What I was trying to communicate was that Wikipedia has plenty of photographs that illustrate various concepts. This is a photo that displays typical turtle behaviour, which I didn’t think I implied that I was unaware of and I don’t know how you came to that conclusion. Anyway, it’s the sort of photo you wouldn’t need to include in an article but it clearly is suitable for the purpose.

I did post this picture and all of the rambling while drunk and I’m having a bit of a mild anxiety breakdown right now and I just don’t know what I was saying. I’m terribly ashamed of posting this if this caused anyone any confusion.

Yeah it kinda makes sense, turtles are, after all, the tanks of the nature!

However, in this photo, the roles are kind of reversed, aren’t they? These are just Nature’s Tanks, which are unduly harassed by some random thing that literally flew in from the sky!

Events that happen on nature rarely have immediate and direct tangible interpretations on political policy, is what I’m getting at.

I guess the web search messed up then. You should search for biology stuff! Not computer science stuff! Turtles are very computer science related creatures, but there’s more to them!

Turtle Mode is actually a complicated thing! It’s often implemented in two ways: Cryptodira are the turtles that just pull their heads in, while Pleurodira kind of tuck their head inside sideways.

But it gets even more complicated with certain ancient turtle species. For example, we have the snapping turtles. Technically cryptodira, but they don’t really enough shell to cover themselves. Not that they need to because they’ll fucking go snappity snap on everything on range. Or we have things like the megacephalum which again is a cryptodira turtle but probably can’t retract the head because did we mention it’s called the Megacephalum.

EDIT: Forgot: snapping turtle copypasta

Ooh, don’t make me link to That One CGP Grey/Kurtzgesagt Thing. Well I might as well do it. Existential Crisis One! Existential Crisis Two!

True, the plant as a whole doesn’t die.

But this particular slice of grass on the microscope slide?

Dead.

Of course this gets a lot more grim when you realise the grass had to be sliced to put under the microscope.

So they sliced a smiling organism and captured the expression at the moment of death.

I know I’m supposed to be strong, but I’m shedding tears. 😢

I don’t have that many tabs open. I keep them neat and tidy!

Now, the bookmarks… 😩

As a young nerd, I was happy that the national broadcaster decided to show history documentaries every week.

I was kind of disappointed that it devolved into a World War 2 Hour. But I guess it was inevitable.

(At least we don’t have the History Channel, otherwise known as the H—)

I must apologize to Dahir Insaat for ever mocking their 18 wheeler drone airbase attack video

Didn’t Dahir Insaat try to pitch their stuff to Putin in a open letter video, and Putin notably didn’t respond, but was probably like “no, that’s too wacky”?

Look who’s doing wacky shit now! Putin is going to wish he had bought a Hell Bed

Games, mostly.

Also, I wrote the 2024 NaNoWriMo novel with it (and did the same in 2017). Can easily fit a daily sprint’s worth of text in memory at once, heh.

I use a few modern add-ons: an SD2IEC drive (lets you use floppy images straight off an SD card) and EasyFlash3 (lets you use cartridge images, including the ability to pack random programs into utility carts).

Everyday tools? Scissors and knives I’ve had at least since 2000. (Fiskars stuff is indestructible)

Computer stuff? My Commodore 64. (Don’t use it daily but pretty regularly, sits in a box in my living room for easy access)

I use plenty of Linux on server side, just that I use Windows as my daily desktop OS for some godforsaken reason.

I actually got back to watching Star Trek recently!

Can someone still developing tell me what I should use for the backend today?

I recommend checking out Python (Django) and Ruby (Ruby on Rails) if you want nice and easy modern Web frameworks that also aren’t that weird if you have PHP experience.

Also I can never understand GIT as a single developer. The fuck is that? I’ve tried everything to understand.

Versioning your code with Git makes it much easier to experiment with new ideas. Cocked up a file? Pull it from the previous version. Create new branches for experiments, merge them in if they work, toss them if they don’t, or keep them around just in case, without them ever getting in your way in the “real” version.

And if you keep the code in a server (GitHub etc), that gives you a backup location and makes it easier to work on code on multiple systems.

For the life of me I can’t remember where this happened, but this was in one of the heavily moderated “safe space” subreddits.

I said something sarcastic, which some powermod interpreted as being against the rules. I didn’t think it was, even if it had been taken at face value.

Problem was, I was in middle of dealing with what I now think was a mental health episode of some description so I ended up arguing with the mod in PMs. Wasn’t fruitful, dude was also rude as hell because I asked them to chill.

When things looked up a few days later I was like “yeah, screw them”. Left that community. Left Reddit entirely for a month.

I now realise this is one of those moments that turned me away from socialising in general. There are dipshits out there who just don’t care.

(Not saying heavily moderated safe space communities are bad! Just maybe not have uncaring career dipshits moderating them. Maybe have clear rules and enforce them consistently.)

There definitely have been a case where the police, observing things with thermal cameras from a helicopter (for it is in the US where this tale happened), observed some house with a highly suspicious heat signature. …Some dude’s crypto mining operation.

Well, that was definitely indirectly drug related.

Reminds me of how in some old Unix system, /bin/true was a shell script.

…well, if it needs to just be a program that returns 0, that’s a reasonable thing to do. An empty shell script returns 0.

Of course, since this was an old proprietary Unix system, the shell script had a giant header comment that said this is proprietary information and if you disclose this the lawyers will come at ya like a ton of bricks. …never mind that this was a program that literally does nothing.

The AI industry doesn’t want to abolish or reform copyright law, they just want an exception so that they can keep appropriating shit. On the contrary, they’re pretty mad that AI stuff isn’t covered by more copyright.

AI bros are not on the side of open culture.

Pinterest is mostly useful for saving images from the web, so you can keep all images from related topics together and have a handy backup too.

I mostly use it for saving all the cute turtle photos I found.

Unemployed people use LinkedIn mostly for the job board. The employed people use LinkedIn for the social media features, and oh boy

I’ve seen Breaking Bad. This is just what the memes look like in Mexico.