“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.
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.
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
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:
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.”
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. 😉
@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.