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I'll probably use this to microblog and have more open interaction in geminispace.
You'll otherwise find me skulked away at ctrl-c.club when I'm around these parts of the net.
I continually reflect on how big of a deal it would actually be, long term, to lose the last 20 years of IT progress. Cell phones on 3G are bleeding-edge, that's far as it goes. Dial-up internet still has a place in the world, and in many cases 56K is still as fast as you'll get. CD-ROMs (or if you're ritzy, DVD's) are still the Lingua Franca for transferring bulk data, most affordable USB sticks scarcely carry 256MB. Social media as we know it simply didn't exist; IRC and things like AIM...
💬 4 comments · 4 likes · Dec 12 · 2 weeks ago
Learning about how the earth has progressed on a geological timescale helps you appreciate the beauty of life and the planet we live on. It also gives a dark humor quality to how we've managed to toss things up so effectively within not even three centuries since industrialization. It took billions of years for life to grow and change and eventually even become multicellular. Buy a new phone every year, and you can become multicellular in a much faster timeline. Except, your achievement is...
💬 View post · 3 likes · Nov 13 · 7 weeks ago
At long last, I'm back on BBS! It's been about 5 weeks since I last interacted with BBS, because it's been about that long? I think? Since my previous computer met a gravity-assisted fate. I did the math on whether or not it was worth it to procure replacement parts, some special tools, possibly, and then gamble even getting it right with the repair AND that there's not more stuff inside which my untrained (for verifying integrity of a board, anyway) eyes would miss. So long story short, I...
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · Nov 07 · 7 weeks ago