I want to suggest to a group that they set up a mailing list type thing (the newsgroup kind, not the spam kind). Tech affinity level is "can use email competently but would not go for any sort of self hosting or other things that require nontrivial ongoing administration". What service are we recommending for that these days?
suddenly thinking again about that one guy in high school who literally pulled a "oh you're into programming? name three assemblers" on me long before that was a meme
like, yes, they are closer to a triangle than to any other polygon
that does not mean you should just draw a pair of plain isosceles triangles pointing along the head's normal vector, those aren't cat ears, those are half-assed devil horns
Confused the fuck out of some consulting company today because they cold-emailed me at work asking if I'd talk to their clients about stuff. They clearly meant one of the other two Emilies at the same company, but I am emily@company.tld and so people email me a lot when they don't feel like looking up the right email address for the Emily in question and just take a wild guess.
So I stubbornly fill out their form to join their Network(tm), then fill out the other form for the specific client they want me to talk to, mostly with "I am not exposed enough to this side of the business to give useful information" pasted into every text box. Then at the end of this form they ask if I want to decline it, so I finally do.
Less than a minute later they called me, wondering why none of what I entered matches my LinkedIn account.
At this point I finally informed them that I don't have a LinkedIn account.
I hoped they learned a valuable lesson today. If not, I would be happy to charge them the $400/hour they offered me to read to them the entirety of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.