pilum @pilum@octodon.social

But I have to say I don't get how replacing the whole main board can be considered fixing a broken SD slot. That can't be right. Or sustainable.
Wow, do we need to step up our game in making tech stuff more easily fixable!

<stunned gawping at who is asking this question>

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/07/12/knock-me-over-with-a-feather/

Dear fediverse:

Fascism joining the fediverse is extremely bad, and we have to do something about it. But please, please, please: give me two weeks before you roll out any new solutions. Some of the solutions being proposed look like they will make the situation better but will make it much worse.

I am dropping nearly everything to write a demo and spec explaining how to do things right. Please give me two weeks. I've been preparing for this.

if a site bitches at me or somehow prevents me from using it because i'm running an adblocker...

i simply won't use that site ever 🤷🏽

15 years ago, EFF's @doctorow told Microsoft:

1. That DRM systems don't work

2. That DRM systems are bad for society

3. That DRM systems are bad for business

4. That DRM systems are bad for artists

5. That DRM is a bad business-move

He was right.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3wkk/microsoft-ebooks-will-stop-working-because-its-shutting-down-a-drm-server

A bookstore was attacked by a white supremacist for hosting, among many other themed childrens' story events, Drag Queen Story Time.

This is the bookstore's official response.

https://bookbarblog.com/2019/06/29/bookbars-extremely-official-response-to-extremely-negative-comments-with-book-recommendations/

Happy to see the info screens in Norwegian trains is running #Linux (Debian)! Some years ago I saw the info screens at the train stations were running the latest #Ubuntu.
#LinuxInTheWild

Shout-out to the moderators and admins on Mastodon for being awesome.

RT @JesseWhitehead@twitter.com

Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder.

RT @michellecyca@twitter.com

why don't people know about libraries

@corvak @noelle @craigmaloney an yet people think I exaggerate when I say people view coders are replaceable cogs they can burn out.