Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

"Can you help me with my speech? I feel I have to many clichés in it."
"Let's see... Okay, yeah, here for instance: "I don't take no for an answer". Replace that with just "I take." instead."
"Are you sure? That sounds like something a robber or rapist would say."
"Yeah."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :-)"

#Lifehack

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477

concurrent experiments lain

"in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it's obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic."

(david graeber in 2013)
https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

When setting up a radio transmitter, it's important to perform impedance meowching. You can check it with an SWR meter. (source: https://www.adafruit.com/galleries/cats-of-engineering) #caturday #electronics #mastocat #catstodon #cat #cats

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#WaterDrinkers

The FTC is looking into "what dark patterns are and how they affect consumers and the marketplace. Some of the topics the workshop will examine include:

* how dark patterns differ from sales tactics employed by brick-and-mortar stores;

* how they affect consumer behavior, including potential harms;

* whether some groups of consumers are unfairly targeted or are especially vulnerable; what laws, rules, and norms regulate the use of dark patterns; and

* whether additional rules, standards, or enforcement efforts are needed to protect consumers."

"To assist the agency’s analysis of this issue, the FTC seeks public comments on the following topics to be discussed at the workshop. The FTC is particularly interested in data, studies, research, and other empirical evidence addressing these issues. Interested parties may submit comments electronically at Regulations.gov. The deadline for submitting comments is May 29, 2021."

(The document's slightly confusing, as there was also a workshop - that's already happened - but that was only a starting point)

https://downloads.regulations.gov/FTC-2021-0019-0001/content.pdf

To offer comments:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2021-0019-0001/comment

S3E14b

Remembering when I was about 14 I wanted to open a cafe for programmers called the Most Significant Bite

*licky paw* :Pc
*washes an ear* >w<

americus blackberries, 1897

Without looking it up, how much RAM do you think the Atari 2600 has? I'm really curious how much people ballpark, and how far off they are, so please boost and don't post the reply in the answers.