Vierkantor @Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com

So in less pretentious words: so I was very busy the last few months, and the instance at enby.club where I was last active seems pretty dead. So I set up my own instance.

A couple of visiting jackdaws!

twilight zone concept: during sixteen days, all (non-PRNG) random number generators return the exact same value each time, then go back to outputting your regular scheduled nonsense... or do they?

Could this example from 1990 be the oldest documented example of keysmashing in frustration? (Alternative explanation: it's not just Greeking that nobody expected people would have high enough resolution to read.)

Source, PDF: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Genera_Concepts.pdf
Source, HTML: https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/genera/genera.html

My previous mass-media appearance was a nearly naked photograph in the most-read children's magazine in the country.

Must have been about a year ago now that I appeared on right-wing TV.

Reporter, shoving a microphone in my face: "So, what are we angry about today?"
Me: "Well, it's all the fault of big Capital."
Reporter: "Ooh, The Big Capital?"
Me: "Yes, what you said but unironically."

i keep being surprised by the absence of pixellation when i move close to my screen

highdpi is magic

the Royal Association of Dutch Languagemakers have announced that the profanity introduced for covid-19 will be "kronelijer": a selfish person, esp. someone who does not respect personal space.

this is the first profanity introduced since "krijg het mondenklauwzeer" in the year 2000.

alternatively: if the tutorial was so good, why didn't they make a voustorial?

if the tutorial was so good, why didn't they make threetorial?