@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caIt was a book of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, 800 pages long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.
"It's so… black!" said Ford Prefect. "You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!"
The blackness of its title was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.
"Your eyes just slide off it…" said Ford in wonder.
—Douglas A…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukTomorrow is two years that I will have been with @….
I still remember being at work and after brainstorming all morning I sent him a text asking if he wanted to be my boyfriend. I was terrified that would end our friendship
He said yes. To this day I still sometimes wonder why he chose me over every other person in the world. I have flaws, I …
@ainmosni@berlin.socialHey #Linux bubble, I wonder if someone can help me solve a small annoyance I have.
I work on a laptop that's almost always connected to its keyboard via a thunderbolt 3 hub. This works great, except that when I boot, I can't use my external keyboard to type in the decryption passphrase, and I have to awkwardly use the laptop keyboard.
Does anybody know how to force the keyboard t…
@AmkiTakk@blorbo.socialReading older, pre-series Hazbin fanfic is fascinating because Vaggie is consistently written as a moth girl and it makes me wonder why. Was it a fanon thing at the time, or was she intended to be a moth at some point before that got changed?
@axbom@axbom.me
@mlippert@vmst.io@… I just saw this article very similar to your ER bill fight. It made me wonder if you had any success getting the hospital to give you the itemized bill?
Former Surgeon General Says $5K ER Bill Is a Symptom of Broken System
#healthcare
@ruari@velocipederider.comIn London and I walked past a shop with this outside. While taking the picture, a woman to the side of me was also looking at it and said to me, "I wonder how you get on these things?"
Me: Funny you should ask…
[After a few minutes of me talking about penny farthings, I did allow her to leave.]
@karlauerbach@sfba.social@… Today you posted a note about how someone appears to have injected a Trojan into the source of XV. (Oops, I mean xz.) And there was another post about the increase in complex tool chains and dependencies that are larding-up the software many of us use.
That made me wonder about whether national security bodies - intelligence, military…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSimilarly, if you still follow Tante (Jürgen Geuter), you probably don’t want to follow me. Cause if you are OK with his libelling me as an antisemite and Holocaust denier for opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, I wonder where our common base could ever be.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/1…
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usJazzaria
"Feline Dukkha"
@…
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/04/17/jazzaria-feline-dukkha/
@stella@tech.lgbti wonder if having a cute boyfriend could fix me
@axbom@axbom.meAnd whenever people wonder about trackers I always want to play them the sound from @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org’s googerteller:
https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/
@karlauerbach@sfba.social@… Today you posted a note about how someone appears to have injected a Trojan into the source of XV. (Oops, I mean xz.) And there was another post about the increase in complex tool chains and dependencies that are larding-up the software many of us use.
That made me wonder about whether national security bodies - intelligence, military…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThe M.C.Ecsheresque stairwell in Glasgow's papal palace, er, I mean City Chambers. A building so inappropriately opulent, that I wonder how anyone gets any work done there. The lavish extravagance of it makes me think of Tr*mp's gold plated toilet.
#StairwaySaturday
@beaware@social.beaware.liveOn some days, I'm slow
On some days, I just don't know.
On some days, I feel sad
On some days, I feel pretty bad
On some days, I miss you
On some days, I wonder if you miss me too
On some days, I wonder why
Why couldn't I just say goodbye?
@threeofus@mstdn.socialArrrggghhhh C drives me mad. She rarely sends the first good morning text which makes me feel unloved. I’ve held out until now but it’s so childish so I’ve sent her one. Adding this to the list of THINGS WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
My fear of abandonment means that things like this really matter to me. I wonder if I’m being overly sensitive but I think not.
Links to another red flag. She tells me she can hold a grudge. Didn’t talk to her dad for a few years and is currently avoi…
@bourgwick@heads.socialtons of classic #comix by the late trina robbins at @…. the legendary "it ain't me, babe" (1970):
@ferrous@neurodifferent.meUK Politics
"Interviewed at a summit of progressive leaders in Quebec last week, Keir Starmer named border security as his main priority, ahead of the economy or the environment."
You have to wonder what he was even doing at a summit of progressive leaders. I imagine any actual progressive leaders there will have been asking themselves the same.
https://novaramedia.com/2023/09/25/are-actual-leftwing-parties-about-to-give-labour-a-run-for-its-money/#:~:text=Interviewed at a summit of progressive leaders in Quebec last week, Keir Starmer named border security as his main priority, ahead of the economy or the environment.
