barrycus @Reznik@mastodon.sdf.org

Someone told me they saw Colonel Sanders's bow tie as a little dancing body and now I can't unsee it

man, people are obsessed with being validated. am i right ladies and gentlemen?

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making [it] difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed."

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:

1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.

If like everybody or every family ran their own nextcloud server the internet would be a much cooler place.

New huge study says:
"Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth"
via - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
#veganism #vegan

"Australia Bans Cash For All Purchases Over $10,000 Starting July Of 2019"

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/australia-bans-cash-for-all-purchases-over-10000-starting-july-of-2019

Not The Onion, WTF? The hunger for unchcked digital surveillance has been growing stronger all around the world and it seems it all can only get worse at this point. 😞

Twitter. You know. It's like Mastodon but centralized.

YouTube. Like PeerTube but centralized.

Facebook. Like Friendi.ca but centralized.

WhatsApp. Like Matrix but centralized.

@Purism has broken Calibre AGAIN. I think I can safely say at this point that PureOS is not a serious distro. Now I just need to decide whether to install another distro on my Librem 13 and deal with all the hardware issues like the broken keyboard again, or if I should just chalk it up to a learning experience and ditch it in favor of my old XPS13 which runs Arch perfectly.

I'm reminded to remind those out there who need the reminder.

Friday is a good day to consider giving your instance admin. some financial support.

Mastodon servers make these wonderful interactions with each other possible, and the admins. are watching to keep things smooth for us users.

If nothing else, THANK your admin today.

Thank you, @Curator

Large BBC sound effects library is now available for free download for personal, educational, research & non-commercial use

There are about 16,000 clips

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk

My nephew has an ipad.

He asked his dad how to write games. His dad didn't know. His dad asked me how to write games on an iPad. I told him not to bother.

My nephew asked me how to learn to write games.

I gave him a raspberry pi and a copy of pico 8.

Now he writes computer games.

He couldn't do that on his iPad.

Richard Stallman is saying what @dredmorbius has been saying for a long time now. Data is dangerous, and should not be collected unless absolutely necessary.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance

Ok, so a lot of kids today say minecraft is the most multiplatform game ever, but I think it's Doom

Like, DOOM is on fucking EVERYTHING.
Amiga , IBM PC, BeOs Acorn, macos, GNU/Linux, DOS, windows, all the modern systems, the DS and the Wii, SNES, 64, all MS and sony consoles, ipods, cell phones, mobile OSes, sony ericcson, the fucking zune, the Nspire, web browsers, they even have it running on rockbox, and even hospital monitoring PCs

And the maddening thing is that I KNOW I've missed a few.

Russia Bans 1.8 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/russia-bans-18-million-amazon-and-google-ips-in-attempt-to-block-telegram/

I requested my data from Twitter today.. and I was shocked to see that they know every app I have ever installed on my phones (using this to show relevant ads) AND a bunch of different advertising companies have me as a tailored audience..which included Candy Crush and McDonald's. What?!
#privacy #tech #advertising #data

if a website says "please turn off adblock" i just leave the website

Starbucks picked an odd time to force WiFi customers to cough up personal data

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/starbucks-picked-odd-time-force-wifi-customers-cough-personal-data/
#newsbot