@viv also i remember using that server to make a similar IP-based customization thing where people could pick their favorite picture of Agatha Heterodyne to appear as my avatar.
(side note, the corporate-commandeered social internet doesn't really allow for that kind of technical creativity any more) https://witches.town/media/GCZSDEzT7phkRgzBlXA
I mean, sheesh,
"BERRY WELL, THEN"...
I think the real issue on everyone's mind today is when do we see Luigi's nipples?
vintage mastodon https://witches.town/media/MKBHSgN6RoGt893ZaWw
What is the difference between USA and USB? Afficher plus
Students learn that speaking truth to power gets you squashed.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/09/16/what-our-students-are-learning/
Yes, the truest.
"A thread about how folks with #ChronicPain are forced to ‘perform’ our pain for other people."
inspired by the win95-like theme on cybre.space, here's a bunch of masto/cybre.space-related icons made in windows 95's style.
Holy fuck, the new Firefox tab containers are lit af .. literally the best features since ages! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Guess who just played through a run of Shadow the Hedgehog on their old save file?
That's right, motherfuckers!! It's me!!! And I'm about to do it AGAIN!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@viv maybe you did, but just weren't telling yourself 🤔
@viv it's almost like there's a real screen! what a time to be alive.
what if... what if users could define a css override for how they'd like their authored toots to be formatted and attach it to their profile so followers could opt to... opt to see the post as the author intended it to be styled...
what if... what if toots carried styles...
@Gargron keep practicing your aim will improve
"YOU'VE MADE AN ENEMY TODAY, MY FRIEND"
“So, uh, you’re a computer person, right?”
“Yes, I’m a computer person, in much the same way folks as NASA are space people.”
Computing history time!
While Open Source was a thing before then, OpenBSD was the first group to have readonly, anonymous, and immediate availability of the source code (as changes are being made) for everyone, with anoncvs in 1995.
Before anoncvs was available, many groups would release a tarball of the source code, or the whole repo, next to the binaries.
song - https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#61
paper - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf
slides - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf