Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)

> "Fascism is now doing well
because the 'mainstream'
center-left completely exclude
any real left-wing policies
embracing instead watered
down versions of right-wing
positions all while having no
problem with the corruption
in the system."

> David Graeber

Was gonna say, perfectly describes the current situation in Canada.

Canada hasn't hit 'Mainstream Fascism' yet, but from the results of April's election it's not far away.

@DGI
@RobotDiver

@stefano

And of I could add a third monitor, I would!

One for a browser, one for command line (tiled into several ptys) and file manager (also tiled), one for the sound editor or spreadsheet or image editor or whatever it is I'm really working on. And I usually keep a media player (online radio) and an email/calendar client running in some other workspaces (virtual desktops).

@ParadeGrotesque

@mayintoronto

I don't think I mind, but my other brain cell has a different opinion.

@lanodan

We want to see *your* picture of the cat shadow puppet!

#POIDH

@skinnylatte

Just reading your post made my mouth water.

Now hunting through the kitchen for potato chips. Any flavour.

#IAmPavlovsDog

Just to clarify, I mean corporations that would hire staff to do their ad posting. Not people who are using the Fediverse to sell their artwork or jewelry or music. To me, that's not so much an ad as "Look what I made today!", like I might post "Look where I biked today!"

Advertising on the Fediverse is a subtle thing. I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Potter_Stewart

@evan @WeirdWriter @bignose

I don't mind an automated (or manual) feed for a business that advertises the daily special, the price of chicken, or the store hours. Could be RSS/Atom, could be ActivityPub. But it's something I have to explicitly subscribe to.

What I don't want is a business opening an account on a public instance advertising the daily special &c, especially if a bot is posting. That would just pollute the local timeline.

But if they want to set up their own instance that's OK.

@evan @WeirdWriter @bignose

I don't think I want a business (large or small, independent or chain) to create an account on mastodon.sdf.org or cosocial.ca or mastodon.social with someone posting the latest price of chicken.

But it would be great to have an #ActivityPub standard way to deliver RSS/Atom feeds and .ics calendars so that I can subscribe to their price-of-chicken.rss feed or the radio station's schedule without it cluttering up my instance's timeline.

@WeirdWriter
@evan @bignose

@markn

> I bought a little compressor.

I dunno, that thing looks positively huge. Needs a banana for scale.

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite

Where #Cycling infrastructure and #PublicTransit meet.

@CycleWR

I'm in this picture and I like it!

@tezoatlipoca

Boomer version: Description of the thing in an e-mail.

Text messaging? Just a fad for the young'uns.

@trouble

I had some knee pain at the start of last year's biking season. Took it easy, biking much slower than past seasons. As the summer progressed the pain went away, and could feel my knees getting stronger. Still biking slower than usual, tho. I wonder how the knees (and my speed) will be this biking season...

@oheso @ascentale @PamelaSchure @bikenite

@InkySchwartz

A "punishment pass" is when a driver in a car or pickup truck passes far too close for safety, veering towards the cyclist even though there is plenty of room to pass safely.

The cyclist is being punished for being a cyclist. Or being a fitness buff. Or an environmentalist. Or not supporting the auto industry. Or just being different.

@artemesia @ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite

@evan

That's a really broad definition of "club". I chose "2-5" on your poll, but with the inclusion of political parties it's 5+

Turns out all the "clubs" I belong to are organizations trying to effect some public good. I belong to no social clubs, no sports clubs (#WRCycle is an advocacy group).

@ELLIOTTCABLE

A few years ago I (fully sighted) was invited to a discussion on accessibility for people who are blind or have low vision. While Ontario has disability programs to provide assistive devices, they prescribe specific technologies, often years out-of-date. So while there might be new technology that can OCR text-only images, people using ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) often can't use it or afford it.

TL;DR: Always provide AltText even for text-only images.

@silverwizard

Last time I used pip was around 1985 on a CP/M computer...

#DatingMyself #OldFart

@AkaSci

I voted "DST is wonderful, let's expand it to all 12 months" because I prefer my daylight in the evening.

But I hope that answer didn't mean that we move the clocks an hour forward *every* month!

@kAlvaro

I've been using KeepassXC for years without any browser plugin. I tried it a couple of months ago, but the plugin didn't do anything I couldn't already do without it.

KeepassXC is a great password manager, independent of the utility of an optional plugin.

#Keepass #KeepassXC #PasswordManager

@webology
@keepassxc

@MLE_online

Junk: Stuff you buy at garage sales.

Stuff: Junk you sell at garage sales.