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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:
Lots to take in from this long op-ed from @pluralistic, but this bit popped (pooped?) for me: “And “app” is just a euphemism for “a web page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to mod it, to protect the labour, consumer and privacy rights of its user”.” https://t.co/6fnHw1DPPX
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Tonight -- and by popular demand! -- @ahl and I will be talking with our @oxidecomputer colleagues working on the Crucible storage service at the heart of the rack. As with all things storage, there are war stories aplenty; join us at 5p Pacific, today!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You can see pictures of the shuttle mounted to the "SCA" here:
https://www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-sts-3-columbias-third-mission-to-space/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Ha! So relatable for anybody who lived there:
"So much gypsum dust covered Columbia that Bolden recalled, "I flew it several flights later on my first flight, STS-61-C, and when we got on orbit, there was still gypsum coming out of everything! They thought they had cleaned it ... but it was just unreal what it had done!" Dust continued to be found in the spacecraft for the rest of its career."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
A cool thing that happened while I lived there is that they diverted the space shuttle to land there one time (STS-3). We got to go out and see the shuttle before they retrieved it with a boeing or whatever. I also saw the shuttle mounted on the boeing as it was being flown out.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
astra_underscore@wetdry.world ("Astra, gender detritovore") wrote:
a fedi instance is like a rock, and its users are like the bugs that hangout under that rock
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I suppose that attitude is one of the reasons the place was chosen to detonate the first atomic bomb.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"White Sands, New Mexico. A 5,000 square mile tract of barren, sun baked wasteland..." Ah, yes. I guess one person's wasteland can be another person's backyard. Takes me back to my youth...
Quote is from here:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:
What I'm listening to today: "Labi Siffre - Let's Pretend."
Labi Siffre is a singer/songwriter who had a successful solo career in the 1970s. These days, he’s probably most recognizeable indirectly — Eminem’s Top 40 hit "My Name Is" is entirely built around a sample from the back half of Labi Siffre’s 1975 song "I Got The."
I think that’s a shame, because Siffre’s original work is really great, and I think he deserves way more recognition. He’s a Black, openly polyamorous, openly gay man, an antiracist, and his lyrics are packed with so much love for the good in humanity.
This is "Let’s Pretend," off his 1973 "For The Children" album, and it’s a protest song. It’s anti-war, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and captures his disillusionment with the profound gap between the professed ideals of religion and its leaders’ actions. It’s a savagely critcical song, but takes the high road of love to express it. It’s beautiful, and I’m feeling its message more than ever these days.
If you’d like to read a bit more about Labi Siffre, this interview with him from 2022 is a very good read: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/31/i-had-the-perfect-life-then-both-my-husbands-died-singer-labi-siffre-on-love-loss-and-happiness
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
the year is 2025. in order to signal to the fediverse that you'd rather not have your toots exploited by third-party services you've not signed up for, you must include 73 variations of the #nobot hashtag in your profile, leaving you seventeen characters with which to describe yourself and your interests.
then, a new project is announced. to opt out, you must add the #NoHinkyHijinksPrettyPlease hashtag to your profile.
there is no better way to approach any of this.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
silviamaggi@mastodon.design ("Silvia Maggi") wrote:
On my inspiration series, Design, Digested, I share articles about #Design, #UX, and other topics that I find interesting.
It’s far too easier to find articles hosted on sites I dislike (Medium, Substack, and LinkedIn are the main culprits), and I’m reluctant to rely on those. It’d be great, and more inline with my values to share what people write on their websites.
#AskFedi: Are there any design blogs that I should be aware of? Thank you!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I think I get it now. When you see job postings that require 20 years experience for a technology that was released a couple of years ago, they're talking internet years, right? Like a 7:1 or maybe 10:1 ratio? That's probably it. Let's see... I have at least 210 years work experience then. Cool, cool.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Just exposing my juvenile delinquent past for all to see this morning.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TFW when things are really quiet and you're intently focusing on a task and your brain starts blasting "Brass Monkey" at you.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Fifteen years ago, I joined a team of godless evolutionists on an invasion of the Creation "Museum". I've still got the t-shirt.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/12/merry-darwin-day/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
This should be widely read, especially by the #cybersecurity community.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I realize now…Joel Osteen is Keyser Söze.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/12/joel-osteen-devastated/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
As an aside, there's a lot of IANAL commenting and pondering about enforceable software licenses. But from what I've seen of this world, licenses are only enforceable to the extent you have power, money, or influence.
If you don't have those things, and it suits your purposes, I say choose a license that is meaningful and aligns with your values. The worst that may happen is the people you don't want using your software won't. And maybe some like minded people will find you and help out.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That post made me think about software licenses from a "freedom of association" and "paradox of tolerance" framing. Not that software licenses alone can solve these issues, but a license can be a declaration of intent and have some impact, especially when combined with other activity.
These licenses are important enough for Google et al. to pay employees to badger new open source projects to change their licenses to permissive licenses. 🤔
[1] https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/111917942164870700
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:
New blogpost: An introduction to 'ethical licensing'
Technology ... has always been political. I’ve very little time for discussions which try to separate “tech” and “politics”.
The same is true with licensing models.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen more people talking about “ethical licensing”. And, while I’ve yet to see an “ethical licence” come up in the course of my work, I thought it might be an interesting topic for a blog post.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
StefanThinks@beige.party wrote:
If they ever make a Jack Dorsey biopic, they should cast Peter Dinklage.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
God's team won, I guess.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:
When people say “RSS is dead” what they really mean is “we couldn’t figure out a way to monetise RSS.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
When I was in my early 20’s, I hustled my ass off. I worked 2 jobs and a side hustle. I drank 8 cups of coffee a day and popped No Doz pills to work at night.
And then I burned the fuck out. And crashed hard.
And it wasn’t worth it.There’s a lot of folks who will tell you: “grind to the point of exhaustion. Chase wealth and rest later. Make work your only religion.”
That advice is poison. It will leave you broken and hurt and tired and alone.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ian@hachyderm.io ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:
I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM
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BootedUp@universeodon.com ("Jimbo93") wrote:
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Donald Trump’s remarks
“On 9/11, when America was under attack, NATO nations all mobilized to come to our defense and fought alongside us to crush al Qaeda. They didn’t ask us for money. They didn’t put strings on it. That is the kind of iron-clad commitment that has kept Western democracies — including our own — alive for 75 years.
“For Donald Trump to publicly signal to Vladimir Putin that he can take as much of Europe as he wants, and we will sit by and cheer him on, isn’t just breaking the promise the United States has made, and it isn’t just threatening Europe. It is encouraging World War III, which will hit our shores and cost American lives.
“It is the kind of statement that can only come from a deranged and twisted mind. I do not say this lightly: The lives of every American, both in uniform and civilian, are at severe risk if Donald Trump wins this election.”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
KANSAS CITY
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:
Honestly, I’d watch this movie.
#cat #SchrodingersCat #quantum #QuantumTunneling #Schrodinger #physics #meme #funny
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
kyleve@mastodon.online ("Kyle 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Where are the crypto commercials
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Turn off those Super Bowl commercials! And skip church!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/11/christ-capitalism-and-crime-go-hand-in-hand/
![Schrödinger's Cat has escaped from the box using Quantum Tunneling and is now looking for Schrödinger. [photo of a very cross looking small white cat]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/111/915/596/076/597/068/original/df82c05fa43b13e4.jpeg){kind=link}
