Aleksejs Popovs @aleksejs@mastodon.mit.edu
math & comp sci major at MIT, crypto nerd
@mastodon all done! have a good night, everyone
@mastodon In about 10 minutes, the server will be going down briefly for an update to v.2.4.2.
@mastodon terribly sorry about all the downtime this week! We ran out of space on our server, but now we have more than double the original amount, so that should keep us safe for a while.
@mastodon looks like we survived this one, whee!
@mastodon upgrade to v2.4.0 coming in a moment—expect a little bit of downtime!
Not sure how I feel about Mastodon being sponsored by Kibousoft, the company that set up a mastodon instance with ads and trackers. More funding is nice, but I don't really want to give them publicity or to act like the Mastodon devs condone their unethical appropriation of the software.
millenials are killing maid outfits, just fucking killing it, killing it in those maid outfits
Actually, Dijkstra is the name of the scientist, what you're thinking of is "Dijkstra's Algorithm"
I triggered a race condition in communication between IRS and SSA, and now the IRS thinks I'm two people.
I upgraded Arch and now my WiFi is broken. Feels like 2008 all over again.
Programming is like a murder mystery where you're the victim, and also the detective, and also the murderer as it turns out.
in 1997 Crayola made the leap into a cyberpunk future with the release of these internet themed crayons. Web Surfin' Blue is my colour.
RT: https://twitter.com/DavidM2000AD/status/886515653368315904
@lujan before east campus: "i like minimalism, clean lines, negative space, and solid, neutral colors"
now: "fuck minimalism, my design aesthetic is reuse@mit.edu and also literal trash"
i wish people worked harder to break the cultural reputation of MIT as a pure-STEM institution. it scares away really awesome prospective students who are interested in nonquantitative fields, and alienates the few humanities students we do have.
So apparently Twitter's Big Data Machine Learning™® ad targeting algorithms think that my age is “between 13 and 54”, and that I have a discretionary spending of $75k-$100k per year...
Why This Man Is Risking Jail by Refusing to Surrender Passwords at a London Airport https://gizmodo.com/why-this-man-is-risking-jail-by-refusing-to-surrender-p-1795272517
TIL: in New England they play a hardcore version of bowling where the balls have no finger holes and weigh as much as the pins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling
