it’s a storyline thing :)

RIP Red ♥️

I wish we could just signed diffs and stop with the whole “make an account literally everywhere” mentality.

the email-list only folks are like 3/4s right; federation isn’t a solution to bring decentralization to an already decentralized system, it’s to just stop thinking that every saas has to “own” your stuff, and keep it behind auth and secrets and a big heavy database.

While I agree with the sentiment, the key bindings have been burned into my less squishy ROM at this point, and I’ve got all banks of squishy RAM available 😄

Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew (I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads

https://youtu.be/GFokXnCCMf8?si=rk5Wo8VP9XesI48-

I really admire the arc of character growth

muppets from space is both one of my favorites, and contains the travesty that is whatever happened to Fozzie’s writing.

it’s a hard thing for me to wrap my head around, but it’s cool when you think about it: there’s actually no possible shared reference; even with atomic clocks, based solely on the bouncing of cesium atoms ticking away, the distance travelled is dependent on acceleration in your reference frame.

relativity really is!

gimme that black ICE

my 2c:

that we live in anything approaching an Adam Smith style capitalism at all. The scope of regulatory capture, anticompetitive behavior, cartel building et al in the current corporatist handwave means that prices can never go down, competition can’t really unseat incumbents and so on.