Checking email. Lots of unnecessary images and fancy bloated rubbish to wade through before deciding I'm not interested anyway. What a waste of time, space, and bandwidth.
Sigh.
Nostalgia.
Used to do email by creating a text file in ed/vi/emacs and sending the file from the command line using sendmail.
Fast, neat, to the point.
Again, sigh.
I have always regarded resistance-to-change as one of the tell-tale signs of conservatism.
However, having been a member of a particular committee for about 7 years, now seeing new members loudly expressing discontent and trying to rip-up multiple established systems, I find myself wondering how this shows appreciation for the history of people's decisions that has got the society to the state it currently enjoys.
#politics #heritage #psychology #oldfogey #stickinthemud #photography
@ibboard yup, had to do it on bluesky last eve. if you don't verify then they will stop allowing you to see certain posts (some kind of mood/tone analysis i guess) and direct messages are disabled - which i assume must now be the default for all under-18's.
i verified just fine. i simply wish it hadn't worked so quickly and definitely. #oldFogey
#WritersCoffeeClub 4: What software do you use to write?
I started out with pen and paper, because nobody owned computers. When I first began sending stuff around it was from the Macintosh SE printed out on a dot-matrix printer from the bank at the University computer lab.
Nowadays I use Libre Office. It's quite fancy by comparison.
I have officially crossed over into #OldFogey status; my kids are watching the Disney channel and itโs just annoying noise with gross overacting to me.
Bah humbug. And get off my lawn, please.
Back in the early 90s when I was learning coding in Small-C on a CPC-6128 running CP/M, I read the advice that when outputting debug info, one should consider quoting string variables in square brackets so you can more easily tell where they stop & start when reading it.
I still adhere to that advice today
dbg_printf('Me: ThisModule-XC: think [%s] is a [%s]', graph_iri, class);
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