Notices by Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ (stevendbrewer@wandering.shop), page 2

@sfwrtr You might find that Libreoffice is actually better at reading old Word files than Word.

@eddeeMN @tchambers @pluralistic The AT protocol of Bluesky offers that (sorta): you can set your domain name as your handle. And then it's just your domain name that you control: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

Of course, it only works on Bluesky because they aren't actually federating yet.

"Mastodon is too complicated, so I switched to Bluesky."

"Dating is too complicated, so I switched to hookers."

"Mastodon is too complicated, so I switched to Bluesky."

"Cooking is too complicated, so I just make cup ramen."

@ITOmarHernandez

Being a polymath is fun and will get you lots of admiration from people, but it sure doesn't pay very well.

@Unixbigot @cstross

Let's not forget that the muskrat is in a totally different situation, however. He has PLENTY o' money to pay off the loansharks. He's enshittifying the birdsite just for funsies.

I still argue that it's performance art: he's providing an object lesson to people about why you shouldn't let important things get purchased and run by billionaires and he spent $44B to show how much he meant it.

And a bunch of people *still* haven't gotten the point.

@cstross @Unixbigot

You may well be right. If it *is* a performance, he's not broken character yet.

OK. I'm being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But I still think that's the lesson that we should take away from the experience.

Tech billionaires (e.g. muskrat and dorsalfin) all seem super wet-dream excited by all the cryptocurrency bullshit. I suspect it will turn out, at some point, that a state actor (like the NSA) has figured out how to pwn cryptocurrencies & can destroy/destabilize them whenever it's convenient to them. I don't have any evidence for this: just extrapolating from how far ahead they typically are with respect to current cryptography. Don't drink the crypto kool-aid, man. You're a sucker if you do.