hey guys i've come up with a way to clear up the lack of tone in written text, if you mean for your message to be read seriously please add an indicator at the end of it like so: /s
@Erika starting a new bio trend that says mdni dni dni
I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server
Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing
@trishalynn Mastodon is one implementation of the activitypub specification
think of it like the Google Chrome of the fediverse, not all other fediverse instances are running it and there's some interop pains
"mastodon" in of itself isn't the network or even the only protocol in it, but it got a lot of press and VC money so it sounds like it is
@trishalynn it wasn't introduced until like version 4 i believe
i've been here much longer than that and the glitchsoc computer fairies runs is currently based on 3.5.x i believe
@inlovewithpda now you can play with this! https://maple.pet/blog/extracting-eyemodule-pictures-in-2022
well that was a short search once i had a better picture!!!
IPC TLA UQMY Control Module 21613115
scourge of the fediverse, retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave. i've been here longer than you.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks
HRT: 15/11/2015
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