skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
@hankg from memorycraft by lynne kelly, one of the best books i've read on memory palaces and other systems of mnemonics
if we didn't have conspiracy wackos all we'd have is politicians and marketing
@FediThing @phryk are there any stand out text adventures that come to mind
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You can totally do things in visual or text ways, but the effects on the audience will be different depending on which you choose.
It's up to the artist to decide which effect is most appropriate.
In film-making the main rule is "show don't tell" but sometimes telling without showing works really really well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs
If they'd done this scene as a flashback it would have been immensely expensive but also perhaps not as emotionally moving.
@hankg these were very common in the middle ages as a form of memory aid
@LouisConde you know the answer to that
@harblinger skinwalkers at the pentagon sounds lit
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Out of A/B test this is the new news cycle. Youtube removes rules barring "vax bad". They're all in!
Pool man reports:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4NtsK23FnU
Pool man reports:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4NtsK23FnU
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"That explains a lot"
submitted by Urs_Hund
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wweble/that_explains_a_lot/
@DeveloperMemes more accurate than you know
@disclosetv @bonifartius does this translation check out? a little too fast/technical for me
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@D00B Not sure what your line of work is.
But maybe my story can give you a chuckle or a laugh or a bit of hope.
-Be me.
-Be developer for Government
-Boss says "Trudeau says everyone has to get vaxxed, you got your vax yet?"
-Kinda scared "yeah in a couple of months."
-November 15 deadline rolls around, already seeing bad reports coming in.
-"Boss, I need you to sign this attestation that you got vaxxed."
-"Nyet"
-"Pourquoi?"
-"I'm not taking the vax"
But because I was critical on a highly specialized team, they kept me on for 3 more months.
-Contract terminated Feb 15, because vaxx enforcement kicked in.
-Right nice letter to everyone, "Luv ya guys, vaxx is not for me, stay based."
-During that time I am gone.
One supervisor when on long term disability :(
-One guy left to work for amazon (remote)
-sneaky bastard me was applying for other jobs back in october and was actually working a 2nd job since December, hehe.
-Another guys left for "reasons".
-Now the team is down to just big boss and team lead.
-Early this month they invited me to lunch.
-"Prod we love you and would have you back in heartbeat but you know Daddy Trudeau says you gotta be vaxxed."
-"I love you guys too, but nyet"
-"Get gift and free lunch, working remote and making more money than did in govt (working way harder for it though).
Stick your you principles, the money will follow if you work hard, network, and keep a calm mind.
@DahlHaus1776
But maybe my story can give you a chuckle or a laugh or a bit of hope.
-Be me.
-Be developer for Government
-Boss says "Trudeau says everyone has to get vaxxed, you got your vax yet?"
-Kinda scared "yeah in a couple of months."
-November 15 deadline rolls around, already seeing bad reports coming in.
-"Boss, I need you to sign this attestation that you got vaxxed."
-"Nyet"
-"Pourquoi?"
-"I'm not taking the vax"
But because I was critical on a highly specialized team, they kept me on for 3 more months.
-Contract terminated Feb 15, because vaxx enforcement kicked in.
-Right nice letter to everyone, "Luv ya guys, vaxx is not for me, stay based."
-During that time I am gone.
One supervisor when on long term disability :(
-One guy left to work for amazon (remote)
-sneaky bastard me was applying for other jobs back in october and was actually working a 2nd job since December, hehe.
-Another guys left for "reasons".
-Now the team is down to just big boss and team lead.
-Early this month they invited me to lunch.
-"Prod we love you and would have you back in heartbeat but you know Daddy Trudeau says you gotta be vaxxed."
-"I love you guys too, but nyet"
-"Get gift and free lunch, working remote and making more money than did in govt (working way harder for it though).
Stick your you principles, the money will follow if you work hard, network, and keep a calm mind.
@DahlHaus1776
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@straw @11112011 @7 @bonifartius @cyberspook @helene @ins0mniak Maybe it's a filter, but I think it's reasonable to unironically dislike Nazism. What does it matter? It's software. The guy that runs the website put some icons on the website like it's 1998 and maybe he's joining a webring.
Insisting on ideological purity from the developers of software is the worst thing someone can do. Mastodon sucks because it sucks, not because it's run by a bunch of...I don't even know what. Soapbox sucks because it sucks, not because Gleason is a male-feminist vegan that wants to go full-
on trans people. Akkoma doesn't get any magical fairy dust for being STUNNING AND BRAVE, it's just the dev branch for Pleroma with some bad ideas merged in. Pleroma is wonderful software and this, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with feature bounties having been paid by a cam site, despite Gleason's retarded "BALORMO TRAFFICS CHILDREN" rant, and despote all the allegations of the trans people hacking on Pleroma being secretly transphobic Nazis. The FSF wants to kick 
out and that's a travesty, because it doesn't matter what Stallman's personal opinions on 
are. Linus getting strong-armed into adding a Code of Conduct. All of it. It's cancer. Good software is good software, bad software is bad software, and none of the rest of it matters.
