Ewan Keepers @ewankeep@octodon.social
Nerd, Linux fan (Debian & Xubuntu,) Car-free - rides a recumbent trike, Atheist-Humanist, Pro-Science, LGBTQ+, Ecology & books
@ewankeep@joindiaspora.com
US politics, traumatic immigration policy Show more
do you like #gnu #linux ?
do you like to show your desktop with fancy wallpaper and a cute config?
Just check out https://victorhck.gitlab.io/unixporn/
a place where all the screenshots shared here in #mastodon unter #unixporn tag are showed all together!!
In Wales, when it's raining hard, we say 'Mae'n bwrw hen wragedd â ffyn', which translates to 'It's raining old ladies with sticks'.
In Afrikaans, if you're going to give someone what-for, you tell them 'Ek sal jou wys waar Dawid die wortels begrawe het!' which translates to 'I'll show you where David buried the carrots!'
What are some fun idioms from your language?
someone buy a mall with me so we can turn it into this amazing commit resource center with counseling, career counseling, shelter for homeless/houseless people, legal aid, etc etc etc
maybe even a community garden in the vast amount of parking spaces
My organisation bought a new electronic health record from the biggest EHR company and there's something really cool that is totally different from the half dozen systems I've used before: there are multiple sex and gender fields so the medical record can accurately show the patient's preferred name, correct pronoun, medical-care relevant, and organ-specific information. So if I understand right, front end staff will just see correct pronoun. Medical providers can see a flag indicating trans.
Free book! Now through tor.com
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
Magic. Danger! Parallel Londons. Did you like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel?
I have no connection to Tor. Just downloaded the book myself. I haven't read it yet.
@david_ross and @gemlog contributed to @tindall 's "Locking Down Firefox" article. I did nearly everything suggested here for my #Firefox #browser since. https://leotindall.com/tutorial/locking-down-firefox/ #hardening #privatebrowsing
We're just as closely related to Aplysia as we are to Homarus, which isn't very.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/04/flattered-then-humbled/
USpol - Trump didn't invent America First Show more
#Pixelfed, the ethical alternative to #Instagram, has started its beta testing and looks nice 😎
You can get the latest news on the beta and upcoming #federation by following @pixelfed
Apparently the first PixelFed cat photo was posted by @mike at https://pixelfed.social/bremensaki
Alright! I have three days to get rid of a car and a bunch of furniture, pack everything I own in to the back of my truck, and truck it down to my new house.
I thought I had a week.
I don't have a week. I have the rest of today, tomorrow, friday and saturday. And I'm working all of those days, and driving 10 hours on Sunday, and starting my new job on Monday.
That's pretty stressful.
But it means I get to be in our new house sooner, so I'm pretty pleased.
#vpnfilter
I was even able to provide helpful things to the tech like giving her the exact error code I was getting in the browser. It was an invalid certificate. So how is your average 50+ year old senior who hasn't been running linux for the past 4 years supposed to deal with this FBI router reboot request? I'm afraid ignoring it because they don't know what to do and it sounds like a lot of bother is just what a lot of people are going to do.
#vpnfilter
...Well, I decided that I would reset my own router, because it would only take a few seconds and then I could input the IP of the router into my browser and get a nice GUI so I could reset my password. But then my browser says it's an insecure site. So I go on my ISP website and chat with the nice tech for nearly two hours to figure out what went wrong and by the end of the chat my wifi is broken and I need a new router.
Okay, so you know how the FBI (USpol) wants you to reset your router due to Russian hackers? And you know how most people won't actually do it because they don't know what a router is or if they actually have one or not? And even if they do know that the little black box that blinks at them everyday is a router, they know it's too much of a pain to reset and if computer security were really that important a Very Smart Person would figure it all out and not bother them...
Request: I'm looking for new desktop wallpaper(s)! Do y'all have any favorites?
(I have 2 monitors, both running 1920 x 1080 if that matters)
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
USA Today made a version of their site for EU visitors that's compliant with the GDPR
Without:
- ads
- tracking
- personalization
- javascript
It seriously makes me want to check that site from time to time for news. If their point was "see how bad it would be if we didn't do all this stuff?" it's doing the opposite of what it wants because yes, I love this website, that's how I want it and every other one to be like
Software Archaeologist
@Siphonay NPR have done something more brutal https://text.npr.org/
Someone understands Peterson's appeal.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/20/why-is-jordan-peterson-so-unreasonably-popular/
Used my annoyance to write to my congresspeople about the terrible CLASSICS Act https://www.wired.com/story/congress-latest-move-to-extend-copyright-protection-is-misguided/
