@InternetEh this belongs in some sort of 90s spy/hacking movie
@skelly my aging techbro ass has kinda settled on the idea that it's the community that needs to be in charge of moderation, and a lot of our current social media strife comes from having these mega platforms that try to satisfy all sorts of conflicting communities. it's an impossible task imo.
@trickster nobody escapes java
โTikTok is introducing Americans to a question that Europeans have struggled with for 20 years: a lot of your citizens might use an Internet platform created somewhere that doesnโt know or care about your laws or cultural attitudes and wonโt turn up to a committee hearing.โ
I was debugging a circuit board for weeks without success. In the next revision, I placed a "Let's all love Lain" image on the silkscreen, the board worked. #electronics #Lain
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@robey living here has completely warped my perception of money. it's not great.
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@robey haha damn, even 800k is madness. it better come with 10 acres of land (narrator: it doesn't).
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@robey let me guess... a cool $1.5m?
@yakkoj reminds me of the time the NRO donated a hand-me-down space telescope to NASA and people were floored at how good it was. this is the hardware that the intelligence community is throwing away. the amount we spend on civilian space is a fraction of a drop in the bucket.
bay area software engineer ๐ currently doing web stuff ๐ used to do space stuff ๐ still waiting on that europa clipper mission ๐
i draw things occasionally โ๏ธ
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