@clarkema Yup, we take the whole back-compat thing seriously. If you want to write a script that'll still work in a decade or two, write it in Perl.

@hyperreal @jwildeboer No brown required to paint a rainbow.

@ankitpati “reboggles” is a word that I made up to describe the concept independent of platform. after all, if you want to be that pedantic, not all my followers are on mastodon! 😂

okay, y’all passed, it’s been three hours and a hundred reboggles, and no-one has earned a one-way trip to the center of the sun by ever-so-helpfully informing me why the .gitignore isn’t actually literally 48 years old. gold star for mastodon 🌟

@_yossi_ probably what's going to happen is they're going to tell us to start with an internet connection and then disable it when the installation is finished. Which is a complication for us, because the offline machines we have specifically reserved for such offline requirements have been rendered physically and emotionally unable to connect to the internet

@0xabad1dea in the immortal words of Elvis Costello, "Oh, I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused."

@georgetakei Think about how ignorant the average person is and reflect on the fact that 50% are less informed.