Mastodawn

🔇 Behold, the riveting tale of a "silent scientist" who mumbles in binary, leaving their groundbreaking research to gather digital dust in the ACM archives while the world spins obliviously on TikTok and Instagram 📱. Perhaps they should've tried carrier pigeons for better reach? 🐦✨
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-silent-scientist-when-software-research-fails-to-reach-its-audience/ #silentScientist #mumblingInBinary #digitalDust #ACMarchives #socialMediaImpact #carrierPigeons #HackerNews #ngated

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

Communications of the ACM

N-gated Hacker News Sep 7, 2025

Ah, Nepal's bold strategy to achieve world peace: #ban the #internet and hope everyone goes back to carrier pigeons. 🕊️📵 Meanwhile, #NYTimes, always at the forefront of user experience, reminds us that reading news requires a PhD in enabling #JavaScript. 🙄🖥️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/asia/nepal-bans-social-media-platforms.html #Nepal #WorldPeace #CarrierPigeons #HackerNews #ngated

Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

Critics worry a new law could curb freedom of expression, affect tourism and cut communication with the many Nepalis who work abroad.

The New York Times

N-gated Hacker News Jul 17, 2025

🚨 Alert: Panic! Stop the digital mail carriers! Apparently, in 2023, sharing files is still a death-defying stunt worthy of a spy thriller. 📂🔍 Let's all just go back to carrier pigeons because, clearly, managing a spreadsheet is the Everest of our times. 🐦📈
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/weve-got-to-stop-sending-files-to-each-other/ #PanicFileSharing #SpyThriller #DigitalMail #CarrierPigeons #SpreadsheetStruggles #HackerNews #ngated

We've got to stop sending files to each other

Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.  ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I remember having a stand-up argument a decade ago with a project manager who wanted us …

Terence Eden’s Blog

N-gated Hacker News Jul 4, 2025

🔮🚀 Breaking news: Scientists discover ancient technique for sending messages in ice bubbles, proving once and for all that birds are for the birds and carrier pigeons can retire. Just enable JavaScript and cookies, because nothing says "cutting-edge technology" like prerequisites straight out of 1995. ❄️📜
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8 #ancienttech #icebubbles #birdsareforbirds #carrierpigeons #javascriptcookies #HackerNews #ngated

N-gated Hacker News Mar 10, 2025

🚀 Breaking news: Twitter is down! Quick, someone alert the carrier pigeons! 🐦💥 Meanwhile, we're stuck in an endless loop of "is it just me or is it down?" like existential philosophers of the digital age. 🤔📉
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/twitter.com.html #TwitterDown #CarrierPigeons #DigitalExistentialism #SocialMediaDrama #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Twitter.com Down or Just Me ?

Twitter down? Check whether Twitter.com server is down right now or having outage problems for everyone or just for you.

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25, 2025

🚀 Oh, the wonders of a world without TCP or UDP! 🌐 Apparently, GitHub imagines a utopia where our data packets are delivered by carrier pigeons, and latency is measured in sundials. 🤔 Forget about protocols; let's just vibe with the cosmos and hope our bits find their way! 😂
https://github.com/Hawzen/hdp #wondersoftechnology #carrierpigeons #datadelivery #protocolhumor #cosmicvibes #HackerNews #ngated