@slothrop It really was a remarkable speech! Like they...

Jon

@slothrop It really was a remarkable speech! Like they say, tirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they make ridiculously over-the-top-speeches at industry confabs, and then you win.

The only place I've found it so far is LinkedIn (bletch) ... do you know if it's anywere else?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rubenschreurs_it-starts-hereceo-speechfinalfinaldocx-activity-7023694974361759744-t-6C/

Like 26 Jan 2023 at 7:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on indieweb.social

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Nemo_bis 🌈

@jdp23 Thanks. Direct link to the text: https://web.archive.org/web/20230126190522/https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywViXvKoJ6A3q7tNsUO44XfBxP9kKv83Sm0--GiAo-rXjrWSzBsH3OwQ/pub

26 Jan 2023 at 19:06 | Open on mamot.fr

Jon

@nemobis Thank you!!!!!

26 Jan 2023 at 19:28 | Open on indieweb.social

グレェ「grey」

@nemobis "Bots hadn’t been invented yet" in 1994? GEEZE THE IGNORANCE OF THIS ASSHOLE.

ELIZA was invented in 1966.

RFC 439: PARRY encounters the DOCTOR was 1973.

So-called "bots" have been online longer than HTTP.

The advertising industry is a leech.

Bill Hicks was too kind IMHO, people were still laughing at him. @jdp23

26 Jan 2023 at 21:36 | Open on mastodon.social

Nemo_bis 🌈

@byterhymer In #AdTech, it's always hard to tell ignorance from pure corruption.
https://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-inescapable-logic-of-ad-fraud.html

26 Jan 2023 at 21:43 | Open on mamot.fr

Shufei 👩🏽‍🌾

@byterhymer
I remember lovely #warez bots on EFNet from right about then. They may not have been great conversationalists, but they delivered cracked Microprose, so who cared!
@nemobis @jdp23

27 Jan 2023 at 16:56 | Open on social.sdf.org

グレェ「grey」

@Shufei a friend in high school used to have a "game" wherein the goal was to collect shells in as many countries as possible.

What to do with the shells?

Create private hidden directories.

Potentially patch df and du to report disk space differently to root users? ;)

Set up (X)DCC bots.

Serve warez.

Good sort of friend to have for all sorts of reasons. ;)

29 Jan 2023 at 8:09 | Open on mastodon.social

Shufei 👩🏽‍🌾

@byterhymer Haha, that sounds like a fun contest game, really. But indeed even better to have the shell accounts in pocket for rainy days. Did your friend ever figure out the disk space hack?

29 Jan 2023 at 20:18 | Open on social.sdf.org

グレェ「grey」

@Shufei possibly? We met up last year (we live in different states these days) but didn't talk much about those days.

Something to ask for another time!

29 Jan 2023 at 20:38 | Open on mastodon.social