Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

Out of 1200 #curl contributors, 800 have contributed exactly once, and all their contributions were valuable (paraphrasing @bagder).

Think of that next time you speak disparagingly of "drive-by contributors".

#pyconse #pyconse2023

Is anyone working on a version of ActivityPub that’d allow fediverse servers to communicate with something more efficient than JSON? Just curious.

My wife said “when we first got married [15+ years ago] I got the vibe from you and your friend circle that was ‘we want to use tech to change the world’ and now I get the feeling that you’re constantly yelling ‘STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD USING TECH’”

I have never felt more seen.

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

Did you hear about the person who got cooled to absolute zero?

They’re 0K now.

Remember that while a picture tells a thousand words, it uses the same amount of storage as several million.

BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"

No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.

Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.

Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.

They say count sheep to help you get to sleep, but they keep bleating, jumping on the bed and the smell is awful.

Arrived by email this morning. #humour #cartoon #computing #AgentXCartoon

@aral @blepharon

Every time I've brought this up in any thread, the genocide apologists just ignore it.

They don't reply or rebut or try to say it's not true or anything-- it's like the posts are invisible.

- it works on my machine

- well, we ain’t shipping your machine to the customer are we

- you know what you smug son of a- *invents docker*

The reasons we're changing our domain and the impact were a bit too big to fit in last week's post, but as promised, here's what's up:

https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-11-03-from-io-to-org

Started fiddling around my 42nd birthday.

No previous musical experience, very little music listening even.

Spontaneously decided to learn to play Irish Trad, picked the fiddle as the instrument.

It’s been a tough three years, it’s a hard instrument. Was close to tone deaf.

Yesterday I learned a full tune by ear in one day.

Tomorrrow I turn 45.

I’m proud of my progress, even if I still have a lifetime to go.

#IrishTrad #fiddle