Digital_Edge @Digital_Edge@fosstodon.org

I'm in the job hunt and it's good but I didn't impress during a coding part and that company passed on me. Too bad, they were very interesting to me. Oh well keep trying.

@Aldi80s citypop fan?

I'm upset because HBOMax wouldn't show the house of the dragon episode. Garbage!

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-climate-activists-target-suvs-deflate-tires/

>On their website, they claim to also target electric SUV's because they say all SUVs are dangerous

https://tyreextinguishers.com/how-to-deflate-an-suv-tyre

>Hybrids and electric cars are fair game. We cannot electrify our way out of the climate crisis

Ha, I thought maybe the news was mistaken since they often do such low effort to cover the news, but this anti-SUV group really does say that they will deflate the tires of electric cars too.

programming languages that I would love to learn if I had more time, unordered:

- ocaml
- scheme: chicken or racket
- go
- Rust

Finished listening to a Retronauts podcast, ranking the 2D mario games. Their result are:

01 super mario bros 3
02 super mario bros
03 super mario world
04 super mario bros 2
05 new super mario U
06 super mario land
07 super mario land 2
08 donkey kong
09 super mario bros wii
10 super mario bros 2
11 lost levels
12 new super mario bros
13 mario bros
14 mario clash
15 mario run

Personally, I was a Sega guy so I've only played a few, will use this to guide my next gaming

#retrogaming

Gonna be playing Chrono Trigger for the first time today. The Something Awful forums is having a thread about it to play along with. #retrogaming

I wasn't answering my phone for a long time because of all the spam calls. But I'm tired of all the voice mails that I have to check later. The voicemail app is slow and has bad ux. So now I just pickup the call and immediately hang up. A human will call back. So far only one time has it been a non spam call that called back. I hate that my phone calls are all spam. I heard stir/shaken will help, please get here soon if so!

I don't know why, but I was thinking about the ecosystem of free hosting stuff that was on the web back when I was first getting into coding. Subdomain hosting like cjb.net and c4.to were popular. Seems both are gone now. There was also free image hosting, and a site that had scripted The Gimp to generate text into an image in a fancy way. #webhistory

So many recruiter emails. I hate the two follow-up emails of "just checking in" and "don't want it to get lost in spam." It is spam!

Now I just always reply to the first email with "no thanks" just to keep the follow-on emails from coming. I wish I had a quick one-button to block these fools in my email.

I just completed "Dive!" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2021 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/2

Working in #scala which I already know but don't get enough opportunities to use :-)

Mastodon, Matrix chat, NextCloud, tildeverse, I feel like there is a lot of overlap in attitudes in these communities. I'm hoping for good things to arise from them and be amplified by them. #optimistic

We had one phone line growing up. When we got our 28k modem we got a 2nd phone line. Later with broadband that second line became my sister's dedicated phone line. There used to be so much contention for communication when I was young. Imagine fighting over one phone line. Now so many avenues for voice, text, video communication.

Does it matter what #matrix home server I join? Does everyone just join the official one? Mastodon has a lot of server options but I'm not seeing as many for matrix. If Fosstodon has one I'm not seeing it.