captain typ0 @ink_slinger@coales.co
Boring old man from western Canada (Treaty 6 territory). Among the oldest of the millennials. Probably too many toots about politics. Also just random thoughts because I need to shout at the void.
I pretend to be a hacker because I use Linux, but terminal commands still feel like magic incantations at this point. I'm still learning.
Boosts are not endorsements, except when they are.
Joined Sep 2019
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This is an #introduction post...kinda.
Hit me up with your #pinebookpro toots. Mine is on order and I'm looking forward to getting it.
I toot a lot about #politics, especially of the leftist sort.
Here are an assortment of hashtags: #socialism #canada #alberta #canpol #anarchy #libertariansocialism #socialecology #linux #yeg #edmonton #snowshoeing #strumstick #fermentation
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It looks like this will probably be my new main account. It's with a heavy heart that I am moving on from mastodon.club, but @msh has a solid instance here that I'm happy to join.
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Working on issue #3 of my newsletter, The Dork Web. Issue #1 comes out this thursday at 13:37 UTC.
Issue #1 is about the Pinebook Pro, ARM64 boards and CP/M SBCs.
Issue #2 is a loveletter to the Atari Lynx
Issue #3 is about Consumerism and reflections on John Carpenter's "They Live" in the 21st Century, MNT Reform, Librem 5 and Pinephone.
If that floats your boat, you can sign up here: https://thedorkweb.substack.com/
There is something comforting about the sound of a dot matrix printer.
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Micro.blog is doing wonderful stuff for the microblogging space! We wanted to give them a shout-out by adding one of their elegant themes to our collection. So here's "Marfa", the latest addition to the @write_as themes blog: https://write.as/themes/marfa
Going to join the Odd Fellows because it's the secret society with the coolest name.
mental health joke (~)
I think a reliance on practical effects also plays a role. Especially by the late 90s/early 00s, there was a greater emphasis on CGI effects and a lot of those sequences just don't hold up. They were cutting edge at the time, but look like absolute crap today.
CGI explosion from 1999: is obviously fake and looks like shit
Real explosion from 1983: looks awesome because it's a real explosion
Random thought: a lot of action (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, sci fi) movies from the 80s hold up better today than those from the 90s or even the early 00s, and I wonder if this is because they're just old enough that we don't see hilariously outdated tech (a home phone seems timeless, a brick cell phone from 1993 does not), but are close enough to the contemporary era that they don't feel out-dated or old fashioned.
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The worst thing about finally getting around to answering emails is that like there’s a 50% chance that it’ll just cause you to get even more emails. How have they not fixed this huge design flaw yet
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'New: leaked documents, data, contracts show how hugely popular antivirus Avast now harvests internet browsing data and sells it for millions of dollars. Clients included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft. Documents show a product called "All Clicks Feed"'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
(RT https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status)/1221796061678694401)
I reviewed Sobrii non-alcoholic gin.
http://www.kellysniderfamily.com/adam/sobrii-0-gin-non-alcoholic-gin-review/
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"leftists" who aren't anti-racist are just supremacists who want to distribute the spoils of imperialism and colonialism more evenly amongst themselves
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For a laugh, I tried to access Facebook via the links2 CLI browser last night. It was basically just a giant thing that said, "YOU MUST ENABLE JAVASCRIPT," which doesn't surprise me in the least.
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This PC culture has gotten so out of hand you can't even wear a military jacket you bought for five dollars at Goodwill to get discounts at waffle House anymore
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what do you call a pirate who's crankin' it?
gaeming, money
The good guy/bad guy myth, and who ancient tales weren't necessarily moral lessons (at least not in a way we'd recognize today).
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-good-guy-bad-guy-myth?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Software is like an onion. If you open up the inner layers you start crying
Boring old man from western Canada (Treaty 6 territory). Among the oldest of the millennials. Probably too many toots about politics. Also just random thoughts because I need to shout at the void.
I pretend to be a hacker because I use Linux, but terminal commands still feel like magic incantations at this point. I'm still learning.
Boosts are not endorsements, except when they are.
Joined Sep 2019
