Geoff @OpinionatedGeek@mastodon.social

Become a streamer, and use a Doom-like border around the game video. Extreme close-up of your real-time face in the bottom center, flanked by stream stats and various bullshit. Have monitors to the sides with stream chat and private chat, so that you're constantly glancing to the sides like Doomguy.

#DSCOVR, the deep space climate observatory satellite with a camera that always points at Earth, has been in safe mode for over a month. I hope they're okay!

(Also, it's weird to find that the bug in your desktop background script is a million miles away)

I'm self-employed now so no one can fire me except myself. And even then I'm nervous.

now i'm in hot water with the japanese mafia

my favorite classical work of art is Great Wave Off Kanegawa, which is part of a greater work called 36 Views of Mt Fuji

my favorite version of Great Wave is the one where the wave is cookie monster

#Neurodiversity Fediverse instance update!

We will definitely be using #Florence! Possibly we won't start it up until white lists are available. We will also be creating a #Matrix/#Riot (they're the same thing) private chatroom for us all very soon! Again, we will be prioritize non-white needs and voices; white folks, y'all will be vetted first.

#autismAcceptance #actuallyAutistic #ADHD #neurodivergent #dyselxia #dypraxia #schizophrenia #STPD #brainWeird and all the rest of us 💚

I just call it Microsoft GitHub these days. Does half the job of communicating the risks of it being a hard dependency for FOSS projects in particular.

“how much coffee do you drink?”

as much as it takes.

Wait till I get my shit together. Then it's over for these binches.

Any requests for my next series of exercise videos? I’m leaning towards “struggling to do a pushup, and then crying” but maybe “hanging and flailing around, straining to do a pullup, and then crying”

My new bot, @SecretlyPublicDomain, highlights pre-1964 books that entered the public domain because their copyright wasn't renewed.

Until May, it wasn't possible to find these books on a large scale. Now it is: https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0

The Design Behind EFF's New Membership Shirt https://www.eff.org/new-2019-t-shirt-design

I'm dead they managed to have a housing crisis in a fuckin mmo *flip table and leave to scream at a tree*

@mala I compiled yer messages at https://talkgroup.xyz/t/visibility-and-privacy-on-the-fediverse/3715. ^_^

@mood I'm not sure if it's exactly the sort of thing you're looking for, but I enjoy the Pronoun Dressing Room: http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/

A huge list of pronouns: https://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/pronouns

Some basics for the unaware, including a game where people can test out using they/them and a few neopronouns: https://www.minus18.org.au/index.php/get-involved/campaigns/pronouns

An essay by a smart person: https://anagnori.tumblr.com/post/75752291700/a-non-binary-persons-guide-to-invented-pronouns

Hope these are helpful!

interview with margaret hamilton:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women

it's hard to reconcile my desire to be cute with my desire to put absolutely no effort or thought into my appearance

Yep.

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need" — Microsoft, 1992

I can hear my browser process scream with laughter.

Straight men are like "i have to get back to the ole ball and chain" when they are leaving a boys night to return to the only person theyve ever felt comfortable crying in front of