Notices by Andy Wootton (woo@fosstodon.org)

@aral Yes, but no. It should be possible to organise capitalism so people are rewarded for having and risking capital, without punishing those who don't have it, we just didn't choose to do that because our electoral systems are 'winner takes all" too.

@mattly This is also my experience of "Uninteruptable", unless you include UTP tests, which failed.

@bmacDonald94 And "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Samuel_Johnson (a young lad local to me, though on a different timeline.)

@Catawu @mcc Prisoners don't vote in sufficient numbers to make much difference. If they did, I'd have other objections.
I recently discovered I don't like criminals having any say in the laws of the land. When they are rehabilitated, they can vote again.
Democracy is too blunt an instrument for improving prisons

@thomasfuchs Yeah but I thought that about sound files :-)

PNG is lossless but BIG.

@jbm @thomasfuchs I'm very old. Vinyl and CDs 'are my jam', as the hip cats say. I (my son actually) used MP3 then moved to FLAC on a Cowan player when FOSS picked it.

@thomasfuchs I'm currently scanning monochrome photographic prints from the 1940s and trying to guess if JPEG, PNG or PDF will last longest :-/.

@scottjshapiro Mastodon isn't a clone. It has significant differences which create surprisingly different behaviours; as does the instance you choose and the culture of the people with the interests it serves.