Notices by Michael Cook (foobarsoft@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft WordStar

@foone Are you sure you don’t secretly work for a QA department?

Severity: High
Bug:

Program crashes when pressing all five mouse buttons to the pattern of More Than A Feeling from Guitar Hero while swapping keyboard layouts and using dictation with The White Album playing backwards.

@foone Is Office 95 the one with the 3D Descent clone in Excrl or was that 98?

@foone How do you choose which games to make death generators for?

@foone I didn’t know you used a Mac.

(This is either correct or sadly similar)

@nixCraft We’ll I guess now I know the sound of machines screaming in pain.

@nixCraft The alien kernel is Hurd, we’re still trying to understand it.

@foone I had no idea that was even a thing. I’ve only ever seen manual opening for power outages (saw your other comment on this).

@nixCraft Reverse hiring? Is that a term?

Don’t let this become a trend.

“Hey for $5000/months we’ll give you a position at Awesome Startup you can put on your résumé to get a real job!”

@Gargron It’s unfortunate, but as an American I say open it. Let others purchase things, and have a banner for Americans to know there will be delays if they order.

We understand. All the major shippers here (UPS, FedEx, USPS) are warning people of the same thing. It’s not your fault.

@foone What do you do with all of them? Destroy them? Use them for your projects? Just put them in a drawer as souvenirs?

@nixCraft Personal Racoon, for when you need help collecting garbage from garbage cans walking down the street.

@nixCraft GNUbies?

@nixCraft they’re 10x the size of a regular engineer, enabling them I assert dominance in code reviews when truly necessary.

Think Andre the Giant, but way bigger.

@nixCraft Honestly I was pretty amazed when I found out this was allowed/tolerated last year. I assumed they would have done this long long ago.

@nixCraft 4MB. Later upgraded to 8 so I could play SimCity 2000.

@nixCraft I hate it.

I celebrate July 22nd. That’s good enough for me.