Notices by Michael Vilain (mvilain@sfba.social)

@Bellingcat @pluralistic never posts his audiobooks on Amazon because they require DRM. Yet, that doesn't stop scammers from buying his books and posting them to Amazon's "roll your own" market place. His lawyer is very busy and never had to borrow my Mother's Black Whip™

@JBrianCoyle @pluralistic Shut up and take my money.

@nixCraft @pluralistic has often called a 747 a tin can with a Solaris workstation inside. Although I doubt it would display the TUX logo.

@fixatedpersonsunit @pluralistic It's ironic that Boing Boing, Corey's creation is now entering end-stage enshitification. They've started requiring Adblockers to be disabled to view their site or pay $5/mo for the privilege. It probably started when Boing Boing started using Stack Commerce, really dodgy ecommerce provider, who offered questionable merch like a "private airconditioner" or that $40 128GB SSD drive that was really two thumb drives glued together internally. "All sales final. No returns or refunds." which my credit card company laughed at. Maybe now VISA and Mastercard will stop accepting charges from them.

@pluralistic
Boing Boing is dead to me.
Enshitification is complete.
You should put this in your book.

@pluralistic I don't fault Boing Boing for offering the subscription or ad-supported model to allow people to access the site. But removing free access to articles just put it on the #BOINGBOINGENSHITIFIED list for me. I don't access sites that require me to turn off ad-blocking, so Boing Boing is now redirected to 127.0.0.1 and dead to me.

[sigh]

@glynmoody I think he'll feel the country before he goes to jail. Once the courts freeze his assets, he'll be on a private jet to some country where he's squirreled away enough assets to live. Or he'll stick around to the last minute and as the judge pronounces him guilty and sentences him, he'll mutter "Execute order 66" and all hell will break loose among the #MAGAIdiots

@andypiper @pfefferle You just talked me out of moving my site to Wordpress dot com. *I* want to control what and when I update my site. If I can't do that, why would I give Wordpress $$$ to f- up my site?

@TheConversationUS @folklore I'd like to point out that this joke doesn't work in Spanish at all.

"I'm hungry" translates to "I have hunger."
"I'm Dad" translates to "My name is Dad".

We just saved so many Spanish speakers the agony of this joke.

@georgetakei Except Terminator would sink to the bottom of the ocean rather than swim.

@georgetakei I asked if they had any Spiderman™ BandAids. Nope. Only Batman.

I walked out disappointed. They are always out of Spiderman BandAids.

@grendel84 I skip questions like that.

Also questions asking when I graduated from college and martial status are nunya (busines).

I won't provide references until there's a background check so managers aren't used as sales leads.

I won't sign contracts with an arbitration clause or disparagement clause.

@pseudonym Not just electronic stuff, but also kitchen appliances and countertop gadgets like toaster ovens, microwaves, ESPRESSO MACHINES, and COFFEE MAKERS.

@jerry This is why I'm not worried that Threads is going to offer a federated feed. YOU will be ever vigilant about any crap that might leak from the Meta Cesspool and block them.

@feditips Shut up and take my money

@babe
Of course you don't know what it as to do with linux.

I'm not gonna mansplain it to you. That's what Google is for.

@jerry The password reset email came through and my account is now active. Thanks.

When I was doing IT and someone asked "What happened?", I pull out my Standard Answer™:

There was shpilkis in the geneckicazoik.

@charliejane

Hannibal Lector hated clowns too.

@feditips can't seem to register. Get Too Many Requests.

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