Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
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Joined May 2017
slightly lewd
@lynnesbian "shit or miss" sounds like the name of a game where you gamble on that piece of chocolate you ate actually being a chocolate laxative.
It looks like the simplest & long-term easiest thing for me to make a generated static website is going to be a makefile running page bodies through docutils & feeding the results into templates written in m4 macros.
reST is mature & unlikely to change, but make & m4 are in posix, which means they'll stay the same for the rest of my life as long as I avoid GNU extensions.
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Ariel Millennium Thornton
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so much for lightweight markup
py36-rst2html5 on a year-old Celeron Braswell CPU: 1.05 seconds.
py36-rst2html5 on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Kentsfield CPU: 0.55 seconds.
Same OS, same version, same input file, just different hardware. ... Wat.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Tomorrow's half-off candy sale day.
I'm mad now. CW imagery of modern hate symbolism
@JulieSqveakaroo 
That's gotta be way beyond carelessness, yeah.
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A PUMPKIN MAN SITS INSIDE A PUMPKIN HOUSE
IS THE HOUSE MADE OF FLESH
OR IS HE MADE OF HOUSE?
HE SCREAMS, FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Yay, avatars & images are rendering again!
@Lumi The instances having problems are using Wasabi for S3 services, & that's what's down.
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Okay, so I have to put this on imgur because image uploads aren't working here at the moment due to a certain service that shall be named as wasabi
Caption: Newspaper clipping with headline "Mastodon yells at cloud", the image below that is of the fluffy elephant friend yelling at a cloud above superimposed with the wasabi logo
Every iPhone & Apple Watch in the hospital was disabled by an MRI machine, but Android phones & traditional PCs were unaffected. The cause: helium. Yes, a slightly helium-rich atmosphere. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/
@lynnesbian error: protocol not recognized
Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: https://youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg
@DarkWitchClaire wasabi's s3 tipped over for everyone.
Help me; I'm looking at m4 for static webpage generation.
dnl
define(`hope',`abandoned')dnl
dnl
"Just run the power lines up from the underground junction straight up a conduit. It'll be fine."
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
✨ ✨
Joined May 2017
