A lot of us still use IRC.

I went from a 1200 baud to a 28.8. It was like driving a supercar at the time.

My only problem with it is that it's federated.

Yup, some of us are old enough to call the 40 and 50 year olds "young whippersnappers".

Who invented the modern computer look and feel - the sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration: What they wanted and how it went:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

I accidentally stumbled upon the Wikipedia article about Sad Clowns when I was looking for that picture of the happy/sad face from theater.

I have mixed feelings about what I read today. :|

D'oh 😖

It's usually only the news subs. But if you make claims that counter Kremlin propaganda you can sometimes summon them.

Like if I just say Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, it won't (why? Beats me). But if I say they are killing ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens as well as Ukrainian men, women, and children, then we have a good chance.

I got others if it doesn't work.

Edit: (WITNESS ME! Lol)
Edit 2: Now I'm impressed. I knew I could do it, I didn't expect it to work quite so well. I'll check back in a few hours.

I was contracted to work for a non-profit that helped teachers write and analyze student test scores for a few years. The non-profit ended when the CEO sold the company to another education company. The new education company has contracts with the department of defense in my country.

When I reflect upon the outcome. It would seem that the department of defense now has direct access to many more students who test scores are low. All lined up and analyzed. And I'm the one that automated the deployment of that system. I just quietly took my checks until my contract was no longer renewed.

From my point of view I did build a small part of the web. And I stood around and did nothing while the web/company/people around me were being consolidated. While the department of defense freely browsed some of the most vulnerable children/students in the country because they know poorer testing students are more likely to join the military for money.

A lot of people are going to die because of that analysis system in my opinion; And to me, that means I am responsible.

Isn't that something else? No matter where you are on the planet, if you know technology, you despise Windows.

You seem like a polite child, but isn't it a little late for you to be up? Hurry to bed before your parents find out.

Good. Glad you like the place.

Hah, you said duty.

I can't understate how much I love this art

They will be able to interact with a nearly identical fully formed person, at any point of development for them, who they can make and unmake at a whim, modify, and so on. While they leave the real people to just die.

Cool. Can I buy some of your blood?

Only it’s being overrun by a bunch of teenaged idealists that insult anyone that disagrees with them.

I think you mean overstate? Otherwise you're saying that you don't really like it at all.

im gonna gift you Lemmy Plutonium for this!

Yeah, overstate. But I will still leave the comment unedited

the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned

Unfortunately as a younger gen z i need to supplement my Fediversing with traditional social media unless i want to have humor of a previous generation and get obliterated at school. I wish there was a greater variety of people on here

Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).

I eat plastic to feel young.

HOW DO YOU KKOW MY AGE?! fuck. i'm in.

I found myself in comparable spaces for the time too. Spend enough time online and you hear about things.

It's ok, we overstood you. But yeah, pmjv is a fucking genius.

dont i remember there were no cables running to the monitor

Can’t relate. I just wanted off Reddit. Every top post and comment was a reposted top post or comment. Now it’s mostly bots… Anyways where are the 30s peeps at?

don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

(...)

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.

I'm also not 40 btw.

I think you meant to say 40 year old queer shitposters

Always has been.

Well, since 1978 or so.

Bring them here, we promise not to be awkward!

No your mother

i guess im the 4th kind

I feel called out

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Heh, back before the web, I recall there were two people hogging the modems in the library: IRC users and MUD users. I guess we're here now.

I have to use Windows at work now, which is ass.

Anyway, I had a question about how to achieve something in Powershell the other day, so I asked it on Mastodon. Got basically nothing in response.

Every time I ask how to do something in Linux I get swamped with responses.

Make of that what you will.

Speak for yourself I promise to be awkward as daisy dukes on a crusty old fart with droopy balls.

Have you called her lately? She misses you.

Op can I buy your blood and then we give imgonnaregretthis a pail full of sheep mucus. We can split the money and the leftover lymph 60:40

Love to be made to feel young in my mid thirties lol

Not quite. I went here initially because I got permabanned on reddit. But I now realize reddit is a shithole so I like it here. I do wish there were more active niche communities and I really wish you could comment while on VPN, which you cant for some reason

Hold on I want to use the computer with the knobs you tweak

Where do fifty-something furries fit to this?

Well, maybe in some way. In some way we're all responsible for the military-industrial complex that consumes unbelievable amounts of money in pursuit of global domination and "national security".

Maybe you can do your part to break that up by educating children about the predatory nature of the military. About the many atrocities committed. And how they target people who don't test well in school (but obviously aren't necessarily stupid) because they're more likely to do what they're told and not question anything.

Not super young, but young for the group. Hell, I'm in my mid 40s (I think. Please don't ask me to do the math) and I get the sense I'm on the young end of the primary demographic here

I'm 38 I'll have you know.

...turning 39 in a few months.