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So my company has officially announced plans to cash out most of the operation I work for and I'm probably going to either get downsized out or wind up being the last one keeping the lights lit on a sinking ship, which I would very much rather not do.

Anyone looking for a multi skilled RF/electronics/IT technician whose entire industry was just pulled from under them and thrown down the grinder to sell for scrap? I would say broadcast engineer, but that's pretty much obsolete now.

it's astonishing how the only way to edit a midi file is to install a windows 95 virtual machine to run windows 95 midi editor software on and there are absolutely no solutions that work on 64bit windows

@Erika i pointed it out to @Atatra who recalled about looking away from mastodon on the big screen to pull up her phone and looking at mastodon on the small screen

@Erika today i have somehow actively opened mastodon twice, once in each monitor, at once

@AngharadHafod @llamasoft_ox i remember visiting the defunct IBM sim in SL a couple of years ago and it was a wonderful ghost town. in a corner somewhere i found a few pieces of clothing packaging, meaning someone with edit rights to that land went there to unpack something for their avatar, likely some time after it went abandoned. wonderful environmental storytelling

@llamasoft_ox i can't tell what's more impressive, the companies being suckered into going virtual in second life, or the repeat offenders who fell another time for the metaverse

i'm the only true transgender woman in the internet because i have equal hatred for all of the programming languages, makig me purer than all of you

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the internet is a tool made with the express purpose of transgender women no-true-scotsmanning each other about programming languages allegiances and the type of socks you wear

@abortretryfail nope, only serial and lpt, and a memory card slot for which the 1MB SRAM cards are unobtainium (at a reasonable price)

flash was too easy to make functionality in so we needed to limit the scope of what runs on your phone so that you can only interact with things that are approved by The App Store (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts)

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flash was too easy to fuck around in so we needed to raise the barrier of entry so that only big corporations could make eyecatching websites anymore

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maybe the thing i need is to whittle down the already anemic number of people i talk to. maybe this is why hermits are a thing. i understand now

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