Ed Davies @edavies@octodon.social
Programmer who likes gliding/flying/astronomy, etc, but is focusing for the time being on the construction of an off-grid house.
“The point of all this isn’t to collect likes or follows, but perhaps so people might actually have conversations.”
https://medium.com/@qinaliu/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
TIL the assumption built into bi-focal safety glasses doesn't really apply when you're nailing awkward joists over your head.
So, not a lot of people know this, but I originally created https://pagekite.net/ to make it possible for people without a public IP to still be full participants in decentralized social networks - like this one.
Been waiting 7 years for the concept to take off... is it time? :sunglasses:
Good article about one of my pet peeves.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/thoughtsofcrys/2017/03/02/memes-corrected/
If you're videoing a conference talk or something like that please put a microphone directly on the speaker. If you don't you might as well put a bucket on their head.
If I'm looking specifically at the page of a toot on another instance is there any way I can reply/boost/favourite it? @Support
Ubuntu will abandon Unity for 18.04, return to GNOME, says Mark Shuttleworth:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/
Hello fellow small furry rodents.
