Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@tinker "bespoke"?

Is that what we're calling solutions bodged together with whatever's nearby these days?

The Los Angeles Times is now unavailable in Europe because of GDPR

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WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WERE THEY DOING WITH BROWSING DATA THAT MEANT THEY COULDN'T JUST CHANGE A COUPLE OF LINES IN THE PRIVACY POLICY TO BE IN COMPLIANCE?!?

@synaesthetica@mastodon.social don't forget cheesemonger and costermonger!

Although sadly it's still "butcher" rather than "meatmonger"

This "tiny house" trend is just getting silly

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-built-worlds-smallest-house-180969149/

Quitting smoking status:

One month in, have managed to reduce my intake to less than half of what I used to smoke

Hopefully I'll be able to kick the rest soon, but even if not cutting out half is fairly decent

It is now Towel Day

Are you a hoopy frood who really knows where their towel is?

If you're considering putting together a hadoop cluster to do stuff to things, maybe make sure it's not 235 times faster to just throw it through awk

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

@noelle can't say I have, probably spewing some hateful bullshit or other if her track record is anything to go by

@noelle that single video tells you absolutely everything you need to know about katie hopkins

@noelle it's well known that cats just phase in and out of the cat dimension

@gemlog you mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmMg5UT3C1M

@jk I'm taking this as commentary on the fact that most new exciting computing things everyone's meant to be excited about these days are just black boxes on a rack somewhere

"but, like, where are my flying cars lol"

WE HAVE THOSE, MOTHERFUCKER

THEY'RE CALLED HELICOPTERS

NEW TOM SCOTT HOSTED QUIZ SHOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xS-BIcu4ew

@Violet ...wut?

@Elizafox well, you start with snap and then the rest of it is just the rice crispies thing

@squirrel robots good also

protect all the squirrels, bunnies, and robots