Deus Ex Fuumina @fuuko@mastodon.sdf.org

In the board game Pandemic, people work together to solve the problem.

In a capitalist reality, people fight over rolls of toilet paper.

Everybody, keep talking.

It’s very dangerous right now, not only because of the bio threats.

Oppressors win by making those of noble intent think they are alone, that they are powerless.

We have seen, here in the fediverse, that we are NOT alone.

Remember this: Keep talking.

Good morning and wonderful Wednesday Mastodon!

May you do good work today, as the gentleman in this picture did.

Google/Microsoft/Apple's push to make all software "cloud"-based seems really anti-user to me. Setting aside any privacy concerns, it makes software inconveniently slow and gives me more passwords to remember!

I really notice this when comparing Apple's AppStore (a "hybrid" web/native app) to elementary's AppCenter (an offline AppStream-compliant database).

Twitter admits email address and phone number given for security purposes was used for targeted ads
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-emails-phone-number-advertising-privacy/

D&D lets you live out all kinds of fantasies, such as:
-Having everyone call you by your preferred name and gender
-Having a big group of friends who do everything together
-Making a reasonable wage as a freelancer
-Being able to murder the terrible leadership of your country
-Getting 8 hours of sleep

today in caucasian whining #theteacherdidnothingwrong

To go with the c64 I'm giving my uncle, I am including my old SD2IEC, which I will replace with a pi1541.

In addition to that, though, u want to include a couple of games on cartridge.

What are your favorite NTSC C64 games, in general, and on cartridges specifically?

Sidebar about what I want:

I want a modern BBS client that
- is tor aware,
- automatically starts z-modem transfers,
- has an option to automatically fetch and toss posts like as if by NNTP (maybe over nntp?)
- will render images and videos in line
- and will work on desktop and mobile.

Better terminal software will be needed for BBS adoption, IMO.

#Stallman and to some extent the structural constitution of the #GNU project and the #FSF that solely revolves around #rms' vision of the world and society—with absolutely no room for other opinions—has always been problematic. It's indeed not new at all. It has overshadowed and prevented the development of free software to be more culturally diverse and a more politicised effort. Similarly, his dogmatic attitude has created throughout the years a situation where free software communities are having a hard time to be self critical and are effectively unable to evaluate the nature of their discourse. Ultimately, there has been increasing cognitive dissonance between the values they believe sharing and their actions, with sometimes quite aggressive response to even the slightest form of criticism and critique of anything related to software/user freedom. At best, criticism is deflected by tweaking the terminology and the language used, and if needed new definitions of words are created to defuse problematic statements. Hopefully these kind of exposures and open discussions will help move forward work on software and cultural freedom, in general, and not lead to complete implosion.

#FOSS #MIT #Minsky #Epstein

#psa

#LastPass critical vulnerability discovered; users should update (or, better, switch to #pass/#bitwarden)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-bug-leaks-credentials-from-previous-site/