I’ve declared today to be Hawaiian shirt day. So you can, umm, wear a Hawaiian shirt if, umm, you want to.
How I got into computing.
When I was 14 I saw the ASCII Star Wars animation via telnet. I thought it was the coolest thing.
I tried writing some C++ code on a Windows machine when I was 17, and it wasn't a good experience -- I had no idea what I was doing. Then I took two coding classes my senior year at hs/secondary, and I loved it.
I absolutely love using & exploring *nix. I wish I had an old computer to tinker around with as a kid. I definitely had the curiosity, but not the resource(s).
@iAmNoah Sorta.
SSB gets talked about 'round these parts from time to time.
Go read about it: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
It uses many of the same ideas as Dat, coupled with some very different ideas.
Here, read this: http://ajroach42.com/steps-towards-a-web-without-the-internet/
I edited some Perl code today.
I am not the hero you want, but the hero you need.
@ajroach42 https://medium.com/swlh/im-sick-of-facebook-8e7c7fa03b0a
BBS that is P2P with encryption?
whats up i made some emotes




Do you think we should invite the good folks over at #Neocities to join us here on Mastodon?
Quite a few people really enjoy Neocities (myself included) so it might be nice if they knew they had a little fanbase here.
Doing a pentest or want to grab some domain/IP address information?
Why not try `eyes`.
https://github.com/naltun/eyes
dunsmore apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912
I was asked to give a talk at work for our monthly meeting. The talk is on _getting started_ in crypto investing. I wrote a supplemental guide.
Hey, you may want to read it.
https://github.com/naltun/howto_crypto_primer
Tomorrow, I think I'm going to read about John Dillinger, Al Capone, and George Nelson instead of worrying about my work situation going forward.
I am baaaaack. *trumpets sounding*
Jk, I'm quite low key. 'Sup
tfw you accidentally deploy a totally untested optimization & have to test it in prod & it not only still works, but is now fast
The cryptocurrency market has gained $4 billion in the last few hours. Maybe I should read the news?
I am now using Manjaro Linux. Pacman is pretty cool. I am using Manjaro/Cinnamon.
I am now a Linux Admin for Cirrus Labs. They will be training me for 6 months, and getting me certified to work with Red Hat Cloudforms and other Red Hat-related technologies.
Sounds like a good gig.