Michael J. Gratton @mjog@octodon.social

For what it's worth, here's a likely very incomplete THANKS file:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/blob/mainline/THANKS

Geary is Free Software, being built by people, for people. ✌️ ❤️ 💻

🎐🎐 Geary 40 has been released! 🎐🎐

This new feature release features substantial interfaces updates to support half-screen and phone displays, search engine updates, and many interface, performance, translation and server compatibility updates and fixes.

Available to download from Flathub right now, and your favourite distribution as it gets packaged.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Geary

@mjog ‘s brackets are done! Have to find a suitable box to ship them in now.

#blacksmith #metalwork

@mjog True. 🙂 But, too, we are missing out on either culture or process to come to a consensus of what we use to replace these decades-old legacy. At this point, we're currently far off from what seems the strength of FLOSS (collaboration over competition). 😐

Forged out the bevels for the brackets I’m making @mjog today.

#blacksmith #video #fire

Every piece of electronics in your house has a cost, not just in currency but in blood. Often the blood of children. Sometimes the blood of slaves. Our appetite for cheap electronics subsidized by nightmarish misery and indignity is environmentally, financially and morally unsustainable, and it's shockingly easy to forget that. That's why I fix things, that's why I buy secondhand whenever I can, that's why I won't stop banging on about the evil idiocy of unleaded solder and planned obsolescence.

An important message for hackers:

It is imperative you understand, and come to understand the implications of, that the lead server developer of Parler had/has the following phrase in his profile on the site:

Hack the Planet

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There are a fair number of you who have that phrase in your own profile, yet hate Parler and everything they do, and everything they represent.

It should give you pause and cause for introspection, that digital fascists arrived where they are, largely, from the same information and choices that y'all have learned and made. What "firewalls" do you have in place, in your own cognition, that ensure you won't be "infected," living life in a way so close to that way the fascists live it?

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I bring it up because last week, I lost an ally, and in part of their argument why I should trust them, they quoted their own microblog profile at me: "Hack the Planet"

The phrase clearly means something important to them. It is a phrase they orient their actions and beliefs around. But... it also is the phrase the fascists use to discuss their reshaping of the world.

Y'all talk about the dangers of open-source, how Microsoft might use your script for converting video formats.

Do you think about the dangers of your hacker culture, how a belief in entitlement to shape the world is nothing but pursuit of Christian-style creationism, a desire to impersonate Gilgamesh in the Great Cedar forest, might help fascists argue their legitimacy?