Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/1388 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── @user-969 @user-970 When you choose, you choose a 33% chance when they choose which door to remove, they are removing 50% of the possible wrong answers. which means when you get the chance to choose again, your 33% chance (which is locked in stone) is now boosted to a 50% chance, but only if you switch. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1389 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── my mom used to always say "the computer will always do exactly what you tell it to" and I've since learned that "the computer's obedience is why you make backups" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1390 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to terminate a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened, because it deleted the script that was doing the deleting. good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a project for nothing. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1392 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── Picture this: IRC with images end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect communication application. everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned to them locally ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1393 ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: guns-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ martial arts are an art in the same way that plinking is target practice. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1394 ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── the sun doesn't seem as bright if you spend your days underneath it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1395 ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: evidenceless-fear-mongering-I-guess │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-973 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: me being paranoid │ └───────────────────────┘ whenever something like this happens I think about how we rely on digital infrastructure to understand the status of the world. And then I think about who controls that infrastructure. kinda makes me wonder if it's blocked for a certain group of people who they temporarily don't want to be able to tell their distant friends and family about anything going on around them but like, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a person. It's probably just a networking outage. That kind of thing happens all the time because some technician accidentally unplugged a server while working on a different nearby server and WHOOPS now Cloudflare is down. Wild. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |