Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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I know of no high-profile American who knows how to properly roast Jimmy Carr.

I got the most badass mousepad I've ever seen in Germany. It was a cartoon of someone trying to sell an abacus to the king with a mouse (an actual one) with its tail nailed to it, and his advisor suggesting he wait, as in (some number of months -- I got it in 1995, so details are a bit hazy) it will cost half the price.

I only remember some of this verbatim, but it was absolute gold because of double meanings.

Ihr solltet noch warten ... inclusive Maus ... auf Festplatte

The mouse is easy enough to jump language comprehension (though "inclusive" is pronounced differently), but Festplatte means both a wooden board, as the base of the abacus was, and hard drive.

NHS doesn't exactly get rave reviews.

Problem: Not enough AI training data. Solution: Start scraping everything people type in Notepad, errors and all.

I have all Meta domains (that I'm aware of) blocked at the router level. When Facebook went from MySpace 2.0 to a feed that deprioritized posts from friends and acquaintances, I was done. And I'm too old to have ever had interest in Instagram; Twitter has always been a shitshow to my mind. That Facebook and Twitter also played major roles in killing the production of local news did not improve my opinion of either. I was on a group chat with overseas family members on WhatsApp but deleted that as soon as the acquisition was announced.

I cycled through a number of distros a few years back on my mini HTPC before finally settling on KDE Neon. The amount of customization with panels and such is insane. I started by trying to recreate the Windows experience (which is dead simple) but soon branched out to having multiple panels, which can be autohidden individually. Settings on the left side of the screen, power options on the right (both set to hide), system tray up top, and the task manager at the bottom.

I tried vi in college and still haven't been able to exit. (exaggeration, of course, but dear god, that made Notepad seem user friendly) When in Linux, I tend to use Kate and nano.

I still have my Reddit account(s) for niche areas as well as local news, but I'm an old fart and don't much care for spending time exploring Lemmy to curate a larger feed after running into frustration on that front after the API imbroglio that led me here. If I want a firehose, Reddit does that just fine (for now). I come to Beehaw to read curated news and relax.

It's certainly an advantage of the Fediverse that I can use it the way I like, as can you. There's no "right" way to experience federation.

I prefer unreasonably dank memes.

That's true of anything posted to the Web, though.

To be honest, I just stick with Beehaw. I have a .world account (that I've not opened in months), but I really don't make use of federation. I like that this feels more like an old-school site where you recognize most names and reference past interactions. Tech's fetish for scale inherently means enshittification, whereas a small instance feels like a community.

I suspect we're going to see the sort of brain drain and emigration among those with means that characterized 1930s Germany as people realized what the fuck was going on.

Just remember: It only gets worse from here.

This seems a pretty straightforward regex blunder. "Palestin" with a wild card would have done the trick.

One doesn't really "invent" sounds so much as compose them. Inventing would be more like creating the theremin.

As to the iconic Law & Order sound, damn, that's a pretty sweet gig. Do something once and ride it for decades.

Do they at least slip?

Bee Nice.

Using Facebook to connect with family and friends is a valid idea ... during the Obama administration.

He was that one guy who made that one track, right?

(I'm 45 and know damn well who he is.)

There's also this link in the comments. Basically, Black Mirroresque satire.

JFC, this comment:

Gives me PTSD from my 2014 job search. I'd already left Facebook for the first time and wasn't getting any responses to applications. After sleuthing around online, I learned this was now an HR thing where if they couldn't find your full personal history on social media, immediate round file.

Gritting my teeth, I created a new account but did nothing with it. Still didn't move the needle. I ended up having to take the pay cut to move to Texas, as being a known quantity with GateHouse got my foot in the door.

Neither I nor my then-wife wanted to leave Oregon for ... Texas. But Facebook's dominance forced it. In an alternate reality, I'd still be housed and in a place I actually like, possibly with my marriage not falling apart.

Fuck Facebook.