@urusan @clacke Is Ada still in use outside a few defense contractors? All the ones I knew of went to Java or C++, or just C (literally want to watch the world burn there). I don't know of any big support companies for it like Microfocus & IBM are for COBOL.

Java or something running on JVM may survive 100 years, but Node, PHP, other virus-of-the-week attack its main niche, heavy parasitic load = poor survival chances.

@schratze Well you can hardly code for shit at work, can you?

@clacke Disney's not left-wing, but about as moderate these days as you can get; which does mean some support for gay rights. I loathe Disney's media, but the company's meh.

And this isn't so much about the park (Disney World = Florida, Disney Land = California, not relevant here), but the towns for the workers. Disney is a huge part of Florida's economy.

So DeSantis is trying to sabotage this giant money engine and half the country's vacation destination over his homophobia.

@aral MAC address of your computer or router. Last seen in Sweden, so that's where the geohash has you logged. Eventually it'll figure out you're in Ireland, either by spying on your neighbors or just driving a car around reading wifi.

Yes, this is horrifying.

@clacke @thegibson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52MXbkhepQ

@ajroach42 The "funniest" part with the Netflix situation is, they still gained 2.5M subscribers. But that's less than last year, and they had more people switching it off than usual. OH NO. END OF THE WORLD.

@polychrome Oh, sure, everyone thinks crabs are neat, and then all your relatives are evolving into crabs and you realize your mistake too late.

@clacke @Christian Those are thousands of years later coinages, PIE had two similar words which sounded the same in proto-Latin, but also they didn't like apples (the kind they had access to). Naranj (orange) they copied from Persian. What's weird is other Romance languages have new words for apple, pomme or manzana. Pun only works in Latin.

@Christian He's beautiful and I'll feed him apples until he loves me.

@Christian Romans called Apples "malus", evil. That's why the Garden of Eden fairy tale is usually illustrated with apples, it's a Latin pun. So Blucifer would be my friend even sooner.

@Christian I wouldn't fight any horse, I like horses!

@vertigo In Greg Egan's Diaspora, there's a clade of Humans who genehacked themselves to not have speech, and live as apes, called Dream Apes.

And then a catastrophe happens to Earth and, uh, non-advanced societies don't make it.

@thegibson Sadly, the Kids Today™ have no music, so they can't just sit back and listen to pop songs about it. Probably pretty stressful on the poor things.
https://youtu.be/hiwgOWo7mDc

@Capheind Videogames are good. Business meetings are evil.

Hey, kids, lemme tell you about the chat system of the future.

It's not discord, which belongs to someone else and you own *nothing* in it. It's sure not fucking Slack, which is The Man's boot, quit licking it. It's not XMPP, which hasn't been useful since Jabber shut down a decade ago.

IRC. It's been running since 1988. It'll be long here after Humanity is extinct.
https://xkcd.com/1782/
#irc

@calcifer Write a bot that randomly touches files every few weeks with non-breaking changes.

Look, I'm not saying @thegibson should do this, but, uh.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/researchers-used-a-decommissioned-satellite-to-broadcast-hacker-tv/

Every Apple internal service is borked. Quick, run, be free before it reboots!

(oh, wait, I need some of those)

https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

It's pretty great that I can even think of, let alone see a short scene from Wargames, or Dr Strangelove, or a few other films of that genre, and just start laughing. And laughing. And laughing. Because if I stop laughing the screaming starts.

Witchcraft is rising
https://witchcult2day.tumblr.com/post/678945429704130560/gameraboy2-witchcraft-is-rising-look-august