Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Why isn't this bigger news? Starting with 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu Linux will no longer have the Unity desktop as a default.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

If you have trouble understanding the difference between computer hardware and computer software, just remember this:

Hardware is something you can shoot, but it probably isn't the cause of your computer problems.

Software is probably the cause of your computer problems, but it's something that you *can't* shoot.

"Whenever you’re working on a piece of JavaScript code that deals with strings or regular expressions in some way, just add a unit test that contains a pile of poo (💩) in a string, and see if anything breaks."

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

Wikileaks*
Russian* interference.
:/

Oh! On that note, it looks like Macron half-outsmarted Russialeaks and Wikian interference to devalue eventual dumps.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/06/did-macron-outsmart-campaign-hackers

Also, that last statement. Trying to mask the Russian scent much?

The world is celebrating the election of a regular pile of trash to head France because the only alternative was a fascist pile of trash.

Four years old now, but... Kids can't use computers: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

Picture bots that cite their sources are good. Those that link directly to the artists' posts are better. Those that obtain explicit consent as well, such as Creative Commons licensing, are the best.

I won't follow or boost picture bots that don't cite sources, not without VERY good reason.

Picture bots that don't even say what they scraped their pictures from should be shut down and sold for scrap.

Is Burgertime the first video game about a sandwich?

Would an Asteroids arcade cabinet between two Burgertime arcade cabinets be a universe sandwich?

I should've written this in Ruby instead of Shell.

$ ft=first-toot.sh; touch $ft && chmod u+x $ft && ed $ft && ./$ft > \
great-big-mastodon-social-world
a
#!/bin/sh

echo "I finally got on board one of these things. Hello, world!"

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wq