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CatQuest
apparently there's an haiku meme going on
2017-02-07 03837, 2017
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CatQuest
of which I did not know
2017-02-07 03837, 2017
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CatQuest
I am always late with everything
2017-02-07 03851, 2017
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samj1912 has quit
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Freso
LJ was my first "Primary FLOSS Project".
2017-02-07 03807, 2017
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CatQuest
shit, I have like eleventy alt characters lj's and shit too
2017-02-07 03804, 2017
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CatQuest
lolfloss really?
2017-02-07 03812, 2017
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CatQuest
i thikn oyu've been member longer thna me
2017-02-07 03853, 2017
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Freso
" Created on 30 June 2001 (#215016) Last updated on 9 December 2006 "
2017-02-07 03806, 2017
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Leo_Verto
for those of us too young to be in the loop, what was LJ all about?
2017-02-07 03823, 2017
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Freso
Leo_Verto: Private pre-blogging.
2017-02-07 03828, 2017
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Leo_Verto
ah
2017-02-07 03839, 2017
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Freso
s/Private/Social/
2017-02-07 03843, 2017
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xarph
analogous to tumblr today
2017-02-07 03858, 2017
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CatQuest
that's what I said!
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xarph
oh
2017-02-07 03857, 2017
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xarph
let's talk about uucp and usenet and really bother the young'uns
2017-02-07 03817, 2017
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CatQuest
♫♪♬ darling we're the young ones ♫♪♬
2017-02-07 03851, 2017
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xarph opens bug for musicbrainz not working on ncsa mosaic
2017-02-07 03802, 2017
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CatQuest
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Leo_Verto
there might be a ticket for BookBrainz Lynx compability…
2017-02-07 03824, 2017
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Leo_Verto
at least an item on my trello board
2017-02-07 03812, 2017
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JonnyJD has quit
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xarph
lynx still has best parsing for screen readers save everything requiring javascript to render these days
2017-02-07 03832, 2017
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LordSputnik used floppy disks
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LordSputnik
CatQuest: they're colloquially called floppy disks across the English-speaking world despite not being floppy
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CatQuest
LordSputnik: I know, and it's technically incorrect andi hate it XD
2017-02-07 03816, 2017
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LordSputnik
Like a hard disk is called a hard disk despite being a series of disks inside a metal box
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Leo_Verto
it's kinda hard tho
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LordSputnik
It's not a disk :P
2017-02-07 03853, 2017
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Leo_Verto
well, technically there are disks inside
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Leo_Verto
and it used to be just one
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LordSputnik
Yes but that's like saying a car is a wheel
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Leo_Verto
it's just that manufacturers have had the great idea of putting multiple ones inside
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LordSputnik
In fact nearly everything in a computer is incorrectly named
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Leo_Verto
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CatQuest
yea, pretty sure hard disc used ot be like,, one dis at one point
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CatQuest
Leo_Verto: that's anaawesoem looking computer hardrive :D
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Leo_Verto
but yeah, I guess that just happens when the field evolves extremely quickly but people like the old terms :P
2017-02-07 03858, 2017
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LordSputnik
A monitor doesn't monitor anything, a mouse doesn't squeak, a motherboard doesn't have any children
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Leo_Verto
Now you're just taking everything literally :P
2017-02-07 03853, 2017
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Leo_Verto
A southbridge isn't a real bridge either
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Freso
LordSputnik: You mean a universal serial bus, doesn't actually have wheels that go round, round, round?
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LordSputnik
That's exactly what CatQuest was doing with a floppy disk :P
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LordSputnik
Freso: exactly, and neither is it universal!
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Freso mind → 💥
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Leo_Verto
but all standards are universal!
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Leo_Verto
there's just a few different ones
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Leo_Verto
927
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CatQuest
obvious link to the obious webcomic goes here
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Freso
Leo_Verto already did.
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Freso
-ish.
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Leo_Verto
:P
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Leo_Verto
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CatQuest
is that the number. that's the number. i can recoginze it
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CatQuest
ffs
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LordSputnik
I've memorized that one
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Leo_Verto
obviously there is always a relevant xkcd
2017-02-07 03852, 2017
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CatQuest
ja jøss
2017-02-07 03802, 2017
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Freso posted it to another channel earlier this night :)
2017-02-07 03802, 2017
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Leo_Verto
(and I think there's even an xkcd for there always being an xkcd)
2017-02-07 03813, 2017
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CatQuest
the bot should like.. linkt ot those automatically if given a suspect of things
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CatQuest
like we should program it with "xkcd-standards" and tne it will give that lniks
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kepstin
if you take apart a floppy disk (even the hard case ones), the actual disk inside is floppy
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Leo_Verto
I guess we could enable the memory module
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CatQuest
yea yea yea
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kepstin
as opposed to hard disk drives, where the disk inside is made of hard metal or glass
