✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town
Austin, TX
Among the oldest of millennials.
Social justice, software, parenting, games (video, roleplaying, board), books, comics, linguistics, argyle
Said to be, "like the least lewd person I have encountered on this social network"
Member of the #WitchesTown mod team.
Oh man, I love it when EFF gets philosophical: "DRM gets made over the course of years, by skilled engineers, at a cost of millions of dollars. It gets broken in days, by teenagers, with hobbyist equipment. That's not because the DRM-makers are stupid, it's because they're doing something stupid.”
(Also this is a terrifyingly good article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next)
My boss's boss and a peer of his give me relentless shit about some specific things at work and it's wonderful. It's the kind of thing where, if we didn't have the relationships we do (or to an outside observer, maybe) it would be awful, but because of our relationships, it's actually really affirming and great. Social stuff is WEIRD, y'all.
The CW on the previous post in this chain has TWO silly typos. I feel like since joining Mastodon my typing accuracy has tanked. I am specifically not asserting a causal relationship there, but it's just something I've noticed. Alas.
You're heard of Duke Nukem, now get rweady for Afficher plus
You're heard of Duke Nukem, now get rweady for Afficher plus
Folks. Please don’t use baiting language to get people to boost something abt current events ect
‘Stop ignoring this thing’
‘if you care about people boost this’ ect
It really stresses some of us out, not seen it much here but it’s a real problem on tumblr and one of the reasons the site is so stressful for me
Good morning, witches and wicks.
Life is Strange but set inside a procedurally generated school running the Shadow of Mordor/War Nemesis system on individual students.
A periodic reminder that mammouth.cafe will be shutting down in December, and I've moved my activity to mastodon.cloud.
Please follow @dredmorbius for future updates.
Thank you.
Welp. We're lensing "my" car to someone for an extended period. It's an impromptu experiment in what it would be like if I sold it. I'd been planning to run the numbers on that from a cost perspective to see how often it would make sense monetarily if we had to rent a car for whatever reason, or hail a ride. But we'll just see how it goes.
weird star trek canon realization Afficher plus
@benhamill if your child comes home shouting "I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness" with exultant ululations then you'll know they're getting a good education
“In this post, I argue that intelligence explosion is impossible — that the notion of intelligence explosion comes from a profound misunderstanding of both the nature of intelligence and the behavior of recursively self-augmenting systems.” - good post https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec
Yay! I can see custom emoji rendered in Amaroq. They're now available for, like, suggestion yet, but most customization isn't. Maybe there's a whole section of API that could/should expose customizations like i18n (jinx, florp, etc), post length and emoji.
According to the update the teacher pushed to our app, the 6yo's class learned the other day about "the unseen world and how it affects their day to day lives." Like... the Unseen World? Is my kid learning to be a witch? If so, no real objections. I just didn't realize that was a normal part of the curriculum.
(In seriousness, I think it is maybe just a weird way to refer to microscopic stuff? And there was some stuff about sunlight and vitamin D and sun dials, so IDK).
tnx bro I keep forgetting https://mastodon.social/media/aoopPDScmJCvpXNTzC8
I feel a bit bad because it uses "loco" in a problematic way, but the love song Poco Loco from (uh, more rhymes) Coco is really good in all other ways. 🙃
New England on Maine
