josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@prettygood How are you doing? Did they tell you to cut on your salt consumption from now on, and all that?

@BitBun Good luck! I'm on the same situation right now. I need to leave this company I work for and I've seen how hard it is to switch these days.

@kaia Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.

@kaia At least I'm on vacation now, so I don't have to fix that shit.

@kaia At least you didn't have eight months of your work thrown away by a retarded fatso with delusions of grandeur on the day we had to present it to the client. Also, nobody in the office speaks to me anymore because it was “not the time to speak about it.”

@LibrosdeBabel Yo puedo decir que los conocía cuando la tienda era, literalmente, del tamaño de un dormitorio pequeño. Abajo había un sótano donde organizaban partidas de rol. Ahora es mucho más grande, claro, pero da igual, porque la mayoría de sus ventas son online, si no me equivoco.

Un detalle bonito es que, aunque han cambiado de ubicación varias veces, nunca se han ido del barrio.

@mattskala To me it is, because I don't want to read that. I want to know if the profile is active, if it is interesting, not if it was years ago. The “read this first” info can go in the bio. Actually, if they asked me, I'd say that's where it belongs.

@mattskala To be honest, I think most people use pinned posts as a sort of “greatest hits” and that's definitely annoying, at least for me. You go into someone's profile to see what kind of things they say, find out if they're worth a follow, and all you see are pinned posts from 2021. Not even introductions, just normal posts.

I'm not saying the use case you described doesn't happen, of course it does, but in my experience it's the exception, not the rule.

@rin Don't you have botijos in Malaysia? Or botas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botijo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bota_bag

(No good examples of their correct use in those pages, sadly.)

@prettygood That's not even a word. Fried would be ‘frito’. Interestingly, we may say that with the meaning of being sick of something or being pissed off by something. Or you may say that if you haven't slept in a while and your batteries are drained, but it's not common, at least where I live.

@prettygood No.

@alcinnz Whoever is framing that as a matter of ideological purity is missing the point (either intentionally or otherwise). Software freedom is a practical issue: do we want software by and for BigTech, or by and for the People, given how important software has become in our daily lives?

Seeing it from this angle, one could say software freedom is part of the same movement that opposes capitalism by growing your own food, or consuming locally or more responsibly. The winning point of the GPL is that it discourages corporations from using people's work and, thus, from taking over their efforts. If you grow your own food, but then sell it to BigAggro, what have you achieved?

So, when someone criticises someone else's ideas about software as being “hollier than thou”, I think they are (again, intentionally or otherwise) sellouts or useful idiots for capitalism. We need to be radical about it.

@sullybiker Best of luck. In September it will be my turn.