browneyedgirl :coffee: @browneyedgirl@mastodon.social
long time netizen
Oh my doG... I just updated a wordpress site from 3.3.1 to 4.9.4
Folks, this is not recommended...
Give this another whirl. I do like it...The current dysTrumpia of the U.S. has proven a little distracting tho
There has to be others out there who would also love these...
http://amysastitchatatime.blogspot.com/2017/01/meandering-paw-prints-free-scarf-pattern.html?m=1
Electric kettles are the best.
can I say that it's *really distressing* to hear POC say that they might as well leave mastodon.
Not distressing as in "I'm made anxious by hearing their complaint", (though it does make me anxious), "and wish I didn't have to hear their complaints"
It's distressing that we haven't made a space that listens to their voices and that things are bad enough that "I might as well go back to TWITTER" makes sense, like twitter is a more welcoming place for them.
THAT'S A PROBLEM
For how much stop drop and roll was ingrained into me as a child, I really thought I would catch on fire more times than I have.
Today is my 10th day on fediverse. Wrote a beginner's FAQ - https://medium.com/tebelorg/my-first-10-days-on-mastodon-fediverse-f6f1d73db8d7
Thanks to @Gargron for creating Mastodon and @ian for hosting Mastodon.Network! 😁
Unsurprised, but extremely disappointed, to learn that a predictable, stereotypical group of people-- do I even need to specify white, male, cis, het?-- have screwed up the Science March and driven off many diverse voices who wanted to participate.
Every. Fucking. Time.
@JacquelynGill on birdsite has the thread
http://twitter.com/JacquelynGill/status/853667199789170689
Canadian Rockies in latter half of May. Cold/warm? Don't miss? Lake Louise, Jasper, etc.
Looking forward.
Shoot!
Some good additional piling on from @dredmorbius on Google+ (and broader Google) issues. Lots of frustration out there.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/aat11dViSqJ
@axxl Believe it or not, I've discovered that some people are wrong on the internet. So that's been eating up a lot of my time.:radioactive:
Hm, so I guess boosting now requires confirmation or alt-boost now (the potential jokes, they write themselves). Except that for me (Ubuntu 16.04, latest chromium), alt ain't workin'....
Another friendly reminder:
Mastodon is awesome, but mastodon isn't an appropriate tool if you want private communications. DMs aren't actually private, they can be seen by instance admins and maybe by other people, it isn't at all secure.
Mastodon and GNU social aren't made for private conversations, if you want to have a private conversation there are many tools that are appropriate for that.
I suggest Tox, but Cryptocat and XMPP with OTR are also good. There are others but I have used those
Am I evil for disabling visual editor mode for all my wordpress editors who keep asking me to fix their shit?
"A Unix system administrator of my acquaintance once got curious about what people were putting into /dev/null. I think he also may have had some notion that it would contain secrets or other interesting material that people wanted thrown away. Both of these ideas are stupid, but what he did next was even more stupid: he decided to replace /dev/null with a plain file so that he could examine its contents.
The root filesystem quickly filled up and the admin had to be called back from dinner to fix it. But he found that he couldn't fix it: to create a Unix device file you use the mknod command, and its arguments are the major and minor device numbers of the device to create. Our friend didn't remember the correct minor device number. The ls -l command will tell you the numbers of a device file but he had removed /dev/null so he couldn't use that.
Having no other system of the same type with an intact device file to check, he was forced to restore /dev/null from the tape backups."
Originally from the staggeringly amazing and awesome -- I hate to use adjectives, but there's no other way to describe this -- Online History of Information by Jeremy Norman, antiquarian bookseller.
A 2.8 million year collection, over 4,400 articles.
The present information overload:
"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe...."
-- Denis Diderot, French Encyclopaedist, 1755.
I recommend the whole thing.
I need to check my .social account more often.
