Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦

I dunno, it looks like an actual paper book

internetphonebook.net

also why is "pong" in the ping diagram so damn funny?

that 3rd one reminds me of that old¹ joke:

Q: Daddy, what are clouds made of?
A: Mostly Linux servers.

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¹ fairly new

All of these are bad ascii art. This one is the line from a person through a VPN and then an encrypted tunnel and then “what the internet needs”

A simple silly diagram showing a user like ? And then what I believe to be the magic of the underwitch (hey, I’m learning) before *loads*

A ballon type heart with the words your data floats, with a line coming up saying but where is it, thing down to a warehouse in Ohio (hot, loud). I was trying to make a present

A penis No sorry it’s a shape that looks like a penis playing ping pong between a user and their chair

This month I will teach myself networking, and I will do it using the only medium I would have listened to in the 90s.

This is the one

this made me cackle all the way through

Holy crap, I legit thought this was a genuine Far Side that I hadn't seen before

"It just bought an indulgence, it's clearly Catholic"

Good times

My inclination would probably be to paraphrase (allegedly, possibly apocryphally) Twain: "The person who won't read has no advantage over the person who can't read."

One of my abandoned projects had some scenes from the pov of a hive mind, so yeah, a lot of "we"

Depends how thin you slice 'em

Somewhere I've got a LANDO MOVIE NOW sticker

Yeah, the whole “first person is lazy” was always weird to me because first person is incredibly challenging because you’re super limited by your narrator’s perspective and what they would be included in and what they would or wouldn’t notice as well as the prejudices they bring to the table.

A white on black typewritten note that reads, in all caps, "week survived"

😴 gnbsky

be kind.

That site is grim

Pixar CCO Pete Docter is a quisling.

Justice Friends > Avengers

Seconded, with enthusiasm

offer void in Saskatchewan

#WIPSnips March 7th: "massive"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

3 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy and Pink Guy. Pink Guy: Ai will change EVERYTHING. Just give me a Shitload of money Blue Guy: okey Panel 2: Blue Guy hands over a massive stack of cash and says “How will it change everything?” Panel 3: Pink Guy is running away as fast as he can with the money. He says “It’s a secret”

buying into AI

I'm in my 50s and the fact that «cul» is French slang for "asshole" always makes me snicker internally at "cul-de-sac"

Twitter conversation between sj and Amarion: sj: Its true, the 1/3rd pounder burger failed in the US because ppl thought quarter pounders were bigger Amarion: Yeah cause they are???? sj: 1/3>1/4 .33> .25 Amarion: what are those signs

Wanna see the greatest tweet of all time

...with booze

sounds like a reasonable stance

also if he's the "front man" why isn't he at the front?

Being dead inside¹ is a requirement to write for the outlet in question.

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¹ Includes LLMs, even though they were never alive.

“Chatbots are conscious” = block without engaging

Two scientists stand at a blackboard full of complicated-looking math. In the middle of the equations are the words "then a miracle occurs". One scientist is pointing at these words and saying "I think you should be more explicit here in step two".

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