this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix. This community is for all things related to computers, content, surrealism and wizardry.

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This is also where pmjv posts his work

https://analognowhere.com

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Now that you're a surrealist, become a Techno-Mage:

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Considered harmful.
It's the IRC channel for https://cat-v.org/ There are some very clever people there with very specific ideas and opinions about computing.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I open the site and see:

‘The Internet is not for sissies.’ -- Paul Vixie

It's always important to make a good first impression or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think it's achieving the intended goal of gatekeeping the site to 50+ year-old graybeards with narcissistic tendencies and a persecution complex which have decanted over the decades into a nasty brew of unfiltered bitterness.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I looked at some of the other pages and the whole site has this charm.

Best example was "dangerous" software that no one even needs an alternative for and among them were GNOME and KDE...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well it's always nice to get an unbiased opinion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I guess being queer is an incompatible bias with whatever these curmudgeons have going on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Clearly they can't adjust the CSS to make it fit for phones

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

they can, they don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Well, it cites Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell in the affirmative, so clearly, it is a place for 🤡