Ewan Keepers @ewankeep@octodon.social

In an age where we're being inundated with so much information, #criticalthinking is the most important defensive weapons we have... so why not sharpen that blade from time to time? Found some really excellent sites where #logicalfallacies and #bias are clarified in a very user friendly way. A little bit of back pocket #philosophy for you!

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ and https://yourbias.is/

#fakenews #politics #language

while #telegram is down (at least for some) take this as an oportunity to reflect:
- do you rely on a centralized service
- telegram runs on proprietary software
- it can't federate and creates by that something known as 'walled gargen'
- there are great alternatives you might like

#matrix (federated protocoll) -> https://about.riot.im/
#xmpp (federated protocoll) -> conversations.im/ , #jabber ...

for future use:
briar (in beta) has p2p
https://briarproject.org/index.html

Updated rant concerning incels.

https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/blog/2018/04/25/an-open-letter-to-all-incel-assholes/

Any other way to say GM/DM ? I'm after something that doesn't have master in it.

(boost appreciated)

Another big thing...

We say that Lundgren should not have installed Windows. Perhaps he should have installed Linux....

Many of your devices, you don't own. You "lease." Even the act of wiping the original operating system and installing FOSS OS's is illegal.

Look at John Deer. Look at "rooting" cell phones.

We need FOSSH (Software & Hardware) solutions.

@ewankeep Thanks for posting about this. I picked up a copy and have been reading through it. Very interesting!

This is why I only use & support Free & Open Source Software in my personal life. This man is going to prison. Prison.

"A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore disks” he made to extend the lives of computers had no financial value, instead ruling that he had infringed Microsoft’s products to the tune of $700,000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24/recycling-innovator-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-on-computer-restore-discs-must-serve-15-month-prison-term/?noredirect=on

You are allowed to do stuff just because you want to.

Even if it uses up all your spoons/matches.

Even if it leaves your exhausted and broken the next day.

Even if you need to let other stuff slide a bit while you recover.

You are allowed to have fun, to go out, to take a day once in a while and do what you want with it.

Being #disabled, or #chronicallyill, or a #parent, etc doesn't mean you can't take time for you.

(I needed to hear this today, so I figured other folks might too.)

If you happen to know more then one language, use it.
It helps to bring informations across cultural differences.

#fediverse sharing/gifting economy hastags

using hashtags to organize a bit of sharing economy.
You know those gifting places that people use in #facebook? At least in germany they are very popular

So how about we get something like this for the fediverse. It also helps to reduce economic pressure that is on all of us through sharing more of our resources solidarity

Idea is simple:
You have something free to share:
use #offer and #location

You need/want something:
use #request and #location

i've said this in other places but i always feel that it bears repeating:

"art style" should come out of your journey thru life. your experiences, your influences, your growth -- trying to "find" a style is a waste of time.

your art is an extension of YOU, don't force things.

When I get settled in to the new house, I'll pull out those books and take some pictures. I imagine many of them are on Archive.org already.

Here I am, walking Sunny on a Sunday morning, when someone pulls their SUV over next to me because his daughters saw Sunny from the car and wanted to say hello

and then he opened the boot

A waterfall on the moor. I like it because it shows how the moor is really a thick blanket of peat covering rocky hills. #photography
#mastoart

One thing I keep meaning to come back to with my projects and training is accessibility in web apps. Partly cause it's the right thing to do, and partly cause my essential tremor may one day progress where I can't use a mouse.

Anyone out in the fediverse know of some good resources for learning how to do accessibility? Eg. Design patterns, testing strategies, etc.

I figure a good start is keyboard centric selenium tests. But says it's "functional", not that it's "good".