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• Post #4381659

  @wjmaggos@liberal.city @benroyce@mastodon.social @kaspi@rollenspiel.social I want a social network where being a nazi means you don't get to participate.

• Post #4066655

  Man if 25 year old me griping about Apple being stingy with the 128K of RAM the original Macintosh shipped with could hear me griping about Apple being stingy shipping Macs with only 8 GB today.

• Post #1833755

  "I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th @hystericempress Posted because I kept seeing this quote posted with the names filed off, so I did a quick google search to find the original so I could share it with full attribution. I'm getting super-spammed with retoots and f...

• Post #807326

  I have no idea what I was referring to. 17 years ago I apparently sent myself an email that ended up in mailer-daemons junk mail box and it just surfaced while I was trying to debug a cron problem. ----- To: peter@taronga.com Subject: Things to do Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:28:42 -0600 (CST) Never tick off a transcendentally powerful member of a group intelligence. She might just fire a coruscating beam of lambent force at you. ----- certainly good advice, but completely out of context.

• Post #336290

  I have mild face blindness and since I first read Steve Mann's write-ups on his Wearcams I have wanted to be able to put people's pictures and names into smart glasses and have them help me recognize people I actually know. I deeply hate how Meta and other companies that have been marketing related products have poisoned the well and nobody will dare produce this feature now.

• Post #336288

  @cstross "If you know what you're doing there's usually a way to optimize the rite and achieve the same results, the same mana release, using five drops of blood and a giant prawn or something." SPOTTED THE REFERENCE

• Post #84553

  Every time I see someone writing "so-and-so was not phased by..." I want to hit them over the head with a complete multi-volume OED. phased adjective [ usually before noun ] * A phased process is planned to happen in stages over a particular period of time. fazed verb [ T; not continuous ] * past tense of faze (to surprise and worry someone).

• Post #81690

  @cstross@wandering.shop Tooth barnacles *and* isopods.