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

@hellomiakoda Boo! Do not like.

@hellomiakoda I had a pair of Sennheiser headphones for 20 years with no wear... got a newer pair and they lasted a few years before a layer peeled off... does everything just get worse as time goes by?

I'm quitting Google Docs because @CryptPad is a better option for me...

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/05/15/hello-cryptpad-goodbye-google-docs/

#office #docs #cryptpad #google

I was gonna put a laptop on my lap and then a cat got on my lap…

#caturday #catsOfMastodon #FediCats

As a US citizen can I choose where I will be deported to? Can it be Scotland?

@amszmidt The EU is certainly looking very appealing right now!

I just assumed "Novo Nordisk" was some sort of storage company or backup software...

@piofthings @GossiTheDog I'm gonna burn a dozen! Wait, I meant "buy" a dozen... yeah, that's it. 😅

"Why are you still using VIM?"

"I just don't know how to quit."

Does SATA rhyme with “data” or with “data”?

I'm trying out a few GUI clients for git that will work with Codeberg (so I can fully move away from GitHub) and here's the list I am starting with...

➡️ https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

Resistance can be as simple as using certain terms:

"online video" instead of "YouTube video".

"online search" instead of "Google Search" (or "do a search" instead of "google it".)

"music playlist" instead of "Spotify playlist".

Do not give these company any free advertising by using their names.

Do not make them the default term for something.

Yup, a fucking genius...

"Musk-Backed Ad Attacks Wrong Susan Crawford"

I hope Harvard Law School Professor Susan P. Crawford sues them.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/musk-backed-ad-attacks-wrong-susan-crawford/

#USPOL #wisconsin

@adammoe2022 @Climatehistories Yes, I am using bookwyrm.social mainly to just keep track of my own reading.

"The same people that want you to call it the "Gulf of America," can't handle using preferred pro-nouns."

(Borrowed post from an anti-fascist Facebook group.)

@evan I think it's fair to say There was Twitter, then Twitter under Musk, then Musk transformed Twitter into X.

At its basic core, functionality is "post stuff, reply to stuff" sure, simple.

But yes, security, trust, safety, etc. were all gutted, lost, or destroyed.

Potential Modern Day BarCamp Sessions:

* Fediverse 101
* The Luddites were Right
* Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
* Introduction to Solarpunk
* Escaping the Broligarchy: Ethical Social Media
* Stop Streaming and Start Downloading
* Say “No” to Subscription Software
* Fuck AI
* Fighting Back Against Enshittification
* Tech Coops
* The Web versus Apps

(Share your ideas!)

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#BarCamp #unconference

One question/comment I get from people who think of leaving Facebook for the Fediverse is "How can I just share my posts so my friends can see them? I don't really like to post publicly."

What is the answer to that?

Do you create an account, post only to followers, then approve all followers?

Is Friendica better than Mastodon for this?

#mastodon #fediverse #facebook

@voxpelli Codeberg is non-profit, community-led, outside the US, and it's close enough to how GitHub works that it made sense to me. I'm not much of a software developer and just need a place to share/store some code occasionally.

I was also able to import my old GitHub stuff into Codeberg easily.

GitHub has added a setting so you can disabled the "Show Copilot" visibility.

➡️ https://github.com/settings/copilot

(I probably won't release any new code on GitHub since I've move most of my stuff to @Codeberg but I still need to use GitHub for work.)

#noAI #github