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Les Orchard

I think the #cats are happy I’m home from the work trip #caturday

Les Orchard

I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation

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Florian Egermann

@lmorchard the macromedia flash intro is laughing from the grave

Malcolm Herbert

@lmorchard am stealing this phrase, despite the fact that I do enjoy the hurdy-gurdy on occasion ... :)

Les Orchard

Happy #caturday from Catsby, who’s trying to soak up what little sun we’ve got today

Les Orchard

Happy NYE and belated from Cheddars and Catsby #caturday

Les Orchard

My oven announced the arrival of a software update devoted to green beans and carrots. That’s when I reached for my revolver

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Havard

@lmorchard Your bullet firmware will need to be updated before firing. Please do not load or unload your revolver during this process. Expected completion time 117h 39m 54.22186s

Emma Builds 🚀

@lmorchard "we're calling about your oven's turkey mode."

The Witch of Crow Briar

@lmorchard Just a short hop to "Your oven will now give you progressively larger electric shocks every time you touch it until you make both dishes. Brought to you by Del Monte!"

Les Orchard

Went to try to read a thing on "MIT Technology Review" and got intercepted by 3 different popup modals and a banner before I managed to scroll 1cm through the page. The title of the piece was "How to fix the internet" and I already closed the tab.

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Jamie Booth

@lmorchard
Closing the tab is by far the best way to fix the Internet.

Bleeding Heart Liberal

@lmorchard

🙃🙃🙃🙃🌍
1%🤖DEMAND CONTROL of
WE THE PEOPLE. 🇺🇸Hostages
R Denied GOV LAWS 2
Protect our Privacy 2 READ❓
🔥📚🔥
CORP 1% Disgusting filthy Spying Weaponized, BOT BUGS 2 GO ANYWHERE W/O LEGITIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY.
#enough

Matt

@lmorchard opened up a site to download something in a new tab, finished what I was doing and opened the new tab to be greeted by a full page survey asking me if I had found what I was looking to download. Dunno, it might be behind your survey, might not. It was also *mandatory* that I fill in my details *if* I wanted to be contacted about my feedback. I was not polite

Les Orchard

Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."

To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention - or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole "paradox of tolerance" folks like to shop around in debates.

Surely you can't possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?

My dear sweet summer child, don't be a doofus.

daringfireball.net/linked/2023

Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."

Les Orchard

"The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open."

The point of an open protocol is to help folks build what they want to build. Not an obligation to welcome everyone into their house.

If I have a full beer keg and you have a tap that fits it, that doesn't necessarily mean you're invited to my barbecue.

Les Orchard

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

Les Orchard

Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery

Les Orchard

@ConsoleWitch @thomasfuchs but then how will i know this is the best computing platform for 360 noscope in hello kitty island adventure?

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DELETED

@lmorchard I need HTML. And JavaScript. Non-free. Heavily obfuscated. To pass fucking verification. And not gonna go through, I am already banned by Cloudflare anyway.

DELETED

@lmorchard This page could have been even better if browsers supported ANSI formatting sequences, but sadly, they don’t…

Einfach Nein :verified:

@lmorchard Wonderful, esp. when switching back and forth with the source tab.

Les Orchard

I feel like the older I get, the more curmudgeonly I get. But, I feel like I'm getting curmudgeonly not in a "fuck you assholes, get a job" way and more in a "fuck you assholes, take care of each other" way.

Les Orchard

Dumb people: cats are so standoffish and aloof

Me waking up with Catsby as little spoon:

Les Orchard

We have this Cattris thing, which is like Tetris pieces made of cardboard for cat scratching. Cosmo has transformed himself into a tetromino #cats #tetris

Les Orchard

Haven't posted any pictures of #cats yet over here. Meet Cosmo, Catsby, and Cheddars

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