ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Do I dislike orange flavoured liqueurs? On the cointreaury.

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Their body, their choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

P.S. If you started following me due to this post, PLEASE look at my profile and decide if it's for you.

Make sure general nerdiness, tabletop roleplay, and other related pursuits are the kind of content you want to see in your timeline.

Our values obviously align, but our interests/hobbies might not. No hard feelings if you unfollow. 😉

Annual #introduction #ComputerHistory

I'm a retired (3rd time) techie with an incredibly lucky career and family.

I'm most famous as being employee number 8 of #SunMicrosystems, and I got to work with the Bell Labs #UNIX team for a summer during the birth of V7 #UNIX.

My Silicon Valley career started with #Amdahl in 1978, followed by Sun for 12 years. I've since founded 4 startups (see profile).

I toot about #ComputerHistory; I've been there for much of it.

Hello 👋

Just switched instances.

I figured I would reintroduce myself. I am a front-end developer at Microsoft, working with the Casual Games Studio.

I have an MDiv — ministry related degree — but meandered into a career doing web stuff.

I am also two classes shy of an MA in interaction design. I am taking one class at a time, because I also have two kiddos that keep me pretty busy.

For a recent class assignment, we did a "100 words" intro…

https://host.sonspring.com/100-words

#introduction #hachyderm

"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."

- Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

The combined weight of animals bred for food is now ten times the combined weight of all wild mammals and birds put together.

77% of the world's farmland is used to graze animals or produce crops to feed animals.

🧵 1 of 4/. USA study:
🧠 MRI Reveals Significant Brain Abnormalities Post-COVID: Neuroimaging study reveals significant brain changes in areas associated with language comprehension, cognition, and circadian rhythm control six months after COVID-19 infection.

Patients who recovered from COVID-19 had significantly higher susceptibility values in the frontal lobe and brain stem compared to healthy controls.”

https://neurosciencenews.com/post-covid-brain-21904/

Why is @nova, who is taking off 5-7 days, still boosting things right now?

Alone but not lonely. 😏 #Scams #TexasNumbers #Elderly #Boomer #Seniors

If this can be a salad, you can be anything.

I recently moved my account from mastodon.social to hachyderm.io. After a couple days of lurking, I'm really impressed with the admin, @nova, with the performance of the instance, and with the community here. I've found my home in the Fediverse!

Elon Musk invited Sam Bankman-Fried to invest $100 million in his privatized Twitter!

If you don't know who Sam Bankman-Fried is, he's the former CEO of newly bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and an alleged fraud and Ponzi schemer! https://www.semafor.com/article/11/22/2022/sam-bankman-fried-elon-and-a-secret-text

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion.

1st incident lasted 25s during the sportscast on the 9PM news on WGN-TV; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

Video: https://youtu.be/oqgeM6rWSkw

Never forget 11/22/87.

#Twitter: "Gonna be pwning n00bz on my Twitch channel in 20 minutes! Follow or die!"

#Mastodon: "I am a nuclear biologist, gardener, writer, and developer. I recently rewrote the code to the entire web, baked a lovely shepherd's pie, forged a Damascus steel sword for my wife, and wrote an entire book of prayers in Old English for my children."

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS

#TwitterMigration

Oy.

I forgot an #introduction! BBC Micro bot runs your posts on an 8-bit computer emulator.

People create small programs for it in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro. (She later used BBC BASIC to create the ARM architecture - now the most widely used CPU architecture in the world.)

It's amazing what people create in a few lines of code for a 1980s home computer! You can see 1000s of examples at https://www.bbcmicrobot.com
#GenerativeArt #creativecoding