Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Like Lemmy?
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?
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Aren't thea few science nerds there nowadays as well?
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.
Hm I may be getting wooshed, but this is still binary? 4 in ternary would be 11.
(all numbers in ternary) There are 10 types of people in this world:
1: Those who know binary
2: Those who don't
10: Those who weren't expecting a ternary joke
Hope that explains it!
Ah gotcha I thought you were going off the original post. Thanks!
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 🖕.
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I used Vim once. I still do, mostly because I don't know how to quit it.
The joke is long dead, long live vim
Asking someone that doesn't know how, to close vim is my favorite password generator.
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"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/
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escape colon que bang
That's disgusting! Stop telling us about the bangs that escape your colon.
i went boom boom 😎
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This is my favorite thing this morning. FreeBSD ftw.
The concerns on using Mastodon and the likes is probably propaganda to dissuade people from using open source and defederated social media.
"Theres also a emacs plugin"
Truly heresy against the lord Linus Torvalds, Vim is the only correct option all else is unholy.
Surely you must love VS Codium even more.
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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.
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
This is true because NetBSD runs on the actual Mastodon.
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