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cm0002 @lemmy.world

5d ago

Mastodon Myths

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100 myths. Perfect.
- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who get that joke and those who don't.
  
  And those who weren't expecting a ternary joke.
- Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.
- Is that 4 in binary, then? I'm not in the know
  
  Yes. We normally count in 'base 10', which means each digit can go from 0 to 9 as we count up, then the digit to its left increases by one. The rightmost position is the units, the next the tens (because we use base 10), the next hundreds (or 10 times 10), and so on, with each position worth 10 times the one to its right. So the number 12 means you have 2 units plus 1 ten. 123 means 3 units, 2 tens, and 1 hundred.
  Binary is 'base 2', so as we count up each digit can only go from 0 to 1 before incrementing the position to its left, and each position is worth 2 times the one to its right. So 1 still means one, but 10 is 0 units plus 1 two, and 100 is 0 units, 0 tens and 1 four, totalling 4.
  
  Yep, and it's easily memorable because if you learn to count in binary on your fingers 4 is 🖕.

I used Vim once. I still do, mostly because I don't know how to quit it.
- Asking someone that doesn't know how, to close vim is my favorite password generator.
  
  It’s my band name but all the members quit when I told them.
- "What's this machine do?"
  "It is a dedicated word processor."
  
  I know you are not joking because it was only a week ago really good tech journalism site The Register did a walk through on making a dedicated Word 5.0 bootable USB
  https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/
  
  "Ah sweet that's some sick retro tech!"
  "Haha yea...retro..."
  
  Now I understand what they use all those ThinkPads for
- You can always close vim but you can never quit >:3
  
  "We are programmed to receive."
- My brain is too smooth for modal environments. I require one mode or fewer.
- The joke is long dead, long live vim
- escape colon que bang
  
  That's disgusting! Stop telling us about the bangs that escape your colon.

Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.
- I mean, yeah, there’s loads of tech nerds, but it’s the internet so there’s always going to be.
  But honestly, the vast majority of the people I follow are just regular folks who like to chat about regular stuff. Like how they use Arch, btw.
  
  Why can't we contain all those tech nerds inside a dock or something?
  
  As long as tech nerds can learn to be decent human beings, platforms can be awesome with them on it.
- Like Lemmy?
- Aren't thea few science nerds there nowadays as well?

"Theres also a emacs plugin"
Truly heresy against the lord Linus Torvalds, Vim is the only correct option all else is unholy.
- Linus uses emacs. Not GNU emacs, but still emacs.
  
  Whaddaya mean, not gnu emacs? xemacs and lucid emacs are long gone, are they not??
  
  However claims him, loses.
  https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI?t=2416
- NeoVim says hi.
  
  Well obviously neovim is also a correct option, does that really even need to be said?
- Surely you must love VS Codium even more.
- eww vim vi better
  
  Bro. We use ed around here.
  
  Grrrr >:c
- nano/Kate >>>
  
  Nano is for people posing at using Linux
  You have to commit to a side in the war
  
  Absolutely bloated (kate) and nano isnt vim therefore it sucks

This is my favorite thing this morning. FreeBSD ftw.

I have to be honest I thought OP was being 100% serious until the last line.
- That last line is why I shared it with others who have no idea what half the things it's referencing are.

This is true because NetBSD runs on the actual Mastodon.

Hey! I know some of those words!
- they lost me at Linux
  
  I stopped reading at 100
  
  booo

The concerns on using Mastodon and the likes is probably propaganda to dissuade people from using open source and defederated social media.

What's Linux?
- It's a type of sausage that's famous in the Netherlands
- It's the online handle of some Linus fellow, some would argue he's internet famous for whatever reason

My lack of knowledge about whatever an emacs plugin is proves #4 wrong.
- This is most likely a joke akin to xkcd 2501
  
  Linux community in a nutshell and also way too many developers

Well I do use Linux on various devices and on my Raspberry Pi, it's just that my laptop is Windows. No, don't throw rocks at me, I use WSL too.
Also, I've somehow yet to post on Mastodon from Emacs. The existence of such Emacs addon didn't surprise me, because I've posted to identica and twitter from Emacs. You know, back in the day.
- my laptop is Windows. No, don't throw rocks at me, I use WSL too.
  Rock throwing intensifies 😾
- I don't even need to throw rocks, Microsoft will drive you out trying to force you into letting copilot think for you.

What client is this
- web?
- zshtcpsys

Rare goat tier toot

Is the train okay?

I know its a joke but grrrrr

...jokes that everyone could understand.
I'm sorry, but most people have never heard of BSD, VIM, or emacs.
- Thatsthejoke.jpg
  
  Yourtotallyrightaboutthat.rtf
- What who doesn't use emacs? I'll could send you my dotfiles...I just need to fix them.
- I don't get it. What are you saying? Really dumb it down for me.

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