@mistertim@assemblag.es
@hynek@mastodon.socialAs I’m finalizing my second video, I wonder: has someone used both Davinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro and could tell me whether for my explain-type videos the latter is less janky and more approachable than the former?
I understand that Resolve has the best color correction in the industry and amazing sound features but the jank is driving me crazy and from what I’ve seen about FCP, it seems like it could mesh with my brain that dreams in Keynote better.
@bici@mastodon.socialI'm in heaven when you kiss me
Can't you see it in my smile?
I'm in heaven when you hold me
You make my mind go wild
Guess I could fall into a whole world of trouble over you
Mollena, you're an angel
I've got heaven in my hand
Mollena, sometimes I wonder
If they'll ever understand
Guess I could fall into a whole world of trouble over you
Mollena
James Hunter
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“We should not be ashamed of our imperialism. We should be ashamed of its absence. We are a great empire and should act accordingly!" -- Vladimir Solovyov, Putin's propagandist
This reminds me, I wonder how Canada's official representative for Tankies, Dimitri Lascaris, is doing.... *immediately regrets decision to go to his website… which I will not link*
h/t @…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org(And if you still follow Aral Balkan, you probably don't want to follow me. Cause if you are OK with his antisemitism and Holocaust relativism I wonder where our common base could ever be)
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, this is a foul wind that's blowing through Aotearoa: https://thestandard.org.nz/atlas-smirked/
@BBC2MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #JeremyVine
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
#StevieWonder
https://open.spotify.com/track/0l9RGwc48deJ6j61KXAAvs
https://magnumsextendedmixesv3.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-yester-me-yester-you-yesterday-magnums-extended-mix
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsBlack Book is an interesting #game. It's a kind of crossover between an RPG game, an adventure game and a card game (first one I've ever played). It's kinda fun, but more importantly, it's deeply immersed in eastern Slavic folklore.
One thing makes me wonder. Life in XIX. century must have been hard. People needed to work a lot just to survive. On top of that, they clearly had a very complex system of superstitions. I would find it hard to remember it all, let alone watch yourself at every turn not to anger some spirit…
@rohini@mastodon.socialIndian AI startup tech bros who I don't know send me unsolicited connection requests on LinkedIn. I wonder if they have considered founding an Indian hookup app by the name http://Chud.ai. I am sure they have.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI knew stuff was bad, and my family still there are ok but angry.
As always I wonder (now), why people aren't marching in the streets with anger, and yet, when I lived there I don't suppose I would either.
Maybe living in Denmark has radicalised me not to accept such conditions as normal..?
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialI love love LOOOVE, "I wonder why you feel comfortable saying that to me." That's such a BEAUTIFUL response--in so many ways, on so many levels. https://time.com/6837151/therapists-respond-insults/
@vrandecic@mas.toA philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
@alsutton@snapp.socialWe’ve had a number of big retailers suffer widespread issues in th #uk. This makes me wonder how many went all-in on MS and Azure for critical sustems. 🤔 https://learn.microsoft.co…
@williamgunn@mastodon.socialAdBlock for signs and billboards would actually be a legit use for AR googles. Not compelling enough to get me to strap a few thousand dollars of hardware to my face and walk around, to be sure, but mentioning it just to say something positive.
https://berlin.social/@ainmosni/111953
@beaware@social.beaware.liveLol. Seeing people interact with new Fedi users and then immediately recommend a few of the accounts on here that literally don't interact with anyone, makes me wonder if they really want the new people to stick around...🤦♂️
When someone has 25k followers but only follow like 200, it's fairly safe to skip interacting with that account. They won't interact with you.
@nemobis@mamot.frI wonder what happened to 7T7, the seagull who was always in front of my kitchen window at my previous place. She raised (and then seemingly abandoned) quite some offspring in front of my eyes.
So I've finally uploaded some photos of #Hakaniemenranta in 2020, before the construction works for the new tram line and apartment buildings and whatnot started.
@cdarwin@c.imThe latest poll by The New York Times and Siena College makes me wonder.
The poll, published Saturday, shows Donald Trump holding on to a slight edge of 46 percent to 45 percent over President Biden.
And it includes this detail:
When survey respondents were asked whether they remember the years of Trump’s presidency as “mostly good,” “mostly bad” or “not really good or bad,”
42 percent said “mostly good,”
while just 33 percent said “mostly bad.”
Mostly goo…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMe: Hmm, maybe I should look into Bun again and see how its Node.js compatibility is coming along.
Also me: I wonder who makes Bun…
Me, yet again: Ah, it’s a venture-capital funded startup called Oven (see what they did there?)
