Glenn a.k.a. Don Blanco @donblanco@octodon.social
Retired I.T. - expat life in Mexico - aspirational writer, hacker, activist, musician, genealogist
#Retired. I do what I want. This currently includes:
#Linux
#Music (keyboards)
#Travel
#Writing
#Genealogy
#Photography
#Pi owner (RPi2B)
I am:
#Vegan
#Atheist (after four decades of fundamentalist christianity)
#Nerd
#Expat in #Mexico learning #Spanish
Fan/Supporter of:
#Co-ops
#Decentralization
#Federation
#Sci-fi
#Antifa
#BDS
#BLM
#NeverAgain
Hi USA, here is my college. (Ciencias - UNAM) It has a good worldwide ranking and it has a $0.25 MXN/year tuition and a $0.25 MXN/year admin fee to study there. ($0.025 USD/year total) I think foreigners pay a little more (like 50 USD/year) but the cost of living is also very low. Classes are only in Spanish though.
Just putting it out there as an option as student loans/debt get worse and Trump gets tired of too much winning™ with the trade war vs the whole world.
Speaking of trivia, some enterprising soul created a spliced version of Steely Dan's FM - so it could be played by AM stations! LOL https://youtu.be/P39Dl8KJDlw
RT @tupakamrah@twitter.com:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tupakamrah/status/1009150931320168449
so evidently this shell framework's themes don't actually work unless you first install the... Show more
me: cool article, maybe I'll follow this person
*scrolls down*
"Husband, Father, godlovingbornagainchristlover...*
me: NOPE alt+left-arrow
Finally got a few things sorted. Konsole starts oh-my-fish, which starts tmux. Learning basic tmux commands is good. Then use Kakoune in place of vim for basic editing. Need to brush up on all command options. Also, love it that oh-my-fish has a theme named after Isao Tomita! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/05/08/music/isao-tomita-japanese-pioneer-of-synthesizer-music-dies-at-84/
Get frustrated with software - google 'giving up on _____' - find my own post from last year where I state that I'm giving up on this software. So I've already used it and given up on it once before. I guess I thought this time would be different?
Oh well, guess it's time to go try the other software I mentioned last year, now that I am actually running Linux for my main box...
happy solstice, tootsters! ☀️
☕
in a nutshell, it's about autonomy. it's about social media autonomy for every person on the planet. all 7.6 billion of us. nobody else telling us to do, what to say, and nobody else forcing us to see things we don't want to see.
this means Pleroma is being built for an entirely new scale of fediverse: one with billions of nodes. it's also why Pleroma supports alternative transports such as TOR and I2P out of the box.
it also is a major differentiator between Pleroma and Mastodon. in the Mastodon model, there's maybe a few million islands which host a few thousand people each. to contrast, in our model, everyone who wants to host their own instance does so. that means everyone can choose to have total social media freedom.
but it's not just social media, we also intend to use the same underlying tech to enable real-time communications with the same capabilities as the social media side of things.
and it's universal: different frontends for different preferences. like Mastodon but don't have the resources to run it? use Pleroma with Mastodon frontend and apps. like GNU social? Pleroma's default frontend was modelled after it. like diaspora* but want to talk to your fediverse friends? use Feather. like the alternative Mastodon frontends like Pinafore and Brutaldon? they work too.
hate spam and harrassment? we have a mostly as yet untapped framework called MRF which can be leveraged to automate moderation of an instance.
want to modify it? drop by #pleroma on freenode and we help with that too.
Sometimes I forget how amazingly cool it is that I can sit here typing on my computer (w/ 43" 4KTV) and look up above the screen to watch clouds draped across the top of green mountains. I'm only a few thousand feet from the tops of the mountains, and less than a mile from the base. The lake behind me sits at almost a mile high here in western Mexico. This is why I retired early. This.
TIL - emacs stands for Editor MACroS...
After becoming frustrated with Vim/NeoVim and just getting color schemes to work right and save, I ended up installing emacs. I mean, I'm retired and I have time. Also, I may have a streak of masochism...
just discovered how to put NeoVim into terminal mode - superpowers! :\
@lewislepton So, Lime Text - Dead project? I guess that would be a yes? :(
https://github.com/limetext/lime/issues/573
Have *so many* travel-related videos to put online. Think I'll shift that project to #PeerTube - it was never about monetization any way, just sharing and linking from blog.
'reading for a friend' [addiction] Show more
So at some point one of my sed search/replace routines replaced some things where I didn't intend. But that wasn't fucked up enough. It did it with some sort of special or hidden character that sed could *not* see while I was trying to run a search/replace to *fix* all the stuff I had just botched. After a few hours of banging my head against a brick wall, I finally just did a copy/paste of the string I was searching for. In the terminal. Boom, now sed sees it. FML
The internet is just a big pile of shit!
The top serps (search engine results) for just about any health question you can think of all lead to sites that exist solely to get your clicks. They utilize no medical professionals whatsoever. The content is either spun by algorithms or purely anecdotal.
This is NOT what the internet was supposed to be. Thanks a lot, Google...
