Notices by josef (jk@mastodon.social)

goof weighs in on the gnu hurd project

modern offices are essentially a kind of 'sky dungeon'

despite their so-called 'culture of self-improvement' americans largely refuse to transform into 5-metre long serpent

keep seeing developers from the ~2010 "i make apps for phones" goldrush demographic who are puzzled that apple/google/etc don't care about them anymore. of course they don't! you were only getting your fee for helping them with the explore phase of the explore-exploit process, which is now over

*ebay seller voice* you bought a plastic box from us last month. and we still havent heard whether you liked the plastic box. please. please can you leave a review for the box. my heart is breaking. we just want to find out whether the plastic box was fine. my children are asking me every day about the box. my wife won't speak to me until i tell her what's going on with the box, whether the box was okay. we put a lot of effort into the listing. please my marriage is on the ropes already

you: i'm going to microwave it

me: i'm going to put it in the Wi-Fi Oven

i dunno if i was ever a 1990s-2000's style Blogosphere Tech-Writer-Style Techno-Optimist, but seeing where the Internet went in the last 15 years is mostly just like, quite instructive about how society has always been. as stuff started getting built, it ended up serving the same interests and satisfying the same demands as everything that came before. they were just kidding themselves that the Enlightened culture of their lofty ingroup would carry forward

a nerd: i see you're using <A> instead of <B>? that's a pretty interesting decision, especially given that most people would be using <B> to do that, and it's a lot more well-known than <A>, in fact, virtually nobody uses <A> anymore, but i'm quite interested in what <A> has to offer over <B>, so i'd really like to hear about your specific use-case

me: the rationale is as follows: my primary reason for using <A> is that i had not ever heard of <B> until you told me about it just now

it's okay to pirate software, since it's all written by computers nowadays, so you're not depriving anyone of their livelihood