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"An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects."

2013: "Steve Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, announced this morning that he will retire within the next twelve months. In response, the company’s stock surged. That is not what you want to happen when you leave a large publicly traded company."
via https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130823160501-7070331-why-steve-ballmer-failed

Because of course it was.
via https://wordtothewise.com/2012/06/world-ipv6-launch-day/

"Anyone else deal with this constantly?"

Stand-alone image sharing server that supports drag and paste, similar to imgurl but self-hosted and minimalist.

In the main danctnix kernel now.
`modprobe bes2600` to enable temporarily. `echo bes2600 | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/bes2600.conf` to enable on boot. Bluetooth: ``` sudo pacman -S bluez-deprecated-tools sudo -i echo ifname:bt cmd:BT_ON > /dev/bes2600 rfkill unblock bluetooth hciattach -s 1500000 /dev/ttyS1 any 1500000 flow nosleep hciconfig hci0 up exit sudo systemctl enable bluetooth ```

Collection of images with alt text by Dan Hon, suitable for attaching to a post to stave off unhelpful replies (ex: I'm just complaining, not asking for help.)
Also here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/albums/72177720314761105/

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU Terry Pratchett."

"I don’t think social media simply replaced blog comments in terms of discussion of blog posts. I think in turning everyone into microbloggers themselves, people mostly stopped talking about blog posts at all unless they were by A-listers, most of whom also amassed large social media followings."

"Originally intended to showcase a privacy-centred implementation of emerging social web technologies - with the aim to present a solution not initially motivated by legal requirements, but as an example of privacy-aware interaction design - my “social backfeed” design process unveiled intricate challenges for Indieweb sites, both for privacy in general and legal compliance in particular."