My #95Theses of #Digital

It's exactly 500 years to the day since Luther Blissett nailed his "95 Theses" to the door of Battenberg Cake Factory. Like Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk, he started a revolution. If it hadn't been for Luther, would we have had an October Revolution? Wouldn't Henry VIII have died monogamous? Would we even have the internet? I can …

[magickmark]

Re: Time

"#42: Time is the most valuable asset in a truly digital world. Use as much of everyone else's as you can."

#42: Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

There fixed that for you

[deadlockvictim]

A Bite from the Apple

#60

Those who take a bite from the Apple shall find that the Apple takes more than you reckoned, gives less than you hoped for and leaves them wanting more (for which they will get less and pay more).

[phuzz]

#33

Beware the SALESMAN for they promise much but deliver little, and they will never, ever, stop ringing you just before the end of a period with a "great deal!" even though you only bought that LTO tape from them one time because you're usual supplier was out of stock.

[nagyeger]

#10 - 15

10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those coders who, in the case of the desktop or the desktop application include a dependency upon systemd.

11. This perverse dependency upon systemd is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the greybeards slept.

12. In former times the init process was relevant not after, but before user interaction, as tests of true geekdom.

13. The geeks are freed by devuan from all penalties; they are already dead to systemd, and have a right to be released from them.

14. The imperfect knowledge of the command-line, that is to say, the imperfect globbing, of the GUI-user brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller the knowledge of globbing, the greater is the fear.

15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of EMACS, since it is very near to the horror of despair.

Ob. citation to gutenberg project translation

[JLV]

8. The canons concerning insecurity and lack of privacy are imposed only on the users of the Window; they ought not by any means, following the same canons, to be imposed on the followers of the True Nixes.

[Anonymous Coward]

#43

When planning a project, always multiply the time required by Pi