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tomw

@tomw@mastodon.social

Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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tomw, to random
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Starting to think I might not manage to get to the end of Breath of the Wild before the next one comes out

tomw,
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Current Zelda status -

Completed:
Wind Waker
Link's Awakening

Started but did not finish:
Breath of the Wild
Skyward Sword
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Link to the Past

Had a quick look but not any real attempt:
Zelda (NES)
Twilight Princess
All the GBA/DS stuff

tomw, to random
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There is a strange joy in wearing jeans and a T-shirt to an event where it is clearly implied (though not actually stated) that you are supposed to wear a suit, or at least a shirt.

tomw,
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I like that it makes you (me) strangely unreadable, because it makes you come across as "low status or maybe very high status"

tomw,
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Is this some kid off the street or a tech millionaire? Who can tell?

(I am neither thing.)

tomw,
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@FrancisHayden1 Yeah, it does also have this subtle "I don't recognise your ability to give me petty instructions"

tomw,
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Has this guy made a deliberate decision here or does he just not own a suit?

(Both! I have made a deliberate decision not to own a suit.)

tomw,
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If we band together then within a generation or two we could make suits go away like formal hat-wearing did.

rodhilton, to random
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revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

  1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

  2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

tomw,
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@rodhilton This is why I just send one line emails to begin with

tomw, to random
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Success!

tomw,
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@kctipton It says "Success" right there! Would it lie?

sam, to random
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Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from all of the same problems as Mastodon.

Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.

tomw,
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@sam Yeah, you can definitely tell it's cryptocurrency developers. It's like the "whitepaper" for some new token where they're not doing anything novel or interesting so they just build a mountain of complexity and indirection. It's all supposed to make it look like there is some "technology" there and not just bullshit.

tomw, to random
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Select an editor. To change later, run 'select-editor'.

  1. /bin/nano <---- easiest
  2. /usr/bin/vim.basic
  3. /usr/bin/vim.tiny
  4. /bin/ed
tomw,
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@grvsmth This is from crontab -e, not sure why there's no Emacs!

fkamiah17, to random
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With apologies to all the lovely Americans on here. It's funny because it's true.
h/t

tomw,
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@fkamiah17 pretty much, but I was not aware of the location of Disney World

mcnees, to random
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This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

tomw,
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@mcnees I've seen this allll over the place. Even if Twitter does collapse, they'll probably be reposting it for years to come. Similar to the strange afterlife of popular Vines.

tomw, to random
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Hi Mastodon, I have an oddly specific complaint that I'm going to make out into the air here for no reason. I will then get annoyed with anyone who turns up to argue with me about it.

tomw,
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This is the follow-up post about how I'm going to block people because they argued with me.

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    tomw,
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    @christina @josh To be honest I think there's a bit of a 'type' that gets 100 replies saying "I agree" and 1 reply saying "why did you use hashtags like that" or something and is just incredibly angry about it

    tomw,
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    @josh @christina During the last big Twitter influx there were more efforts at enforcing things like CWs for lots of topics, but that has really died down now. (I'm not saying this is necessarily good by the way!)

    tomw, to random
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    What we in the UK have to do now is remember for ~30 years that if the police tell you that you can protest at a coronation, what they will actually do is arrest the organisers and put up a big barrier blocking the view of the protest. If we can remember it, we can organise appropriately for next time.

    tomw,
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    It's really hard to explain to people who have a legalistic framework for this sort of thing that sometimes the state just blatantly breaks the law.

    Doesn't mean they'll do it every day. But when something is important enough to them, yes, they will. They might have to pay compensation or whatever later, but that doesn't matter to them at all.

    tomw,
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    People make a mistake in two directions:

    • "Well they must have done something": the legalistic mistake that simply cannot acknowledge police acting illegally, because their instructions were some version of "just make sure no one gets near disrupting this".

    • "Looks like we have fascism now": I mean, no, we really don't. What we have here is a case of knowingly illegal arrests.

    tomw,
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    @JTDType That's good! No doubt there will be one over this too.

    gedeonm, to random
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    "I love using your free Mac software and want to use it on iOS but I can't afford it. Could I get a free copy? Thanks!"

    Fires up ChatGPT...

    tomw,
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    @gedeonm But if your answer is "no", you are surely under no obligation to be perfect, polite or emotionally taxed. Or even to reply.

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