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An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the r...

«Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.»

I think one can tell a lot from whether an app or social media allows one to download pictures or videos. This is easy on Mastodon and Nostr, less so on Bluesky and Farcaster.

There was an interview with a white farmer woman in a swing state on Dutch television two days ago and her argument for voting Trump was "the US needs a strong leader". Two things: 1) If you ever utter "strong leader" in relation to upcoming elections, your voting rights should be taken away immediately. 2) You want a strong leader and choose Trump... what?! The man is a bully and everything what a good leader should not be.

At least we have another data point for the Fermi paradox.

In the history of human inventions pineapple on pizza is of course a solid number one. But what comes after that? The Atari ST? Linux?

If women can't get abortions in some US states, why don't they have cops shoot it?

To think that Paul Graham wrote two really solid books on Common Lisp...

The Lisp REPL is not that different from the Unix CLI except it works on code objects instead of files.

My apprentice... there is an invocation, a secret word, that cuts through all the fabrications, rituals, politics, yes even armor, of our dying civilization. It is made of pure reality. I will teach it to you on my dying bed so that you can use it in your hour of need. It is called: ` `

Installed World of Warcraft recently because I was up for some good, old-fashioned, open world PvP. Found out there's no PvP servers anymore since a few years. Uninstalled WoW again. Suggestions for games welcome. (No EVE Online. I love that game but it's not what I'm looking for at the moment.)

Which AI Winter is this going to be? The Fourth, the Fifth?

Which AI Winter is this going to be? The Fourth, the Fifth?

Turns out, if let New Tab Suspender suspend most of my Firefox tabs (glares at RocketChat) my laptop suddenly gets very quiet and I can dev for hours and hours on a single charge.

Maybe our sole purpose in life is making billionaires richer?

Listening to Jean Michel Jarre again for the first time in decades: Oxygene. It holds up. I was afraid it would disappoint like other music I used to listen to when I was younger.

Oh wow, even in this day and age my daughter's school sends an attachment as .docx which she can't open on Android (at least not by default on her version of it). It's e-mail: just include the fucking text in the body of the mail!

I love saving a link in a tab for later reading and then it turns out it's a fucking podcast without a transcript.

The Apple tears in this thread are delightful. I mean wat?: «People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave.» Also "looking for alternatives" but not really. Just making up excuses.

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Christina Warren (@film_girl@mastodon.social)

People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’l...