Status update: I¦ve been reading old R·F·C¦s… 

…and i¦ve been amazed at how people will, with no fear of repercussions, just out and say the most batshit things (from a technical perspective) and sign it with their full name and employer and forward it to the whole mailing list.

Probably the single greatest argument in favour of software work being any form of “engineering” is that you can’t just say blatantly wrong, infeasible, or uninformed shit in a professional capacity these days and have it be treated as mere “academic disagreement”.

On the one hand, i wonder if the internet making the whole of our professional lives, for those of us that work in the open, searchable and accessible hasn¦t magnified the reputational penalties of being wrong and stifled learning, growth, and innovation.

On the other hand, i want some·one technically‐minded to go thru the professional output of todays “tech greats” and see what batshit things THEY have said above a signature of their full name and institution. For certain figures i wish the reputational penalties were greater.

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#Snippets update: 

» In my opinion, there is no real obstacle to establishing the registry in the ARPA network now, getting the standards organization to work, and being able to exchange documents in extended character sets as soon as the various installations can acquire the printers and display devices.

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@narylis digital font certainly, altho i don’t know enough about physical typefaces to say if it still holds true there

they’ve added “orthographic at sign” using capital and small circled A because Unicode remains a coward and won’t encode it

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@bea we're about to go camping for a week and a half so we are praying it doesn’t hit eastern PA

re: pokemon slander 

@wallhackio i’m confused by your confusion this is pretty transparently fuckable

re: pokemon slander 

@aescling @wallhackio no?????? it would ride me

re: pokemon slander 

@aescling @wallhackio well i knew you weren’t going to say it

pokemon slander 

@wallhackio i would fuck the red motorbike thing

@Satsuma @wallhackio @aescling when my avatar changes to a hisuian zoroark you will know it is time

@Satsuma @wallhackio @aescling Hallowtide is in many ways the inverse season to Queertide so this tracks

@Satsuma @wallhackio @aescling this year, that is the week starting on October 12

@Satsuma @wallhackio @aescling oh as it happens National Coming Out Week is just the first week of Hallowtide

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