lutoma @lutoma@chaos.social

”TikTok is introducing Americans to a question that Europeans have struggled with for 20 years: a lot of your citizens might use an Internet platform created somewhere that doesn’t know or care about your laws or cultural attitudes and won’t turn up to a committee hearing.”

#privacy #TikTok #tech

Absolute state of GNOME
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mood

Hey liebe #36c3 Congress Besucher, schaut mal bei der #RaumZeitLabor Assembly vorbei! Wir haben coole Blinkekatzenbausätze, Sticker und Postkarten für euch und freuen uns über euren Besuch! 😋

I'm not a network engineer, I'm a relationships counselor for computers who don't want to talk to each other anymore

I CANNOT EVEN

ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

current mood:

TIL – Using conditional entries in .gitconfig to automatically manage #git identities based on the working directory. Nice!

https://dev.to/maxlmator/maintaining-different-git-identities

@ebassi @federicomena if you think about it, web browsers are the ultimate destination of the Unix philosophy:
- alright, then we'll just send an computer program over the pipe first to interpret all the other data we're gonna send.

office goals

@tA @tealturtle

That reminds me of the biggest "dumb, but it works" hack I've ever heard of. The USSR had a televised talent contest and wanted everyone to vote on their favourite performers. But the phone system wasn't up to the task, so they had people turn their lights on to signal approval, and off to signal disapproval. Then the power company measured demand to judge the winners.