No. But I wasn’t doing anything particularly complex, just a LAMP stack server for some game forums. Think I had a Dell desktop. Was a dishwasher at the time.

Took a few days fumbling through tutorials but I eventually got it up and running. Repeated that a few times over the years, once to host a blog, stuff like that.

Would like to get into it again but all I have now is a tablet.

Ah, a fellow controls guy out in the wild.

I was curious so I just looked it up. Very surprised to find out Nana Visitor is 5’8. Just goes to show how tall the cast was on average.

You show some respect to Michael J. Anderson.

Not only was he an excellent actor, he worked for NASA. Not bad for a guy who’s only 3 foot 7.

And, he was, in fact in Star Trek. Deep Space Nine, as Rumplestiltskin, appropriately.

I tried Bluesky before I found Lemmy. I really wanted to like it but after a few months I decided it wasn’t for me. It’s got a chicken-or-egg problem and you need to bring your own fanbase if want to have any interaction.

I never liked Twitter and don’t feel it’s a particularly good model for actual socializing. I think it was created back when people were still hacking together ideas, it sort of worked, and it hasn’t changed much since.

It’s great for disseminating stuff, terrible at creating space for discussion.

The founders seem like a bunch of young ultra-capitalists who sensed an opening in the market and are just shooting their shot. The app reflects this in subtle ways.

Nah, sappy yes, but I only laid it on thick in response to the OP who been spamming misogynistic boomer jokes.

Bro oughta take that shit somewhere else.

That’s not the face I’d make.

It would be a face of mild amusement and care as I pulled her into my arms to tell her:

“Yes, baby, I’d love you even if you were a doorknob. You’d be the most beautiful doorknob in the world to me. I’d even have to hire a butler to open all the doors in front of me because you would be the only doorknob I’d ever want to hold in my hand.”

Because at the end of the day, coming home to reassure the person you love is a simple and gracious act and is worth every hour of any 14 hour shift.

Right? I might have poured out a bottle of beer into the toilet in an ill considered act of abolition, but drugs are expensive.

Every night, baby!

I’m grinding so hard, I cleared the sigmoid with 3 fingers in 20 minutes and just one pain killer.

No, I won’t.

Fuck your “reason”, people covet their own logical prowess but in reality they didn’t come to their views on their own nor their way of seeing things on their own. In fact, it’s a weakness borrowed from others, based on flawed methodology and is what got you into the situation you’re in now.

I ain’t teaching a class, believe me or don’t, I dgaf.

99% of people are mostly interested in confirming their own myopic view, to the degree that they will commit violence to ensure it. If someone reaches out a hand, I will grab it, but that’s exceedingly rare and it’s not my day job to fish randos out of their own ignorance un-asked.

Do you drink your coffee black?

I don’t know shit about mathematics, except that when numbers and letters collude, that’s a fucking conspiracy against me. That said, I strongly suspect that for legit mathematicians, solving thorny math problems is only half of what they do, but rather, by operating from a platform of experience, intuit the nature of numerical systems, what that means in relation to other systems, and how we use them to understand and navigate the world.

The title sounds as ridiculous as proclaiming professors of literature are worried because an LLM can parse a sentence.

There’s a fundamental knowledge, both in the specifics of systems and holistically that can only be gained by solving these quandaries through the lens of human interpretation.

No

Coming this Fall, a new blockbuster hit so hot you’ll definitely never get sick of hearing about it every day: The Facebook! Part 2: Reddit. “Look out FB, there’s a new turd in this punchbowl”

Coming to a news feed near you!

Blink twice if Mrs. Baseball is in the room with you now.

Don’t jump to conclusions, it’s probably just a drug deal.

Wera makes a ratchet-hammer. I don’t know how to post pictures here but you can look it up. It’s an abomination but apparently people like it.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

In a few years all pics, movies, music, books, news, anything and anyone you don’t see in person will be completely indistinguishable from AI. And most of it will be.

You won’t even know if the Senator’s face on your tv screen belongs to a real person.

The new front on the “war” for/on your minds will open. A culmination of all physical, informational, cultural, economic, narrative, and digital reality control systems will converge.

Even more so than now, people will have no choice but to embrace whatever schema of reality they can access because there will be no way to discern real truth from the manufactured.

Paranoia will eventually give way to a rather natural “double think” envisioned by Orwell. Tropey but nevertheless prophetic.

Just a daily reminder that if you want something great, especially if it is made great by the contributions of hundreds of people, it can’t be owned by a profit oriented business. If you don’t want that great thing to be taken away and/or used against you, the ownership has to remain in the hands of the people.

Oh shit, I haven’t seen the rolfcopter in years. That brings back some memories