Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

When you're writing code, don't forget that one of the people who might end up using it, one of the people you need to write docs for, is you. Specifically, a version of you 3-5 years from now who has no memory or idea of what you were thinking when you wrote it.

I just found out how to easily test every single byte of swap space I have: All I have to do is leave Firefox alone but running for most of a week.

Don't you just wish your Rubik's Cube would solve itself?
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/24/self-solving-rubiks-cube.html -
https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/ -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoH2AORcEQ

box(){ t="$1xxxx";l="";c=${2:-=};i=${#t};until [ $i = 0 ]; do l="$l$c";i=$((i-1));done;printf "$l\n$c $1 $c\n$l\n"; }

# A slightly longer but more portable (& BSD-friendly) version of the bash box function in https://mastodon.social/@climagic/100792670341617316

There are legit privacy & security concerns regarding bills & email.

But these same companies have no problem with sending actual payment confirmations by email, though. They tell me what I paid & when in email, but not what I owe & when.

Dear companies: If you say you send bills by email, & those email messages are just "log in to our website to view your bill," then you DON'T send bills by email, & you're LYING when you say you do.

For children who aren't ready to read "To Serve Man" yet:

A Beatles pun over on birdsite for your #Taursday, folks: https://twitter.com/ExecFox/status/1035648659130466304

I went up on a house roof today, and I apparently walked on the steep-angled parts wrong. Both my ankles have mild but noticeable swelling, & one started hurting about 2 hours after I came back down. I've been walking with a limp the whole afternoon and evening.

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Everyone's being gay on my timeline, and it's so wonderful and wholesome.