Notices by Chris Miller (grueproof@fosstodon.org)

Casual reminder that next Friday is Unsubscribe Day, when marketers will make it easy to unsubscribe from all the dead weight by contacting you all at the same time. #UnsubscribeDay

(Help me make this a thing. This needs to be a thing.)

@tek I listened to this this morning, thought you might dig it: https://ledestroy.bandcamp.com/album/trashumanism

I just donated to the Tor Project because I support the human right to privacy. https://donate.torproject.org/

That's it. All the news podcasts have been eliminated. No one is saying anything useful. I'm going to go focus on helping friends and then hobbies. Making story and art is the only way I'm getting through this. Not news. Not media. Not more of the same.

Reminder that EFF has a great guide for securing your online stuff again things like government surveillance: https://ssd.eff.org/

@chris Good on you! I know it's hard, but it's the right call.

My marketing department just tried to explain what a podcast is to me.

Do I tell them I've been working with that tech stack for 20 years? Or just let them go and see how they do?

I am curious about the Social Web Foundation. I am concerned about it too. I think it will be tricky to do what they want to do without Big Social putting their thumb on the scales.

Let's see how it goes.

@m2m oh god why

@gabek We all appreciate all your hard work, Gabe, Truly.

Thinking about Meta and the Fediverse.

“We’re not making a world without greed, Jacob. We’re making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. Wrong.

Our winning doesn’t mean you don’t get to be greedy. It means people will be ashamed for you, will pity you and want to distance themselves from you. You can be as greedy as you want, but no one will admire you for it.”

― Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

I've been doing a bit more reading on @aral 's Small Web concept. The Kitten project is pretty cool. I'm going to play around with it this month, kick the tires, and see how it is to use.

(I know it's early days of the project, but it has a lot of promise)

@aral Both of those look incredibly interesting. Sadly, I am far from Dublin. But I'm definitely going to be taking a closer look.

@chris Oh. And Maps. I do use mapping. I don't travel a ton, and by road when I do.

Good morning. I am contemplating my escape from the Apple ecosystem (my iPhone 11 is nearly dead, want to go more FOSS). Does anyone have any experience with Librem phones? https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

@chris My use case is mostly communication (text, phone, secure messaging like Signal). I'm not a photographer; I don't use it for entertainment besides reading books occasionally.

Oh, this is a goodie: "Modern Software Development Summarized" - https://factoryfactoryfactory.net/ Thanks @tinabellvance !

TIL that, according to the source I found, the word ‘entrepreneur’ originated around 1828 and meant “manager or promoter of a theatrical production.” I find this to be an accurate take on what we have seen in the tech world in the past 30 years.

@kev @MissScott01 I saw a meme like this, and it has taken every fiber of my being not to post it to LinkedIn.

@fu @pixelherodev @RL_Dane Because I've missed a good deal of this...remind me why we dislike systemd? (I'm unfamiliar with the nuances)