Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during the first week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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  • I think a cross-party Mastodon instance or something like it could actually be a good idea. The hard part would be deciding who’s allowed to create accounts and when (or whether) to deactivate an account after a person stops fitting whatever qualification got them an account in the first place.

    Being an MP, sure, that’s a given. What about people running to be MP? What about people setting up fake parties / independently standing in order to get a place on there? Consider Count Binface. Clearly he should have an account on such a platform, but how the heck would he qualify without letting someone less sane on under the same criteria?

    And then there’s the fact it would need to be run by incorruptible third parties.

    And the fact that fascist-leaning politicians would need to be allowed on there so they can’t cry foul, despite the fact they’ll all only ever post on X anyway.

    But then, only a handful of MPs would use it even if it was the only platform available, so it being a potentially good idea is probably all it’ll ever be.


  • “I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that." – an actual Bill Gates quote referring to the 640k quote that won’t die.

    But yes, it was probably satirically ascribed to him because of MS-DOS not having the capability to deal with any more than that amount of RAM for a lot longer than it probably should have.

    The “temporary” solution of requiring an extra driver to be able to do so (EMM386.SYS or similar) remained in place right up until DOS-based Windows was allowed to die.

    (The underlying reason was almost certainly ancient IBM PC memory-mapped IO standards, so maybe we could ascribe the original quote an engineer working there some time around 1980.)


  • Being trans does not give extra dress-code rights, and nor should it. None of the other women are allowed to dress that way, so why should she?

    Now, if she wants to challenge the dress code for more esoteric modes to be allowed, that should be taken under consideration by whoever is in charge of that, but in the meantime, she should at least try to conform. Then if the decision was to go against her, she’d have the requisite conforming clothing already.

    (Tangentially, there’s an argument that gender non-conforming people might want to define other professional dress codes that don’t strictly fit with male and female norms, but that’s doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here.)

    I understand that it’s difficult for trans folk who deal with transphobics everywhere they turn and thus every discrimination could be transphobia, but this one seems pretty easy to test.

    And I have to wonder how she’d react if she won the dress code change and other people, cis people, started dressing more like her.









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    Save your effort. What’s already there is there forever. They can just roll back your comments, or even, if they’re in the mood for it, make it appear under an entirely different username.

    The only way to win is not give them any more. And that fight is already under way. They’ve already started recommending old comments after new ones because the quality isn’t as high any more.

    Think about it: The only people who contribute to Reddit now are the clueless and the sort of people who have willingly stayed.

    I like to imagine Spez stomping around saying “Hmph! Hmph! It’s not fair! Why did they all leave?! They’re stealing my revenue by not giving me anything for free!”. I mean, he’s probably not doing that, but I do like to imagine it.



  • Israel have been a strong westernised influence in the Middle East, and so protect western interests in the region. Therefore, despite their poor behaviour towards Palestine even before this escalation, most western countries have chosen to look the other way because “it wasn’t that bad”.

    You even could argue that the (re)creation of Israel in Palestine wasn’t ever really about giving those of the Jewish faith back the homeland they lost a couple thousand years ago. It was always about those interests, but with a sweet little cover story. Who’s going to argue with that after all the Jews went through?

    Now the actions that were being ignored for convenience have reached a point that they are starting to attract the attention of average people who don’t really have any opinion other than “genocide bad” and, to be fair, as simple opinions go, it’s a pretty f–king valid one.