Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

The three countries that managed to stave off the increase of the rich-gets-richer wealth gap that has plagued most countries on Earth are Spain, Japan and France. Good job ♥

Not sure how you did it but thanks

When you're in a dystopic society but you're just resigned to it, that's Ohwellian.

Replace every article about Elon Musk with an article about someone fixing/maintaining important infrastructure. A person repairing buses. A person repairing and tweaking wheelchairs. A person tending to a community garden.

@kensanata Well, if I were a paranoid person, I'd suspect a man-in-the-middle attack. Or an overprotective router that thinks it's stopping you from leeching Wi-Fi.

Try using a VPN so you bypass the hotel and see if you still get the warning. If the warning is always there, then you may have done something that messed up your fingerprint calculations. Any SSH or crypto library updates on your laptop since the last uneventful connection?

Of course, this is all guesswork :/

@wakame @robdaemon @humanetech @natecull @theruran

> too much builtin layouting concepts

closest thing we have to a universal gui toolkit and app distribution platform as far as I can tell. I'm not a huge fan of the clusterfuck but I'm also not going to pretend that alternatives with feature parity exist

@pluralistic

The finance sector does have a very important job: distribute tasks and resources. That's capitalism's and finance's only purpose.

It does that one job remarkably crappily. The worst system in human history (if it ends up killing the planet). It's wasteful, rigged, leeching, unfair, meaningless, overly abstracted, destructive, inefficient, evil. Crypto is an even worse version of same.

To replace it we need to know that it does have a purpose, being a resource distributor and labor organizer, and make something that does that in an actual good way.

Capitalism is in a runaway feedback hellscape because selling is itself being sold. Ad firms are advertising and competing. Competion and consumtion is being meta-competed and meta-consumed. It's evolution squared. Who can be the best seller on the cinder?

I know I'm talking to a bot account, FML. Darn bots.

elon can have twitter but he can never have my website

@crazypedia
If another instance can trust I am me enough to put my words in front of their people, why do I need any kind of sign on?

Obviously the constraint of creating a log in for each of these services is artificial, serving a need that isn't strictly technical

One of the earliest realizations I had upon joining #mastodon was how many Twitter accounts exist only to provoke outrage, anger, and controversy according to sone algorithm 👎

@kjetil_kilhavn @pluralistic as an American who lives in Europe and has experienced the health system here, this is absolutely true. Here at least the you get something for the taxes you pay. I'm not a financially rich person, but I live a higher quality of life here than I would in the US.

I'm always astonished to hear that someone actually ran `make test` on one of my projects.

Even more astonished to hear when they all pass ;-)

@dredmorbius @pluralistic I will never forget Ello, largely because about once a month I get a message that says "SvetlanaHotMILF348 is following you on Ello." I log on and report/block SvetlanaHotMILF348, only to have to repeat the operation a month later with CandieeLuvvs69 etc. And so on.

That someone apparently believes that you might be able to make money by follow-spamming on Ello really demonstrates that there are no limits to human optimism.

#spam #socialmedia

I was wondering when the diamond cartel would step up to the plate again and take their rightful place amongst the world's oligrachs.

It would be neat if #hackerspace/#fablab collectives collaborated to improve #FreeCAD. For example: documentation, translations, and even low-hanging fruit issues

#DDoS by the fediverse? Suddenly I got a big spike of traffic to my profile page on my web service, all seemingly from #Mastodon crawlers. I don't know the reason but it worked as a nice DDoS attack for a few seconds.

#haskell in 2022: however would we capture closures while serialising arrows?

#erlang, 1989: hold my beer

There’s a common thread in tech that once you make enough money, maybe you’ll “buy a farm” and live out there with more connection to nature. I’ve often thought about this myself — I grew up in the woods and would love to be surrounded by walking paths and trees instead of sidewalks and cars. But the thing that’s missing in a rural setting is community and the intellectual stimulation of culture. Bookshops and even libraries are mostly gone, and there’s no “third spaces” in rural areas to go to.

Here’s more about time banking including a video: https://timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking/
And here’s the “Living the Change” documentary: https://youtu.be/gq9sg397ee8

Hey friends just a note that Mastodon instances are usually run by just one or two people, and generally in their spare time. If you can spare a buck or two a month to support the hardware/internet costs, it sure helps. Check your home instance to see if they're accepting donations!