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zalasur, 5 months ago to random

"Has anyone on the fediverse ever made a trebuchet?"

Immediate reply: "How big a trebuchet are we talking about?"

RickiTarr, 4 days ago to random

What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

zalasur, 4 months ago to threads

"Yeah #Threads is full of Nazis but what are you going to do, go back to Mastodon? They get mad at you for not using alt text in your pictures. That's like way worse."

zalasur, 9 months ago to random

Now that I think about it, a very useful technique for avoiding the unwanted attention from the sandworms in Dune would be to employ the use of Monty Python's silly walks.

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

I don't mean to yuck on anybody's yum but I sort of feels like there is a lot of premature celebrating with regards to Trump's indictments and grand jury hearings. He hasn't been convicted yet, and he's still the Republican front-runner for the Presidential election. Hell, he's even beating Biden in some polls.

I'm not saying people shouldn't feel joy at his misfortune (I certainly do), but I sort of feel like people are setting themselves for a huge disappointment down the road.

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

Occasionally someone brings up Lord of the Flies as some sort of real-life allegory of man's inhumanity to man, when it's nothing like that at all.

First, Lord of the Flies is fiction.

Not only is it fiction, it was based off of a real incident where a group of boys did get stranded on an island for a while until they were rescued. In the real life version, they all banded together, took care of the injured, and were in relatively good health when help finally arrived.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

How generous of my bank to make sure I don't have to pay the $10 monthly service fee on my checking account as long as I have $500 in it.

It's no problem for me personally, but charging poor people for the privilege of banking while poor has always seemed wrong to me. 😡

zalasur, 6 months ago to random

One thing I've sort of felt about modern web development for years now is how far we've deviated from core web design principles when they were created the decades ago.

Now, I understand that it's expected for things to evolve and change over time. I get that. What I'm talking about is how, for example, web app designers treat web sites like infinitely malleable canvases from which they can create their custom masterpieces on.

People might ask, well, what's the big deal about that? (cont.)

zalasur, 5 months ago to random

A reminder that the guy who just got fired from OpenAI also wanted to scan everyone's eyeball with some sort of orb in exchange for Worldcoin, his pet crypto project. They told him that he was absolutely not allowed to do this in the US so he started spending a bunch of time in Africa and Southeast Asia in the hopes of finding enough suckers for his program.

zalasur, 5 months ago to fediverse

#PeerTube 6.0 comes with a new feature: Chapters! You can now add chapters to your uploaded videos. Last night I did a live stream which was saved to a VOD. This morning, as I was saving it to my playlist, I went through the video and added chapter markers so that when people are watching, they can skip the boring parts. :D

https://video.surazal.net/w/w69sP6L76nQLrF1EUBu4fq

zalasur, 1 year ago to random

Just a friendly reminder to not tag the fediblock hashtag in the replies to people who are actively getting harassed. Trolls monitor that hashtag too and unless people voluntarily tag it in their own posts it's not a good idea to "helpfully" add their post on their behalf. Besides, it's rude.

Thank you. #fediblockmeta

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

Reverse bathroom mirror effect this morning on our north-facing picture window. It's 82°F with 79% humidity at 9 AM.

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

Whether or not Putin actually ordered the plane be taken down, everyone is going to assume he did it.

zalasur, 7 months ago to random

A little #feditip for your #feditips

So people have been noticing that you often don't see replies to posts on Mastodon. This is especially true if the post originated from a user who's on another instance from your own.

How to rectify the situation? Go to the source. On Mastodon, in the "three dots" menu next to each post there's an option to "Open Original Page". This will open up the post directly from that other instance and you'll see all the replies there.

zalasur, 7 months ago to random

Ugh, I think my old laptop may finally be dying. The Wi-Fi goes out and the only way I can get it to work again is by rebooting. If better work on moving my documents off of there. 😢

zalasur, 5 months ago to random

About once a month or so, someone in my feed will come up with the idea to create a website that serves as a human-curated directory of the web and I'm like, ah we have reached full circle. We're now reinventing the Open Directory Project.

(Which I think is a good idea, but it's interesting to see people come back to this idea over and over again).

TheBreadmonkey, 10 days ago to random

It's quite funny to me that the cryopods in The Expanse are obviously car roof boxes

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

What a week, huh?

ai6yr, 27 days ago to random

Text just now from my elderly relatives: "Family friend needs a ride to the airport... can you drive them" 😬

Already texted back "NO I CAN'T"

Mrfunkedude, 10 days ago to random

This is not the first toot you’ve read.

OR IS IT?

Hi. I’m Funk. Welcome to my TEDTalk on stoner philosophy.

zalasur, 4 days ago to random

My observations of a certain segment of IT:

Infosec Professional, 2023: I am an expert with years of experience who understands best security practices and the most urgent vulnerabilities plaguing the Internet in the modern day and age

Infosec Professional, 2024: This is my farm. I grow potato. I do not live within a five mile radius of a power line or any other functioning electronics.

zalasur, 17 days ago to random

My problem with the term "tradwives" is that it sounds just like something Margaret Atwood would have invented in one of her cautionary tales.

zalasur, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

Enough with the serious crap. Now on to more fun stuff.

How to you pronounce "GIF"?

zalasur, 9 days ago to Rabbits

A new friend has arrived. They like to hang out here for some reason, though it's been raining this week so they've had to hide elsewhere when the water is pouring out of the downspout. I guess he's just the right size to hide in there in case one of the neighborhood cats comes a-prowling.

#bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #rabbitsofmastodon

ai6yr, 4 months ago to snowboarding

Winter tips from the UK Met Office (applicable everywhere)

The temperature is due to drop again this weekend, so check your vehicle is #WeatherReady.

✅Top up with a screen wash that is effective in cold temperatures
✅Check your tyres are roadworthy
✅Pack a winter kit for your car.

#winter #cold #snow