moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town
New account: @ebel
If they didn’t already exist, public libraries would strike people as the most outlandish left-wing idea.
Source https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/907640495362453504
Never fear people! I managed to slay one of the Divine Beasts in Zelda: Breath of the Wild! Also I bought a Zelda t-shirt!
android is the new windows
-ships with heavy multi-GB OS and preinstalled apps you don't want
- so widespread that it's difficult to find apps written for anything else (other than The Apple One)
- immediately has to download several GB of updates when you start the device the first time
- tries to lock down the device so that the stock OS is the only thing that can run on it
the only difference is, android is ostensibly open source, so barely anyone's bothered to write an OS that isn't android-based
Right, setting my crafting plan into action by ordering some tools.
Let's play with metal!
Today is a relaxing day. So I'm listening to cheesy 90s dance music.
"Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Tech cannot fix culture.
Can we build a decentralized reddit/usenet clone out of ActivityPub?
#Tech professionals choosing Gmail, MacOS, logged-in Google Maps, the App Store, Chrome's predictive features, iCloud… in the name of convenience, reliability and speed are like chefs or nutritionists eating at McDonald's or KFC every other day because it's quick and easy and it tastes great.
I love this phrase "All I want from you is your silence". 👍🙂
RT @starbreaker: I told a guy on Reddit who was bitching about #FatAcceptance: "I don't need or want your acceptance. You're just some nobody on the Internet, and I don't care if you accept me or not. All I want from you is your silence. Think what you will, but keep your opinions and unsolicited advice to yourself."
Some people can ignore "identity politics" as they think they don't have an identity, so strongly are straight white cis men seen as default
Source. https://twitter.com/zoeblade/status/906438332372144129
We are warriors against the #gender binary, and expression is our weapon.
We are here and we exist.
(yoinked from a friend)
Here's a list of things wrong with the vote counting software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190513
You know there's people who install 5 anti-viruses because they're so afraid they're just gonna catch one while idling; and then there's people who set a test/test password on voting software plugged into the internet
The #Irish language has a weird quirk where "black person" (ie of African decent) is "duine gorm", literally "blue person". What happened when a non-Irish speaking American tried to make a "Blue Lives Matter" t-shirt in Irish? 🙂 That's right, they accidentally make a "Black Lives Matter" shirt
https://thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/even-racists-got-the-blues/ (which also details the horrible translation they did in other ways)
#BlackLivesMatter
Facebook has the nearly most vicious political discourse I've ever seen. All under real names.
That PA "anonymous" theory of creating jackasses isn't looking too good these days.
If I make something in metal, it could last for thousands of years. Which is very appealing.
The more I think about this, the more I like rivers. They go on a long way, but aren't really solid, being just water that changes. They connect things.
Lovely culture clash moment in the London cafe I'm sat in.
US man to waiter: Hi! Hey, what's your name?
Waiter, with grave suspicion: Why?
Source https://twitter.com/kj_charles/status/904977150167666690