Rusty @RustyStriker@qoto.org

After 2 years of negotiations with Microsoft, the German Data Protection Conference issued a damning statement: German schools must not use MS365 due to privacy violations.

Fortunately, Linux, LibreOffice & Tutanota are very good alternatives. 💪🔐

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/microsoft-office-365-email-alternative

#OpenSource #FOSS #privacy #GDPR

@matt @FediThing The weakness of Fediverse is the immature process of moderation. I’m reading more and more examples of blocking whole servers without clear reasons. Because somebody is thinking about something. Maybe it’s a single post, maybe thousand posts from one million. The easiest thing is to add them to the fediblock list with a long list of general and unclear accusation. Nobody will check them.

Got a #3dprinter recently and my wife asked me to print some turkeys for Thanksgiving. No problem!

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

how to get other people other than friends to find my games (tho they arent good anyway lol) o;

Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also

Explanation of a fun Steam bug that causes Steam to pick a pseudo-random font for everything:

http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html

i think they should rename "favorite" to "enjoy". i would like to enjoy posts

The duf is a better 'df' command. It gives you a single tool for checking disk usage and free space on Linux, macOS, *BSD, Windows, Android and Unix. Try duf today
https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/command-line-hacks/duf-disk-usage-free-utility-for-linux-bsd-macos-windows/

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

mastodon works quickly... I've just installed Rust

Would you pay to keep #Mastodon / #Fediverse up and running?

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

New people! Here's how to fill your timeline:

-Follow hashtags if your server supports it. You can do this by logging in through the website, searching for a tag, then clicking the + in the top right corner. New posts with those tags will appear in your timeline.

-Find interesting people on directories:
https://fedi.directory
https://communitywiki.org/trunk
https://fediverse.info/explore/people

-On the official Masto app, click 🔍 and browse the trending posts, tags and Community

-On the website, click Explore

Hey #Rust crate maintainers! I've written a crate metadata validator. Check if your crates need fixes:

https://lib.rs/dash