Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

I never actually got around to deleting my twitter account, which claims to have 5309 followers (most of those must be bots, because I had closer to 4000 when I stopped using the site in 2017) https://mobile.twitter.com/technomancy

every so often I log back on to post about the fediverse, but I have no idea if that's actually helping because ... I don't actually use the site, so how would I tell?

has anyone else kept their account active to try to raise fediverse awareness? does it work?

looking for prior art: has anyone used the fediverse as a platform for interactive fiction or similar storytelling models?

@realcaseyrollins@civiq.social @shibaprasad

I prefer apps when they use a common protocol - Mastodon apps, IRC clients, XMPP programs, etc. That's even true for non-social media: I prefer IMAP clients to webmail pages, dedicated music players to streaming webapps, and so on.

Apps that speak some opaque undocumented protocol on the wire are much less welcome - a browser parsing HTML may give me less interface control than the above examples, but at least it doesn't hide what it's doing.

I'm convinced there's no current way to get the sound on my new laptop to work in #Linux. It's only a 6-month-old model. I've tried a few hda_intel_snd configurations that worked on similar models 8-12 months ago, but nothing works yet. The sound does play but some frequencies crackle, so it probably doesn't know what some pins do? I can't do anything more without applying patches, & I don't want to risk breaking the speakers so I'm just gonna wait a few more months. (Model: #Asus GL531GT) #Alsa

Fun fact: #Asus has the worst-labelled modes in the #Alsa documention: https://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt 😛 asus1 through asus8 have the same non-description

"FASHION" by Virgil Abloh - From Discover on Google https://www.leathercaresupply.com/blogs/knowledge-base/fashion-by-virgil-abloh

Except Reddit (Boost for Mobile) I like using Desktop web version for almost all social media outlets. Is it only me or anyone else feels the same?!

Lunch time

Lately it's been weird because I've been worrying so much about the weather being so nice in late December and worrying about what this means

but this is also the reason this is the best winter I've ever had, in a way

Ex-Christian publication editor who quit says he had 'no other choice' after pro-Trump editorial https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/politics/napp-nazworth-christian-editor-trump-cnntv/index.html #CNN #news #global #bot

Why Startups Fail. In an infographic.

can someone link me to the post everybody's subposting about

No headache this morning, for the first time since that awful migraine! Holy heck this is nice.

@realcaseyrollins @Hedieh Thanks for the link, Casey.

Opera has a built in and free VPN also, but there's some concerns about privacy since they are now under a Chines company control. A nice browser, Chromium derived too, like Brave.

Haven't tried it lately, maybe I should, but Waterfox is working so well, and has all the addons I need.

Dysphoria Dump™

Russian journalist out of a job after asking Putin question

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50901504

Andrew Yang 🧢 Retweeted:
Self-driving taxis have officially landed in Las Vegas

https://pic.twitter.com/Oh1K9XaRRF