Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Sometimes I have to feel sorry for Torvalds, certainly not often, but sometimes

He "accidentally booked a family holiday to Edinburgh" the same week as a Linux conference he had to go to in Vancouver and the Linux Foundation decided to move the conference to Edinburgh so he still has to go

Bastard just wanted a damn holiday

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005308.html

@maple best robot

The local under-10s rugby team is collecting donations by standing at end of the local tesco checkouts and offering to pack bags for everyone

By which I mean everyone is giving them money to stay the hell out of the way while we pack our shopping

@maple fwog

@SupperMarioBroth@octodon.social well that's just speciesist *crosses tentacles*

@maple *OCTO-HUGS*

@maple *holds pawb*

*with tentacle that there isn't an emoji for yet*

@posiputt looking around my little corner of the fediverse, it seems most of them

@Jo a watch

with blockchain added somehow

for reasons

costing 16,500 swiss francs (no, they don't accept payment in bitcoin)

Oh fuck off

https://www.masterblock.ch/

@maple I'm still confused about why their response to "linux has weird little annoying bugs" was an explanation of what a distro is

@maple they're actually doing that now?

screw it, someone fork it for groff support or something equally ridiculous, if you're gonna go out of spec do it properly

@twitter@mastodon.technology @maple linux has just as many problems as windows, but they're all really tiny ones you don't necessarily notice until you go to do something and figure out that bit hasn't been working for months

@maple hm, that's less than ideal it doing that

@maple tentacles crossed

@pertho@bsd.network just your standard cat food

although I'm sure they wouldn't mind some chips and gravy

@letthewatersroar@toot.cafe no worries, I always like introducing people to new books!

@Jo I seem to recall that most of his works included foods that maccy d's wouldn't like to be associated with

@letthewatersroar@toot.cafe The Sprawl Trilogy is three books written by William Gibson that practically define cyberpunk as a genre, if you're at all interested in the genre, read those