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How many of you are designing technology where success means that __you__ do NOT scale exponentially? (But that a healthy ecosystem evolves where no one entity has monopolistic control?)

That’s #SmallTech… https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

Case in point: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/104874266978827902

#52wikidataweeks 38: Made an item for what was once the largest Swedish Facebook group (it's still number 2). Lot's of sidetracks => 39 edits in total. I give you a Q21685563: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99488528

@slisne @kensanata @Sandra Note the qualification though, the initial quote talks about *good* COBOL. And of course *good* ANYTHING will be readable to someone with a "decent grasp" of programming. Well, maybe not APL or FALSE... 😄

canse-sensitive captcha is exactly the reason why I'll be on the robot's side during the first human v robots civil war.

Spotted these Common Bluetail (Ischnura senegalensis) dragonflies, male and female, at Sungei Tengah, Singapore, on 19 Sept. 2020.

Female damselflies are sometimes hard for me to identify as they can look different from the males, and even come in several colour forms.

On iNaturalist:- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60046803- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60046931

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Insects #Damselflies #Odonata

Have you ever read an entire book series because in one of the books it described one of the characters in a way that was kinda hot and for the remainder of the series you hoped that it would continue taking about them like that again but it never happened and now you've read the entire series

@proxy brb writing a C linker that dynamically fetches C shared libraries by DNS lookup their name as a URL and downloading it directly. I am not taking criticism at this time

does sonic ever hog any hedges

This is the sexiest thing I've seen all night! Maybe no content but hey, it's live!

@toast I was thinking more like matching people based on how much of the state they are down to burn down while still being down to cuddle...

@slisne “ It’s a common fiction that computing technologies tend to become obsolete in a matter of years or even months, because this sells more units of consumer electronics. But this has never been true when it comes to large-scale computing infrastructure.” nice one!

RT @GP_O11Friday nights pic of #Mars from my backyard in #Johannesburg captured with a #ZWOASI224MC, 3 x barlow and 8" dob.Sharpcap - PIPP - Autostakkert - Registax - Light room #Astrophotography

@OCRbot

@BellsGod: Gabriel, have you finished setting upfuture events for the 2020s?

Gabriel: Yes, God, I hav- wait, did you say2020s plural? As in the decade?

God: Of course, what else?Gabriel: I thought you meant 2020 the year.

God: You put a decade worth of history inone year?

Gabriel: ...yes.

God: Well, shit.

#ACAB #books #defundthepolice

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I'm like if you hybridized a reply guy and a milf