good morning / bon matin

good morning, anyone else pining for the nineties? [cw face]

good morning – I'm sorry in advance

good morning

Good Morning

Good morning. I took a really nice bath yesterday – placed my phone on the tub ledge so I could listen to music through the water.

Good Morn [cw face]

yes, good morning [cw face and food, I guess?]

Good morning, drink your goddamn TEA

*incredibly time has no meaning voice* “good morning” [cw cat face no ec]

not even careful cropping could hide the shame of my poor cable management here 😭

I swear when I moved here 18 months ago I was like “this time, I’ll get it right, right away” but over time I’ve become “meh” to it

Good morning [cw yelling face]

good morning

@ashfurrow and here I was thinking it was for raptors the entire time

@ashfurrow, no.

@ashfurrow I just started doing a retrospective of Star Trek TNG, following this list of the “good” episodes. Has been quite enjoyable, Re-engaging with these characters from 30 (!!) years ago.

@jos I’m on a DS9 watch-through now!

@ashfurrow I watched DS9 when it first came out, for the first season or two, and it didn't grab me, then kinda off and on in syndication over the years, but never a "full" watch-through... Maybe now is a good time? :)

@jos @ashfurrow I can really recommend it. It didn't grab me at first too but once you get the hang of it, the characters are very versatile and even profound.

@choboDOC @jos we are up to season six 😅 It’s the first time I stuck with it this far. The show lends itself to Netflix (instead of after school syndication). I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about it.

@jos I had very much the same experience. Watching serially changes the show, is highly recommend it. I used this guide to skip the duds: http://www.letswatchstartrek.com/ds9-episode-guide/

@jos @ashfurrow DS9 is arguably the best trek.

Very very compelling characters, stories, and it got fucking dark. Especially in the later episodes after Cisco got pinned is 0-6, shaved his head and got a goatee, he just became an absolute badass.

@ashfurrow Fuck no, the 90s sucked, and I am glad they are over. Also TNG was the worst trek.

the 1990s were characteristic bland and boring. Everything interesting was underground.

the cars fucking sucked. Both uninteresting and unreliable.

We were still in the middle of a religious authoritarian revival.

Everything was fake, and shitty. Everything real was dangeous and hard to get.

@GI_Jack now hold on, I never said the 90's were _good_, only that I was pining for them. They are,,, my comfort zone. My problematic comfort zone for sure.

Watching through DS9, and it feels like the writers were definitely aware of Fukuyama's ideas about the 90's, and active deconstructing neoliberals' obsession with the status quo.

@ashfurrow

Yes, TNG was absolutely terrible, with a lot of liberal utopia, nothing to say, and a lot of cringeworthy characters.

DS9 was phenominal that understood what sci fi was supposed to do, and took it further and harder hitting than TOS could imagine.

@ashfurrow i'm predicting at least 3 cate replies from pleroma instances on this one

@bclindner pleroma =

pathetic
little
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I gave up actually

@ashfurrow @bclindner why cate when you can shrug and move on tho

@toast @bclindner

@toast @bclindner (to clarify, I don't think pleroma is either pathetic or little, except in the JS bundle size sense)

@ashfurrow @bclindner
I like using pleroma as a backend, since it's easier on my server and doesn't do weird things I disagree with (e.g mastodon's insistence on caching and re-encoding all media)
but as a frontend I mostly use https://pinafore.social, so there's not that much of a difference for me tbh

@toast @ashfurrow i would love to hack on a Go fediverse server but while go-fed exists there's nothing really analogous to mastodon/pleroma/etc yet and i am not about to be the one to go through the trouble of building that

@bclindner @ashfurrow
want me to hit you up when I get around to it?
it's on my list (just fairly low below it, I wanna do the couchdb port to go first so that the server can use it)

@toast @ashfurrow i'll probably know either way, i check for new fediverse servers in other languages every like 3 montbs

@bclindner @ashfurrow I dunno, my GH is pretty obscure

@ashfurrow me no get :(

@victor Ruby on Rails is the web framework that Mastodon uses. Nerds often complain that “Rails doesn’t scale” despite many popular sites that use it.

@ashfurrow thanks Ash, what I didn't get was, who's that boy at the last picture

@ashfurrow I listened to someone from Basecamp (maybe DHH, but can’t completely remember) on a podcast lay into Twitter devs about how Ruby/Rails are perfectly fine but you still have to architect your app properly, and how they used Scala as a way to rewrite the app and blame the past shortcomings on the old tech. Was beautiful.

@ashfurrow That Matz face lmao

@ashfurrow I mean, everything scales vertically. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ashfurrow That might only be true if you're not in a Gloryhammer album.

@ashfurrow Morn is the true MVP.

@ashfurrow Looks like cement.

@ashfurrow You've been chaining these replies since January 1st, goddamn. It's lagging my browser a little.

@Gargron I have been! Bit of an edge case 😅

@ashfurrow @Gargron I told you not to restart the chain in the new year. :^)

@ashfurrow bah, those aren't bad.
the obsession dial needs to be turned up just a little more. I had a housemate who would re-do the cable management (even though nothing had changed) every 2 months or so. they were trying to improve matters. (which were already very good.)

I finally worked with people who were so obsessive, uh, honestly it would sound like I was making things up. it was crazypants. the more you want to hide or make your cables perfect, the more expensive it gets. $0.005

@ashfurrow Correct. But the clone tool in GIMP works wonders!

@gboyd42 but then that wouldn’t be *flips hair back dramatically* la photographie verité

@ashfurrow True, but it's not as if you're reducing the cat by two dress sizes. Or layering a Picasso onto your wall. Or even (and this is my personal favourite) 'vacuuming' the carpet in post production.

@ashfurrow if I fits I sits

@ashfurrow it took me a second

@ashfurrow The Wii U was one of the best consoles ever.

@gudenau that’s what I hear, from the Wii U fans :P

@ashfurrow You can't argue with how good the gamepad was. A nice large controller with nearly limitless possibilities from the touch screen.

It was more perfect, but it's a much better feature than the Switch.