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As seen by other old geeks in 2600: The Hackers Quarterly
PHP, Payphones, Solaris & Perl: I somehow always seem to get interested in something just in time to watch it fade into the sunset.
TW: Politics
https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-summer-2012/top-10-heavy-metal-songs-you-forgot-were-antiwar
Thoughtful Memorial Day, my fellow Americans.
Someone’s gone through and annotated “The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer”—https://melsloop.com/
I honestly thought Ed Nather had made the whole thing up, but apparently Mel, the company they both worked for, the computer made out of drums and vacuum tubes, and the blackjack-playing demo program were all real.
Moving into a place where bib overalls are a utilitarian instead of ironic fashion choice has lowered the bar for my idea of fun.
I have ordered 1,000 "Boneless" deli sticks to decorate the local pumpkin patch.
A lot of people don't want to see #political discourse on Mastodon. I don't mind it, but I do want it to be oriented toward the practical rather than the performative. #twitter rewards amplification, which turns political discourse turns into a competition over who can mast impress upon others just how urgent things are, until that practically drowns our efforts to organize for change. And we carry those habits with us everywhere if we're not mindful.
SDF 3B2/500 is now online for VCF East through SDF 35th birthday celebration!
ssh 3b2@sdf.org to connect
#bbs #community #history #pubnix #authentic #retrocomputing #unix #computer
CW: blood, gore
Friends I am _begging_ you to learn to manage catastrophic bleeding.
CAT tourniquets are about $20, fit in a laptop bag and the training can get knocked-out in an afternoon.
https://cms.bleedingcontrol.org/Class/Search
Thank you for your consideration.
attention all subordinates:
we have more lawyers than you could afford in your whole life
we'll do whatever illegal shit we please
We have Improved the Customer Experience.
Pray we do not Improve it further.
As seen by other old geeks in 2600: The Hackers Quarterly
PHP, Payphones, Solaris & Perl: I somehow always seem to get interested in something just in time to watch it fade into the sunset.
