@rey Lucky for you, I completely missed it!

[offers hugs]

If whatever-it-was-actually-about is something I should know, please do let me know when you feel up to it.

@riley

• "Well, you know, the races that lack adequate mental capacity to control others were clearly evolved to be subservient to those who have that capacity. It's really quite obvious."
• "We're just trying to help them, the poor dears -- we provide the guidance and wisdom we receive through our broader experience with the minds of others. They can't possibly understand their own needs and wants the way we do."

@catzilla

The Ford government has long maintained removing the bike lanes would improve traffic congestion in the Greater Toronto Area.

...in spite of all the evidence that this is in fact the opposite of reality.

just one more lane, bro™

@catzilla Make Canada Grate Again (...or something)

The Right absolutely want us bound and gagged into the car-oil empire, because "freedom" or whatever they call it up North.

🔥

@rnd I'm lucky (?) in that nobody seems to want to hire me anymore, so I can use whatever languages appeal to me.

PHP (current language of choice) does change steadily over the years, but I've had very few complaints about what has changed; it's mostly good changes, actual improvements. ([/opinion])

...which then suddenly jumped to Duran Duran for no apparent reason (except that in my head, it was somehow in a slightly lower key, go figure).

@taavi They're all good geese, Brant.

#currentEarworm : Unpack Your Adjectives

I've been laid off all my projects (stable codebase with 90% test coverage means more runway to embrace auto-coding these days), job sites look like dead internet funnel "162 proposals sent - 0 hires".

I'm a senior programmer, fullstack with emphasis on backend PHP, straight 5.0 rating on Upwork over 150 projects. Timezone is GMT+6 but I'm flexible. 16 years of experience and a Specialist math degree. List of stuff I worked with is longer than the charlimit here.

Can't show much code since it's all commercial backends but here's the open source stuff: https://code.oreolek.me/oreolek?tab=activity

Resume available on request.

#FediHire #GetFediHired #HireMe

@EveHasWords Yeah, @rey 's comment made me think this might be something to get a consensus on. We can always switch back if, say, we expect another influx of real users fleeing from elsewhere.

@rey The restriction will be temporary (unless this onslaught represents The New Normal, unlike last time).

I keep a close eye on new signups (I get a notif for each one), and typically suspend a handfull or two every week.

@rey I fully intend for this to be temporary; it has happened before...

@BigShellEvent This has happened before; I think that one lasted a few weeks, maybe? Eventually whatever scam they're pulling enters into the realm of diminishing returns, and they move on to something else (or get caught).

...and, like, two pages of them came in overnight...

:tootcat: I've temporarily set signups to require approval because we've been dealing with a rather relentless influx of spambot accounts for the past few days. Just so ya know. :blobcatupsidedown:

RE: https://toot.cat/@devopscats/117091386688057094

description of short video:

Camera shows sticker in window which says "WARNING" with a cartoon-style drawing of a cat with dark ears and a white nose and mouth. Camera pans slowly left until we see, in the next window, an actual cat which precisely matches the drawing.

@samiamsam @broadwaybabyto

A desperate, ignorant, malnourished population constantly worried about becoming ill and not being able to afford medical care is a compliant population (...or so the theory goes).

@autolycos @kcdc

She's downloaded all the audio clips from her favorite band now
And she's not using it for thesis research like she told her old man now
And she doesn't need a fifty-six K or an ISDN now
And she'll have
fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-1 away.

Well she's got a Linux box with a 10 TB RAID array now
With ftp and httpd web servers from the NCSA now
And Adobe and Corel are lookin' good on her dual display now
And she'll have
fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-1 away.

Well she got a million hits the other day on her personal page now
And her graphics and her sound clips and her applets have become all the rage now
And she's got so many clients that her daddy says it's time to upgrade now
And she'll have
fun fun fun when her daddy takes her T-1 away.

@autolycos @kcdc

(chorus)
I'm my own sysop
I'm my own sysop
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
Oh I'm my own sysop.

Now many many years ago as a lab employee
I started on a PDP 11/23
The lab soon modernized a bit and got Turbo Pascal
I started using that and it sure helped with my morale

This soon gave me some interest in writing my own code
But trying to make money there was really quite a load
To complicate the matter in a way I can't forget
There soon became this thing that people call the internet

I started using email and it really made things better
With nearly-instant transfer there's no waiting for a letter
Then suddenly the world wide web arrived upon the stage
I purchased hosting from MindSpring and made my own web page

Soon after that I started hosting on my own machine
With web, email and database, it really was quite keen
And every time I think of this it kind of makes me stop
As admin of my server box, I am my own sysop

(repeat chorus)

@kookie I mean, how else would we get more science.