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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-03-08 08:27:21

"It is fair to say that Microsoft spent at least the first five years of its history in relative obscurity. The first appearance of the name “Microsoft” on the pages of Byte was a short mention of their BASIC interpreter in an advertising on page 47 of the May 1977 issue. In contrast, page 34 of the same issue included an article about the Apple II by Steve Wozniak. The Woz and Gary Kildall were the biggest stars of the microcomputer industry at the end of the 1970s."
deprogrammaticaipsum.com/where

@castarco@hachyderm.io
2025-03-31 07:21:14

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stan
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-04-06 13:16:44

"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-h

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-30 20:16:31

#SilentSunday

A clump of daffodils, with five yellow blooms and several tall green leaves coming out of the ground. They're in an area of brush, surrounded by tall thin dead stems of some plants, fallen autumn leaves, small sticks, and a few patches of green grass or clover or other small plants. In the background is a chain link fence, and behind that a couple dozen tall, thin tree trunks with no leaves visible. The photo looks up a hill, and beyond the trees is a blueish gray sky.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-03-12 19:58:47

On the same day I signed an initial IEP plan, I find out the US Dept of Education has cut half its staff.
Fuck POTUS47 and anyone that voted for him. And fuck any #ProgressivesForTrump that didn't have the maturity to vote for a better future. There's a million ways we will suffer for your single-minded refusal to see the future. You think people will "try harder&quo…

@castarco@hachyderm.io
2025-04-18 21:50:16

Happy :neocat_bongo_down: , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" :neocat_googly_shocked: .

@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social
2025-03-12 08:52:00

If you can't live your dream, at least you can dream your dream.
Then make your house there. Maybe put some stuff in there, explore the world, get back to your house...oh wait, is this Terraria?
Ok now back to you reality in the studio, the weather is alright or stormy?
#dream #reality

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-04-01 11:49:34

Tar Hollow State Park
Taken 8 May 2024
#ThickTrunkTuesday #FallenTree #Ohio #StatePark

A fallen tree with a thick trunk runs horizontally over a dirt trail through the forest. It is high enough in the air that it looks like many people could walk underneath without ducking. To the left of the trail is another fallen tree trunk of similar size, but it has been sawed off to make room for the trail. The forest is lush with deciduous leaves. This part of the forest is open to the sun, and the fallen branch casts a parallel shadow across the trail. In the distance, another fallen tru…
@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-28 17:03:32

Defunct railroad building.
Taken 4 August 2024.
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Abandoned #Ohio

A window in the wall of a dilapidated one-story building, seen from the inside. The window is a two by four grid of panes, but all the glass appears to be missing. A small line of glass shards can still be seen clinging to the bottom of the window. Outside is a lot of green trees and brush, with a dull gray sky behind them. There's a wood frame around the window, although for some reason the top of the frame is lower than the top of the window, so it covers part of the window. The wood is bump…
@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-29 15:37:40

A lost cupcake couple
Taken 28 March 2025
#Urban #Street #Ground #Cupcake

Two cupcakes sit on an asphalt street in front of the curb. The left cupcake is intact but upside-down. It has a red wrapper and white icing with red flecks. The cake itself is hard to see but it looks light colored. The right cupcake has been squished. Its white wrapper is sprawled out and underneath, brown cake is spread out on the road. The photo is taken at ground level and the vertical side of the curb takes up most of the view. Above the curb can be seen two multistory buildings, one of r…