Jonathan Dowland @jmtd@kernel.social

“What happens when people use the equations of scientific models without a proper understanding of their stories is nicely illustrated by the joke about the physics student who combines Einstein’s E = m ⋅ c² with Pythagoras’ a² + b² = c² to deduce E = m ⋅ (a² + b²).”

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@jens best thing about this picture is, no Alt Right

SimCity Classic (1992)

My dad threatened to have me committed so I am now homeless and would like to beg for a place to stay for a day or two. I'm being serious. I'm in northern germany.

4g modem recommendations and provider ; I need occasional reasonably heavy usage, maybe 2-3 days a month when virgin screws up; as they're doing today.
It's usable - except when it stops; so I'm going to have to figure out what to do with my router if I add 4G

Amused that the #Slack outage today is preventing so much work from being done, when decentralized #OpenSource platforms like @matrix still exist and are running just fine. Why do people keep using these walled gardens?

I bought this printer specifically because it supported Google Cloud Print and therefore I didn't need to futz with drivers or cross-network access. Thanks for turning that off, Google -- what a great way to remind us that we don't really own anything that has your logo on it.

UX is the "the customer is always right" of HCI

Going to *try* to maintain a list of dead Fediverse instances here: https://fediverse.rip/

There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.