#rubegoldbergmachine — Public Fediverse posts

Ah yes, the age-old quest to reinvent #IRC, now with 100% more over-engineered .NET 9 spice 🤖. Why settle for simplicity when you can bury a chat server under layers of corporate buzzwords and AI integrations? 🚀🔧 It's like building a Rube Goldberg machine to fetch a cup of water—fascinating, but ultimately unnecessary. 😏💥
https://github.com/Sieep-Coding/simple-chat-csharp #Reinvention #Overengineering #CorporateBuzzwords #AIIntegrations #RubeGoldbergMachine #HackerNews #ngated

📚 Another PhD thesis that sounds like the algebraic equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine, where "Directed Equality" is the new hipster math term nobody asked for 🤓. Watch out Nobel Committee, Jacob Neumann's coming for you with his videos and slides! 🎥✨
https://jacobneu.phd/ #PhDThesis #DirectedEquality #RubeGoldbergMachine #HipsterMath #JacobNeumann #HackerNews #ngated

Now I'm wondering: is there a collection of contraptions and levels built for @principia to play with it around like in #TheIncredibleMachine? Sort of a #RubeGoldbergMachine, but with #DIY set to make more such levels, you know... :ablobcatwave:

Post inspired by https://mastodon.social/@256/112417780225247409 and reminiscing about mid-00s #RubeGoldberg type videogame that I can't remember the name of.

#sandbox #PhysicsSandbox #PhysicsSim #PhysicsSimulation #Principia #the_incredible_machine #the_incredible_machine_2 #LevelEditor

I’ve had this idea of the ActivityPub Protocol powering Mastodon, Threads, & others in The Fediverse, as a kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine.

What kind of Rube-Goldberg Machine ?

The MouseTrap Boardgame from childhood !

I captioned the following images to get the idea out of my head.

cf. Two-Way RSS which remains Simple and Direct...

| #ActivityPubProtocol #RubeGoldbergMachine #ActivityPub #ActivityPubMastodon #Mastodon #ActivityPubThreads #Threads #TwoWayRSS #RSS #MouseTrapBoardgame #MouseTrap

Rube Goldberg’s Least Complicated Invention Was His Cartooning Career - The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/02/rube-goldbergs-least-complicated-invention-was-his-cartooning-career/ #rubegoldbergmachine #profilesinscience #hackadaycolumns #rubegoldberg #originalart #engineering #biography #mousetrap #featured #cartoons

A Gambler’s Bottle Opener - People can certainly become creative when it comes to completing simple tasks like that of removin... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/04/09/a-gamblers-bottle-opener/ #rubegoldbergmachine #bottleopener #beerbottles #woodworking #beerhacks #homehacks