Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social

I have high hopes for Flickr under SmugMug. And they're just getting started. They ask that you link back to images on Flickr and I get that. But these are my only options for sharing?

blocking ads is evil grr
HTTP is a pull-based medium. it is within the original philosophy of HTTP to selectively pull the data, for example, a device that doesn't support images won't download them. by circumventing ad "blocking", you are spitting in the face of HTTP. a more accurate term would be ad rejection. ads are not "blocked", they are simply not asked for.

"Structural Advantages for Software Developers to Leverage and Destroy"

> Free and open source software represents a post-scarcity methodology, but it does not fill our bellies or pay for our roofs; we do that for ourselves. Given the nature of our works, tech workers are in a unique position to call into question scarcity itself: if we can pay for our labor without paywalls, we can build post-scarcity systems.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/leverage-and-destroy.html

Had the most white customer ever. Dude asked if we had the spicy salami. Didn’t quite understand and thought he meant like the peppered salami. Then he was all “I see it now! Right there the Genoa salami.” Fucking genoa salami.

Thanks to @skquinn I recently discovered that the high quality FLAC collections of my music were broken.

>___<

Well, they've now been fixed, so if you want some free (cc-by-nc 4.0) high quality #chiptune music then head on over to my website and grab a download!

https://jefftheworld.com/music #chiptune #creativecommons

what a controversial take, i know

reminder: fuck apple

reminder: apple surpassed $1,000,000,000,000 in value about half a year ago. that's one trillion dollars.

reminder: it's against the EULA to install macOS on "non-Apple branded hardware". this means that if you want to test your mac app on a mac, you have no choice but to buy a new laptop or computer

reminder: if you try to screenshot a movie purchased with itunes on a macOS or iOS device, it won't work. this is presumably to prevent you from taking 24 screenshots per second and stitching them back together into the full movie, because why else would you prevent people from doing this

reminder: apple was the first important company with the ｃｏｕｒａｇｅ to drop the headphone jack. now that they've done it, everyone is doing it, and this >200 year old standard is dying thanks to them

reminder: everybody knows that apple intentionally slows down their old phones to coincide with the release of the newer ones. they even admitted it: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827248/apple-iphone-battery-replacement-price-slow-down-apology

nothing happened, they didn't stop doing it, but they *did* offer a $29 battery replacement for affected phones c:

reminder: other phones did the notch before the iphone and they were rightfully laughed at. then the iphone did it and it became widely popular

reminder: the four most powerful mobile CPUs in the world are made by and for apple's exclusive usage in their phones

if you want the world's most advanced mobile CPU you're stuck with The World's Most Advanced Mobile Operating System

tired: getting a smart home to control your appliances remotely
wired: getting a smart home to play DOOM by piloting your roomba around and shooting other "smart" appliances

Huh. I just found a neat charity.

https://wecaresolar.org/

From their about page:
"We Care Solar promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and medical devices using solar electricity."

Anybody know more about them? 'Cause this looks like a good thing they're trying to do.

Nothing more frustrating to see than all of the things that were eventually stripped away.

XMPP? Gone.
Interoperability? Gone

But hey, at least the 140 character limit went away 8 years later.

When someone asks me the reason why fascist scum is on the rise worldwide