Coffee & Aspirin @deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org

Google may terminate your account if you're not profitable

"Non profitable" users:
- Children
- Adblock users
- Anonymous users
- Low-traffic videos
- etc

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/google-may-terminate-your-account-if-youre-not-profitable.html

I want to host a "family social network" so we can get rid of iCloud and share photos of the children growing up without giving our data to the GMAFIA. This led me to lay an eye on #hubzilla, #zap and the #zot protocol

#zot based social networks seem technically superior to #activitypub based ones (such as Mastodon), but unfortunately its general design does not appeal to the average user.

One of Mastodon's strengths was to offer a modern design, appealing to curious users

7 Steps To A Far Less Intrusive And More Mindful Internet Experience

We have a great deal of personal power and authority to choose more human-friendly services as our tools of choice. Here are some options.

https://markosaric.com/surveillance-capitalism/

solid rental history; keeps stuff clean; neurodivergent; non-smoker/-vaper; serves the all-indoor calico in my pinned toots, hmu for more details!

In Twitter Jail for saying that if you fuck with Marge, I'll fuck with you. Which... fair cop, that's technically a threat of violence, so in the meanwhile, back to Mastodon.

How y'all doin'?

What do we think of this, Fediverse?

WT:Social
https://wt.social/

I don't want to add another single god-damn cloud service to my life.

I just thought of a cake in the shape of a Hilbert curve to optimize for the best part of the cake: the edges, then I discovered someone already made it! I'm glad that there are brains out there that think about the same stuff as me.

https://mpetroff.net/2019/04/hilbert-curve-cake/#more-2810

https://rootsofprogress.org/instant-stone-just-add-water

> This basic technology has been known since prehistoric times: the kilning of limestone is older than pottery, much older than metalworking, and possibly older than agriculture. But over the millenia, better formulas for cement have been created, with superior mixtures of ingredients and improved processes.

Plus a follow up: https://rootsofprogress.org/cement-redux

#chemistry #history

Made a little demo, "Images from Wikidata", where you can enter a term in one of six languages, and it tries to get an image for it, via the Wikidata API.

Examples: try "granite" or "Obama" in English, "ordinateur" in French, "Traurigkeit" in German, etc. http://www.kmjn.org/notes/images_from_wikidata.html

Ask a question on IRC then immediately figure out the answer on your own Driven Development

RT @OpenSourceOrg@twitter.com
It is because of our shared history and our commitment to elevating the very best qualities of the open source movement that we choose to make this statement:

https://opensource.org/node/1018

RT @abbycabs@twitter.com
I’ve always been interested in drawing digitally but never have. And now, a 10 year old is demonstrating how she creates digital characters using open source @Krita_Painting@twitter.com and it’s MAGICAL ✨🧙‍♀️

Thank you #SeaGL2019

@thegibson
If it were Lou's Evil Infosec Conf, I would consider flying out on my private jet with my cat.

@mako 's excellent #SeaGL2019 #keynote finished with an invitation to continue the work on peer production

#SeaGL #FLOSSevent #FLOSSconf #Seattle #FLOX

#seagl2019 Mako at the helm. "Strategic openness is strategic closedness"

i heard there was a secret plum
i really meant to save you some
but you don't really care for breakfast, do you

Updated Debian 10: 10.2 released https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20191116

Ok procrastinators, it's your moment to shine! The #CopyleftConf CFP is open until the end of today (November 17th) anywhere on earth, so get those last minute proposals in. https://2020.copyleftconf.org/program/call-for-proposals

@kanyewest@twitter.com @KimKardashian@twitter.com Eigenlijk had ik moeten zeggen dat wanneer zelfs extreemrechtse rijke Amerikanen een probleem zien in #ZwartePiet, het wel heeeeeeel erg moet zijn! ,,,