Notices by DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology), page 7

Y'know what will be completely unaffected by the crowdstrike debacle?

Tomorrow night's @DoctorDeathray and Her Implements of Destruction show at Canopy + The Roots in Dahlonega, GA!

If you're around, come on out and rock with us!

There is something to be said about security through diversity that I am just not caffeinated enough to express right now, but really, consider maybe not making all computing infrastructure look the same if you're interested in resilience and dependability.

as Facebook makes more inroads into the fediverse via their trojan horse Threads platform I once again implore my fellow fediversians to give those genocidal monsters the boot and block them as thoroughly as you're able.

they've never been a good company. they'll never be a good company.

we do not need their influence fucking things up here, we manage to do that just fine on our own tyvm.

@sungo @shitpostalotl @lindsays happy to help do my part in bringing more noise to the fediverse haha

@liaizon

hate it.

for the record, I emailed jimmy@heymaven.com when I saw your post and checked out their T&Cs. I informed him that he was violating my content licensing by scraping the toot-lab and gave him a reference link to my shadow profile on their service, and that if they persisted in misusing my posts I'd have to look at legal remedies, and he just replied and said he has "removed the data and will work this week to prevent future ingestion. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience."

so, super annoying and mega-manual opt-out process, but the profile page pretending to be me is indeed now removed.

y'know what'd make it a lot easier to secure data?

devaluing data.

if having the data gives no advantage then there's no reason to put forth an effort to exfiltrate the data in the future.

data was a mistake and it's time we acknowledge that.

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:

the shed is finally giving up.

:blobpats:

history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man

Noticing that the schmuck CEO of Spotify is playing pretend economist again (to wit: https://www.loudersound.com/news/spotify-ceo-sparks-backlash-after-social-media-post-that-claimed-the-cost-of-making-content-is-close-to-zero ) I would like to point out that the nominal cost of producing a CEO is a mere five minutes of effort from two real fuckers.

good morning fediverse :cofepats:

times are tough. go easy on yourself and the folks around you. we'll get through it, together.

:blobpats:

in case you're losing track, the number of bad supreme court justices we have is nine. six are abysmally bad. the other three are merely tragically bad.

if you're an android user and you get a text message from Gemini, Google's oft-renamed bullshit machine, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and

• long-press the message to select it
• open the three dot menu in the upper right
• select "block"
• leave the checkbox marked to "report spam"
• submit that shit

send every signal possible to the corporate drones that we don't want this bullshit invading our lives.

Good morning fediverse :cofepats:

Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.

:blobpats:

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:

there have been a ton of great bands built from a group of friendly session players over the years.

this one, Tokyo Groove Jyoshi, is absolutely incredible. Juna Serita on bass is astounding.

here's their cover of Tower of Power's "What Is Hip?"

and, well, this is.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tA8PKx09ao8&listen=false

:blobpats:

here's a thing: divesting ourselves of the use of services that decide to start feeding our stuff into the AI maw? that's good. finding alternatives that respect us, even if it takes a little more effort, good.

but we don't have to wait for the corporate overlord in question to fuck up before getting out from under their control. there's no rule. we can just stop using their stuff whenever.

we could probably go back to only needing like seventeen computers worldwide if we could get capitalism to just stop happening.

sorry but mastodon inc. is cursed in both concept and practice.

I'd play a $10 cover charge to see two Cake cover bands on the same bill if they were "Bold Marquees" and "Stupid Band Names" if only to chat up the person behind that level of long game pun.

tomorrow afternoon we in New Ellijay will be getting together to celebrate the grand opening of the finest bookstore, record shoppe, and coffee stand in the entirety of Gilmer County, GA, US, Hemlock Bazaar

a whole bunch of Analog Revolution artists will be swinging through to play some live music throughout the afternoon and evening.

if you're nearby, come on out and help bring the new space officially into New Ellijay with our usual verve and grime!

from a followers-only post, with permission of the original author:

Itd be so sick to liberate an LRAD from the cops and use it as a speaker for a rave.
Them shits are so loud.