@clacke One of the milestones I remember is the first time I saved a completely lost game with a stalemate.

Until that first time seems like a myth.

@clacke Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out this weekend.

@clacke Sounds delightful.

@clacke This post made me smile. Nothing special just reminded me of when I learned to play as a kid and wondered what it must be like to learn to play in the age of the net.

@clacke The Botez sisters are quite the Chess content creators.

@clacke As soon as I said this, I learned she's beaten a GM. The highest rated person I've beaten was only a senior master in the USCF. Based on that one datapoint she's better than I am.

@clacke They are only so-so in chess knowledge(probably on par with me actually) but nice looking girls who know how to give it as good as they get have a ready made audience in the chess world as the do in most other worlds.

@clacke I'm not following. I thought her given name was "Smokin' Hot."

@clacke What's the best Star Trek episode of all time?

Ans: Black Mirror 14 ep1

@clacke Forgot what I was replying to but not this post :)

As far a Bardcore, I love it. A rendition I'd love to see is 'Creep' by TLC

@clacke This is hilarious because I went through the same thing.

I was originally crestfallen when it didn't completely fill the mold.

And my spirits lifted when I saw that it was saveable.

@clacke when it's all caps, it's just a normal day at work for lots of us mainframers.

@clacke i haven't used jitsi since my wife moved here. was this a planned chnage on their end or an issue?

@skrishna as if i needed another reason to swoon over her.

@stephenadams @andybalaam it's common for me to put a comment in my code something like this: I did it this way because it's the only way i could get to work. if you know a better way, please tell me. better is better even if it's your idea.

@fraser I wouldn't put it past him to buy Mastodon for 20 billion USD and closing it up. Would be a bargain compared to what he paid for X.

@clacke @fraser could possibly put it back to where it was in terms of use a couple of years ago. that's not dead to you and me but much of the world would think it was.

then again to me the year of the linux desktop was 2001 and irc is the best social media platform.

@clacke of course i was just making a joke with hyperbole but i'm thinking buying mastodon.social and the project would result in that.

sure forks would happen but i'm thinking would be detrimental to the project.

heck, there are already articles with titles like, "why mastodon failed" after musk bought twitter. so many might already think it's dead.

@clacke sorry, i didn't mention this but i no longer have the laptop. gave it to my step daughter. she paid someone to remove linux and install windows. probably and unlicensed version :(

@clacke if you think of it, please let me know the fix if you fix the audio issue. i'm curious now :)