Notices by CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)

@ekis I originally dismissed the people complaining about Microsoft acquiring Github as overreacting. Boy, was I wrong

@jwildeboer I hate how Microsoft is not in this list. They're just as evil and intrusive. Might as well add them there.

@jwildeboer is it possible to have both? A non-profit which is a co-op?

@dansup turns out the US was the bad guy all along

@jrballesteros05 I feel deMetaing myself was way harder for me than deGoogling. At least by what was that I had to give up ... with Google essentially nothing but conveniences, with Meta it was essentially my social life. Basically all my friends back in my country of origin and keeping up do date with their lives (because they'll just post life updates on FB and assume everyone saw them), people who refuse to use anything other than messenger.

It was definitely the harder of two choices

@dansup ok, the last part sold it to me

@dansup @supapp you should pivot and make this a messagjng app which only sends the word "sup" to people.

This toot was inspired by the #siliconvalleyhbo Bro app

My god, money just buys you the facade of culture and knowledge rather than the real thing

#richpeople #outoftouch

OMG, they're now talking about why English is the global language and the American is like, "well English is the most descriptive language besides maybe German. Romance languages aren't that good for discribing scientific concepts."

The two genders, I guess: Germanic and romance. Only those two

I'm currently on the train to Copenhagen. Just heard this American talking to his Danish friend. They're rich because they were talking about their boats.

Just heard him complain about Trump but said "At least, musk has a vision for the future in 100 years". His friend says "hopefully he runs for president next time". The American explained to her that he can't but essentially no fucking idea that Musk is currently there acting like he bought the White House

@briankrebs personally, I recommend Linux Mint over Ubuntu to new users. The "app store" they have is great and way more welcoming to those who've never used Linux and Cinnamon is way closer to the Windows UX design than GNOME is

I see now ... we are in the dumbest timeline ...

unfortunately the dumbest timeline isn't that far off from one of the worst

#uselection #climatecrisis #UkraineWar #middleeast

Nothing pisses me off more than the people going, "oh it's alright. Nothing will change. America is not really gonna become a dictatorship!"

With the climate crisis and ever increasing war, we do not have the luxury to be nonchalant. Complacently will be the death of the world

Me tooting about the world state of events in 2026

It'd be funny if the only way of parodying #infowars is to make it report actual news simply because there's nothing crazy enough they could come up with which Alex Jones hasn't already said

and it'd the boring kind of news as well. None of the doomer headlines. Something about small tax bills and libraries being opened. I swear that would piss Alex Jones off the most

@killyourfm oof yeah. Tbh, I'm quite surprised your grandma uses Facebook. Old people in my country never touched a PC or smartphone and they never will

@killyourfm oof that is evil. I'm so glad I deleted Facebook entirely and i hate how everyone in my life uses it primarily

@tinydoctor as much fun this is ... I think it'd be better for menstruating people to use apps which don't send data at all such as Drip. That's what I'd recommend at least.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drip&hl=en-US

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/drip/id1584564949

@eribosot funny thing is engineers aren't even THAT good at the mathematics part. At least they tend to the subject of many jokes by mathematicians and physicists.

Not saying physicists also don't suffer from this problem, unfortunately they do. But my god, do engineers really try to troubleshoot EVERYTHING in such a dumb manner.

@dansup per my previous toot: https://mastodon.social/@engravecavedave/113271924295802065, the level which Meta is embracing, extending, and extinguishing fedi and Pixelfed is aggressive for such a small platform (in relation to the Big Tech number of users). Like, they didn't do this as aggressively to Bluesky or Twitter back in the day. Since Zucc is the only smart billionaire imo (low bar, I know), I believe that unlike the other bigger platforms he finds fedi and the open social media it embodies to be the only legit threat