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hot metal oxide

@mjg59 This is hilarious. This has Jon Postel vibes, "hey can you change those text files that control everything? cool thanks."

20 Dec 2023 at 2:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on malt.social
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Matthew Garrett

@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"

20 Dec 2023 at 2:08 | Open on nondeterministic.computer
hot metal oxide

@mjg59 So good! He was pretty polite given the question. The flip side of it is also funny...this guy spends a lot of time "touching snow" as it were (not involved in our nerd sh**); he probably lives in a world that is 100% "I make a call and things happen." and in some strange way it makes it seem not that outrageous.

20 Dec 2023 at 2:16 | Open on malt.social
Irenes (many)

@cda @mjg59 yeah, we can absolutely see how it happened. it is good that he did not object to it not changing immediately. we're amused that people want the warning about needing advance notice to be more prominent.

20 Dec 2023 at 3:26 | Open on mastodon.social
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RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:

@mjg59 @cda ah, Old Internet.
Way back, if you wanted control of MajorMetropolis.us you just... "hey, I'm gonna run bananarepublic.us." "Is it a real place?" "... sure?" "Okay!"

20 Dec 2023 at 4:20 | Open on weird.autos
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