Hi! Welcome!

Pleasing memories brought into the present and still active, rather than something lost.

Welcome!

Hi! Welcome! Love the flower pic.

I read the TOS and found the rights claim potentially too broad.

Most other people don't seem to be able to get friend groups to shift, if the original venue is still functioning. Cue "I don't like it but I guess things happen that way."
I haven't tried to bring anybody. Long time ago I developed the defensive habit of altogether abandoning my old handle when I sought out a new activity. This is because I first got online in the Wild West Internet days, and it didn't take me long to realize that a) good people I never would have met, and bad people who never could have noticed me, were now both in range, and b) there was no practical defense against an obsessive evilminded lunatic from out-of-district; pre-Internet law enforcement wasn't set up to cope. Pseudonyms that only last for a time could make me hard to follow around. Just in case.
(Now we have got an establishment that has decided that what's important is not protecting the serfs but suppressing them. Worst of both worlds, in certain ways.)
Maybe nostr'll serve. I've considered dropping offline altogether except for practical stuff, too. That seems a little drastic. But it's now on the table.

Hi! Nice photo, glad the dog is having fun! Dunno what I'm doing yet either, so I've decided to follow new people.

Welcome! Been hanging around for a month or so. I have small idea what I'm doing.

The plastic shelf clips bend under the weight of the books on a full long shelf; the shelf collapses; and then the bookcase lists and makes further shelf collapses even more likely. I found some metal replacements for those plastic shelf supporters, which stops that particular progression. Also it's best to keep the heaviest books on the bottom. I wish I'd bought something else, naturally.

I can't find a way to construe that that doesn't make it a bad analogy.
1. Higher level languages -- COBOL being one of the first -- do pretty darned similar things in pretty darned similar ways, much of the time. [Inevitable caveats.] The major break was not between COBOL and anything more recent. It's between assembler/machine language and any higher level language.
2. Higher level languages allow you to do more in less time because you're offloading part of the fiddly nuisance management to the machine. But programming in a higher-level language does not require more knowledge of how the machine works. It requires less. Very substantially less.
3. Since we haven't been training many COBOL programmers, and since a great deal of expensive financial programming was done in COBOL on expensive mainframes intended to last a long time, COBOL programmers who can maintain the old stuff make good money.
Programmers have passionate likes and dislikes for systems we consider well-designed for their intended purposes, or badly designed. But we don't tend to sneer at old tech simply because it old. Particularly we don't usually sneer at the people who knew how to get useful work out of much less accommodating tech.

Well ...
1. Even if Duck Duck Go doesn't keep logs, so far as I know, they don't do their own searches directly. Last I heard, they act as an intermediary between the users and the outfit they're buying results from (a while back that was Bing; whether it still is, I don't know).
2. That search is probably unique. I doubt anyone else has ever searched for your secret key. In that way it sorta sticks out. So it's not whether you trust Duck Duck Go, but how much you trust any of the larger companies they could have bought search results from (Microsoft or conceivably Google).
3. I would assume the key has been seen and logged by large nosy agencies, including from unfriendly nation-states.
4. If you have an ordinary life, past, present, and future, likely nothing will come of it anyway.
5. But I think I've just about talked myself into disclaiming any key pair if I ever accidentally search for the secret key. Most likely nothing would come of it; but who can know that the future we'll see is a likely one?

GM! What a nice-looking spot for coffee. I'm poking around nostr to see what it's like.