⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

The First Domestication: A Cat Short Story

It appeared from nowhere. It had smelt his food.

He knew he should shoo it away, but It was no real threat. Just cold and hungry.

Still, it seemed relatively useless. He should just...

No.

There was something about the way it looked at him with big pleading eyes, and a faint whimper. It just wanted company.

He let it approach, snuggling up to him for warmth. He laid his tail upon it.

"I will call you... human"

He thought and purred.

Merry Xmas

We've made it to Christmas once more, after another strange year. Wishing you all a day of warmth, good food, and moments of joy, however that might look like to you, whether you celebrate Christmas, or are simply having your usual Sunday.

Nadolig llawen i bawb.

One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@wspd7pio

Happy "fixing your relatives' printers and computers" eve, fellow geeks.

I have one coming to me - belonging to a friend of a relative, not even my relative! - which has been diagnosed as "makes an odd binky-bonky noise", and dammit they've hooked me in.

Last #stream before Christmas, so bring your festive spirits and fill your stockings full of #Lego! It’s the TransBricks Xmas party stream and you’re all invited 😘💜🎄
http://www.twitch.tv/TransBricks

This is your #Christmas weekend reminder that if Santa knows when you are sleeping, knows when you're awake, and knows when you've been bad or good, with no option to opt-out of this data collection, he is in violation of the GDPR.

Don’t even get me started on his cookie policy.

BOFH and the office security access upgrade https://reg.cx/46TT?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1606228261180153856

New! The Kunts vs Cassetteboy - F*ck the Tories

https://youtu.be/EOQzpDr5P_Y

We can't have a General Election, but we can take over the Christmas charts. Stream and download now, details at https://theconservatives.info

#AnyoneButThem

#LEGO Builder's Journey is currently #free on https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/lego-builders-journey ~ #afol #pc #pcgaming #gaming

@neil Having worked a bit with printers in my short stint as a consultant a decade and a bit ago, I have a suggestion:

Start with an exorcism and keep a big hammer handy if it misbehaves. Which it will.

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy https://reg.cx/46Rr?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1605450839157604352

#RIP Director Mike Hodges.
#cinema #film

@neil Contrasting with the time when a person may choose a 64kbps MP3 on Kazaa over the 128kbps MP3 because they don't have 20 minutes to wait on the download.