Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

has anyone done a "If Altman didn't want a molotov cocktail thrown at his house he should have opted out" bit yet, or is that still available

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party I'm struggling to imagine what might be more environmentally friendly than "just put a compostable thing up to block the sun"?! Like what was she even advocating FOR?? Tons of manual labor? Chemicals??...

ordered some relatively thin audio cable to make some new wrapped cords and it came bundled up, and it feels almost exactly like just holding a bunch of loose, fresh pasta. It is both pleasing to hold and making me a little hungry, maybe?

some soldering is in my future...!

anyway, gonna make some new patch cables since like, at least 3 of the tiny ones I bought for guitar pedals all fucked out and shorted, somehow? Plus I need more headphone cables. Gonna wrap them all in ... paracord (I almost wrote pycord, thanks Python!).

(EDIT: to be clear, I bought two thicknesses; one for the guitar pedals and the other for headphones)

it's wild how fast "making your own audio cables" becomes cheaper than buying the damn things.

Exponential fucking growth on the need for audio cables the moment you get into electronic instruments of any stripe...

@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @blogdiva@mastodon.social Pinkerton walking into a West Virginia dive bar after the mine closed "Who here loves the mining conglomerates, amirite or amirite?? Shareholder value??"

To protect our citizens from the toxic waste dumped into the river by negligent companies, we're taking strong action: guards will be posted at the river and you must identify yourself as being over 18 to drink the toxic waste that will still be dumped into the river.

did you know: my purchase from you isn't "green" if I never fucking buy anything from you again because you gave money to a nazi millionaire for his fucking window compositor dotfiles?

can't help but notice I've covered up a lot of corporate logos on shit, lately. they just fucking annoy me. so covered up with paint, stickers, pen, whatever, fuck offffffff

but, with this framework laptop here, I am specifically covering up the logo because fuck you, framework.

so anyway Bill Gates is almost certainly a rapist, potentially of children, and people at the company he founded are rushing to institute "age verification" at the behest of a pedophile king

yeah, great job

I think every fucking "protect the children" bill should have to come with some real fucking evidence or research as to how, exactly, it is going to "protect the children". "Would this have done anything to stop Epstein?" "What ways are children being harmed now and how would this stop it?" People who raped and trafficked children are holding the reins of society and demanding we all build the bricks of our own prison

I'm no expert but I suspect "universal health care", "maternity/paternity leave", "food access programs", "universal free education", etc, would go a long way towards "protecting the children" as a start. I bet that people who specialize in this have great ideas, as well, and that probably none of them are "your computer spies on you".

not surprised to see these assholes hopping to implement surveillance state shit but it still rankles

no surprise they’re slop guzzlers. But systemd has often seemed to be his little “I’m so important” project. I used to defend it since it had indeed made some reasonable choices…

But man. A fucking init system should not be reporting on whether I’m of age. In fact, my computer shouldn’t do that, period. Zero investigations or prosecutions of people in the Epstein files, yet we already have age verification in Linux due to a sudden flurry of legislation introduced in a bunch of states?

Supposedly Facebook, who caused a genocide and gives money to a pedophile rapist, is pushing for this? Fuuuuuuuuuuck all of this

I get that not everyone can break the law and not implement this, but in many jurisdictions it’s not even a law, and many of us are not subject to it. Plenty of fascist coders in states without these laws perfectly happy to start tracking us for king pedophile under the guise of “protecting children”. Fuck this nonsense.

Really fucking despise poettering. Goddamn surveillance state self aggrandising Microsoft fuckboy.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I hope he has a heart attack and dies.

Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc, are defense companies with a large PR team.

fuck it man, gonna make my own vim out of vendored copies of readline and ncurses

on the other hand, never a better time to greenfield the entire field of computing

just fucking NIH the whole damn stack

/s sorta

I haven't had the time or mental fortitude to construct a diplomatic reply that might encourage them to consider the ethical side that isn't just me ranting but if anyone wants to politely and gently nudge them towards considering the ethical drawbacks and license implications...