Mastodon Myths

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.

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 🖕.

I used Vim once. I still do, mostly because I don’t know how to quit it.

Asking someone that doesn’t know how, to close vim is my favorite password generator.

It’s my band name but all the members quit when I told them.

“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/

“Ah sweet that’s some sick retro tech!”

“Haha yea…retro…”

Now I understand what they use all those ThinkPads for

You can always close vim but you can never quit >:3

“We are programmed to receive.”

The joke is long dead, long live vim

My brain is too smooth for modal environments. I require one mode or fewer.

escape colon que bang

That’s disgusting! Stop telling us about the bangs that escape your colon.

i went boom boom 😎

Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.

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?

we would board containers and find the tun/tap.

Aren’t thea few science nerds there nowadays as well?

“Theres also a emacs plugin”

Truly heresy against the lord Linus Torvalds, Vim is the only correct option all else is unholy.

Linus uses emacs. Not GNU emacs, but still emacs.

Whaddaya mean, not gnu emacs? xemacs and lucid emacs are long gone, are they not??

It’s a weird archaic emacs version that is no longer maintained except by him, iirc

However claims him, loses.
https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI?t=2416

Well obviously neovim is also a correct option, does that really even need to be said?

My dad probably takes the cake as he used the OG VI back in the day.

Surely you must love VS Codium even more.

Bro. We use ed around here.

Nano is for people posing at using Linux

You have to commit to a side in the war

Micro because mouse (jk I just use nano like a scrub because I’m used to it’s hotkeys)

Absolutely bloated (kate) and nano isnt vim therefore it sucks

Vim ain’t intuitive like nano so it sucks. Doesn’t have advanced tools like Kate so it sucks.

This is my favorite thing this morning. FreeBSD ftw.

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