Francesco 🍁 @fra@social.cleverlibre.org

Ho fatto una parodia della polemica Uto Ughi vs. Måneskin.

cw: Uto Ughi

@EeveeEuphoria oh for fu-

Many Canadian cities have contests to name their snowplows. Here are some winners:
Anita Shovel
Gordie Plow
Blizzard of Oz
Darth Blader
Betty Whiteout
Sir Plows-A-Lot
Pillsbury Plowboy
Sled Zepplin
Buzz Ice-Clear
Qunuk (Inuit for snowflake)
Flurrious George
School’s Not Cancelled
Snobi One Kenobi
Sleetwood Mac
Plowy McPlowface
CTRL-SALT-DELETE
Clearopathra
The Big Leplowski
Plowasaurus

Since #DDoS clearly does not work against a distributed service like the #Fediverse, can't wait for the first Distributed Denial of Distributed Service — #DDoDS. 🧐

Remember, you've heard it here first!

Context: in case you missed it, mastodon.social was under DDoS recently. Most of fedi did not even notice that fact, which is the way it should be. 🥳

This just shows more smaller instances is the way to go. But we knew that already.

Come ti chiami?

C’è un’intrusa tra le attrici candidate all’Oscar? https://www.ilpost.it/2023/01/30/to-leslie-andrea-riseborough-oscar/

“Non vi sostengo più perché sull’Ucraina diffondete la propaganda occidentale e non vi confrontate”: la nostra risposta a una lettrice
https://www.valigiablu.it/ucraina-propaganda-occidentale-confronto/

"I guess we should retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague."

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask 🥴​

Nelle interviste è importante la seconda domanda, anche quando l'intervistato è una intelligenza artificiale. #ChatGpt #Giarrusso

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive.

https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/

..which is actually a stealth request that people consider joining the MAME Artwork efforts, which allow beautiful renderings of machines to be clickable on machines. It's more in the Art than Programming sphere, and it would be great if more people joined it.

@mhoye @arclight @otfrom the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group has a collection of gloriously horrifying stories starring Excel: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

Their conference is back this year; Chatham House rules and really fun/scary/interesting: https://easychair.org/cfp/EuSpRIG_2023

@mhoye @arclight I agree with your assessment of the marginalization of some of the world's most important programmers, but *part* of that marginalization is that excel is not, in fact, fit for purpose, and they are functionally forced to use it.

Previously: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4

Previously: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

Previously: https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-not-to-excel-at-economics-13646

Previously: https://www.zdnet.com/article/excel-errors-microsofts-spreadsheet-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/

Mentally replacing "their Substack" with "their LiveJournal" helps.