@penryu

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Rust aficionado. Functional programming advocate. Final Fantasy collector. Oxford comma proponent. Armchair etymologist and reluctant descriptivist.

I will like your cat photos. My opinions are my own.

bloghttps://lex.penryu.dev
githubhttps://github.com/penryu
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locationatop the fourth wall
Well two of you are wrong.
#fediTips #mastoTips Don't forget to tip your server (go to the Amazon data center and physically knock over a server rack, causing network outages)

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

How should the ongoing invasion of the Fediverse by the self-evicted birdsite tweeps be known?
"the Eternal October" (iterative, metaphorical)
50%
"unprecedented toots" (post-COVID euphemistic)
50%
Other (reply with choice)
0%
Poll ended at .

Please take a moment to enjoy these two brilliant but VERY different performances by the incredible Tim Roth.

Stop anytime after the sword fight starts in Rob Roy, but please watch Ted to the end.

Archibald Cunningham, "Rob Roy (1995)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lhMAOxLxw&t=34s

Ted the Bellhop, "Four Rooms (1995)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z94-BIusDtA

Rob Roy: The Duke of Argyll vs. The Marquis Montrose

YouTube

So to label this whole invasion of the fediverse...

Should we go with the iterative metaphorical "Eternal November"?

Or the post-COVID euphemistic "Unprecedented toots"?

As Web 3.0 as a term has been utterly ruined by cryptobros, I propose the next version of the web will be Web 95.

apropos of nothing, this is what a new tmux window with two panes looks like after my most recent theme tweaking.

mouse emoji only there for mouse mode.

title and current window status bg colour changes for zoom and sync modes.

I pretty much "live" on the commandline, so my shell prompt and tmux environment are idiosyncratic, but IMHO not awful

Men will pay $44b to be the most publicly owned entity in the history of socialism rather than go to therapy

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views."

(4th Doctor, Tom Baker, ca. 1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpq9tP14PA

#DoctorWho #TomBaker