@darius On here and on twitter I manually turn off each person's boosts/retweets and only leave a tiny number of Good Boosters

@darius Boosts are quite useful initially when finding people to follow.

@darius Oh, I'd miss out on so much stuff without boosts!

"The first step in the 'pataphysical method of software design is to do desk research in order to identify the kinds of imaginary problems that 'pataphysics can address. This process has to be non-scientific, guided by taste and intuition in a kind of intellectual dérive, as no scientific methods can be applied during the development of 'pataphysical software, or the results will not be 'pataphysically appropriate."

Apple's "structural under-investment" (as Alex puts it) in the browser is the main reason why iOS users on my instance have to resort to third-party apps to read posts on this server (no native notifications). This results in them having to use code that is authored by strangers instead of code that is maintained and run by me, their trusted admin. (Yes I suppose I could write an iOS app but it would take me a few years to learn to do that.)

@darius wow

@darius please cw your cursed puns 🤦

@darius Chandler binging in the dead of night
Take these chandler bings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for the WENUS to arise

@darius 😬

@darius all Butt War is simulation

@darius was about to make a joke about tank commander Baudrillard but I guarantee someone involved in this actually was reading Baudrillard.

@darius wondering why conceptnet has a concept of a purple chicken

@darius tilapia be like "I know a plaice" and take you to an oyster bar

@darius "an accordian bag be like 'i know a place' and take you to an accordian"

I don't know what I expected.

@darius Cool! I’m a big Lawfare fan and I’m looking forward to the episode.

@darius Great episode! It inspired me to come back to my Mastodon account. :)

@darius KiCad hit a similar rhythm a couple of years back, and is doing a great job of making PCB design much easier

@darius I like Ocenaudio's interface a little more than Audacity. It doesn't seem to quite have the depth of functionality Audacity does, but I greatly prefer it for simple cut/paste jobs, or light normalisation and noise reduction passes.

@darius I found Audacity a few years ago and used it successfully to record all of my family's old Christmas albums to digital. I ripped during work and then cut in the evenings. It took time but the Dublin's were delighted to get old classics from childhood--some of which they hadn't heard since childhood--on a USB stick in the mail.

@darius wow , what did they use to capture it so well??

@darius

Poor girl would have everyone calling her Jortz. Nightmarish.

@darius would make for a good crossword clue

@darius double down by naming her Jean Paul Shortz so if she ever gets sick of identifying as jorts she can fall back on a pretentious pronunciation of "Short-zah"

@darius That was ... odd

thanks everyone for watching