ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space

Don’t let people tell you “there are always a few bad apples”. That’s not how the saying goes. It’s actually “a few bad apples spoil the bushel” - in other words, if there are a few bad apples, that’s cause to believe the rot has spread and it’s time to throw the whole thing out.

TIL “tamale” (cornmeal and filling wrapped in corn husk) and “tomalley” (edible fat in a lobster) are unrelated words; I always figured “tomalley” was a corruption of “tamale”.

Nope: “tamale” is from a Nahuatl word meaning “wrapped”, and “tomalley” is from the Carib word referring to that part of the lobster.

In about 1-2hrs I'm going to kick off my Christmas Stream \o/

Me and Loa are together going to not starve, in Don't Starve Together

You can check in on https://twitch.tv/maloki

I am currently hosting someone, who's doing a 24hrs stream, so you got something to watch in the meanwhile!

See you later!

(With apologies to a couple of friends I know working in blockchain startups) is blockchain the ultimate example of putting technologies before actual needs? The first thing I learned from innovation training was "Problem First": find the right tech to solve a problem, not the other way around.

"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain"

https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
via @Gargron

"Bookkeeper" (although I'm told there are others).

"Strengths".

"Queue".

As an aside, it's a dark year for the tech industry when a major news magazine can ask with a straight face whether one of the largest and most successful tech companies can be tried for crimes against humanity.

As Facebook is the #1 site on the web, part of my job on the Edge perf team is to make sure that Facebook runs fast. It's hard to find any corner of the tech industry that doesn't have blood on its hands. What a demoralizing time to work in tech.

"...just ruin my box with crawdads."

"That's my favorite line from '50 Shades Of Gray.'"

#mbmbam

Because apparently proper tea is theft

tired: running mastodon on a raspberri pi
wired: running mastodon on redstone in minecraft

Websites get slower faster than browsers get faster

If we could time-travel and run the browsers of today on the web of ~2010, that baby would *fly*

Bitten by a mysterious, feral, Stallman, they must once every month leave the presence of human civilization altogether for their safery and for the safetly of others. For they are ... ...

Sharewolves.

"The Professional Sharer" by CGPGrey: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-professional-sharer

Published in 2014 but surprisingly prescient, given recent platform changes by Twitter, Patreon, YouTube, and others.

I'm betting that @christi3k is exactly right about why Patreon has changed their fee structure this week in a way that, in my opinion, makes their business basically worthless. https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/

Especially since, OMG, "You can no longer use your Patreon balance to make pledge payments to avoid the per-pledge processing fee."

The general consensus seems to be:

1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.