Posts by CmdrTaco@federated.press
(DIR) Post #AQnjXdev9fytt616B6 by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2022-12-18T21:13:59Z
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Greetings federated.press. My name is Rob but if you are a very old you might have heard of me by the name CmdrTaco. I invented an ancient ancestor of this and other social media platforms called Slashdot. If you wanna talk about that or more general nerd related shenanigans, I’m here.#introduction
(DIR) Post #AQnkoB7IcykwF5k0tk by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2022-12-20T15:02:07Z
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@alrs like Woodstock!
(DIR) Post #AYrpI49oOeuKrCkRBw by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-08-18T21:07:24Z
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I figure it’s probably my fault Elno is removing Blocks from Xitter since I’ve been blocking any “promoted Xeet” for which I am not the target audience… I block in good faith: the advertisers shouldn’t be wasting their cash on me if I know their service is not for me. But I also have strong feelings about news feeds mixing ads & content. I fought against this with all my might for years… I think it’s at least gross if not unethical.
(DIR) Post #AaZiIo80zkZHT1BaEq by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-10-08T21:57:04Z
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I have a backup tarball of slashdot from mid ‘98 that I have never dared to look through. Someday i will be brave enough to confront my cringe… I said I’d do it on a live stream if I got 1,000 patreons, but I still have 1,000 to go :)
(DIR) Post #AaZiIpqib1v8nx6nYW by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-10-08T22:20:16Z
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@wood @textfiles I don even know what’s in there, the only thing k know for sure is my code was/is total garbage.
(DIR) Post #AaZjqVWGmwFpYLAEFc by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-10-08T23:23:10Z
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a backup disc that contained a 375k tarball of the Slashdot home directory made in Aug ‘98, site was maybe 8 months old, this is roughly when user accounts were added. I backed up the backup years ago but I still don’t really know what is in it. It untarred it years ago to confirm integrity, but I kinda don’t want to look a this. Someday I’ll have a good reason to subject myself to torture. Maybe a geeks in space Geekumentary!
(DIR) Post #AbIrSWFNBPq9ZDxLO4 by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-10-29T21:34:47Z
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Given the insane percentage of online ads dedicated to gambling, I can’t imagine what it’s like for compulsive gamblers to use the internet even a little.
(DIR) Post #AcmwVaSnYZoOtLLIKO by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2023-12-14T00:03:13Z
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Robot roll call!
(DIR) Post #AdRbal7gcRZoR3uGye by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2024-01-02T18:38:00Z
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As a High School student in the early 90s I coded a shitty shareware DOS piano program that saved ANSI Music so I could play a theme song when you dialed into my BBS. A dozen or so people from around the country mailed me a check. Words can't describe how wonderful it felt knowing a stranger ran my code! The money bought a fast food dinner at most, and I lost the source code and .EXE long ago... but the experience shaped me. I think that was my coding origin story. What's Yours?
(DIR) Post #AlZYBmTVMNFr3Kb9cm by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2024-09-01T21:47:21Z
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@foone in 1998 while we were developing Slashdot we also built an mp3 custom streaming radio station for the house complete with a shockingly advanced for the era UI, frankly nothing better existed for years. I wrote a gtk-Perl front end at one point that had a statistics page that reported ‘MTBT’ or ‘mean time between Townshend’, which kept track of exactly what it sounds like, but for all of Pete’s solo work and the Who.
(DIR) Post #AtCNaVKLHCynvzyTMe by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2025-04-17T23:01:29Z
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I took this photo apparently today in April 2012. It was a wonderful afternoon outside the udvar hazy Smithsonian with a rag tag group of think geekers who let me hang out with them for the spectacle despite the fact that I no longer worked for the same corporation as them.
(DIR) Post #AtDQ2F47iyP0fthbSi by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2025-04-18T12:28:33Z
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@meso collision.
(DIR) Post #AtDRWQn4nN75gHghTE by CmdrTaco@federated.press
2025-04-18T12:47:44Z
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@meso mid-air