11:23 <pstn> Why did he stop his axis before reaching nixos users? https://xkcd.com/1982/

11:24 <makefu> pstn: far right should be rust

11:25 <MichaelRaskin> Well, far far right should be the people whom some Rust evangelists imitate

11:25 <pstn> makefu: Didn't you try to evangelize gentoo devs at 34c3?

11:26 <makefu> pstn: there were none to evangelize!

11:26 <MichaelRaskin> The glorious story of Mozilla raising a tide to annoy half the webmasters in the world into actually reading the HTML standard. The scary part: it worked.

11:30 <pstn> wasn't there that one guy that installed nixos in a virtual machine in the end?

11:30 <makefu> ah yes! correct

16:45 <sphalerite> MichaelRaskin: I haven't heard this story. Where do I find out more? :D

16:53 <MichaelRaskin> sphalerite: not sure whether it is actually written down as a story…

16:55 <MichaelRaskin> It was just obviously there — when IE did semi-documented obviously-non-standard random stuff and webmasters used it, here and there you could see the recommendations from Mozilla people to find out what part of the standards a website violates and write to the webmaster with complaints.

16:55 <MichaelRaskin> I guess if you search you could even find some forums where this was semi-coordinated

17:47 <sphalerite> ah

18:02 <drakonis> ah hi

23:31 <drakonis> can't help but notice some folks here being on lobsters