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TyChi 🙃

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This is me screaming across the fediverse. I'm looking for people that used the original Seesmic before the service was shut down in 2009. I feel like if I were to reconnect with anyone from there, they'd be on the fediverse in 2020.

For context, Seesmic was a cross between YouTube and Twitter. Micro-video blogging with threaded conversations, no commenting, only videos.

I feel with a custom PeerTube instance we can maybe recreate what once was, what do you think?

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@faho
Picking the most vertical object in a room is

plumb-bobtimization

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@codesections
I have a friend who runs a company with "skill" in its name; its slogan is "you've it, we enhance it" (as in "you have the skill, we enhance it"). The contraction always seems wrong to me, but it's hard to explain why without ad-hoc made-up sounding rules.

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@theamazingweb

etymonline.com/columns/post/bi
This "who did this" page is also a pretty interesting read. My favourite part:

> Some people call [Etymonline] a gem. If it is, it's a pearl: The accidental production of an irritated oyster.

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@theamazingweb

etymonline.com/word/mastodon

> This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Origins and historical evolutions of English words.

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Urusan

Also: "I now think wearing masks is just common sense. Can I just keep on wearing them?"

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@theamazingweb

onlinesequencer.net/1694759

Some tiny piece of music I made with this in under five minutes! (Probably not original, but I don't remember where this bit of music might be from.)

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@theamazingweb

onlinesequencer.net/

> Make music online

> OnlineSequencer.net is an online music sequencer. Make tunes in your browser and share them with friends!

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LucifarGundam

i.insider.com/59289f0379474ce7

What do each of these companies have in common? Expand, embrace, extinguish.

The leading corporations of our time take up a majority of their markets by snuffing out competitors however possible. This unhealthy genocide of independent competition has led to the inevitable dominance of the lives of many commonwealth.

Although singular usage of their products and services may not pose harm to associated markets, the collective assumed-impasse of all individuals carries the devastating impact. By tearing oneself away from such major corporations and choosing to side with the suppressed (often unheard of) competition, a small step towards justice and balance is being courageously taken.

"But there isn't a comparable product/service in the market? What then?"
-If absolutely no other alternative is available, then it is fair and logical to proceed with the only option capable. If however an inferior alternative is present, efforts(occasional at least) should be made to support the minority in hopes to influence a wider market horizon.

"But the leading competitor has all of my information, making it easier to to x,y,z. Why would I want to give up that convenience?"
-Every time you volunteer your personal information, you're locking yourself inside a cage of luxurious captivity. That 'ease of use' you speak of only makes your grow more lame and incapable of freely doing as you please outside of their ToS(Terms of Service[a contract you agree to]) which is also provided with a license(their permission to use X for Y time, under Z conditions) you had might have had to pay for just to use the single product/service you may have already initially paid for but has been intentionally made unusable to you by them.

Fighting for your rights, safeguarding your privacy may be more important than you might realize, but I hope that you might seriously consider the greater implications and impacts that inevitably follow when you stop caring about something as fundamentally simple as your identity.

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@Ademan @vim

That was pretty much my intent behind the question 😀 I was all geared up to move until Vim 8 brought in async exec as well. The code cleanup could in theory lead to less bugs due to weird interactions etc. (and it seems that's been the case for some people), but I haven't come across any bugs that affect my workflow, so that too is only a theoretical benefit.
I thought maybe being able to write in plugins in non-vimscript languages (which I believe neovim supports) would be a big one, but no one seems to have mentioned that so maybe not that either.

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Tenacious B

No Net November. Just log off.

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ccc

Let's see... apparently, putting in a bunch of tags of things that interest me is going to make it easier for other people who share those interests to run across me.

Alright, then. Let's see...










...that should be enough for the moment, I guess.

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@vim

Cool source of really nice VIM plugins!

vimawesome.com/

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@vim

Any users of NeoVim here? I've been curious for a while, but the friction of switching over (and uncertainty about addon compatibility) has kept me with Vim. Is it worth switching over, and if so, what makes it worth it for you?

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@inkscape B looks nifty and would be cool once I get used to it, but answering honestly the original question of what I would expect, I went with A. The B option, like many Do-What-I-Mean designs, violates the principle of least surprise IMHO (but that's not necessarily a bad thing).

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> This, in one of the richest countries on the planet

This part of my response was prompted by Zvi's commentary on this story on LessWrong (which is where I came across it):

> Certainly I can’t fault the students. If permanent damage is sufficiently infrequent, it makes sense that college students would opt for a college education at the cost of a to-them mostly harmless infection, and if we acted sensibly we could mostly contain such problems (including keeping older professors remote) slash the infections would burn out within a short time anyway if the above graph is any indication. We ask our young to sacrifice four years of their lives while going into debt for some combination of a zero-sum signaling game, networking and learning. Now they should give up the networking and much of the learning, while still going into debt and losing those years?

(from lesswrong.com/posts/2ev2A6e9uy )

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"students may have intentionally tried to contract COVID-19, lured by blood donation centers that are paying a premium for plasma with COVID-19 antibodies."
This, in one of the richest countries on the planet - a sign of insatiable greed, or a sign of an unbelievably messed up education system that has milked these students so dry that they have to resort to this (possibly some of both).

npr.org/sections/coronavirus-l

(Also reminds me of the Cobra effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_ef . When creating incentives, be mindful of what you're actually incentivising.)

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toxicodendron radicans

Polite reminder: Earth is a tree planet with some bacteria. Everything else is just the extra stuff that lives here too.

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@theamazingweb

html5zombo.com/

> You can do anything at Zombo.com!

Classic, brought back to life in HTML5. (Original zombo.com still exists, but still uses Flash.)

[Warning: has sound once you press Start]

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