Notices by Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)

@killyourfm I wrote something relatively recently about how, when blogging tired me, I would emphasize design work more. I think the challenge with social media is that it doesn’t make it easy to switch tracks.

The fediverse rules and I plan to stay here as long as I can.

But seeing Bluesky carry a similar mission into the mainstream is ABSOLUTELY worth respecting.

https://mas.to/@swelljoe/113467896206066079

The Onion bought Infowars. Not a drill. Not a drill.

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

I always check my spam folder because there’s a real chance something might slip through.

This guy is emailing me about an article I wrote in 2015.

Here it is. I was proud of the headline.

https://tedium.co/2015/08/04/cell-towers-nimby-trees/

The Washington Post lost around $30 million in annual recurring revenue from all the subscriptions folks cancelled.

After Trump won, Bezos made $7 billion yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/07/trump-victory-adds-record-wealth-richest-top-10

@killyourfm Definitely adding in more about Flatpak and Proton, which (for their own respective reasons) have changed a lot about the experience that makes it appealing to the average non-technical user.

@killyourfm Watching videos, surfing, and screwing around on various projects. It’s a laze-about machine. (I use an HP Envy as my main machine, mostly because of screen size.) Probably wouldn’t get that playing a game. But the GPU optimizations the Asahi team have made it equivalent to running on MacOS battery-wise.

@killyourfm Not a bad idea. I will note that, if you’re willing to test a different machine, I average 10+ hours on Asahi Fedora Remix on my M1 MacBook Air.

I get why the Framework is a good choice for this, though.

@killyourfm Interesting. I am mostly running Nobara GNOME these days and hearing the battery life getting that tanked using such a simple interface is genuinely surprising.

“I'm reliably told that the number of subscriber cancellations is in the thousands.”

https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/113374643376619792

Everything is stupid.

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-checkbox-login-wp-engine/

Given what has happened over the last week it becomes hard to see how folks build new projects in WordPress at least for the time being.

The ecosystem is seriously tainted.

It makes one worry about the governance of other large FOSS projects. How many of them are dependent on leaders not stepping out of their lane?

Like, do we need to worry that Red Hat is suddenly going to stop being benevolent about Fedora?

I think more projects need to do what Ghost did: Back up their words with legally enforceable teeth that makes it hard for them to suddenly switch gears one day.

Everyone’s favorite internet-culture writer, @taylorlorenz, goes independent:

https://www.usermag.co/p/introducing-user-magazine

@geerlingguy It sounds like they did the right thing here. I’m happy they realized they were in the wrong.

Apple brings that walled-garden vibe to MacOS:
https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/113187998793047239

@tchambers If you’re not following him @jon is active on the Vivaldi instance. Good guy, runs a good product.

This is officially the most insane tech news I’ve heard this year. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24249949/intel-qualcomm-rumor-takeover-acquisition-arm-x86