Stefan Klöckner @stefan@octodon.social
Ruby, Rust, Emacs, *BSD, Freenet, P2P, Tor, XMPP, classic menswear, hiking, strengthlifting, bourbon/rye, cocktails, psychology, lucid dreaming, medievalism
Using #JavaScript at the server side just doesn't seem right. #Node.js
#HospitalRecords' Fast Soul Music 2 has arrived. Yay! 🥁 📣 😎 #DrumAndBass #DnB #Jungle #Soul
Ten years ago you would find all your favourite musicians on the free web. They used to have crappy #Flash driven sites, but they were hosted independently. Today you mostly find them on #Facebook and only on #Facebook. This is so sad. I know, many just switched from #MySpace, but Facebook is so much worse in just every aspect. Hopefully, the caravan will move on one day. This time to #Mastodon, I hope.
#Amazon treats its warehouse workers badly, pays very little tax and tracks its users. Its #Kindle platform will delete books that people have already bought.
Here are some updated ethical alternatives to #AmazonBooks, Kindle and #GoodReads:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/
Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions for alternatives, if you have any more suggestions (or feedback on these alternatives) please reply to this post.
#Kindle #Goodreads #Privacy #DeleteAmazon #DeleteKindle #DRM #eBooks #Books
@Tasty GitHub is NOT a reasonable platform for software development. It's a monopolist platfrom controlled by a single company. I don't see how this is getting worse by Microsoft's takeover. It's just changing the owner.
#Microsoft acquires #GitHub? Who cares?
@isagalaev GitLab...
- turning their UI upside down with every release
- installation is torture
- updating is torture, too
- ignoring #Rails conventions
The moment you realize that the festival you wanted to attend is colliding with the date for the D&D campaign finale. #RPG
@masu Just gave the album a listen and I like it. Thanks for sharing.
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@sixohsix Sure, but from gear five to six, you would just pull the gearstick back. For reverse you had to slide right first. Moreover you had to pressure it in, since the gearwheels are moving the other direction.
@sixohsix In a well designed car flipping into reverse gear at 200 km/h is a counter-intuitive action. Making everything foolproof has it's price.
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@kensanata
Consider the first people to encounter gorillas, and their wonder if these were human.
And the Papua New Guinean highlanders’ astonishment at meeting whites, from Australia for the first time, less than a century ago! They inspected the visitors’ poop and (apparently) had women sleep with them to confirm that they were indeed human.
Today there’s a lot of support for skepticism about “supernatural”. A thousand years ago, much less so—who knew what wonders existed far away?
@22 hard to tell. I think people generally believed in supernatural beings, but it could have differed across classes and regions. And most likely there were sceptics and people attached to superstition in medieval times just like today.
@Slackwise Nice try! In #Communism #scarcity led to people taking production goods for themself and family members. Combined with bad planning this led to empty shop shelves. I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound as a viable alternative to a balanced market competition to me.
@22 I see quite the opposite: Monsters and dragons are more popular than ever before. And most alien stories are nothing more than ancient sagas taken to outer space. I think technology is driving a desire for archaic storytelling (and magical thinking). 👾 🐉
Today's #shave done with "Indian Flavour" a shaving #soap made by Meißner Tremonia, a soap maker from Dortmund/Germany. It's got a nice scent of citrus and a range of exotic spices. The lather was thick and my skin felt well for hours. https://octodon.social/media/ipjzTDnG51822skqCE0 https://octodon.social/media/ireERvKm1pH0lanBu1g
