Notices by Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer), page 9

The discovery that lifepo4 power banks are now at the point where they can switch from AC fast enough that they're usable as UPSes is about to change my life in a short term expensive but long term cheap way

Every so often I remember this quote from the old Unix Support page at Cambridge:

"Please note that we don't support VMS or Ultrix, the former because while it is a worthy operating system it isn't Unix and the latter because while it is a Unix it isn't a worthy operating system."

@lina @nishi awh I'm going to go and cuddle up with some breasts now enjoy your alone time

@lina @nishi my spouse has kept their cocks next to the bed since before their bottom surgery, you just seem very confused

@lina @nishi oh right you're just factually incorrect and I can ignore you

@lina @nishi yeah uh what gay sex do you think is happening here?

@lina @nishi not sure what part of my relationships you're slurring against there

@lina @nishi hey you're the one incapable of actually making your point explicit, I'm merely having sex with a bunch of incredibly attractive people (sometimes at the same time)

@lina @nishi oh, you're homophobic? I mean nobody I'm dating is AMAB but you're still a piece of shit

@lina @nishi sounds like I'm having more fulfilling sex than you? Sucks to be you

@lina @nishi My spouse's cocks are all kept next to the bed could you please be more explicit about what you believe is happening here

@lina @nishi Huh you appear confused could you be more explicit about the things you claim

@lina @nishi It's true I'm merely dating four women rather than one woman :(

@lina @nishi Oh I'd say I'm sucked more than I suck

@lina @nishi you have no idea how much I fuck

If anyone is confused about 18F: imagine an in-house consultancy who could show up and solve your problems but who would then be able to use that knowledge to solve someone else's problems without billing them for the prior work, saving everyone money and also making a bunch of it open source. People took pay cuts to work there. Destroying them is a tragedy

@lina k

@lina I'm married to a trans person this isn't new

@lina suddenly? I've had this explicit position for like a decade

Free software is about granting people rights, and as such it is incompatible with racism. It is incompatible with homophobia. It is incompatible with "gender critical" ideology. Those people all reject the idea that all humans have rights based on who they are are ideologically incompatible with free software and deserve to be sidelined. We can replace anyone's contributions, we can't replace all those they drive away.