Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

Look, I'm sorry, but there is simply no way to be a decent human being and a billionaire at the same time.

Not even for the billionaires you "like", like Winfrey or Swift or Gates or lovable ol' Buffet.

You think that's okay because you still don't quite grasp how large a number a billion really is.

The 2024 median American household net worth is $192k, almost certainly over-estimated.

A billionaire's net worth is 5200 times that of a median American household.

@jenniferplusplus I foresee even more challenge on the surveillance front. Like many software geeks, I serve as sysadm to a large extended group. They are not at all up to the task of hardening their lives against the surveillance. I'm speaking here not of noobs, many of them are users for multiple decades.

They face not only the sheer inconvenience of various system-switching actions, but what is, in truth an absolutely *daunting* -- even for me -- amount of configuration and re-learning.

@cstross Do you find enough books away from Kindle? I have been thinking of getting off it, too.

@WarnerCrocker I like the Sazerac, and the price point is only a tad higher than the Bulleit.

@WarnerCrocker I went cheaper, with the Bulleit rye, but I'll be there.

EARLY VOTING IS NOT PREDICTIVE.

Go fucking vote.

These are the bad guys.

Go fucking vote.

Wow. I just followed a link to read an article, and it didn't pop *anything* up.

It didn't ask me to allow notifications. It didn't ask me to authorize cookies. It didn't ask me to register. It didn't ask me to donate. It didn't ask me to disable my ad-blocker (I don't have an ad-blocker, I have a surveillance-blocker.) It had an ad over on the right, which I glanced at.

But. Like. It just let me read the article and go along my merry way.

I forgot how much I miss the old web.

The GOP can't govern, which is not a problem for them, because they don't want to govern.

No. It's not a problem for them, it's a problem for us.

Vote Blue, not just at the top, but all the way to the bottom.

No excuses.

Well. My enemy's enemy is not my friend.

But they *are* my enemy's enemy, and I can live with that.

Pro-tip: when you really don't know how to make something happen, spike it out in a completely separate app, ignoring the app where you eventually want to implement it.

In a separate app, you won't have to navigate all the complexities of your existing app.

You can go *wild* with experimentation. You can, literally, FAFO, in a safe simple space.

https://www.geepawhill.org/2020/06/02/an-intro-to-spikes/

I call it handle-jiggling, when a noob can't just bring down your source and run it, but has to do fifteen other things to get there.

"To get the toilet to stop flushing, you have to jiggle the handle."

When I see it, I fight it.

Why? Cuz handle-jiggling takes thought and time. I want the people who experience my project -- our project -- to just instantly be able to start working with it.

I'mo quote hellsite friend "NotAWolf".

"You're never gonna be a billionaire. But it's not too late to find out what one tastes like."

I keep saying it. If we want better men, and we certainly do, we have to take better care of our boys.

It doesn't matter that the boy's ND, not at all. When any boy -- or for that matter a grown man -- bursts into tears of joy, in pride and delight and support of his father, we should be celebrating that boy, and the family around him.

Any other reaction is shameful and hateful.

It was evil on its very surface.

You didn't have to try it out.

You could see it, you could think your way through seeing it. You chose not to.

That's not on them. That's on you.

I wish y'all would stop recounting your tales of ChatGpt, or CoPilot, or Bard.

I know you think it's delightful how stupid and evil the responses you got were.

Every single time you "prompted", you made a case for it being valuable. You did not mean to. You meant to probe it, and you were tickled about how bad it was.

And the counter, which does not give a fuck about whether you were pleased, ticked up.

@horse Haven't tried it! Do you like it?

Aight. It's after 9 on a Friday night.

Beer me.

Also.

Rye me.

1) Wear a mask.
2) Add alt-text.
3) Resist hate.
4) Burn this motherfucker down.

You can tell it was a good move cuz of how 2nd grader they have responded:

"No. No! *You're* weird!"

@ariadne There's an old proverb, I'd heard it before, but I actually just saw it deployed in the silly spy series I'm binge-ing.

"Forgiveness doesn't change the past, it changes the future."