Paul Bausch @pb@mastodon.cloud

d120 for wild magic surges.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/03/15/society-desperately-needs-an-alternative-web/

"The decentralized web is a mindset and a belief in an alternative structure that can address some of the afflictions that have risen from data pollution."

🎵 I dreamed a dream in times gone by / When hope was high and life worth living... 🎵

MySpace losing data reminds me of that scene in Ghostbusters. MySpace: “Pretend I know nothing about backups, RAID arrays, or redundancy and just tell me what the hell is going on.” The World: [dawning realization] “You never studied.”

Of course social networks are not lovable scamps so they don’t deserve the reference. But how.

My home course is rustic.

Breaking the 2019 disc golf seal.

I round it up to 3.2 so I celebrated already. ⚫️

There is not enough coffee in the universe to handle DST Monday.

My years of painstaking work making sure every custom emoji I add to slack has a transparent background is paying off today with a design tweak they made.

it was an antimalware service executable / an antimalware service executable / an antimalware service executable / sure looks strange to me.

Yelling at NPR again. Anyone who disagrees with the administration is a “critic”, even though the administration often contradicts objective reality. Shit like: “Critics say bees do contribute to pollination.”

Are there pro gum-chewers? Because I was killing that today.

Random line from a movie that is constantly firing in my head: “I want me coffee!” — Paul’s grandfather in A Hard Day’s Night. Brains are weird.

Cleaning out and stumbled on this web time capsule from 1998. I lived in Nebraska at this time but I was visiting SF and I remember talking with @fraying about moving out and what I might work on that was web-related. We ended up working together a couple years later.

And by 'tweet' I meant 'toot' and I'll turn in my mastobadge at the front office.

I wrote 'Stylish' by force of habit. Just a reminder that the original Stylish browser plugin has privacy issues and there are several out there that don't track your every move. I use Stylus which seems fine. Recommendations on YouTube are awful and removing them improves my experience. This overexplaining-the-joke tweet brought to you by our modern surveillance hellscape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish#Privacy_issues

Stylish -> youtube.com -> #related { display: none; } FTW

Back in my day we didn’t have emoji. We had to type out characters and then crane our necks 90-degrees to read them. And we liked it!

More like a sawzsome.

Cosmic Encounters 👾

We have enough USB standards. Stop adding more. This old man update has been brought to you by too many cables with the wrong type of connector.