fenwick 🔲 @fenwick67@octodon.social

Today somebody wrote me a really nice email about how they saw some open source software I published, how they were building upon it, and thanked me for it. It made feel really great. More people should send these kind of emails (myself included), it's really validating and made my week.

When future historians look at our software, they'll think the unix epoch was some religious date or when we thought the world began or something

@anymouse_404 a majority of people will give up on ripping it yes, but it won't suppress people torrenting it, unless it's unpopular.

I knew the opioid crisis was a problem but the sheer magnitude didn't click until I saw this graph. The leading cause of injury-related death in the US from age 23 to 64 is "poisoning". This is mostly opioid overdoses.

http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demographics/deaths-by-age/data-details/

DRM on static content (i.e. movies, music) makes so little sense to me even from a practical perspective... like obviously it is going to be possible to snatch that signal out of an HDMI cable when you convert to some other format, or you can bust out a camcorder, or worst case clamp some pins on a ribbon cable to an LCD panel. IDK why they put so much time and effort into something so futile.

So I just bothered checking my logs and uhh https://www.mastofeed.com has like more than 10 users which is an awesome but also scary feeling

Elixir seems really neat, it's on my "to-learn" list.

@snowdusk_ I got a new credit card so my heroku invoices weren't getting paid 😅. It's fixed now.

Just for fun, tried installing #pleroma in a VM and it was super easy to get running and start fiddling with, even though I know zero about Elixir or Postgres.

@sickasfrick or C###########

@porsupah @masklayer I am literally screaming and not in the tumblr way, the actual way