Finally, me: rm -rf ~/.bun
(Remember, kids: Venture capital is the fart that precedes enshittification. It’s best not to linger once you’ve caught a whiff of it.)
#bun
@sofia@chaos.socialthinking about designing my own #computer again. don't expect something to come from it, but seeing other computer projects inspires me.
one thing that excites me most is the idea of having a self-organizing mesh network for connecting components. that doesn't seem like that extreme of an overhead computationally, but i wonder how far you can push it.
it seems like every periph…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgWas out in music stores today, and while the staff tell me things are going well, I'm seeing a lot of items on sale with the lower price expiring *3 months from now*
Makes one wonder if inflation etc is biting into things...
@vrandecic@mas.toA philosopher with schizophrenia wrote a harrowing account of how he experiences schizophrenia. And I wonder if some of the lessons are true for everyone, and what that means for society.
" It’s definite belief, not certainty, that allows me to get along. It’s not that certainty, or something like it, never matters. If you are fixing dinner for me I’ll try to be clear about the eggplant allergy [...] 1/3
@grumpybozo@toad.socialEvery time I see something like this, I wonder why it didn’t work.
My one LSD experience (decades ago) was not at all a significant event. It was mildly fun, with an uneasy hangover. Didn’t make me more or less anxious or depressed, both of which I have been to varying degrees since I was a kid. Didn’t make me psychotic either, which I am fairly sure I’ve never been.
Brains are weird.
@bourgwick@heads.socialbig hazed #guitar for the high holidays at elsewhere in #brooklyn.
japanese #kosmische jams by minami deutsch, making me wonder exactly when it became a recognized sound that bands started around.
an…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social…that nervous systems could get more complex, and form brains, way better than with OG myelin. And it didn’t happen just once, but multiple times. The various strains of #Retromyelin are different, but similar enough to have similar effects in all the different animal lineages.
Which makes me wonder, is there some crossover of RNA from any of the pathogens floating around these days that…
@hynek@mastodon.socialspeaking of Hynek-is-having-a-bad-tech-day: anyone else’s AirPod Max bricked themselves with firmware 6A324? Won’t connect and won’t do a factory reset (will blink amber, but not white). Talking to Apple Support and they told me that there’s more reports and they’re looking into it and I should be patient… I wonder if they’re stalling or if it’s really the firmware.
The symptom is definitely not new:
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineIf people tell me I'm 'right', I wonder these days if they mean it as a compliment or an insult. Either way, I just hope they're not expressing their misguided opinion about my political leanings.
@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.comVisiting with some folk that do Car Shows.
Does make me wonder if folk do the same for computers now.
Show up with a perfectly restored TRS-80 with a polished keyboard.
Someone has a Sinclair with the hood popped so you can see the gleam in the solder traces.
A group showing off overclocked PDP-11s.
That kind of thing.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comNVMe-over-TCP is a new one on me. I wonder what the performance is like vs iSCSI vs ATA-over-Ethernet vs nbd.
#Linux
@jake4480@c.imHad to do a massive cleanup of the folder my metal mp3s & FLACs are in so when my playlist goes through them as I work (even in plain alphabetical order), there'll be nothing I won't wanna hear. I want a true no-skip collection.
It took MANY hours to pick out and get rid of the more mediocre stuff. Now I'm testing it out. Started at A for Act of Impalement a few hours ago, and I'm going all the way through to W for Wormridden. Wonder how long it'll take me to li…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIs it just me or does everyone else in Aotearoa think Sean Plunket is an unapologetic bigot? He used to be quite good on RNZ ages back, when he was opposite Geoff Robinson. I also used to have a good impression of Mike Hoskins back in his Radio New Zealand days. Wonder what happened since to make them such complete tossers. Far as I can tell, neither pretends to have journalistic integrity. They inhabit a mean-spirited echo chamber with their disaffected privileged audience.
@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialI got my haircut today. Probably the first time I had it done in 2 years. I went from very long (air going past my eyes) to much shorter.
Every time I catch a reflection of myself it surprises me and for a split second, I wonder "who the hell is that!?"
@BBC2MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SoundsOfThe60sWithTonyBlackburn
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
#StevieWonder
https://open.spotify.com/track/0l9RGwc48deJ6j61KXAAvs
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/yester-me-yester-you-yesterday
@williamgunn@mastodon.socialAdBlock for signs and billboards would actually be a legit use for AR googles. Not compelling enough to get me to strap a few thousand dollars of hardware to my face and walk around, to be sure, but mentioning it just to say something positive.
https://berlin.social/@ainmosni/111953
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineWhen I read about companies proud of their "we deploy 200 times per day!" I can't help but wonder how many of those deployments are actually useful vs the ones that are caused by lack of testing or other preventable causes.
