Dan Bornstein

Virtual Machinist. Likes coffee and noise. May or may not be working on an operating system.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

I am somewhat more active there now.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

I seem to be @[email protected]. (Not particularly active there… yet.)

[Hourly Kitten @hourlykitten]

Thanks, everyone, for letting us bring kittens into your life.

You can continue the kitten flow via the probably-obvious service. See https://t.co/K6CZyLCgov for a link.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@haxor Having done both, I'll give the edge to "debugging process / thread system bugs."

[🥖kekeflipnote🥖 @Kekeflipnote]

When cats yawns they look terrifying, I love it

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@lawgal09 @hourlykitten The Hourly Kitten team are fans of the fediverse. Kittens can now be found here: https://t.co/000s8q6Uyx

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@betsyhair @hourlykitten https://t.co/000s8q6Uyx

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@sinnerforhire @hourlykitten https://t.co/000s8q6Uyx

[Hourly Kitten @hourlykitten]

This apparently marks the end of the hourlykitten bot on this site. It was a noncommercial labor of love and we hope it brought you some joy. Look for us on other likely sites, starting with ones that are less hostile to users and more hostile to Nazis.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

Hey @beesandbombs! Please consider "spinning" up a presence in the fediverse. Cheers!

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

I don't often play pundit…

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

I'm increasingly of the opinion that Twitter will suffer catastrophic failure before EOY, possibly much sooner. TLDR: I recommend Mastodon, and would look forward to seeing all my follows and followers there.

(Brief thread.)

[@hayesbrown.bsky.social @HayesBrown]

what could go wrong about a tax that must be paid before access to the polls.

[laura lemay @lemay]

This was the #2 best thing to happen on the computers yesterday (just after #JohnMastodon). Watching it play out in real time was PERFECT

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Ukraine’s main Christmas Tree in Kyiv lit up with blue and yellow. Christmas means hope. And Ukraine has one hope. This is victory.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@anng27 Again, totally understood. As for me, it seems like the computer-industry half of my social network has mostly landed there, along with a growing chunk of the remainder.

My best guess is that you will already find a lot of familiar names there.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@anng27 Agreed that Discord is okay for siloed community chat, but I wouldn't want to use it beyond that.

Yeah, I use the term "fediverse" as an umbrella but do specifically mean Mastodon as the closest analog to Twitter.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@anng27 Totally understood. My take is that the fediverse is the current best choice for "agoric" style social network, despite — no question about it — many flaws.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@anng27 I'm afraid you might not have much of a choice in the matter, soon.

[Dan Bornstein @danfuzz]

@anng27 @thetroynelson Please find your way to the fediverse!

[akivamcohen.bsky.social @AkivaMCohen]

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.