupitres, y cualquiera que fuera lo suficientemente sutil podía sonsacarle respuestas (o al menos pistas) si se quedaba atascado. Él sabía perfectamente lo que hacíamos. Era un pedazo de pan, pero no tonto. Lo digo por si quieres ser ese tipo de profesora. Lo único que hace falta es acercarse, preguntarle si se ha atascado y dónde y soltarle alguna perla de conocimiento no demasiado explícita.

@LydiaConwell@exile.social From the Cambridge Dictionary: «Quirky is an adjective that means unusual in an attractive and interesting way.» Unfunny is just unfunny.

I honestly thought quirky was an upgrade, but ok. I'll add the interesting part in, though.

@LydiaConwell@exile.social Best I can do is calling yours quirky.

@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.