(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

I tried to signup and it wanted a #PhoneNumber. When I put in my Google Voice number it said, "no virtual numbers allowed." How did it know?? Can I know that?

#Telegram, bless their heart, seems to have completely riffed on #DeltaChat XDC apps idea.

#https://core.telegram.org/bots

I've never been so proud of #EWW #emacs #TextBrowser

I'm generally a believer in the ethics and moral virtue of #OpenSource #Information. But conversation on #AI has illuminated that while Heaven may have open information, Humanity has enough evil in it that open source might not be universally desirable here. #Terrorism #Stupidity #Vice #Evil

Look, ebay, Amazon, reddit, Twitter - - I NEVER want to install the app. Firefox is my app. Stop bugging me about it!

I HATE #PlannedObsolescence #DefectiveByDesign #HouseholdAppliances #Software #Phones

#Java-style object-orientation leading to this funky code, aka #CallbackHell

InputBuilder builder = InputBuilder.create(io).add("disk", size).push("holds").add("on", peg.getName()).markWme("peg").add("disk", size).add("above", getAbove(below)).markWme("above").top();

@javahippie great points about the foundational model having strong opinions about the validity of OSS. Can that be reduced to a judgement call on the foundations? Are foundations that don't value OSS just bad foundations?

For a while now I have held the #OpenSource ideal to be an almost universal good. Recently I've encountered several respectable tech thinkers for whom open source is almost a second thought, and not desirable. Most recently the topic was on #OpenAI stuff. In general the worry seems to be that open sourcing is too much a tool for Bad Actors. Maybe they have a point? Is open sourcing only universally good in a universally good society?

@Joel I'm a "do everything in #emacs" guy, so my mail is via #Gnus, #Getmail, #Notmuch, #BBDB, and integration with #orgmode todo items. So, it took me a while to get my email setup configured, but now it fits like a glove. As I write this on Mastodon, I am one key chord away from creating (C-x m) or checking my email (f9) or searching my email (s-m) or searching my contacts (C-c b b).

@reddit_lisp@mstdn.jp none of these reddit links are working. They all come back with a "301 moved permanently"

I am beginning to think that my #email client setup is too good. For me, writing, reading, and searching email is easier and more pleasant than #Slack or any other messaging platform, and I forget that not everyone has such a positive experience with it. I get baffled when people express email fatigue rather than anything else fatigue.