Coffee & Aspirin @deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org

@NYbill @mnw C'mon Bill, I'm going up Sat, home Sunday, no days off.

Over the years, people have asked when #FreedomBox would be ready.

We're about to answer them.

We're announcing big news in our session at #LibrePlanet hosted by @fsf

Watch "Saving democracy with the Web's infrastructure" on March 24, 16:20-17:05 EDT.

Stream: https://libreplanet.org/2019/live/

Here's another free #opensource #3d model of a luminaire. It's an upright lamp that is sold from KMart in #Australia

Every day, I'm releasing more and more models in the world's first #radiance 3d model repository, where models contain physically measured material properties for light simulation.

https://radiance.thinkmoult.com/html/luminaire-kmart-upright-floor-lamp.html

Modeled with #blender

#mastoart #art #creativetoots

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

A lot of cool work has gotten done by customers in my shop. I've seen people working on new construction technology, new medical technology, several books have been written here over the years, &c.

When Adam delved and Eve compiled / Who was then the nerd, my child?

I'm looking for literature (articles, blog posts, books) that covers "succession planning" for IT/sysadmin in activist groups. Like, for a volunteer group, what happens if your IT person just leaves? What are best practices so that the group isn't locked out of their web hosting etc (simply through lack of information rather than malice on the previous IT person's fault)

After 12 years, I'm getting back into OS development with #Retro #Forth.

Using my standard VM and image, with a few new words to allow access to physical RAM and I/O ports, I now have a functional system with text display, serial, cmos rtc, & ATA drivers in Forth. The keyboard driver is in assembly, the MISC VM is in C. Boots to the listener, also has a block editor.

It's now as functional as the last x86-assembly version (Retro9, 2007), but with most things actually in Forth this time.

@zatnosk I do, via podcast form:

http://openmetalcast.com/ 😁

Folks, if you can't handle the fact that your public posts are readable by anyone, and that anyone may contribute, then either don't post publicly, or avoid the Fediverse like the plague. Right now, you're just undermining the very value proposition the Fediverse was intended to create in the first place.

Great blogpost by @brainwane about how the conveniences of our modern day systems end up paradoxically resulting in growing anxieties that aren't your fault https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/03/21/0

it occurs to me that what in IT we call "security" in most other engineering disciplines would be called "basic safety engineering", or even, "material science"

Missing features:

- Hide this post (without blocking or muting or reporting the poster)
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a friend and i just found out our campaign to keep amazon alexas from being deployed in public spaces on campus was successful 😎 Fuck Bezos Fuck Surveillance Capitalism Digital Socialism Forever 😎

Jenn Schiffer, director of community at Glitch, called Glitch a friendly community in order to scare off people who don't like being friendly

Words ruin her day. What's the problem with words? They spread hate, thwart other speech, distract people

Glitch lets you publish a lot of words, in a programming language or otherwise; but also it assigns random words to your projects when you haven't named them yourself yet

How to keep these friendly?

#wordHack

Gentle reminder to not mock people for being excited about trying something new just because it’s well inside your comfort zone. There are so many valid reasons someone might just be discovering it—it’s never too late. Be excited for them!