DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

@extinct this is so fantastic! ​

@thraeryn ❤️

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The SteeDees

The Steelies Dan

Lacrosse faders

@ben @trashyfins

@iliana but we are hackers, we repurpose stuff all the time. I say go for it.

@iliana there should be an anonymous talk box to critique the operator in real-time over a speaker in the cab

@catoutofbed move fast enough and no one will notice the lack of pants

@witchfynder_finder @loki we are all one big ep of teen girl squad tbh

@witchfynder_finder @loki oops there goes sargoth getting punted around the verse again

@enkiv2

I once made a bet with a coworker when I worked at Pac Bell. We had spent
a day installing an editor on 250 machines in our wing (7000 cubicals in
this office.) The employees were trained to use this editor to do certain
things in a class. It was terrible overkill. The product came in a
big box, needed 25 diskettes to do an install or upgrade, and was
as slow as you would expect for something so large.

I bet my coworker that I could write a knock off editor with all the
same keystrokes and functions that the users were trained to use
so that they could use my editor as an alternative to the big one.
I would leave out most of the advanced features that these users
were not trained to use and were not using and I would add a bunch
of useful features that the big product did not not have but which
I would find useful.

Instead of 40 megabytes the editor I would write would be small and
fast. Furthermore Pac Bell could give it to thousands of employees
rather than spending $300 per copy for thousands of copies of the
other editor (not that they wanted to save money on such things).

The bet was not whether I could write such an editor, the bet was
whether I could deliver it the next day. That is the editor that
I have been using most of the time for the last seven years. I
too had been trained to use this other editor so it was easy
for me to use and it had extra features I could use and yes I did it
that night and delivered it the next day.