Notices by Lady Errant (errant@mastodon.sdf.org)

@dalias @sidereal @nullagent But do you control the baseband firmware? Can you stop it from getting updates pushed to it? You say rooted, fine, but it is running Play Services? If so then google can push apps or remove them. They can pull your location, even from the baseband. If you think rooting gives you ownership over that hardware I'm sorry to tell you but thats an illusion.

@dalias @sidereal @nullagent No it is not. It is _THEIR_ tool. I dont even care about destroying the tool. I want to destroy the mentality. The one that prioritizes convenience over privacy. That leaves open the door to manipulation in exchange for another dopamine hit. I dont want to destroy the data center, I want to make it pointless because it no longer has data to hold. I want people to understand that a computer not in their control is a collar.

@dalias @sidereal @nullagent "You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."

@sidereal @nullagent Vindicated sucks. I dont want to be vindicated, I want people destroying their smart phones in protest.

Got a great haul from the #tacoma Haunted Farmers Market. Been after a copy of "Destination: Void" for years.

DeepDish awakens! I got it running on a TurboGX framebuffer with the cheapo 13W3 adapter. Feel pretty confident about having it ready for @SDF ICF. #retrocomputing

@mekkaokereke Somewhere in the middle at 97,000 you get Beaverton, OR. Now just try not to laugh at that.

@flowerpot @nullagent the mistake was letting actors have Important Opinions on science with no qualifications. People think he knows what hes talking about because he did Dirty Jobs. No. He. Is. An. Actor. Looking like you know something is as good as knowing something, these days.

@djsundog @jwz Just cant stop thinking about this graph for no reason at all.

@cstross *folds hands and waits for him to start collecting and cataloging his urine in jars* Not long now.

@danmcd @mekkaokereke Say her name, Marsha P. Johnson. AND Sylvia Rivera who wasn't white either.

@pluralistic Please, off the, Keep Grass

@mekkaokereke I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'll never part with my 1997 4runner. Its the ultimate in simple mechanical engineering. Hell, I'd convert it to electric before I got rid of it.

@mekkaokereke Whats great is how cis straight white people tell me how hard this is, to my face. I haven't spoken to my dad in a decade (since my transition). They just can't see past themselves.

@mekkaokereke @molly0xfff And all without boiling the seas to do it.

@jmax @mekkaokereke Given recent history I'm likely to open one of my seven mouths and sing the song that ends the Earth if someone actually tries to use the "marketplace of ideas" line with me, either in good or bad faith. It has become a dog whistle.

@mekkaokereke It's almost always disingenuous on their part. They don't care about the marketplace of ideas, they want someone to be forced to listen (and agree) with them. Their girlfriend made them sleep on the couch for this crap and now YOU are going to listen to their Very Important Ideas(tm).