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owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

"People are destroying the planet to get more cryptomoney, it should be banned."

Oh so like with every other currency.

(Ban them all IMO.)

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

Is there a good geocaching program for iOS that's not proprietary spyware or coin-operated?

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

How come so many German dialects are considered separate languages? Are they really that different? Seems like Skånska should be a different language than the local one then. But only Elfdalian has graduated to separate language, as far as I know, and it's quite different.

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

Actual covid was less painful, I guess we must have had a very mild case. Then, I had fever-like soreness but no fever, now it's outright pain. But also I had pain already now so maybe it's just compounded.

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deerbard@mstdn.io wrote:

I just learned about the most liberal licence on Earth :D

WTFPL

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

#moa #licence #wtfpl

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

Guest network works.
Maybe it decided it hates non-US letters after all, even though they've been in the SSID for years.

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

Latest "old" iPhone trick to try to get me to buy a new one: suddenly the wifi password is "wrong," after years of not touching anything.
Restarting doesn't work.
Re-entering it doesn't work (from password manager so I'm not messing it up.)
Works fine on every other device, including this one.

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

I feel very sore, as if I did a lot of exercise yesterday.
On top of my already sore back and plantar fasciitisised feet.
*Dinosore*

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

*Gets out of bed*
On second thought…
*Gets in bed*

Anathema wrote:

No vital public service that requires subsidies to run should be privately owned. Renationalise post, busses, rail, and water.

Anathema wrote:

Waking up to Gustav Holst’s ‘Jupiter’ playing on repeat in my head

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

I mean, I guess I regret not replacing all of them, but they were soldered in with lead-free solder which is a lot harder to remove than leaded solder so I didn't want to damage anything.

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

I replaced the left-click switch in my #mntreform trackball with a clicky one and I have zero regrets

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• trackball with five buttons. top left is white, others are brown. (remote)

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exelotl@raru.re ("gecko") wrote:

The GBA Jam 2021 results are now live!

https://gbajam21.github.io/results

I'm blown away by how many entries we got and how high quality they were! It's been an honour and a huge learning experience to help organise this. Looking forward to the next one!

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

I found Skype is allowed to be called "Skype for iPhone" so maybe "Mastodon for iPhone" will work and save me this headache. Still thinking about a subtitle though.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Offering a correction for the single word I am typing while entering something into an inhumane interface that is too cramped and never intended for human hands:

Okay. Cool! Thanks!

Offering suggestions for entire phrases and sentences as I am forming my thoughts and typing them on a full sized keyboard, distracting me and robbing me of agency*:

No. Please stop! You're not helping!

* This seems to be popping up in more and more software.

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

"Mastodon: Social Microblogging
Live news from your friends"

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Picking a title for the App Store page is not easy. Just "Mastodon" is taken by someone - I can't find who or what. So needs more words. "for iOS" is redundant and not permitted. "Decentralized" is so long it doesn't leave any characters for the noun. Besides, I don't want any technical jargon. Any words that a random internet user won't immediately recognize. Twitch has it so easy with its "Twitch: Live Game Streaming". Short and clear.

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

@technomancy @charlag Yeah the thing that bothers me other than having to configure various websites before they will work is that PRs exist entirely outside of git, *and* seem superfluous to me since I can contribute just fine without them elsewhere. If it was just an optional web UI on top of standard git features it would be fine and good for me.

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

@owl @charlag github is easier for people who have been trained to use github and nothing else; no question about it. centralization and monopolies are definitely slick and seductive.

but it's possible just to use github as just another random place to store a publicly visible git remote. if someone tells me "hey I have a branch up here with some changes, can you merge them?" I don't care where it's hosted.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

TFW you prefer to visit wikipedia's page about project X over project X's own website to find out what the heck it even is.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Make Tucker Carlson and Fox News legally liable for all the ongoing deaths.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/26/watch-this/

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

your{self, selves}

owl@beach.city ("ugla illfygli") wrote:

Autism is when you're yourself too much

(αὐτός (autós, "self") + -ισμόςis (-ismós, "-ism"))

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

We've got the graphics and the text for the App Store page... The finish line is in view

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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

# Software From Another World

> We undermine not only unions, but every aspect of the worker's life: AirBnB spikes rents, Uber disenfranchises drivers, a thousand streaming services reinvent cable, Amazon fucks everybody, and so on. Despite any niche expertise, these are companies made possible by software, by the lending of software labor to capitalist ends. We can choose to deny them, if we stand together.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Good thing I only saw one, because "wasps" is a hard word to pronounce.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/26/my-what-a-slender-waist-you-have/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

(Also, my history of using Linux is a bit more complicated then I can fit in a toot. I have been consistently using Linux on the desktop for the last decade. Prior to that, there was a few years break from general burnout on all things computer. I mean, for a while, I didn't even have a working computer at home. And prior to that I dual-booted for a long time starting in the mid 90s, and consistently used Linux on small server deployments. Anyhoo....)

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obuza_ba@mastodon.art ("undead one") wrote:

This project is big wip and there are scenes I had to take out of my head. I’ve also posted steps of this pic on https://ko-fi.com/jkkowton 🌞

#MastoArt

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Catholics. As long as you make a big show of being po-faced hypocrites easily offended by others, we others get to make fun of you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/26/reap-what-you-sow/

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