The Best Floppy Ever @SuperFloppies@mastodon.technology

1999: Teenager sneaks outside home to drink alcohol

2009: Teenager sneaks outside home to smoke weed

2019: Teenager sneaks outside home to get measles vaccine

Tomorrow at 14:00 EST (19:00 UTC) mastodon.technology will enter a 1-hour maintenance window to upgrade the Mastodon software our instance uses. There will be some database migrations, so expect intermittent downtime and slow server responses.

you say #arch, i say #linux

Software engineering and programming are not the same. If we are to survive as a free society, programming must be as trivially accessible as prose writing. That does not and never has meant that software engineering should be so accessible, in the same way that literacy does not imply the ability to write the next great American novel.

A UDP packet walks into a bar.
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
"Please beer I'll have a bartender."

The bartender says "Ha! Not a chance. You duplicate, you talk out of order, and you don't have credentials."

Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/fiat-lux.html

Apparently singing Danger Zone five times in a row......is too many Loggins attempts.

Ok so one of the fyre fest organizers walked into a customs office and tried to suck dick instead of paying a fine.

Lord give me the confidence of a man that thinks he can give a $175k blowjob.

Since I've been on a tear filling up masto.tech with car stuff lately, I'd also like to call out Motor Trend for using Youtube to build a huge following and then putting all their series behind a paywall on their own site.

That's some bullshit. Roadkill was great, but not great enough to pay one more damn subscription fee for.

If it's not on Netflix, Prime, or Youtube, I can't afford to care about it.

#Windows10 : Click here and wait a second, it will not take long.
#UserFeedback : ok
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3h later....
#Windows10 : It's nearly done, wait a second.
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