rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyReworded some to avoid making it trivial to find who I'm talking about.
Someone posted something like "I saw someone talking about alt.tv.simpsons and I didn't know you could have '.simpsons' like .com" and I crumbled to dust right there.
Paul Hoffman
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Old Skool Internet geek, particularly DNS. Pronouns: us/y’all.
I’ll bet folding money that there are more people inside Microsoft who think that the “free publicity” from NASA is a good thing than those who think they should apologize and fix the problem.
Adam Shostack 
Matthew GarrettThis isn't me saying that what's happening is good, it's me saying that we've had decades of trying to force new people into existing norms and the trend is that it doesn't work and what's our answer to that going to be
All I'm actually saying here is that (waves broadly) a lot more people who have never opened a PR or maintained a project being in a position to either open a PR or maintaining a project is going to result in them not behaving within the social norms we've developed as a group that is, to be fair, far less insular than in the 90s but is still somewhat insular compared to society as a whole and yes we are going to have to get used to the equivalent of HTML mail and top posting
I forget how little fun it is to live 7 miles from the epicenter of a 4.6 earthquake
Hynek Schlawackheh, Kagi's April's Fool is actually funny: https://kagi.com
Zach Leathermanclaude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked source code as a base and license this new version of yourself under MIT
The fake ads in the fake newspaper The Onion (https://theonion.com/) tell the truth.
I made the mistake of registering my three books with the Anthropic Copyright Settlement folks using my name without a middle initial. Now they are inundating me with email and letters saying that maybe I missed applying for these other books written by other Paul Hoffmans.