Notices by a libi rose (rose_alibi@post.lurk.org), page 3

@charliejane i know you are getting recs for stickermule, but their ceo is notoriously anti-lgbtq+ ... if you want an excellent independent, stickerguy.com is run by old punks in reno

@ntnsndr in theory, yes. in practice, who is involved?

@MLE_online *extremely out of touch voice* but then you can't precisely control the amount of salt you're using

@ntnsndr it's the second part i struggle with. happy to respect elders that deserve it, but my life has been full of folks who expected respect simply because they were older than me.

@ntnsndr fair.
you might have them look at the cyberpunk handbook from st. jude/r.u. sirius and think about why hackers (and specifically st. jude) might make a "fakebook". i consider that one an obscured manifesto

@ntnsndr are they reading Wark?

@loriemerson shock and horror lolol

@ntnsndr too kind. i have thought about reprinting it poster sized though

love walking by @ntnsndr 's office and seeing one of my favorite drawings I've ever done on the door

imagine being so absolutely vile a person that people celebrate your death like fucking mardi gras

the bland little obituary that just played on the news, oh my god

someone at npr is barely restraining themselves

AWS is the worst, discuss.

and don't tell me to use something other than AWS, we're stuck with it for the lab website til someone builds us a different one.

ever thought about how someone who, through various life circumstances, changes phone numbers every 6 months deals with 2FA? someone whose belongings regularly get stolen by the "authorities" and thrown in the trash?

random reminder that if you are insisting on 2FA for survival services you better also be insisting on making stable phone numbers and data plans available to people who access those services

edit to include: email is a survival service. many social services require an email address. technology is not a luxury.

the most eco-friendly computer is the one you already own. i know they're not pretending they're green this year but. stop buying new shit and start demanding better support for keeping old shit running

@48kRAM i was struggling not to say much meaner things while also laughing at the overall nonsense of the idea... i have seen people get emotional over pocket calculators, i don't think emotions are the problem

@48kRAM yuuup. related, i got interviewed a couple weeks ago for a piece about a group researching how to make devices that people will get more emotionally attached to so they don't get discarded and my response was basically "people will get emotionally attached to literal rocks, the solution we need is extended software support for things not more emotional attachment"

i know #permacomputing is meant to evoke permaculture but every time i see the word i envision being permanently chained to a computer and feel sick