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Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

if you use mastodon you're a millenial, sorry i don't make the rules

@schlink Sadly it doesn't degrade gracefully. It's only visible on Mastodon 2.4.0+ and doesn't load in older versions / other ActivityPub implementations.

is there a browser extension where it'll close any tabs you've had open for more than e.g. 2 hours unless you "pin" them

because i think i always have at least 20 too many tabs open from things i was doing 2 hours ago that i no longer remember if i need or not

gotta say: 1Password 7 for Mac looks pretty nice blog.agilebits.com/2018/05/22/

Separately, interesting that they commissioned some fun art ahead of this release

if there was a standardized way share a public GPG key (say, link to MIT server page), you could (hypothetically) make a browser extension to encrypt and decrypt DMs... (Is this a bad idea? I honestly am not sure)

TIL Mastodon offers metadata fields in profiles!

And from today:

Move Slowly, and Don’t Break Things
"As we make the move from digital to cognitive, the tech industry should be thinking a lot harder about putting safety first"

medium.com/future-crunch/move-

apparently it's a good time to `brew update && brew upgrade git`

Announcing the May 2018 Git Security Vulnerability blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devop

"I am proof that parents who are legally seeking asylum are being separated from their children for seemingly no reason," writes Mirian G., who came to the US from Honduras, and was separated from her 18-month-old child. cnn.com/2018/05/29/opinions/im

It's called the Millennial Falcon because it's constantly broke

@schlink Twelve South has nice photography wallpapers prepared for dual monitor set-ups

twelvesouth.com/wallpaper

@schlink apod.nasa.gov/ is good for wallpaper backgrounds if you like space.

honestly one my favorite parts of Plasma/KDE's aesthetic so far is the default cursor themeing

1 year ago, my dogs and my in-laws' dogs created an original renaissance painting by being trapped behind a pet gate

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)

Interesting interview:

The ‘golden age of electronic surveillance’ is ending, says former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden

recode.net/2018/5/28/17400846/

"They were people working through the rust to answer their imagination... To these people I came to admire, their lives felt like whispers. To me, they were glorious songs."

40 Years of Chronicling the Unnoticed nytimes.com/2018/05/27/insider