Notices by Pete Prodoehl 🍕 (rasterweb@mastodon.social)

I have one wish for the youth of today... and it's that they hate Trump as much as I hated Reagan when I was a young person.

#USPOL

Some guy was like "Name one place where Socialism has worked?"

And someone else answered: "How about in Milwaukee you fucking dunce!"

Yup, Milwaukee is the home of Sewer Socialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_socialism

Today’s efforts…

#bread #food

The average Costco worker now makes more than I do. Am I pissed? Nope. Good for them. Everyone should make a living wage.

Please fork LibreWolf and name it "LibreWorf" and add a Star Trek theme and it'll become a more popular browser.

Quite pleased with these pretzel buns I’ve been making and hopefully it’s one more thing I can make in my own kitchen instead of buy from the grocery store.

#baking

I’m off ibuprofen today due to tomorrow’s procedure so we’ll see how bad the pain gets today. 😩

I wrote a blog post about the laptop desk I use while lying flat on my back...

https://rasterweb.net/raster/2026/03/02/lie-down-flat-on-your-back-desk/

#blogpost #desk

I read a README file I wrote a few weeks ago and decided it didn't have enough information, so it's now twice as long with a lot more detail.

I'm the only one who will ever read or use the file, but I have learned I cannot rely on my own memory a few months or years from now when I need to revisit the project or do something similar.

Make notes! Make more notes. It's a text file, it won't take up much space but it might save you a bunch of time in the future.

I’m looking for a commercial Mastodon hosting solution for a small organization… I know of @mastohost but are there others out there worth looking at?

#mastodon #fediverse #hosting

If you are currently blogging I have two things to say to you.

1. Thank you! Keep it up!

2. Let me know the address of your blog!

#blogging #blogs #indieweb

I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.

Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.

No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.

You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.

We can build a better world.

A sci-fi story where JSON never existed but we use XML files for everything.

I went to a web site and it said "It's free! Just sign in with Google." and first though "Hell No!" and then I thought "That's not free..."

@hellomiakoda I like my old 2010 Subaru. My partner drives a 2019 RAV4 and it has cameras and sensors and beeps like fucking crazy every time we pull out of the garage.

I actually use an old phone as my "car audio player".

The one thing I do really like in the 2019 is the adaptive cruise control which would come in handy with my current leg pain situation.

But yeah, I like knobs and no warning beeps.

Capitalism has convinced people that new always equals “better” so if you want to rebel against Capitalism start to recognize that “new” is often just a way to extract more money from you.

Existing (or “old”) things can be functional and beautiful, and often easier to repair.

The word “old” should not be an insult. Not to things or to people.

Just a note, while I am "complaining" about some features (or lack of) that @loops has, I am very happy to see it, and hope it grows.

I just want it to be good, or even the best of short format video sharing networks.

This is just the first time I've given it a try. I like many things, but of course, some thing annoy me.

#loops #fediverse

Another complaint about @loops (and any other platform that shows video) where is the scrubber!?

I *always* want the ability to easily scrub forward and backward when a video is playing. Always.

Other platforms do this and I hate it.

At least in a desktop browser you can pop out the video to access the scrubber.

#loops #fediverse

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

I think people who use AI/LLMs for programming want to solve problems, but people who choose *not* to use AI/LLMs want to solve problems but also want to *understand* those problems.

We need more understanding in our world.