Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@mdfrg @vertigo @awilfox It's a chat application

Anything you definitely need to archive should be done through email, anything else will be in chat logs, and file sharing should be done via network share like a rational person

@vertigo @awilfox @mdfrg Slack even has a built-in IRC gateway

People who insist on using the app can do so, those of us who care about good software can use the gateway with our IRC client of choice

@Elizafox @luciferMysticus ...yep, you win

@squirrel It'd take a lot of bytes to do that

Here's an associate editor of the Merriam-Webster dictionary on what the correct plural of "octopus" is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk

All of those are acceptable, but the preferred term is SQUISHY TENTACLE FRIENS

@cassolotl@cybre.space God help us if she ever does a livestream

Nothing would get done for the duration of that

@cute_weeds What annoys me most about that is that Alpha Industries used to make decent gear

Mastodon in space would be particularly good for this reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

Silly idea: Mastodon server on a cubesat

It'd be expensive and they only stay up for max. 3 months but we would get to toot IN SPAAAAACE

@squirrel Probably where the downlink is

Unless they can't find where the downlink is in which case it's any country that can shoot down satellites

@squirrel It might just be the ones I've worked on but most of them have been annoying as hell

Some of the new ones are even worse, I don't like it if I have to actually grab my toolkit rather than just use a leatherman to take stuff apart

@squirrel I like them because you can actually get into the damn things with a minimum of fuss, if you need to switch out a component it's a few screws and you're done rather than having to spend quarter of an hour prying the damn thing open

Also, really, really cheap second hand and solid enough you don't have to worry about it

Is there anyone who doesn't love thinkpads?

Because if they exist they're wrong

@squirrel ah, that was the best

I wonder if anyone's made a gadget to replicate that for LCDs

@squirrel and the weird fuzzy feeling close to the screen!