bitofhope @ bitofhope @awful.systems

Bistable multivibrator

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I guess there's still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.

He's a little confused but he's got the spirit!

Yeah I can tell. So much for that respect.

"getting rid of sweatshop labor with no replacement would lead to significantly worse conditions … sweatshops should be replaced with liberal markets"

A guy who knows the age of consent in every country by heart, except for financial regulations. There's a lot of overlap too.

I had been mercifully spared from her nontechnical opinions until now.

Is Apple obligated to ship an iMessage client for other platforms? For free?

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Open secure messaging protocols with freely available and unencumbered specifications and even implementations are good, actually.

I wish XMPP or Matrix or whatthefuckever existed so that we didn't have to rely on fifteen fucking proprietary IM systems to communicate with an adequate portion of our friends.

Can we make it an outright criminal offense to ship a new messaging application without an accompanying RFC detailing the format? With aggravating circumstances if you outright forbid third party clients that end up being created anyway.

Ah damn, Justine has my respect for a bunch of cool and interesting stuff but this is just embarrassing, unless I'm missing some extremely dry satire.

Huh, so something like a cant then (and indeed Wiktionary lists it as a synonym)

I still doubt "argotism" (as far as it's a word in actual use at all) is countable.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was not supposed to be an instruction manual!

Just now I tried to find what an argotism is and the top result was that very paper.

I saw @gerikson's comments after seeing this one and had to click on the tiny thumbnail of his profile pic to make sure it wasn't this exact Squidward face.

Genital augmentation and the word "stubsack" in the same sentence is an awkward cocktail.

There's a difference in having a personality that gets easily bored of luxury and believing conflict is what inherently gives life a meaning. Maus puts it: "Suffering doesn't make people better, it just makes them suffer"

If someone's life is so damn easy and hedonistic they're actually getting bored of it, there are good ways and bad ways of introducing adversity and getting out of your comfort zone. The negation of being a slave to the hedonic treadmill[1] is not an eternal war for domination.

1: A strange figure of speech, who the hell thinks treadmills are hedonistic?

I was in an FTTP orgy once. It was kinda disappointing. I was the only one who even brought an ONT.

Spoiler warning but Darth Vader is Luke's father.

But he said he was Spartacus!

I wonder if the existence of RationalWiki contributes to the confusion. Even though it's unrelated to and critical towards TREACLES, the name can cause confusion.

Aella is #1 education substack

Jesus wept, that one deserves a thread of its own. I can't remember the last time I winced this hard.