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Tell me you don't understand the point of Mastodon without telling me you don't understand the point of Mastodon.

Do non-Europeans not let their children outside? Or are you suggesting that non-Europeans make everyone else keep their kids inside out of fear?

You can't control a society without keeping them afraid, so roll that tape of predators, kidnappers, gangs, and drug pushers! What? A child doing something without adult supervisio…

The the tar tar pits. (La Brea means "the tar"). A bit west of downtown, too, but I'm an annoying pedant.

Ha. My first job in '89 was working for an FFRDC reviewing IBM's Jovial code that was going to "revolutionize ATC" by modernizing everything. I'm gonna guess that code never went i…

A lot of the restricted stuff is cargo-cult fear of symbols that could be used in SQL-injection or XSS attacks. A properly-coded system wouldn't care, but the people who write the …

contagi-yawn

It was earlier than the 90s, and came with popular 8-bit CPUs in the 80s. The Z-80 microprocessor could address 64kb (which was 65,536 bytes) on its 16-bit address bus. Similarly, …

Ignoring all this drama. But I've always found Paul to be a good guy, who was helpful and honest and provided a great product. Teensy is a great platform, and it's too bad these ot…

How hard would it be to extend this to support bulk export of Apple Notes?

Those who know how to fix the messes made by AI today will replace those who don't tomorrow.

Agreed. Prince also has a lot of good features for headers, footers, page numbering, etc, that make it very powerful.

It's not like Imgur didn't finance with ads. They did that for a long time. Dunno if it paid the bills. The latest kerfuffle is because they were bought and the new owners fired al…

If you're not part of a group that will suffer under a white-supremecist theocracy they look very similar. If you're part of a group that will, there is a visible difference. Picki…

Any idea how long Experts should take to import/index data? I pointed an expert at a big directory of source files on a M4 iMac with 32G RAM, and it pinned a CPU at 100% for 24 hou…

Never ask ol' Chesterfield about his fence.

They're now owned by "copyright trolls". They hit up a company I know because their web-crawler found a PDF that someone generated using their library over a decade ago. https://be…

Of course, the Space Shuttle (and SLS, for that matter), are bad designs and inefficient not because NASA teams design them that way, but because of the way Congress funds things. …

In the early aughts, I spent a lot of time writing and maintaining Open Source software. I burned out on that because of rude users. I had one guy track me down offline and phone m…

There is also a known phenomenon of "starvation euphoria." I don't know at what point of caloric deficit that kicks in, but it probably varies dramatically.

Many years ago, I built http://legacy-labeler.com so people could label their photos for posterity. It's admittedly clumsy, and nobody uses it.

I just walked a mile in Los Angeles for lunch. I had the following near misses where I would have died or been severely injured if I hadn't been alert: a Tesla coming out of an all…

I live in the US half the year, and elsewhere for the other half. Movie rights go in and out of availability even when staying in one place, but when you cross borders, you find yo…

Oh great. NextDoor was bad enough. Now we get a map version, where anyone can post their inchoate terror of people who don't conform exactly to their ideas of appearance or behavio…

I once had a very frustrating battle with a new reviewer who told me my utilitarian app did not offer an "innovative experience" and wasn't "interactive" enough. So I had to add a …