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James h jackson jr @Jameshjacksonjr@octodon.social

A makeshift laptop, did you say? :)

(And yes, Iโ€™m _finally_ reading through the Emacs tutorial. Better three decades late than never, I guess.) :)

holding my nose and contributing to code with awful style

Here was something I dropped before I decided to just do lots of emojos.

I wanted to learn human anatomy for drawing but wanted better visual breakdowns of it and was disappointed by the material I could find. So I decided to try to build my own models of understanding from drawing books as well as public domain medical anatomical texts, and I came up with this idea of breaking down muscle insertions/origins as if it was some kind of metro diagram.

#anatomy #diagram #design

hi i'm lane! i'm a 20 year old design media student whos trying real hard to get into animation! i love fashion food and history ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š

#introduction #illustration #fanart

@rhiaro โ€œI resent the control corporations have over people and their everyday lives. I hate the surveillance society we have accidently brought upon ourselves,โ€ says Amy Guy, a coder from Scotland who helped build a platform called ActivityPub to connect decentralized Web sites. โ€• vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/th
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Suse just got sold to a private Swedish equity firm. (After having been bought out by another firm four years ago.)

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=new

Im kind of glad im not a Suse user. I mean maybe Micro Focus International and EQT Partners are good guys. But shit like this makes me nervous.

A new Skal page is up! Oh dear, the light blue stuff is back... (THANK YOU PATRONZ)

skalsaga.tumblr.com/ www.patreon.com/JennieGyllblad

#webcomic #mastoart #comics

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All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

at an appliance store to replace our broken fridge, lusting over gas stoves

When Worst Comes To Worst my people come first!!!!!!!

How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?

ActivityPubConf

A yearly online conference with presentations from AP developers and others, hosted on PeerTube and accessible to everyone. I think this will be my next project!

#activitypub #fediverse #activityPubConf #peertube

Has #purism started shipping their #librem5 smartphones? Is there any other option for a non Google/Apple smartphone in the US? It's too bad #fairphone doesn't ship to the US.

Sailfish OS News Network:

A SailfishOS Powered Inoi T8 Tablet!

The Finnish mobile Linux OS developers Jolla indeed informs that a new device with SailfishOS hits the market this September.

After last year's Inoi R7 smartphone, the Russian manufacturer releases its second Sailfish OS powered device this September, says Inoi CEO.

The 8โ€ tablet is aimed to be delivered at B2B customers with custom software configs, also available @ buyon.ru
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#Linux #mobile #SailfishOS #Jolla #Inoi #tablet

now I can just find a polite way to write "stop bitching about your pet feature not being implemented yet and send a damn patch" once and re-use it every time that situation comes up

Getting a haircut is like putting on a fresh new pair of socks. It just feels so good!

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Working on PeerTube federation support! Mastodon & Pleroma support is pretty much finished (had to simulate remote follow since this is a localhost instance)

cc @Chocobozzz