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capitalism / the law 

always remember "punishable with a fine" means "legal for rich people"

@natalie@masto.ninja @troubleMoney Whether the parity is even or odd, it definitely has a hard requirement of one stop bit.

@troubleMoney The trouble is data reliability and the absence of speedy error correction mechanisms. You'd have to admit a 57.6 PB mass of data would not arrive at its destination with every 256 GB packet intact, let alone in the proper order. (Well, it would arrive there intact and in the proper order at the instant of arrival, but the buffer it's then immediately pressed into is not exactly compatible.)

@troubleMoney Lotus gave it 1-2-3 DMCA takedowns for the slash fight videos between it and Quattro Pro.

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz This is going to sound stupid, but what does `file` say the wine in your dot-steam folder is, & what are its permissions?

Characters/creators/lewd/serious 

Let's talk about characters and relation to their creators for a second.

A lot of us love to be really flirty and lewd among our characters and it's a whole lot of fun. But access to a character like that does not necessitate access to the creator like that.

I abhor the rationale, when called out for a violation of this, "your character does that, you were asking for it." Fuuuuck that noise.

Respect boundaries. If you don't know them, ask.

The crazy thing about CSV files, commas are likely to be used in stuff you'd want to put in a CSV file.

"But Fluff," you say, "people already deal with that. Use colons or bar characters or tabs."

Well yes. People do that. But did you know ASCII (which now forms the first tiny chunk of unicode) has built in separator characters? ASCII 28 through 31; file, group, record, and unit separators. CSV was a mistake.

Thus ends another episode of Fluffpinions.

@bobstechsite The 13-disk set is the upgrade from Windows 3.x, without Internet Explorer.

@quephird@mastodon.social Hi, I just want to say that your display name is awesome. :3

I need to find a way to put a fairy-wand star & bow on the end of my repair kit's socketed screwdriver handle.

I can now add a 21st Century WinCE-powered machine (that does make me wince) to the list of computers my fix-it computer fairy wand has magically restored.

Gonna explain furries as "Animal Crossing LARP" to normies now thanks @Ace

If you asked me when I was a kid what repairing computers would entail, scrubbing cases with Lava knock-off in order to install replacement keyboards would never have come to mind.

I'm cleaning the other, amazingly-hacked ZX-81 I got on eBay.

I know that average sized people are real.

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