vi but slightly to the left @vi@octodon.social

masto elephant is named florence pass it on

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CW your 4/20 posts, please and thank you.

the end result here is that the technical deficiencies in git create a barrier to non-experts which has led us to grant an american corporation exclusive control of vast swathes of the FOSS commons. This will not end well.

2/2

(To c&p something I said over on twitter because I think y'all will appreciate it more)

When Github goes down, FOSS effectively stops right now. It's tragic that we've allowed a single company to gain such control over the open commons.

I recognize that we are in this situation mostly because the 'distributed' side of git is only usable by experts. And I recognize the niche that GH fills (ticketing and PRs in lieu of emailed patches)

(1/2)

Fun fact: "urchin" used to mean hedgehog, which is probably why we call them "sea urchins"

My new operating system just boots into a browser that’s pointed at a mastodon instance.

I call it Boot to Toot.

Can you imagine how much more effective communities would be if people actually just bucked the fuck up and said,

"What I said was antiblack and I shouldn't have said it. It hurt people and it was wrong. I'm sorry and thank you to the people who corrected me. I'll try harder next time."

wow

amazing

revolutionary

I will do this forever.

@aprrrl and that got a lot of people upset because as it turns out, witches.town has a lot of nonbinary and queer people on it.

so they're leaving, and alda then said that she's not going to renew the server lease and is going to shut down witches.town at the end of the month.

i am probably missing some subtext and non-public stuff behind this. this is what i do know.

@aprrrl

as i know it:

so, recently alda retook control of the moderation of witches.town and fired the whole mod team. then later she made a really, really bad take proclaiming that nonbinary people aren't valid and that either they're just in denial about being either gender or trying to appropriate being trans somehow

continued...

The Credible Hulk

This rustic wooden door has an anime eye in it https://mellified.men/media/97Dxk59VCsZIcFc-Das

water is just boneless food

On this wonderful pi day I think it's worth linking to this:

The Pi Manifesto

No, really, pi is right. Tau is unnecessary.

"The concept of π has been around since the time of the ancient Babylonians (the greek letter representing this number was popularized by Euler in the 18th century)... so why change now and trash it? This isn't the first thing that physicists have tried to change in the field of mathematics (notation wise, anyways)."

http://www.thepimanifesto.com/

The last Metroid is in captivity