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Dave Rupert

[interior: Unicode consortium]

> Hey, should we have a glyph for a pointing finger?
Absolutely
> What about filled and outlined triangle?
Sure, but make them all different sizes.
> What about arrows?
Yeah, make tons but never a full set pointing in all directions. I'm talking seven 3D arrows but they all face right.
> Dominos?
Fuckin' all of them, man. Horizontal and vertical. Let's take that part seriously.

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Current mood: A discarded Designed for Microsoft Windows XP badge.

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Friends, please spend this weekend learning how to make a backup copy of your PC's hard disk. Especially if your PC is too old to know what a cloud is, let alone back up your data to one.

Guess what happened in my field work today, a Friday the Thirteenth, that prompted this reminder.

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Bearfaced

I love this person!

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (Fediverse)

German wifi is the wurst

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Open-Source Nivix

Flappy Bird being abandoned because its creator got nervous about it being "addictive," only for the trademark to be picked up by a crypto shill, really feels like some kind of heavy-handed satire

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When I _am_ in a terminal window, I use Mutt, & for almost precisely the same reasons as Sylpheed.
mutt.org/

The biggest differences are that Mutt's founding inspiration is ELM, not Outlook Express, & it doesn't even pretend to render HTML mail at all, instead presenting them as file attachments to plain text messages. Mutt is also more extensible, more customizable, & fully keyboard driven.

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What do I use for email? When I'm not in a terminal window, I use Sylpheed:
sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

It's light, it's fast, it has keyboard shortcuts for common tasks, it resists do-everything feature creep, & its UI hardly ever changes between versions.

But it doesn't render received HTML mail except as very simplified text, & it won't let you send HTML mail except as a file attachment to plain text mail. This is not a bug, todo, or fixme. This is an incredibly useful & welcome feature.

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Echo 🦊

Made a playlist for when I am using git.

#meme #shitpost #music #tech #git #linux #programming #coding

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Open Culture (Official)

A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan

openculture.com/2019/10/a-900-

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@chirpbirb Thunderbird has always been the Cinderella stepchild of the Mozilla family. Needing to download, store, index, and search every article of IMAP mail in advance instead of on the user's command is just one more reason why. :<

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benschwarz

🕵️ Still using Chrome?

How do you feel about any site being able to call `document.browsingTopics()`to learn all about you?

developers.google.com/privacy-

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cameron

This is probably the closest thing to actual journalism I've ever done.

You know the "creator-owned" streaming service Nebula? The one that content creators frequently refer to as "my streaming service Nebula" when advertising it?

Something about that always felt off to me so I did some digging to find the actual ownership structure of the company.

medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-a

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Andrew

Concept: gold ring with elvish writing on the inside but it says “DROP AND RUN”

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Les Orchard

Hahahah

"The thought came to me all at once, whole and fully crystallized, that I would like to slap a big ol' slice of bologna onto that Cybertruck."

defector.com/i-would-like-to-p

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@mavica_again oh no, i'm sorry. :<

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Jo :v_enby: :blobhaj_default:​ :neocat: :neobun:

🚽 📱

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Classical: Using i, j, k, l, etc. as for-loop index variable names.

Magical: Using i, ii, iii, iv, etc. as for-loop index variable names.

Radical: Using item, row, column, and other sensible singular words as for-loop index variable names.

Maniacal: Using alice, bob, cindy, dawn, etc. as for-loop index variable names.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/j2PyKv
Credit: Mike Zelenkin

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🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE IS EVERY DAY 🏳️‍🌈

So there's an anti-LGBTQIA+ list of queer games out there, and today I found out Hypnospace is on it. First of all what an honor tysm!!!! So I did what any far-left-queer-socialist-cat-dad would do and stole it and turned it into a positive!

Enjoy this list of over 700 (!!!) games that make creeps just so so angwy - plz do read the disclaimer at the top:

✨🌈💖🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️💖🌈✨
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

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