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@mattblaze ah but he would invite them to use the ballroom because it’ll be like Mar-a-Lago - he thinks he can charge for it because it is his ballroom, the greatest ever ballroom

@hugoestr@functional.cafe I’ve often pushed back and asked is it actually best practice or merely common practice

@HarriettMB @mattblaze and gaudy as a bordello

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I had just moved from Tokyo to Silicon Valley in 1995 - the year of the Netscape IPO and arguable the start of the .com era and bubble. Five years of irrational exuberance later it crashed. Timing is looking similar on this bubble. But I don’t recall those years being driven by such a small handful of companies. Let’s see

@Boundborg Ninja Turtle face

@ai6yr @mattblaze the chappa'ai suddenly opened

@cdarwin@c.im he actually said “mutilation” instead of “mutilization” or whatever mutilation of the English language he usually uses? These people are are scared of the wave of rejection and change that is coming. They reek of desperation. Good!

@bruces you can call me a pompous asshole and wanker who stole taxpayer funded intellectual property from NCSA to make my fortune and remind me that I actually had no idea about true innovators like Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart. And since I have no inner dialogue you can accuse me of anything and I won’t have any regrets or self reflection.

@TarkabarkaHolgy that makes me a bit uncomfortable

@skinnylatte https://youtu.be/p4E6KtQg_z0

@maxleibman now if it was Idaho you’d be really worried because those always seem to be the largest potatoes

@pippa@famichiki.jp no insult intended to Sky nor Stephen

@pippa@famichiki.jp right?

@pippa@famichiki.jp Sky has a serious look. Like “I know I’m a good boy and it’s my birthday so I will let you take my photo” His face reminds me of the actor Stephen Graham. Don’t know why but that is what really jumped into my mind seeing the photo.

@enog@masto.ai I’ve never seen them that color. Amazing

@paulywill remember also to look down low for trip wires

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social when I first moved to NZ 20 years ago I remember stepping outside one night, looking up, and thinking “strange to see clouds stretched across the sky like that” until I quickly realized it was the Milky Way. And this was North Shore Auckland, just across the bridge. When you get away from the light pollution of Auckland it is indeed mind blowingly dark. Hope you might get lucky with an aurora show while you are in NZ.

@tadbithuman @skinnylatte maybe the general level of background noise, in my experience in Indian cities, provides some cover for such activities

@lawyersgunsnmoney @Nonilex new meaning to “trickle down”

@Daojoan@mastodon.social did the Romans wager on which gladiator would survive or be killed?

@gcvsa Tim Apple was a supply chain guru and operations genius. Not a visionary or a technologist. He made a lot of people a lot of money, but took the shine off the Apple.

@Happyfishmedia in other words returning unabashedly to colonial exploitation

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk the aroma and the color

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk I don’t take good food photos but an eggplant and some mushrooms from the same sauce. And a bit of Albariño

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk and I managed a much larger harvest of eggplants the other day. Total of around 1.2kg so a really nice batch

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk I made them and tried them for the first time this evening. Unbelievable. I had excess marinade so bought mushrooms and have a jar of those to try soon also. These eggplants with also some feta cheese and rustic bread are a divine combination with this rioja I found tucked away in my wine cellar. I’ll try to remember to take a photo next time. Was too eager to try them.

@mfowler sounds like governance and process just like what evolved for infrastructure as code for example. Skills.md checked in to git. Reviews, PRs and all that.

@mattblaze@federate.social whatever is going on in his brain and the noose tightening on Epstein stuff (sorry, really bad unintentional pun) and the reality that his beloved tariffs are actually bad for the economy, etc

@dgar@aus.social there is at least a kernel of truth in this post

@anildash@me.dm @carlmalamud@official.resource.org granted. But also to the lay person the Internet began from the WWW

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk went out to the garden this morning to see what is still available and I have a small collection of eggplants to give this a try

@davefischer@hachyderm.io I suppose at a minimum someone will take them for the copper. I set an old CRT TV out by road years ago, assuming someone would be happy to take it (had a note on it that it still worked). Within an hour it was smashed and the flyback transformer gone.

@rgulick better that Nazi goes to Argentina than to NZ where crooked-Key gave him citizenship https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-got-new-zealand-citizenship/

@bosak@flx.masto.host Pope Bob is what the world really needed and needs. Leave it to a Chicagoan to be such a straight shooter.

@marcoarment@mastodon.social if we think about it - programming languages have largely been about enabling yet another layer of abstraction and becoming more human friendly. From flipping switches, to assembly/machine language to C to Java, Perl, etc … (except Perl, that was an abomination). Natural language to an LLM that will use whatever language is appropriate seems like the natural next step.

@anildash@me.dm one important note/correction to one statement in your article. You said in 2002 the podcast wasn’t yet invented. Actually @carlmalamud@official.resource.org invented (but it wasn’t called) podcasts in 92/93 by hosting guests on his Internet Radio show. It was revolutionary. There were also guys from DEC streaming (via multicast on the MBone) their band sessions from the basement in Palo Alto in the early 90s. Doesn’t detract from the awesome write up. Just some Internet trivia that some of us old timers fondly recall.

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk my quince tree is still young but I’m hoping for a future of plenty of quince

#JukeboxFridayNight Blind Boys of Alabama Amazing Grace (to the tune of House of the Rising Sun) https://youtu.be/0SmthYxI5aA

@skinnylatte and Taiwan

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk feel so fortunate every time I go out to the garden or walk around our property. Always come back with something most times of the year. Right now it is insane quantities of persimmons.

@bosak@flx.masto.host and as an Augustinian we may yet see some significant reform like his distant predecessor Martin Luther.

@tristansnell@mstdn.social this goes for humor among that crowd https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-hinchcliffe-racist-trump-rally-madison-square-garden_n_671ea0d3e4b046990892d742

@skinnylatte but needs to be cheaper than a love hotel since that model is already taken

@skinnylatte ah yes. Parking and that IC card sensor thing on the dashboard. This is getting challenging. There must be a way.

@KathyReid Doug Engelbart showed us “a future” with his mother of all demos. Sometime in the later half of the 90s when it complete changed from connecting people to communicate to connecting people to monetize them seems to have been the final throw of the switch with no return.

@11TopHats@mastodonapp.uk I haven’t had enough off my tree to try yet. Had two beautiful quince last year and I used them with a pork standing rib roast and it was beautiful