@TwoClownsEating @TheBreadmonkey from a reliable source, the CIA built a replica of Swindon in the Nevada desert in the 1960s seeking to weaponise it. The results scared them so badly they bulldozed it, along with the research facility and encased the rubble in 15 foot of cement. It did exist briefly, but never should have.

@infonauten @aj42 jeg har i øvrigt lige opdaget, man også kan bruge det på så’n smølfe-agtig måde:- Jeg numser lige en kop kaffe.- Skal vi numse en film?- Hvilken kandidat vil du numse på?

@svuorela julen starter første weekend efter Halloween her

@oz1sej Good times I borrowed the breadbin from my cousin, but it had to go back to him at one point, so for a brief moment of time I had none, which probably contributed to my joyful look on the picture Man, I played a lot of games on it.

@Tattie I think one of the reasons I never really got into retrocomputing - despite nerding out with a C64 or an Amiga sure did feel a lot more fun than computing in the current day - is that what made it feel so great back then was that it felt like I could just make out the contours of the future, and it looked like it would be amazing. So much creativity waiting to be unlocked! We'd make kinds of art not even conceived yet! We'd be making wonderful discoveries!Now I live in that future, and it fucking sucks. The fruit of all those great discoveries have turned out to be mostly figuring out new ways to spy on people and manipulate them - and now, to declare all-out war against even the concept of human creativity. My C64 still runs (I no longer have a working Amiga), but playing around with it won't bring back that feeling of a promised future of wonders - all I see is that it turned out to become a present full of horrors instead.I'm sure part of all this - from a purely personal perspective - is just that I've hit the point where I'm supposed to be having my regularly-scheduled midlife crisis. "Did I waste my entire life?" sure does feel to fit the stereotype. I've thought about trying to retrain to do something else, but I honestly have no idea what that could even be. I'm disabled, I'm getting old, and there's not a whole lot I can do that anyone would want to pay me for that isn't related to software development. (I'm currently an embedded dev; prior to that I taught CS at a community college for ten years.)

@supercamilla.bsky.social Gralla!

@peter This is true & it's every bit as idiotic as it sounds, except even more so - for example, 13 on the old scale was meant to be given for the exceptional, above-and-beyond performance, but that criteria wasn't transferred to the new scale so now, performance can never be graded above "correct", removing the incentive to, well, go above and beyond.

@mrundkvist "ännu bättre"lawlz

@pms men det lyder da som en virkelig god brug af dnn?

@saustrup Jeg var soldat med én, der til forveksling lignede Sebastian i både udseende og væremåde. Det var hysterisk morsomt.

@Pepijn Tell him you cannot, because it's once of the central tenets of your faith - to test the gullibility of the non-believers.

@Genstart @mosgaard @anderslund Jeg bruger AntennaPod til podcasts, og der kan man sætte hastigheden ned på podcasts - det hjælper mig med mit franske. Måske det også kan hjælpe dig med danske podcasts Edit: Jeg bruger ProtonVPN - fungerer fint!

@Edent It was a different time. Cars were beige too.

@Gustodon Windows Idiot Backseat Driver️

@david it did now! 🥰

@IbenChristiane skøn måde at bruge tiden på! Jeg har heller ikke sovet siden kl 4, men har ikke fået noget som helst nyttigt ud af den tid (jo, hvilet lidt, det var godt). Og nu skal jeg til at tage mig sammen til at stå op …

@saustrup Oh, yes - I’d even buy a soundcard from them, just for the sake of nostalgia. But is it even same company as in the 90s? Or just a shell thing?

@sinituulia That's how your cat knows you love him - letting him have the pleasure of the peel

@saederup Uff - håber de finder hende hurtigt og at der ikke er sket noget.

@boegh Enig, det her var min weekend med datteren