fuckthemachine

wow, what a jerk. this is some seriously classist BS right here..

Is there a vim plugin for this yet? :)

In that you mean it's not valid legally, or that people using it in a military / law enforcement environment just would not care?

Who was that? ^_^ I was a fluffy creator around then, discworld terminology for a visiting mud creator via the old inter-mud system

Lawks!

Wotcher!

My first mud experience was TFE back in the 90s at uni and I tanked psychology because of it. I decided to learn how to make my own (incidentally how I ended up in software engineering!) which never had a single player but 30~ developers for a period of 2-3 years hacking away on areas.. MUDs were the original community-coded-projects!

I have OFTEN considered the idea of writing a new MUD with the intention of bringing in a whole new realm of users to the genre but have never really worked out how to make it viable (I cannot see anyone funding a team to build a MUD startup)

I have some ideas though.. I think telnet is too intimidating for new players. The barrier to entry is too high. They need to work on mobile, they need to probably be some kind of browser-based experience with font styling and the lightest touch UI beyond the old '>' prompt.

If anyone's keen on dropping some coin I have 30 years of thinking on the subject and would happily leave my day job ;)

I did work experience when I was in highschool at an old-school printing press with 100yo german made printing machines and I got the opportunity to play with typesetting using real brass. It was pretty cool and massively time-consuming, I love the DIY nature of this I think it would be great for teaching school kids about traditional printing.

The notion that a platform is responsible for what I say on it is still a problem for decentralized 'instance' based networks like mastadon, the burden of removing content the culture of the day finds offensive moves to the local hacker who decided to setup an instance and host their friends.

I want to be fully responsible for what I decide to say, if I break the law, that should be entirely on me.

I want a protocol that allows me to host my own content on my website and let other people in the fediverse 'like', 'comment' and 'share' it.. So 'social media' becomes less about a service that does hosting and more about a client that does the aggregation and interacts with others I'm following

dropping the caps out of their name was smart, that would have thrown me off

I'd like to read this article but the text/background colour combo is headache inducing after a few minutes.. anyone else ?