John Burwell aka deet shared 2 years ago
the company that controls all the drawing software had a falling out with the company that "owns colors" so now your old images might turn black unless you pay a recurring licensing fee but people keep telling me this economic system is not literally insane
16 exclusive charging stations right at the entrance of a notoriously congested grocery store parking lot. A huge row of Teslas right were everyone trying to park their non-Tesla car (whether ICE -or- EV) has to look at them while circling, looking for a space. Marketing genius… but not necessarily in the way Tesla intends.
On the fediverse, there seems to be less of a tendency to just scroll indefinitely. Once you’ve seen all the updates, that’s it, until there’s more. I kinda like it! Should free up a lot of time to do more useful things while on the toilet
John Burwell aka deet shared 2 years ago
This is a great take on the whole Birdsite thing. Mastodon solves this problem completely differently (not entirely successfully, FWIW)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
On macOS, host and dig don't query the system resolver the way other apps do. Try these instead: dscacheutil -q host -a name example.com or dns-sd -G v4v6 example.com
I am at a corporate conference in San Antonio. There is a guy hosting a whiskey tasting. He says, look… I’m supposed to be selling Texas whiskey, but listen… Kentucky
I believe him.
Travel news: Carefully-folded shirt shoved mercilessly into bag
I can prepare for a big event like a conference for days or weeks, knowing every waking minute exactly when it’s happening, but when the calendar reminder pops up day-of I still go like “oh shit was that TODAY?”
Remarkable how much of the future goes back to being powered by steam and yet how unreliable it is, spewing all over the place in dark alleys and bursting from consoles every time a spaceship gets blasted.
Had this weird crossed-wires experience trying to meet a coworker at their desk only to find the whole office suite empty and dark (typical Friday). It triggered a memory of this Garfield series from when I was a kid, which has stuck with me for 30+ years:
https://nitter.b-wells.us/STDeltaShift/status/1580330787374669824/photo/1
I’m going to have to find a way to keep up with top content like this without twitter :-/
