Notices by Steve Lord (stevelord@bladerunner.social)

I will never stop calling out signal's bullshit https://therecord.media/signal-no-longer-cooperating-with-ukraine

If you buy a Mac with Sequoia on their closed arm SOC you're contributing to the enshittification of general purpose computing and will get the feudalized computing experience webserfs crave.
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/

Also relevant: "Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/10/4.html

@silverwizard this is brilliant on every level. I applaud this.

Who called it "social media" and not "clout computing"?

Man writes software to work around problem that only occurs with Signal: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-09-18-a-signal-run-a-day-keeps-the-un-link-away/ - Doesn't matter what the software is, if people are having to write workarounds for it's design choices breaking connectivity it's broken.

Tired: TV Licence
Wired: Unlimited rail and public transport travel licence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/19/campaigners-call-for-unlimited-climate-card-uk-rail-pass

Imagine if a nation invested in public transport as a social good for the benefit of all based on need, focusing on eliminating the requirement for private transport in densely populated areas.

You call it Twitter because that's what it was called when you left. I call it Twitter because the owner deadnames people all the time so fuck him and his fascist flying fuckspace, Twitter it is.

For 5 years the local school has been struggling with chromebooks when they have a bunch of unused 2014 era windows 7 workstations in an attic. I'm switching these over to lubuntu to act as class workstations and expect them to be more popular than the chromebooks because they're actually usable.

@polpo you're gonna make me run a picogus WiFi NetWare 386 server at this rate

Keir Starmer finds cheese and onion crisps too spicy for his palate

@aral @algernon @Codeberg how important are features like collaboration and CI/CD? You might be able to get away with running something lighter like https://codemadness.org/stagit.html and a git server on port 9418 for serving repos via git:// (if you have an existing box lying around)

#Slack are feeding your chats into #ai behind your back. Opt-out details in the link, but you're better off moving away if you have the option: https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

Ayyyy

Today in #enshittification the charitable #raspberrypi foundation is taking it's for-profit company to IPO: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316

@whitequark I could tell you a joke about UDP but I don't know if you'd get it.

@fkamiah17 they can't fucking help themselves because they are themselves

@galaxis @h3artbl33d @solene superb idea!

@aral for some reason the link had ... on it, so here it is for anyone looking at this thread: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso