holy shit you can have the same document open in multiple windows at the same time… and they stay in sync!! this is useful because those windows can have different scroll positions or zoom levels!

decided to install AbiWord just to try it out (on Debian; it's basically Linux-only these days alas) and just look at this. this is pure and soulful. i'd so much rather use this than LibreOffice next time i gotta write a Serious Letter

Obviously if you ever get an account notice from a different instance than your own there's no way it's legit, and even if it does come from your own instance it won't look like this

@woozle Screaming running down the street "It's a texinfo manual!!!"

To Serve Manpages

@flann has an important message to share!

Squirrels of the world, Unite!

Liberate the means of nut production!

#FurryArt #FediArt #MastoArt

@cwebber
On the other hand, you can one-up any Rust developer by saying "Memory safe? My language doesn't even know what memory is."

There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a bad career move. Not because you couldn't use other tools, you could use them with relative ease. But the author said learning them left them bitter when using anything else, because they were forever bitter that they weren't writing Lisp or Haskell.

It's a bell curve, isn't it?

@cwebber Kudos To Mark for trying to replace himself, this should be easier to do than for any other human on this planet.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

You know what, I'm trying to comment on this but I just can't think of anything funnier to say than how this is sure to turn out

computer fairies is 9 years old today

Hang in there, folks.

Your very existence pisses off some shitbag bigot.

I love that for you. 🌈