Zoé @uint8_t@chaos.social

From Linux Magazine, Feb 2019

#SurveillanceCapitalism

non-programmers are an important part of open source projects. non-programmer contributions are valid and useful and not second tier or otherwise less valuable.

it's easy to say programmers are the only value-add when you're fortunate enough to have enough non-programmers that you can take them for granted.

if you take away the feature requests, translations, and general chatter - many OSS projects would have never been more than flawed, narrow use case tech demos.

Linux on the desktop: because it's easier to accept community-driven brokenness than profit-driven misbehavior

these articles keep making the unstated assumption that Mastodon needs more than a threshold number of users in order to survive. Y'all remember it's not a company making money off of users, right?

Tootchievement Unlocked: So Much for the Tolerant Left
Block 10 hate speech instances.

Tootchievement Unlocked: Gone but not Forgotten
Delete and redraft a post after someone has already boosted it, and receive a boost from the same person on the new post.

Tootchievement Unlocked: You, but Stronger
Reply to someone's joke toot with a variation on their joke, and receive more boosts and favourites than them.

@uint8_t Awesome. Stickers will be ordered.

Fnord des Tages:
Lehnt ein System eine Verbindung mit ICMP Administratively prohibited ab (iptables -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-admin-prohibited), reagiert libc mit EHOSTUNREACH, was wiederum mit "No route to host" kommentiert wird.

Sehr weit ab vom eigentlichen Fehlergrund, und natürlich "Machen wir schon so lange so, können wir nicht ändern, weil dann gehen Dinge kaputt" :D

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421375

@uint8_t I feel much safer now.

@uint8_t aren't we all somewhat broken though?..

the best part of using linux is getting to mess with the plumbing of your system.
Don't like the way it handles sleep mode when you close the lid? you can just install a different power management event handler, and change that to suit yourself. roll up your sleeves, write some scripts, and make the system your own.

This Is The Exhausted Face Of Science

getting the switch tomorrow :)))

@root @Zoe id recommend bitwarden over lastpass personally. not tried keepass so cant comment but id def avoid lastpass; their security isnt great

nothing feels more powerful than the knowledge that you can repair and modify the machines you own