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zalasur

@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net

I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to random
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I solved this JoWordle 513 with 5/6 attempts in 1:26 minutes. Can you do better?
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https://word.rodeo/jowordle/?utm_source=result

Natanox, to random
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Accidental T-568A to T-568B Patch cable.

Oups.

zalasur,
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@Natanox to make it even more confusing: the industry standard is to use the "B" version.

zalasur,
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@Natanox Ah, you have a cable tester! I just plug mine in and hope for the best. 😅

UnFitz2, to random

The dangers of Australia are exaggerated by the media. The truth is that at least 62% of Australian children reach adulthood without being consumed by predators. Not bad!

zalasur,
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@UnFitz2 That statistic is misleading. It implies that out of 100 children, 62 will make it to adulthood, but in reality the vast majority of them will have had a quarter of their body mass eaten by predators*

*Joe "Stumpy" Johnson is considered an outlier and should have not been counted in the final tally

StefanThinks, to random
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Yeah, I'll boost and favorite a toot that's 15 hours old and has 0 favorites or boosts, idgaf.

zalasur,
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@StefanThinks A legend

zalasur, to random
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I was going to do a "wait and see" approach to seeing how threads was going to pan out. Fortunately, they've given us a preview of how they will be run before they've connected themselves to the Fediverse.

And now I've seen enough. I will be preemptively blocking the domain on my self-hosted instance.

They've not only decided to host right wing hate groups but are actively coddling them. I'm not surprised of course, but it's good to see this with my own eyes before making any rash decisions.

zalasur,
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@darthdzl Libs of Tik Tok was one of them. There was another I've forgotten already. Basically most of them are flocking over there now. It's probably easier to count who among them isn't joining up.

zalasur,
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@darthdzl

https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

jpeelle, to random

Before crowbars were invented, crows just drank at home.

Stand-Up Lol GIF by Muppet Wiki

zalasur,
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@mjf_pro @jpeelle Wakka wakka!

Wilbur72, to random
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Rocket Scientists are the only ones qualified to use the expression “It’s not rocket science”.

The rest of us don’t have a clue.

zalasur,
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@Wilbur72 That's why I prefer the phrase "It's not rocket surgery". It levels the playing field.

zalasur,
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@mensrea @Wilbur72 Making fire in a tube is easy. Making sure it only leaves the tube in the prescribed manner is the tricky part.

zalasur, to random
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@SteampunkMuppet ah HA I thought I'd find you here on the mastodons! :D

elke, to random

this sure was an idea

zalasur,
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@elke Pretty good idea IMHO

zalasur, to random
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I solved this JoWordle 512 with 3/6 attempts in 1:32 minutes. Can you do better?
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https://word.rodeo/jowordle/?utm_source=result

zalasur, (edited ) to random
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So one parallel in history that Threads brings to mind, especially when we discuss the possibility that it may become federated, is AOL.

America Online, those of us over 40 may recall, was a dialup service people paid to access via modems over their telephone lines in the early 90s. It had competitors like Geocities and a few others, but it was the largest company of its type at the time

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zalasur,
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Also, in the early 90s, the internet started emerging from academia, and with the invention of the world wide web, really started picking up steam. You still had to use your modem over telephone to connect to it, but you were instantly connected to the whole world. Amazing!

AOL got worried. They knew that if they didn't adapt fast their goose was cooked, so they did the most sensible thing they could think of: connect their enormous user base directly to the internet

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zalasur,
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Now you need to realize that, at the time the internet has a small but growing userbase. They trended towards the technically savvy end of the spectrum. It was favored by social outcasts because it let them connect to people without all that messy face-to-face nonsense.

AOL was grandma and grandpa. AOL was the sportos taking about sportsball with other sportsball enthusiasts. AOL was full of non technical people who didn't really care about protocols or open standards.

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zalasur, (edited )
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And, perhaps most importantly, AOL was huge. It had way more users than the internet did at the time.

And when they did hit the internet in the mid nineties, it was like an earthquake. It got a lot more... mainstream (to put it kindly).

It turned into a big ol' party, in a way. But also, when the masses started flooding the series of tubes, that's when the money started pouring in.

And that kicked off the dot-com bubble of the late nineties.

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zalasur,
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But... It also lost a bit of magic. The internet sort of felt co-opted almost overnight. It wasn't this sort of safe space where people who didn't fit in elsewhere (the LGBTQ community, furries, and so on) could feel safe anymore because their chatrooms were suddenly filled with people who were famous for using their CD trays as coffee cup holders.

And with the influx came a huge rush of bigotry and exclusion of the minority.

It was a big culture shock.

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zalasur,
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At the time we were all wide-eyed and naive of what was to come. The dot-com boom eventually busted in 2000, then 9/11 followed by a really nasty economic recession.

But that period of time leading up to that was pretty intense. The internet was new and shiny and everyone heard of it. Many scoffed at it because it was "hard to use" but people kept joining it even during the slow times.

So yeah, Threads is the new AOL. It's gonna land here and it's gonna be loud

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zalasur,
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What's going to be the end result? Hard to say. I want to say we're less naive than we used to be, but on the other hand the amount of institutional memory we've all seemed to have forgotten collectively speaking is massive, so I'm not so sure.

But one thing is for sure. It will be different. And we'll have to be prepared for that.

zalasur,
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@mjf_pro Oof, yeah. I was on BBS's at the time up until I got my internet connection from my university in 1994. Every college student got one at the University of Minnesota Duluth that year, in fact.

In 1994, there were dozens of BBS's and they were so active you could barely get into them because their phone lines were all tied up. By 1995, there were maybe two or three BBS's left operational in Duluth, and they were virtual ghost towns. I kinda miss them. 😞

dreamthievin, to random

fortune cookie: tomorrow will be the worst day of your life

(the next day)

Waiter: the chicken is baked not fried, the bread is gluten free, and the butter is vegan

Me: OH NO

zalasur,
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@dreamthievin Well, good news: since it's the worst day of your life that means it's all uphill from here, right? 😅

UncleDuke1969, to random

I’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund.

zalasur,
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@UncleDuke1969 That or they are trying to construct a hedgehenge

alex, to random
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The amount of misinformation on Mastodon around Threads and the EU is a great demonstration of how motivated reasoning is not a problem only for commercial social media platforms.

zalasur,
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@alex Yuuuuup

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