Robin Tarsiger @dasyatidprime@mastodon.technology

The Bay Area is a curious place.

Wow, that line “radio reminds me of my home far away” _really_ comes out with different implications in the cyberpunk-inspired cover of Country Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_dy1EmV6w (Main feature ends before 3m53s; it's concatenated with a bunch of postroll talk.)

→ … and an exportable package file containing both the exact original file(s) and an appropriate ICECREAM attachment could be a Combined Original and Notations Envelope.”

Quoted from my side of a conversation with an acquaintance, paraphrased to remove unrelated bits:

“Back at university in OS class, I was given a paper to read about WAFL: the Write Anywhere File Layout. I bet a metadata attachment standard named, uh, the Interoperable Container for Embedding Contributed, Readable, Exogenously Applied Metadata would be a good layer on top of that for a media server. →

Oh _dear god_ did they actually invade a SCIF? I'm having trouble believing this.

I'm kind of irrationally proud of having just managed what I did in that lipogrammatic thread, even if I sort of dumped a three-post explanation on someone whom I'm not _completely_ sure wanted it?

Now if only I could get anything _else_ done, that would be real good about now…

I'm going to start using “Troubling Ophidian Schism” as a way of referring to the Python 2/3 split all the time now by the way. Just saying.

@ashfurrow Is that a pre-Halloween display name change I spy?

So polls can only have up to four options of up to… _25_ characters each?

For all that people keep saying “this isn't Twitter 2.0”…

Can I propose that Austin be “Double Bucky City” rather than “Silicon Hills” given its 512 area code?

Oh. #IntelliJ gets _upset_ trying to Check Incoming and Outgoing Changes if you set a default upstream path on your #Mercurial repository that's a SSH path using a public key with a passphrase which you expect to enter every time rather than loading it into the agent.

It's frozen and not responding to SIGTERM. Argh.

Building out a little toy program in #Scala to learn. Most of the language elements are quite familiar from either Java or OCaml/Haskell as expected (not that I was ever good at real Haskell). Hoping to try out Akka, too, which looks very Erlang-y.

The phrase “This fixes the message key mismatch preventing crunchy peanut butter from displaying correctly.” might have been used.

I just saw a video ad for Google, which used a search for a Lion King trailer as its example.

Then there was a cut to text which I think was “Witness the crowning of a new king.”, though I'm not sure of the first verb.

And then it cuts to the Google logo, and then ends.

Hmm.

I forgot that #ReleasingDebianBuster is happening so soon! I've been waiting for this.

Doing a little return-follow catchup, in case some of you don't recognize why I'm following you now or requesting to. (I don't do symmetrical follow by default, but I do habitual symmetrical “check out their profile and see whether I want to”, but sometimes I don't get around to it for a while.)

A conversation with @Azure has just led to a possible new term for not-so-good homebrew crypto: “cryptographer-inspired”.