Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

I can't figure out how replies work on mastodon. If I reply to someone and leave the @<username> part as is, does that still appear on the timeline for ppl who follow me but don't follow the other person?

He asked them "What is the function that spawns a new process from an existing one?"
The answer was on the tip of their tongue, but they couldn't quite remember it.

It's more of a spiritual law really, tbh. If the resisting conductor really wanted to conduct, and sent that message out into the universe, it becomes a superconductor in no time!

@clacke Do you mean Swatantra vs Swathanthra? That's mostly a North Indian vs South Indian transliteration difference, regardless of actual language being used.
https://www.quora.com/Why-South-Indians-write-t-as-th

#fedilab #tusky
I've been using Fedilab, installed Tusky today to see if it had a feature Fedilab was missing. I assumed, bcos Tusky seems more popular, that it'll have even more cool features and customisations - but actually it seems pretty bare bones compared to Fedilab. Looks like I'd chosen the right one for me in the first place!

While folks in the US are going insane over how bad the situation is, #India is slowly catching up in numbers without even much public awareness of how dire things are getting. People are worried about livelihood and starting to crave business-as-usual, but the country is not read for business-as-usual and it looks like we'll just end up losing both economically and in terms of lives.

@amandag@tech.lgbt well, then I'm glad the weather has been pretty good recently. Fingers crossed it remains the same today and declares me good!

@lupyuen "Blech is a German word and roughly translates as bare metal." I suppose that explains it, still kind of an unappealing name for a language though. Sounds like a noise of disgust someone makes, at first glance.

@freemo I disagree slightly with the description though, it's both funny and stupid - stupid in the way that the really groan-worthy puns are!

'Among Us' is even more fun than I expected. And the voice chat that streamers use when playing doesn't seem as necessary as I believed, text works out pretty well (though voice would definitely add to the game). #gaming #multiplayer #amongus

@ShowerThoughts This one must have some context, right? Was it during the "carrots vs waffles hahaha" thing? Or something else?

Seen this several times recently: User1 opens an issue, User2 confirms it's an issue, User3 later asks about progress... and then it's stale-bot time, time to just close it as "wontfix". There may be other discussion in between, vague unspecific comments from a dev, attempted pull requests by users that are also ignored, some barely-related drama sometimes; but in the end any long-tail issue - even precise, clearly articulated ones - falls victim to the ineffable stale-bot in these projects. #github #rant

stale-bot on Github projects has become the modern manifestation of "if I ignore a problem, it'll just go away, right?" type thinking.

Addicted to the Russell Howard and Jon Richardson podcast from 2007-2008, loving it. Any other retro #podcast recommendations that people might be missing out on? Stuff from before 2010 at least.