Tad Lispy @lazurski@chaos.social

I've been tentatively tooting for a few days now, so I guess it's about time I did my #introduction !

Hi everyone. I'm a #library #SysAdmin for a UK university by day.

Outside of work I spend far too much time tinkering with #Linux and a collection of #SBCs (mainly #RaspberryPi ), but like to get out to do some #photograhy (mainly landscape & nature).

What seems like a lifetime ago I studied #physics at uni (I have since forgotten most of it!) with a real interest in #cosmology. I do get outside some nights for #astronomy 🔭 but I'm mainly a fair weather astronomer these days.

Also into #SciFi ​ , #classicalmusic ​ and #tea ​

Oh, and I'm not actually a sentient teapot!

Look forward to tooting with you! ​

Decentralization is not the goal. The goal is information and communication services that respect human agency.

Open source is not the goal, the goal is building a commons of software that is free to study, inspect, and improve.

I feel like, as implementors, as people who spend our lives in the digital crawlspaces focused on the details; its easy to lose sight of the why behind the how. I think important to periodically step back and refocus on why we are doing things the way we are doing. What is the desired world state?

Today marks a big milestone for us at Fairphone. We're celebrating the roll out of Android 10 for our #Fairphone 2. That’s 7 years of software support – an industry first for an Android device! 📱💥

How was this possible? Take a look (full video) ➡️ : https://bit.ly/3sSVAiZ

#Mastodon 3.0: A short overview of some of our newest features

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

With Windows Virtual Desktop, the bad old days are coming back | Computerworld
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3444606/with-windows-virtual-desktop-the-bad-old-days-are-coming-back.html

@yukiame @fitheach Not where we live; unless you have a death wish (I don’t) ;)

@fitheach Haha, no: Turkish, US, and now Irish (EU)

Site.js 12.5.0 release: adds macOS Catalina support

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