Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

The year is 2024. Diagramming software sucks so hard it's far better and easier to just make ASCII art in emacs (well, Unicode, it is the 21st century after all). Hashtag dystopianfutures

A big, professional company having its 6-digit-priced firewall appliances getting free remote code execution with a single `X-PAN-AUTHCHECK: off` header makes me think OpenWrt et al is not that unprofessional after all

Fuck scaling to match Twitter.
Scale is the problem

I'll be reposting this regularly because we all need to feel its message deep in our bones:

Apartheid was "Legal"

Slavery was "Legal"

Colonialism was "Legal"

LEGALITY IS A CONSTRUCT

of the Powerful

not of Justice

Working based on interoperable specifications is value to users and developers. Development teams get the freedom to exchange component implementations which is beneficial to the user. Other developers can team up to replace a whole tool or app with another interoperable one, providing a second level of "freedom to exit". Its true for #activitypub and is true for our e-mail Standards and #openpgp based end-to-end encryption. Protocols are the fundamental source to provide freedom of exit.

Woa, someone sending a patch for #Conky on #HaikuOS and it's not even me 🙂

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/pull/2079

@codinghorror agree completely. I don’t understand how well educated civilized people watch those barbaric shows and and the same time argue with Trump election or with war in Ukraine. That’s what you deserve

this laptop has the absolute worst display possible
high enough DPI that I have to use window's DPI scaling to make it usable
low enough DPI that I can still see the blurry pixels that result from the bad scaling

Had to open excel for the first time in over a year today and it immediately froze on a single worksheet workbook with ~200 rows and 6 columns 🤦‍♀️

IT KNOWS…. (How much I hate excel)

@visidata FOREVER! ✊

@notjustbikes

Yowza, that went 0-100 real quick. You know, if I was being deliberately obtuse to the thesis of your video, I would say that the end scenario could again evolve. The cars could be coalesced into bigger longer cars for efficiency and savings on battery, air resistance and electronics. They could run on pre defined schedules based on known demand patterns. You could even replace the rubber tires and the asphalt with steel tires and tracks for better efficiency.

The from:me operator of Mastodon restricts search to only the toots posted by my account. I use this feature all the time to retrieve old posts with links or resources I need to revisit.

#mastodon #fediverse #tips

@ma_ui @sergiodomeyko @palin @Strandjunker I don't think that's the case. A lot of those dictatorships were installed by the US or other meddling. Look at Zapatistas in Mexico or the long democratic traditions in many latam countries. Where the tradition hasn't been broken, there's no more authoritarian leaders than in the "west" in my opinion.

@codinghorror @marcoarment Does “performative radicalism” include fighting to save the lives of another couple hundred thousand Palestinians? Or are you going to spend the entirety of the next 2 months trying to get Biden to implement an arms embargo now that your acquiescence to Democrats sociopathy has no value? Or was everything you said then and now all bullshit? Why, exactly, do you think you have any grounds to provide advice?

@tante it never did, though not just for that reason

(when i read "open source", i think a corporate-aligned thing where the primary purpose is to cut costs and exploit)

“Social media friends aren’t real friends.”

BS. There are souls I’ve met on social media that have shared themselves openly and honestly, who have been genuine in their interaction, as much as anyone I’ve met in “real life.”

I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff