toynbee

joined 1 year ago
[–] toynbee 1 points 8 hours ago

I can't tell if you're agreeing or arguing with me.

[–] toynbee 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

That's not a bad suggestion, but may interfere with 24 hour clocks.

[–] toynbee 6 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

That is confusing. "PM" is "post meridian" or, as I understand it, after the middle. One would think it wouldn't be PM until 12:01 or at least 12:00:01.

Which is why I, as you said, use "noon" and "midnight."

[–] toynbee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is MP in this context?

[–] toynbee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never having finished Control, I thought it was going to be from Mass Effect ... Which I also never finished, but I've seen the memes.

[–] toynbee 1 points 1 day ago

My pleasure! I had some very similar experiences; glad to spread the joy.

[–] toynbee 1 points 2 days ago

Better not let it talk to Cyclops or it will fly itself into the sun.

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 days ago

Once I was reading a book in a hot tub, only to see a spider crawling towards me immediately above the water line. I instinctively swatted it away, forgetting that I was already using the swatting hand to hold a book.

The book splashed in the water as I moved my hand, but the book in question was American Assassin. In my mind, making it unreadable was an improvement rather than spoilage.

[–] toynbee 24 points 2 days ago
[–] toynbee 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

In case you're unaware, bash.org appears to be kaput, but both https://qdb.lol and https://bash-org-archive.com exist in case you want to relive the old days.

Neither appears to have their own search function, but I was able to search at least qdb.lol using the site: operator in DDG.

https://qdb.lol/quote/244321

I'm surprised that no app I've ever used has censored hunter2 as an Easter egg.

edit: Correct typo.

[–] toynbee 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I heard this story from a third party, so I can't prove it's true, but supposedly the head of IT security at a previous job met his wife when she compromised his home network to get his attention.

 

Before last night I didn't even know my sister still painted. It's great that she does.

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Nothing in my life has prepared me to answer that question, let alone to a 5-year-old.

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They had an idea and they went with it.

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Them: Knock knock!

Me: Who's there?

Them: Unicorn.

Me: Unicorn who?

Them: Unicorn. Unicorn. Stop saying unicorn.

edit: Line breaks.

 

Sorry if not.

I was on Reddit for a lot of years and enjoyed most of them, I really did. Almost all of that was through the Reddit is Fun app, it was one of the few apps I liked enough to pay for it.

I stopped opening RiF the day the API incident happened and I switched to here (using Connect, after some experimentation, because the UX was most similar to RiF). I wasn't confident we would gain enough users to make it worthwhile to switch, but I wanted to try and I didn't want to support spez. Just this morning I told my wife that we probably had several thousand users, then a few hours later I saw a post saying we had almost 1.5 million. That's amazing!

I struggled a bit with Lemmy when I started using it, but either Lemmy or I evolved - probably both - and now it's a wonderful experience to open every day. Y'all are great and I appreciate your presence.

edit: Probably should have said it in the original message, but in case it wasn't explicit: thank you all.

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