Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

my [networked technology] take has always been that the only people who have to use [networked technology] should be the people who want to use [networked technology] and are willing to learn how to use [networked technology]

we have a problem right now where lots of people have to use [networked technology] who don’t want to, but the solution to that problem won’t be found in [networked technology] improvements

“fundamentally the problem with computers is that if you want to have control over your experience then you have to learn how to use a computer”

lie on couch
lie in bed
girlfriend
girlfriend
sleepyhead

Indiana University is hiring a Research Data Software Engineer.

$65,000–$75,000/yr; eligible for remote work. This is a two-year position, but word is they hope to convert it to a permanent position at the end of that period.

https://hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_PUB/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=312854&PostingSeq=1

they CLAIM there is a gengar in these pokémon fruit snacks but i haven’t seen one

ok well, if you print out a JPEG of a page of text, surely that is still an image then?

you can get out of this one real easily with <doi:10.4242/BalisageVol5.Renear01>, if you¦re a coward

is a statistic a document?

meteor garden (2018) chuckling to itself while spending a full eight episodes deviously setting up this question

would you rather date someone cute who makes you anxious or someone you feel comfortable calling out every time they’re being an asshole

honestly in 2024 i don’t trust anything that doesn’t operate at a loss

this is in part due to the fact that journalism as an industry has taken a big nosedive

but only in part

i used to respect journalists but not since, like, 2018

ActivityPub could have been abbreviated TP

thinking about it, it is kind of weird that we make acronyms based on the first letter of the first syllable, not the first letter of the stressed syllable

otherwise, seven new scripts were added, and a ton of work was done on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which continue to be a real challenge to encode

Unicode has added a new data file, DoNotEmit.txt, which collects information about characters and character sequences which “should not” be generated in newly authored texts and for which suitable alternatives exist

lots for legacy computing once again in this release, including:

• a whole host of missing characters for Amstrad CPC, Apple II, TRS-80, Sharp MZ, Sharp X1… <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf>

• five symbols for Smalltalk <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.pdf>

also new in Latin: capital ram’s horn; capital and lowercase S with diagonal stroke