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Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS :ablobcatrave:

#TwitterMigration

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I'm so thankful for them. redd.it/z3p90b

cw: way more than you will ever need to know about my sex life, nsfw 

@anthracite not nearly as amazing as yours. :3

Visual Studio 2019 for Windows 3.11 (2021)

thought it was weird of microsoft to do this but okay

Here's an NTSC version of the pride test pattern if you want to do some analog-looking stuff with it.

@JulieSqveakaroo Sounds like the cold or flu, which is really icky. Best wishes for rest that feels like rest and a speedy recovery.

Welcome to the future, where you don't meaningfully own anything you buy anymore.

Your car's accelerator is just the latest thing locked behind a paywall.

@nixCraft I settled on FreeBSD because it's one of the only popular *nix distros that didn't make systemd the default init, a desktop environment dependency, or even available.

Crypto is in crisis, Meta is crashing, Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison, and Elon Musk is doing all he can to destroy the reputation he spent decades building.

The tech industry is at a turning point, but where will it go next and how do we prepare for its next act?

📬 Read my newsletter: buttondown.email/techwontsaveu

#tech #future #economy #siliconvalley #elonmusk

I keep misparsing "venture capitalism" as "vulture capitalism" and frankly, is that really a misreading or an evergreen reading between the lines?

RT @Mar_Onni
@GraffitiRadical
"Inmigrants get out" corrected with
"Ignorants get out"
Spain, via @Davph (thanks)

BREAKING: Free Software Foundation announces that the GIMP ("GNU Image Manipulation Program") will finally shed its controversial name, becoming LIGMA ("Libre Image and Graphics Manipulation Application") early next year.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion.

1st incident lasted 25s during the sportscast on the 9PM news on WGN-TV; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

Video: youtu.be/oqgeM6rWSkw

Never forget 11/22/87.

Margaret Hamilton, pictured with the source code to her popular game Flappy Bird

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