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Phil Eichinger

@philenotfound@chaos.social

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Phil Eichinger 3d ago

Mike Roberts Jun 16

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

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Phil Eichinger Jun 15

Phil Eichinger Jun 1

Stupid flipper crashed and rebooted during the game.

Phil Eichinger May 30

Max Leibman May 30

No, Your Honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.

Phil Eichinger May 19

Hanno Zulla May 14

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

Phil Eichinger May 17

JA Westenberg May 16

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

Phil Eichinger May 15

Brian Danger Hicks May 14

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

Phil Eichinger May 13

Anatoly Shashkin💾May 12

Phil Eichinger May 13

Sid Glitzerpups 🎩May 13

Wie heißt der Schutzpatron der Vergesslichen?

Dings

Phil Eichinger Apr 24

Bring back floppy label stickers

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Anatoly Shashkin💾May 12

@dosnostalgic I chuckled.

Ken McLeod May 12

@dosnostalgic I spent far too long trying to understand the significance of the two red triangles and what was special about the corner they were both pointing at. Then I realized: it's not two triangles, but one bow. Groan.

Rand al'Thor 🏳‍🌈

@_the_cloud @dosnostalgic Oh! Now I get it.

DesertFOX May 12

@dosnostalgic Ok, this took me a few seconds. LOL

@dosnostalgic showed this to my wife and she rolled her eyes

truly the hallmark of a great joke

@dosnostalgic Cool kids all used this:

mirabilos May 13

@bstow @dosnostalgic and, incidentally, it’s "MS-DOS" and "DR DOS" (or DOSplus), but not "DR-DOS" or, worse, "Dr. DOS"…

@mirabilos @bstow @dosnostalgic Yeah... But literally everyone at the time that I remember pronouncing it called it "Doctor Doss", and I think some of the later marketing leaned into that.

@dosnostalgic This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Made my day. Thank you!

@dosnostalgic A++ shitpost. It made me laugh

Garrett Wollman May 13

@dosnostalgic When I was using PC-DOS it was just

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mirabilos May 13

@dosnostalgic there’s so much wrong with this… aaaaah

A> even

@dosnostalgic took me a while. nice!

Francisco Escobedo May 13

@dosnostalgic The existence of DOS and MS DOS implies the existence of JR DOS.

eswillwalker May 13

@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic With your comment, I finally got the joke. I don't think of bows as feminine. I think of them as bow ties rather than long ties.

Francisco Escobedo May 14

@ELS @dosnostalgic A bow tie is a beautiful tie, indeed.

Commodore1351 May 28

@FranciscoEscobedo @ELS @dosnostalgic Oh, in my eyes this is not a bow. It's a headdress. You could have made the exact same joke with Pac-Man. Except Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man really do exist.

Edit: Now I see this was already mentioned in other replies.

But to make my point a bit more clear: How do you distinguish Ms. Pac-Man from Pac-Man when only low resolution graphics is available? It's the headdress.

Chris Silverman 🌻May 13

@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic There was, in fact, a MR-DOS, from Apple no less—or almost was, until Microsoft caught wind of this and told them to change it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/ROSE

A/ROSE - Wikipedia

Christopher E. Stith May 14

@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic or would that be DOS Jr.?

Francisco Escobedo May 14

@cestith @dosnostalgic It was mostly a Pac-Man reference, but yes 😊

Christopher E. Stith May 14

@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic oh, right. The arcade and console game was Jr. Pac-Man and only the special extra game in Pac-Man 2 on Genesis was labeled "Pac-Jr.".

The LCD handheld was "Pac-Junior" spelled out.

The character was known variously as Jr. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr., Pac-Jr., Pac-Junior, and P.J. across the various games, comics, cartoons, and merchandise.

Frost, glow wolf 🐺

@dosnostalgic Mrrrcrosoft, with their brand new MRS DOS.

🎀 DEVilonger 📟May 13

@dosnostalgic @zkat take my boost.

@dosnostalgic It took me an embarrassing long time to notice the red things and stop looking for differences in the prompt. (Font) 🤷🏻‍♂️

@dosnostalgic ProDos

Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲May 13

@dosnostalgic waaka-waaka-waaka

Anatoly Shashkin💾May 13

Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲May 13

@dosnostalgic Different waaka-waaka-waaka ;)

Jeff Newman May 13

@dosnostalgic @rmondello this brought me so much joy. Thank you

@dosnostalgic IBM too.

Nikku4211 May 14

@dosnostalgic Is there an MX DOS?