Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:

There is none.

This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).

You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.

Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.

#fediTips

Maybe we can help all of them get to Mars faster. Put our heads together, bring our various skills together, volunteer, and send Bezos, Musk and the rest of them there just like they want.

My CSS layout skills are pretty good these days and I can hand-craft SVG in a text editor. I cannot, however, drive GIMP to do even simple things any more. I used to, but it's much much quicker for me to mark up what I want some other way and just take a screenshot.

GIMP is a complex tool that lets you do very complex things, but it does not make the simple things simple.

"Libraries in these scenarios are no longer custodians for the ages of anything, whether tangible or intangible, but rather poolers of funding to pay for fleeting access to knowledge elsewhere."

#JonathanZittrain, 2021

@mike
> for electricity generation I think it's possible quickly if we spend enough.

... or reduce usage enough. Imagine a small datacentre in each apartment building where it gets cold in the winter, that redirects its waste heat into the central heating system. What about in the summer? Turn them off/ down and default to mirror servers in the opposite hemisphere. For that matter, imagine household space heaters that run power through a #HoloChain server instead of a resistor.
@Wolf480pl

"I am like the grass, I thought. My efforts prevent the erosion from being worse. Even if the flood washes away my efforts, my resistance will have absorbed some of the flood's energy and lessened the erosion that otherwise would have happened."

#SeeingNature #PaulKrafel #holochain

The price of not getting stuck in one's ways as one gets older is a constant, painful, reassessment of almost everything.

Extrapolating a thing which is true within a certain context as being true in all contexts can be one of the most harmful ways of thinking.

"Conservatives don't like this blaming of the market; if there is a problem with the economy, in their hearts, they know the true cause must be government."

#JosephStiglitz, 'Freefall', 2010

me with the simplistic moral framework of an alienated teenager: giant corporations are evil.

me later, as a mature grown up person who works for a living and understands that things are complicated: giant corporations are just made up of humans and mostly people are doing their best and there are lots of complex reasons that people and systems do what they do, many of them pretty understandable in context.

me now: giant corporations are evil.

@NGIZero first off, you’re expecting google to do something good, the same company that took AOSP and turned it into a spyware machine. Second, the customers who invested in the service by buying games and hardware do deserve their money back. It’s theirs, it’s not of the FOSS community, nor of google (as google rightfully understands).

*nod*. plus, it's not at all bad to remind the audience when corpses could do good and choose not to

@NGIZero Are you serious right now? You do know what Google is, right? You do understand what their business model is? I thought NGI/NLnet was purportedly about finding and supporting *alternatives* to surveillance capitalists like Google, Meta, etc., not trying to improve their PR by perpetuating the myth that they’re generally a force for good who sometimes (often) make silly mistakes.

Do better.

#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet

We are still a massive €254 short for the server bills for mstdn.social, misskey.ai, mastodon.coffee, pixey.org and some more free open source services ​

Hopefully next month I can pay most of it with a new job but that doesn't help now..

If you can, please think about supporting me in paying the bills for the various #Fediverse services I host for free❤️

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost

If not me perhaps your own server admin ​​

Hot take: it is useful to add issues to your issue tracker even when it's technically an "upstream problem":

* it makes it easier to find the issue for others running into it
* it provides a place for users to share workaround for this particular instance of the problem
* it reminds you to help upstream fix it
* sometimes there is a fix in using upstream differently (or even replacing it)

Debian gets this right and even has some nice standardized metadata for this (https://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage#Working_with_upstream)