Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

RT @DeoTasDevil@twitter.com: So someone mailed bombs to George Soros, the Obama family, the Clintons, and a CNN offices in NYC (addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, an MSNBC contributor).

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Wanna tell me again that we should fear "the violent Left" and ignore the abundant right wing violence?

GA sued a guy for publishing & distributing copies of the state's law code, crying copyright infringement. The US Court of Appeals just told GA that it can't copyright the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-georgia-state-code-cant-be-copyrighted

#FreeBSD tip: If you need to re-read the message a package dumped when it was installed or upgraded, run:

pkg info -D <package-name>

or:

pkg info --pkg-message <package-name>

I'm not too worried, but I put updating off because of my previous bad experience with VirtualBox's kernel modules. (I headed that off by uninstalling them.)

I want to read the upgrade instructions on a separate tablet, but the only one I have atm runs Windows 10. I haven't turned it on in three days, which means it's critically out of date & would tie up the 'Net for two hours downloading & installing updates.

How I wanted to spend my evening: finding the right lightweight markup language.

How I actually spent my evening: trying to install pandoc, waiting for it and it's 1/2 GB of dependencies to download (thanks, texlive!), only to have it crap out because I'm too out of date.

Every website designer and their customers should be forbidden from accessing mock-ups, betas, and live trials at faster than 14.4 Kbps over the cheapest modems and a loose pair of twisted salt-n-pepper wires.

If it works at literal dial-up speeds, then it works at gigabit speeds. Vice versa is rarely true.

@finnylion@snouts.online Because foreign state-funded media is "subversive propaganda" and/or "unfair competition."

@lynnesbian It took me two days to realize this toot should've been licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License instead.

Sci-fi robot uprising movies made us afraid that computers would turn against us in order to kill us with violent force.

It happened in reality, in the form of the "Internet of Things," but they turned against us in order to kill us with monopolized advertisements instead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/media/fever-advertisements-medicine-clorox.html

@softgoat Figure out where the corners of your car are. Specifically, what's at the corners or how far away things like lines and curbs are from the corners, based on what you can see from the driver's seat. Unfortunately, IDK what can teach that except experience & practice.

@tahajin @Kat@snouts.online If that's true, then I already got GRS way back in '98. :V
(I broke my elbow, & they moved the funny bone during surgery to make way for plates & screws. Gender: MP3 player chassis.)

@lynnesbian I'm in talks for a more gender-diverse reboot.

I also discovered the hard way that textile has very different ideas from markdown about paragraph folding & what hard word-wrapping means.

I've settled on making a static website generator. Debugging the single file workflow was many times quicker than debugging the design, which I think is a good sign. With the design, I aimed to make it look just right in modern browsers, look acceptable in old browsers, & be fully conformant with HTML 5, CSS 3, & WCAG 2. That was work, but I didn't get hacky or make compromises.

@lynnesbian This is somehow still more appropriate a use for it than most Windows installers for GPL programs. IDK if I should be impressed, terrified, or in a swimsuit.