Notices by Jason Cosper (boogah@simian.rodeo)

“To be a dictator (benevolent or otherwise) is to exist without the _consequences_ that prevent you from giving in to those impulses. Worse: if you are the dictator — again, benevolent or otherwise — of a big, structurally important company or nonprofit that millions of people rely on, the _consequences_ of these lapses are extremely consequential.”

I've been anticipating something about BDFLs from @pluralistic. It was definitely worth the wait.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/

Kind of tired of my Eero 6.

The coverage is great. Whole house. Backyard. Halfway down the block.

Its configurability stinks tho. And all of the edges have been sanded down *so much* that I feel like I’m stuck using a Fisher-Price router. Also, the Bezos of it all.

Anyone out there have an #OpenWRT Wi-Fi 6 (or better) setup that they like? Mesh preferred, but I’m flexible.

(Boosts appreciated for reach.)

You are nowhere near as fast or efficient as you think you are at self-checkout.

The above statement also applies to me, the world’s fastest, most efficient self-checkout user.

Made the layout a little cleaner, thanks to @heyjovo's #Glitch remix. ♥️

I've also added OpenGraph tags. Shares will stop being so ugly as soon as your server's cache catches up.

https://timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com/

Some folks have asked about t-shirts. We're working on it! There's about ~140 things the site will say right now, so picking the best of the best is hard. 😅
https://tech.lgbt/@heyjovo/112924168168033459

@tchambers Me too! Especially since I'm the guy who built it. 😉

@kims Private mentions are open!

So @anildash@me.dm leaked my new project on Bluesky before I could even get a domain name pointed at the site. NBD. :melting_lol:

Some pals and I were reminiscing about Mat Honan’s “Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle” earlier today.

Anyway, one thing led to another and I whipped up this single serving @glitchdotcom@mastodon.social site over an admittedly longer than normal lunch break:

https://timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com/

@annika I'm a fan of this one:

Man. I ought to remaster the interview that I did with @kleptones back in the day.

https://jasoncosper.com/archival-gomi-10-questions-with-eric-kleptone/

Dying a million tiny deaths reading that opening paragraph. :melting_cringe:

20th anniversary remaster of The Kleptones’ “A Night At The Hip-Hopera”, you say? Don't mind if I do…

https://kleptones.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-at-the-hip-hopera-20th-anniversary-remaster

Just came to this quote in “A People’s History of the United States” and thought it worth sharing — even though May Day is almost over.

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.”

— Joseph Ettor

Reminder: It’s not too late to either sign on to (or ask your server admin to sign on to) #fedipact.

https://fedipact.online/

If your instance won’t sign, find a smaller instance that already has. There’s a list of a few hundred of them over on the fedipact site linked above. 😉

We don’t need “flagship” instances that are happy to put up with the corporate colonization of this beautiful network that we’ve all built together.
https://kolektiva.social/@MF_Dume/112344146630150040

Wireless earbuds with ANC and replaceable batteries?!

You know, my AirPods Pro recently developed a bit of a rattle in the left earbud and I *have* been thinking about replacements… 🤔

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

@liaizon @wedistribute @lrhodes @RnDanger @tchambers @pfefferle Sounds like whatever is being used for server caching is *occasionally* caching the JSON response instead of the generated HTML output.

FOH out of here with being a chat middleman. Especially for all of my encrypted chats.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging

@RadicalEdward I've been liking Mint for desktop stuff and have long used Debian for servers. Both use `apt` for package management, which works well enough.

What in the nightmare fuck is this?