Does anybody here working in such a company have an explanation for poor confused me?
#askfedi
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social @mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsMe yesterday: I plan to go to Drawiny, I set the alarm clock to 4:00 AM, I wonder if I'm going to actually feel like getting up.
Me today at 3:30 AM: I've woken up and don't feel like sleeping anymore. I change the plan to go Piła.
Me in Dziembówko (a station earlier): Oh, let's get out at Piła Kalina instead.
@ampersine@mastodon.onlineSometimes you're crazy, and you wonder why
I'm such a baby 'cause the edibles make me high
Well there’s nothin’ I can do
I only wanna legalize you
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-cu
@mia@hcommons.socialI got a late night email from IFTTT saying 'Your Applets have been turned off'. Because 'your account has been inactive for a while'.
I don't really buy it. Of course I haven't logged in in ages, they were working just fine. What an odd way to make me wonder if I even really need their service.
And how different 'we're turning off inactive applets; you've got a month to log in and poke any you're still using' would have been.
@carstingaxion@dewp.space> I wonder if you asked [#chatgpt] “Write me a custom post type for employees and credit all your sources” it would do that?
… wrote @… in her own comment section and I was curious too, so I tried it.
@chiraag@mastodon.online@… I wonder what you think of Kagi's refusal to link to a suicide hotline (which turned me off from considering them a while back).
https://www.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI wonder how long it will take for Yasha Mounk to go all "the woke ideologues just want to cancel me" defense
@beaware@social.beaware.liveMe: "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and if you go around sniffing them all, you'll find a lot of them smell like shit"
Also me: "Those people that I thought were 'good people' don't like me anymore for some reason, so I must be the problem..."
And people wonder why I don't sleep at night....😩😔
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioSo many pictures. So many nice pictures. Even the #amateur that I am.
Makes me wonder how #photography pros deal with the constant rush of subjects all around, both natural and man-made: rivers, lakes, birds, trees, hills, bridges, skyscrapers, towers, murals, ... 🤯
I spend hours shooting…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgWas out in music stores today, and while the staff tell me things are going well, I'm seeing a lot of items on sale with the lower price expiring *3 months from now*
Makes one wonder if inflation etc is biting into things...
@hey@social.nowicki.io @ferrous@neurodifferent.meFor as long as I've been thinking about #WeirdPride, I've been aware that #magic is never far away.
People who experience the world in unusual ways are often seen as #weird, and there's a long (and often uneasy) history of people associating that with supernatural beings, and spellcasting.
I think everyone probably needs a bit of magic in their lives - some wonder, things to remind them of the awesomeness and mysteries of existence. Some people seem content with very little of it, while others can't help but overflow with that stuff.
I try not to begrudge people beliefs that help them make it through the day, but a lot of those beliefs scare me...
I tried to marshall these thoughts, and others, for the #WeirdPrideDay site.
#myth #religion #neurodiversity #storytelling #foma @…
https://weirdpride.day/magic/
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeJust listened to Dev Game Club's Homeworld interview episode and Alex Garden's story of the founding of Relic was amazing! Maybe particularly for me since I grew up on Sierra games and eventually worked at the EA studio that grew out of Distinctive Software.
The industry is so different now, but I wonder how if there are still many similar tumultuous founding stories.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comNVMe-over-TCP is a new one on me. I wonder what the performance is like vs iSCSI vs ATA-over-Ethernet vs nbd.
#Linux
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI keep seeing things like "How to use 'AI' to play D'n'D solo" and I wonder what people believe why others play pen and paper RPGs?
For me it doesn't make sense: If I play alone I want a highly curated experience which often times means a video game RPG. The value of playing a pen and paper RPG is in it being a social, shared experience.
@carstingaxion@dewp.space> I wonder if you asked [#chatgpt] “Write me a custom post type for employees and credit all your sources” it would do that?
… wrote @… in her own comment section and I was curious too, so I tried it.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzJust listening to RNZ and someone's taken offense at the translated words of a haka used by the Hurricanes recently that apparently included reference to: "puppets of this redneck government"... which sounds pretty fair and reasonable to me. I wonder who translated it for whoever took offense?
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis morning's SCOTUS decision - or rather, yet another gift to TFG - makes me wonder:
Who has outbid John Oliver for the affections of Clarence Thomas? It is clear that somebody did.
