Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094

LGBT abuse

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

I honestly don’t get the whole excitement about “on Mastodon, admins can read your DMs” or “DMs on Mastodon are totally different from Twitter”.

They’re not. Did people honestly think that their Twitter DMs were “private” in any meaningful sense?

Jesus F. Christ.

I’ve had a lot of people ask me recently why not stay on Twitter and fight.

The reason is because Musk controls the algorithm. He could ban you tomorrow, and he could also just deprioritize every one of your tweets so no one sees them.

You can’t fight and win when the opponent has complete control over the field of conflict.
#TwitterMigration

The thing about the US lack of adequate train infrastructure is that things like Visit Family For The Holiday are very difficult outside of very narrow geographic regions.

It shouldn't be a problem to run a spine train between Cour d'Alene, #Idaho, and #Spokane, WA, with regular, efficient, bus routes going upwards to hit each suburb.

So here I am in the car dealership getting the Climate Murdering Tool serviced. Sigh.

We should be able to have cheap and effective #transit.

How can it be that those "genius" billionaires are so incredibly stupid at the one thing they claim to be good at: Running businesses.

Zucks lost 60% of FBs value just this year and lays off 11k facebook employees.

Musk bought a platform worth 13B for 44B and runs it currently into the ground.

This FTX dude stole the billions invested into his company by everyday people and sucked at this crypto thing he claimed to be an expert on.

I get the impression Billionaires are fxxking dumb.

Andy Ngo vocally supported Amos Yee and Ngo posted a selfie with Yee a year after he publicly admitted to being a pedophile.

I have to say, I am still boost shy here at #Mastodon - Simply because of negative experiences from the other "place". I always feel like I may annoy or over-boost - But then I remember, this is how it works here. This is how we support others and find those who interest us. Strange, shifting to a more enjoyable social media platform.

Great timing: Stadia refunded me ~$200 right before the Steam Autumn Sale. It's time to buy some games!

Hardware-wise I don't really have anything other than a GeForce Now subscription 🫤. I am thinking about getting a Steam Deck soon.

So I am looking for games that are playable on GFN and also the Steam Deck.

#gaming

I am enjoying Mastodon, but was trying to explain it at dinner and someone said that, in the limit, it sounded like RSS done the hard way, and, man, I'm still salty about google reader.