I boot up this software and I enjoy what happens. 9front is not the only version of Plan 9 available; I use ANTS. 9legacy is good too. At no point has anything political happened to me when running this software (except occasionally if I execute fortune(1) or something). That is exactly what I want when I run software. I do not have much interest in the political leanings of anyone involved in the project: code is code. I barely have interest in anyone's political leanings. I just don't care: politics is the most boring possible topic on earth. Political philosophy is interesting, geopolitics is interesting, regular philosophy is interesting; I'm not even doing those on here until I am posting from Revolver, though, and after last week (fiasco week) and this week (hell week) I am fresh out of fucks to give about anyone being worried that someone else might be
or 
.
I've gotten this question about a million times and my answer from now on is that if it's important to you, go run an OS written by people that agree with you. If it is not important to you, it is good software, try it out. If you don't want to try it out, that's fine. If you don't want to try it out because you don't like the website made by someone in charge of making the website for this fork of this OS, I'll make fun of you, but I won't care. I'm not especially trying to evangelize it: the perpetual drive for YOLD killed Linux. You can build something that a small number of people love, or that a large number of people kinda like. Plan 9 is something a small number of people really love. I really love it; I would like to share it with people that I think would also love it. Consider spicy food: you can make something that's extremely spicy, burns people up, and a handful of people will enjoy it and the rest will have a painful experience. If you make something that's fairly spicy, it'll appeal to more people; if you make something that's completely bland, it'll be edible for everyone but the people that want really spicy food are going to be unhappy with it. So it is a comfortable OS for hacking, I recommend it to hackers, I talk about it a lot because I like it, but I don't mind if it doesn't get popular: to become popular, it would have to dilute the things that make it interesting. This disincentivizes me from caring if some superficial thing puts somebody off, like if they don't like some icons on a website and they're more worried about that than the code.
Insisting on ideological purity from the developers of software is the worst thing someone can do. Mastodon sucks because it sucks, not because it's run by a bunch of...I don't even know what. Soapbox sucks because it sucks, not because Gleason is a male-feminist vegan that wants to go full-
on trans people. Akkoma doesn't get any magical fairy dust for being STUNNING AND BRAVE, it's just the dev branch for Pleroma with some bad ideas merged in. Pleroma is wonderful software and this, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with feature bounties having been paid by a cam site, despite Gleason's retarded "BALORMO TRAFFICS CHILDREN" rant, and despote all the allegations of the trans people hacking on Pleroma being secretly transphobic Nazis. The FSF wants to kick out and that's a travesty, because it doesn't matter what Stallman's personal opinions on are. Linus getting strong-armed into adding a Code of Conduct. All of it. It's cancer. Good software is good software, bad software is bad software, and none of the rest of it matters.I boot up this software and I enjoy what happens. 9front is not the only version of Plan 9 available; I use ANTS. 9legacy is good too. At no point has anything political happened to me when running this software (except occasionally if I execute fortune(1) or something). That is exactly what I want when I run software. I do not have much interest in the political leanings of anyone involved in the project: code is code. I barely have interest in anyone's political leanings. I just don't care: politics is the most boring possible topic on earth. Political philosophy is interesting, geopolitics is interesting, regular philosophy is interesting; I'm not even doing those on here until I am posting from Revolver, though, and after last week (fiasco week) and this week (hell week) I am fresh out of fucks to give about anyone being worried that someone else might be
or .I've gotten this question about a million times and my answer from now on is that if it's important to you, go run an OS written by people that agree with you. If it is not important to you, it is good software, try it out. If you don't want to try it out, that's fine. If you don't want to try it out because you don't like the website made by someone in charge of making the website for this fork of this OS, I'll make fun of you, but I won't care. I'm not especially trying to evangelize it: the perpetual drive for YOLD killed Linux. You can build something that a small number of people love, or that a large number of people kinda like. Plan 9 is something a small number of people really love. I really love it; I would like to share it with people that I think would also love it. Consider spicy food: you can make something that's extremely spicy, burns people up, and a handful of people will enjoy it and the rest will have a painful experience. If you make something that's fairly spicy, it'll appeal to more people; if you make something that's completely bland, it'll be edible for everyone but the people that want really spicy food are going to be unhappy with it. So it is a comfortable OS for hacking, I recommend it to hackers, I talk about it a lot because I like it, but I don't mind if it doesn't get popular: to become popular, it would have to dilute the things that make it interesting. This disincentivizes me from caring if some superficial thing puts somebody off, like if they don't like some icons on a website and they're more worried about that than the code.
@11112011 @pleasesaybye just do a little trolling bro
@11112011 @pleasesaybye why would I read just propaganda
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@skells @pleasesaybye hope u read bc thats about hidrocloriquine or whatever its called that never worked
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@skells @pleasesaybye ivermectin fixes it
Joined Feb 2021
