Apparently, Lego mini figures were relatively new when I had them as a kid.
https://geekdad.com/2018/08/happy-40th-birthday-lego-minifigure/
Category: Fediverse
In Final Crisis, the Anti-Life Equation is able to compel the surrender of free will. …
In Final Crisis, the Anti-Life Equation is able to compel the surrender of free will. Those who have submitted spout slogans about how it justifies anything, how it’s so much easier than the struggles of life and love.
It’s insidious, because in some ways it *is* easier to offload tough decisions to a schedule, a policy, a leader, etc. The brain likes taking shortcuts around cognitive load. But people want to be *able* to make choices when they want to.
#amreading #comics #psychology
Bird, Bird, Bird
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Another interesting thing about Final Crisis is how much damage Darkseid does just by existing. …
Another interesting thing about Final Crisis is how much damage Darkseid does just by existing. He doesn’t do any traditional super villain things in the entire story. No battles, no plotting. He just sits on his throne, yaking advantage of a battle he already won, imposing his will on an entire planet. He spends most of the story sitting on an underground bunker, but his presence presses down on the whole world.
#amreading #comics
@drb So posting a status the URL should be the body should be status=_____
@drb So posting a status the URL should be
https://scicomm.xyz/api/v1/statuses?access_token=_______
and the body should be
status=_____
California’s Atlantis: The Lost Superisland of Santarosae
California’s Atlantis: The Lost Superisland of Santarosae https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/californias-atlantis-the-lost-superisland-of-santarosae
TFW you’re super-thirsty because you can’t bring yourself to go refill your water, only to …
TFW you’re super-thirsty because you can’t bring yourself to go refill your water, only to discover when you finally do that it wasn’t empty in the first place.
@nolan I started college in 1994, and I was super-impressed by the pages I found …
@nolan I started college in 1994, and I was super-impressed by the pages I found “on Mosaic” in the computer lab, including this cool movie database thing…
Discovering I could use Lynx over a dial-up terminal was the first game-changer. Getting an actual dial-up PPP connection with a PC version of Netscape changed everything.
But yeah, I can attest to “on Mosaic” being a thing back then.
I keep misreading #startthedaywithanicepic as “start the day with an ice pick.”
I keep misreading #startthedaywithanicepic as “start the day with an ice pick.”
I started w/usenet & mailing lists, then web forums. Launched a blog. Joined friends …
@kemonine I started w/usenet & mailing lists, then web forums. Launched a blog. Joined friends at LiveJournal. Picked up Twitter early on, followed LJ friends to FB.
Dabbled in MySpace, Google Buzz & Plus, & Tumblr. I’m technically still on G+ & Tumblr, but then I’m technically still on FB.
Quit comics forums when I realized they were making me angry all the time. Drastically reduced FB & Twitter over the last couple of years.
Mastodon feels like early Twitter, LJ & Geocities: optimistic.
My preference is to store all UTC & use JavaScript to calculate the current offset
Response to @gcupc’s request for opinions: timezones in web apps, geolocation by IP address
My preference is to store all UTC & use JavaScript to calculate the current offset from the client’s clock, and not worry about which time zone since they may move.
Secondary preference is to calculate using jstz and allow them to override.
But given these design choices, I’d say go with UTC default & allow them to set it manually.
Finished re-reading Sparrow Hill Road, by Seanan McGuire. Imagine all the hitchiking ghost stories you’ve …
Finished re-reading Sparrow Hill Road, by Seanan McGuire. Imagine all the hitchiking ghost stories you’ve heard are true, and they travel the ghosts of long-dead highways.
It’s told episodically as a collection of stories about the same ghost, what she does, how she died, and her quest to stop her killer.
It made me think about the difference between a horror story and a ghost story. I don’t like horror much, but I do usually enjoy ghost stories quite a bit.
I do think the push for HTTPS is the way to go, but as this article points out, it’s not without cost…
I do think the push for HTTPS is the way to go, but as this article points out, it’s not without cost – especially for those with limited bandwidth, high latency & high packet loss, like rural users on satellite internet who can no longer cache locally.
https://thenextweb.com/news/securing-web-sites-with-https-made-them-less-accessible
#https #accessibility #internet #web
But it does mean we need to find another solution for spotty connections (you can’t change the speed of light!) that *does* work with HTTPS.
Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done …
Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done some Ruby, but he’s impatient, so last night I we started Java with a simple program that repeats a println X times.
He wanted to pass it the integer limit.
After a few minutes, I suggested we watch a movie & check back later.
After dinner, he decided to stop it & we timed some shorter runs.
I think he has a better understanding of scale now!
I remember an old Windows ping tool that animated two stick figures, one saying …
I remember an old Windows ping tool that animated two stick figures, one saying “Hey!” whenever a ping went out and “What?” whenever one came back.
Palm tree litter. Sometimes I just need to get out of the office…
Palm tree litter.
Sometimes I just need to get out of the office for a walk, but I’ve been getting kind of bored with the area I’m in. It’s mostly hotels, office buildings and parking lots. I walked past a different hotel yesterday afternoon and found this: the planter has palm trees, smaller plants, and bark chips…and they’ve allowed the palm fruit/seed pods to collect in the planter, which looks more interesting than it would if they cleared them out.
#photography #texture #palmtree
Whenever waves of new users arrive, there’s always a fine line to walk between welcoming …
Whenever waves of new users arrive, there’s always a fine line to walk between welcoming them and helping them learn about Mastodon…and posting normally so they don’t look at the timeline and say, “WTF, all Mastodon ever talks about is Mastodon. I’m outta here.”
@wilw Not sure if it’s official policy on your instance, but it’s common etiquette across …
@wilw Not sure if it’s official policy on your instance, but it’s common etiquette across a lot of Mastodon.
Yeah, it’s sort of a semi-boost. It doesn’t appear on the main tab…
In response to a comment about Twitter “Likes” showing up in followers’ timelines.
@JordiGH @jskellogg Yeah, it’s sort of a semi-boost. It doesn’t appear on the main tab of your profile with your tweets & retweets, but there’s a chance it’ll show up to your followers as they view their timelines as “So-and-so liked ____” if they’re using the website or official clients.