tpaschalis @tpaschalis@m.tpaschalis.me

yes, i'm proud of this. #computeing #linux

@codinghorror I’ll be going as sexy tech debt this year

‘If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.’

https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyone-will-not-just

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

OMG this thread is wild!

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

@RichiH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo ?

Dear #computing #history #datahoard bubble:

I am looking for the original advertisement of either Google Docs or potentially Google Chromebooks, strongly believing it's the former.

It was an ad in which someone wrote some words while walking counterclockwise through an office setup, destroying several laptops and showing that the written words had already been synced to the next device about to be used and destroyed.

Edit 2: thanks @HeNeArXn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo !

Grafana Pyroscope just hit 1.0 https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This is open source (AGPL) Continuous Profiling, the fourth pillar of observability. It is stable, performant, and capable of running at scale.

You can also try profiling on Grafana Cloud as we provide it as a SaaS if you don't want to run your own: https://grafana.com/products/cloud/profiles-for-continuous-profiling/ you can try it for free (and if usage is small it's free forever).

#grafana #pyroscope #profiling

I'm truly heartbroken. Life is full of distractions, but don't let them stop you from telling the people you love how much they mean to you. 💔

https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/19/an-announcement-regarding-kris-nóva/

This has absolutely no business, none whatsoever, being as good as it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR9HwhhlkA

Extremely informative!:

Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States - by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

I don't know how I feel about email

https://xeiaso.net/blog/idk-about-email

#satire #email

There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”

A Veblen good is something for which demand *increases* as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.

Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.

The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.

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