bpchen ❎ @bpchen@mastodon.mit.edu

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/me adds RSS to the list of things I sound like a broken record about

oh well, at least i can usually answer my friends' #CSS questions

today while copy-pasting code snippets I learned what a reverse proxy is and it blew my mind

I tried to set up a server thing and remembered how impressed I am by sysadmins. how do you learn all this stuff? all I know how to do is copy-paste code snippets and if something doesn't work, try it again with sudo

tl;tl;dr;dr I am far too wordy to always effectively express myself by microblogging

I wrote a (very, very long) #blog post on #DeleteFacebook ... https://blog.vero.site/post/on-delete-facebook

tl;dr despite its downsides (probably obvious to most of us here), Facebook provides real benefits to some people; even ignoring network effects, I don't think we have a likely platform that we can get most people to switch to yet, because most of them are designed for particular interests or kinds of interaction, but Facebook has all sorts of features for all kinds of users. (I hope to be proven wrong soon!)

TikZ is absolute friggin black magic

I'm surprised I've never stumbled upon the Universal Genre Savvy Guide before http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheUniversalGenreSavvyGuide (I think there is a lot of relevant content for the average Mastodonian)

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css grid all the things!!

something like https://righteousruminations.blogspot.com/2015/06/hating-facebook.html (via HN), though, is the stuff of nightmares... and although nothing as bad has happened to me, I have almost missed some reunion-like things because of it, so it's not at all hypothetical

(I'm also sorry I don't want to contribute to defining Mastodon as not-Facebook, it is its own awesome thing, but... I don't know what to toot about blegh)

Also oh yeah I downloaded the zip file of all my Facebook data like everybody else and... I was entirely underwhelmed by how much information Facebook had about me. It's hard to justify deleting my account if there isn't any data I'm concerned about; the best I can say is that I would be disincentivizing others from staying on, but in practice I also don't think I would manage to affect anybody else. sigh

hi fediverse, how's it going?

glad to see the cautious discussion of Facebook but it doesn't look like my personal costs & benefits to leaving Facebook (more than I already have) have changed much, unfortunately...

whoosh

::dips into dragonforce reserves::