Recent content by Insomniacal Fan

Games were blacked out for me. Eventually I was able to get access through a VPN provider (NordVPN, link has my referral code)

I'm enjoying the Holmes--Len reunion lineup

Maybe a bit too much aggression from Malik on that play

About time!

I think Cousins' path to the NBA begins with some team's big having a season ending injury.

Spectacle is sort of central to the whole sports experience, which is why I think being photo first might be the way to go for that domain. How useful is sports news really anyway?

An article from nytimes about the challenges of implementing moderation, but indicates there's some interest in Mastodon from journalists https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html I think for professional sports, players are the key influencers. A lot seem to...

I think we made the playoffs with Ron Artest, so I’m not sure about the rules of this counterfactual. Rudy Gay is about the only starter from our past that I think would be a clear upgrade over their counterpart from today. Our bench certainly has room for improvement.

Yeah, getting hit in the face every 30 seconds of game time might be a little distracting

I'll quickly point out that Mastodon serializes all conversations to RSS for interoperability's sake, https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek -> https://mastodon.social/users/nocontexttrek.rss

Yeah, some communities are more developed than others. I sort of expect someone to create an instance around sports discussion at some point. There might even be a Sacramento Kings fans instance someday. Mastodon is more oriented towards peer to peer conversations. I often use Twitter to...

If all software engineers were fungible, maybe you'd have a point, but a lot of what drives staffing bloat is extreme specialization. One software engineer could be the only guy in the company that knows how to develop a particular software component. The company builds a team to increase the...

Given the mass exits, it will be quite difficult for Twitter to make changes without losing data and causing outages. It will float around for a while if it's left alone, but if somebody starts pressing buttons and unplugging things, it's possible some things will get irreparably broken and data...

I think Twitter has a bunch of different use cases - subscribing to realtime news from a personally curated set of sources - forming communities of common interest, networking, discussion - establishing a personal brand, publishing - cyberbullying public figures, engaging with celebrities -...

Looking at the Spurs roster this year, This is the first time in a long while that I haven't been able to recognize any player on an NBA roster. I have no idea who these guys are, don't even remember any being drafted.