seedyh @seedyh@qoto.org

Amazing article:

“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks”

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

Video 3/3 (I feel this one •deeply•, to the bone):

“Developer watching QA test the product”

I have to admit, the biggest thing I never expected about the world was the number of people who don't want to make things better.

i love light hearted humour 😂🔥🌞 #solar #eclipse #eclipse2024

This is kinda funny.

#eclipse2024 #eclipse #space #moon

Happy Ēostre Day

The Norse goddess of the dawn, spring, and rebirth. Ēostre saved a bird with frozen wings from the winter cold, but the bird could no longer fly. So she changed the bird into a rabbit, and since the rabbit used to be a bird, it could lay eggs.

Or, you know, a day a guy died where the date changes every year…as historic events tend to do.

Is this root beer?

Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/19/218216/modern-web-bloat-means-some-pages-load-21mb-of-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Time passing makes terrible ideas attractive again. Nazism has gone from being abhorrent to taboo to being provocative over 80 years.

I expect collectivism to be next. Instead of corporations exploiting workers just embrace communist practices and everyone farms, cooks, etc.

The punchline is that millions of people died in every country that tried this yet I can see leftists online getting closer to these ideas every day.

First Large Offshore US Wind Farm Delivers Power To Local Grid https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/03/15/2345230/first-large-offshore-us-wind-farm-delivers-power-to-local-grid?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

All welsh words look like they were made up by indie bands who found out that their preferred band name was already taken so they just started removing vowels and adding Ys anywhere and everywhere to make it "different."

Holy cow: https://oldweb.today/

Emulated old operating systems running emulated old browsers displaying archived old web content!

The Book Ban Battalion is increasing efforts to ban books in public libraries across the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 again.

This is ludicrous in my (book loving) opinion. If you do not like a book then simply do not read it & / or ban your kids from entering the library.

👉🏾 Book ban efforts spike across US, new data shows: By the numbers - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/book-ban-efforts-spike-across-us-ala-data/story?id=108113763

If I don't agree, I cannot use the TV that was ALREADY PURCHASED UNDER A DIFFERENT AGREEMENT!

And I just read some of it. I don't agree.
I want my money back. The TV we bought did not have this forced agreement.

That's it! I'm fucking done. My next "TV" is just going to be a monitor. I don't want anymore smarts in what's just being used as a display

Imagine really caring what gender someone is. The only reason you would really care is if you intend to treat one gender in a different way than the other.

"I don't know what to call them!"

Call them by their goddamn name.

My mom 60 years ago with an IBM 1401 and me 6 years ago with a DEC PDP-10.

#InternationalWomensDay

It's worth pointing out that when christofascists claim they're fighting to put Christians in power, they're lying. Christians are already in power. 88% of Congress is Christian. 8 out of the 9 current Supreme Court Justices are some denomination of Christian. Every single president ever elected during your lifetime and mind has been a Christian. So no, they aren't fighting to elect Christianity to power.

They're fighting to elect fascists.

I got 99 problems but coming up with 454 million dollars in 30 days ain't one.