ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space

I know a physicist who said that if they ever discovered a viable theory of quantum gravity, they would be sure to publish it on April 1st.

why is this elevator tilted forward. this isn't normal; what's going on. anyway give me venture capital

if you missed what happend, have a read here:
https://frama.link/ouoAa4Vj

The reason I'm asking is cause you might be one of many using patreon.

I'm not wanting you to stop, but would like if your desicion is a concious desicion, instead of just repeating what most ppl are doing.

If you relay on patreon, a message pointing out to your patreons what happend to #IGD would break the silence

Silence can be violent

#patreon

https://toot.cat/media/eOsjvgFzkENB3DCeYyA

one of those flappy flutterbug things

(Butterfly walks onto a bar...)

worked with magnetic tape

dota-driven development (n.)

a programming paradigm in which the development stage is made as agile as possible so you will be able to deploy early and just play DotA for the rest of the day

someone should cosplay Ganondalf and send me pictures

linux follows the "forest fires are actually good for the forest" model, instead of having a registry which accumulates cruft and gets more and more fucked up, you have all these dotfiles in random locations which get set on fire every 2-5 years

One thing that I still really appreciate about UT was the story's explicit understanding and integration of player control. Something SO:TL and UT share is that they both make commentary on your actions as a player, and how you are complicit in the violence depicted. However, SO:TL takes a sort of... easy road. You have no other choice except not play the game. And given that it costs real world money? That's just a copout, I'm sorry.

It’s the regular npm security bullshit that we all know and love:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901566

An app named “cross-env” is typosquatting a popular package named “crossenv” to gobble up your environment variables (where people tend to store their most sensitive token credentials you can’t include in your source code).

While I’m no pro at npm, you can start by examining your global packages with `npm ls -g` and grep for `cross-env` or your OS equivalent for grep.

The moral: Metadata is data. Treat it as important - just as important as your primary data. If it's the user's, on no account delete it without their permission. Also, don't trust any third party to maintain it for you - even if it's in their commercial interest to do so.

Your entire information infrastructure may break without it.

This sounds obvious. But a classic example of 'not getting the importance of metadata' is Gnome Rhythmbox and its default treatment of music playlists.

By default (if the behaviour hasn't changed) it stores all your playlists in its own, hidden (dotfile) configuration folder. The user is never expected to look here.

This is fine until you migrate your system and whoops, didn't copy the invisible config files and all your playlists are gone.

Because they were 'just metadata, not documents'.

this is what Google/Facebook spokespeople sound like

@enkiv2 The biggest political 'tell' to me in this whole (now-linked) soup of UFO and Christian conspiracy mythology is that the Enemy is *always* the 'one-world government'.

I mean, everything, absolutely everything in the multiple incompatible multiverses of the conspiracy zoo can be swapped out - and is - EXCEPT that.

That's what this has always been about. Fear of 'the Beast'. Fear of 'the New World Order'. Fear of 'the Illuminati'.

It all == fear of world socialism.

Stolen from Slack.

I had to, because of the reasons.

Saw a shipping company called "Midas" yesterday.

I'm disappointed that it wasn't a refrigerated one, and that it didn't say "Everything we touch turns to cold" on the side.