Perrywong @Perrywong@qoto.org

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

I was woken up today by a phone call letting me know that due purely to budgeting changes I’ve been let go from my full-time contracting position I just started in January after being laid off in September.

I am a former #Apple #engineer with 15 years of experience making apps for #iOS and #macOS. I also have experience with #Ruby. Available immediately for full time or contract work.

Please boost. #Swift #RubyOnRails

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD

The idea that bad people having a voice on social media causes other people to become bad people (often the argument as to why we must defederate from bad servers) is equivalent to:

Thinking violent video games cause people to become violent.

Thinking explicit song lyrics cause people to become criminals

Allowing people to be openly homosexual will cause others to become homosexual

Banning books

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean. Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely-seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

First set of photos from the camera from Iceland trip. Also first Mastodon post. Shapes and colours of Sólheimajökull glacier. This was definitely one of the highlights, our guide was really informative and explained a lot about how the local volcanoes (mostly Hekla but also the more recently active Eyjafjallajökull) are seen in the glacial landscape.

#glacier #Eyjafjallajökull #Hekla #Sólheimajökull #iceland #winter #walking #travel #adventure

"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com."

https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/

#birds #wildlife #critters

When old trauma lies buried deep within our bones it doesn’t show itself in so many words, but is more of a free-floating anxiety or an inchoate persistent worry – you can’t just bat this away with logic. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/27/ask-philippa-perry-after-losing-my-parents-and-a-baby-i-cant-stop-fearing-for-my-adult-children

I have uploaded a new video about Suella Braverman and the asylum system...

You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/ESHHPnXi4r8

I tried uploading directly to Mastodon but that didn't work so a YouTube link will have to do...

Enjoy!

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

See that small white dot just left of center, you may think it is Venus shining in the evening sky, but it is Earth as viewed from Mars.

Every person alive is in that one pixel.

#Astrodon #Astronomy #mars

Hat tip: (At)ThePlanetaryGuy on the birdsite

Why Mastodon or indeed any client on #fediverse wins

• Imagine being able to follow your friend’s Facebook account from your twitter client and read all posts. You cannot do on twitter but you can do something similar on Mastodon.
• So get accounts on other servers such as #pixelfed instances which is federated Instagram, and you can see and share here, that is, you will not need to visit that site to view the posts
• Get an account on a #peertube instance, and you can use it as YouTube
  *#Funkwhale is your Spotify replacement free, open, federates everywhere.

… And you can start anywhere, set up an account anywhere and pull in content from everywhere.
You can do likewise for ‘pushing’ content everywhere and interact with everyone.
Magic, right?
This is what #web was meant to be, no walled gardens.