Notices by Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ (chriswere@toot.wales)

Me and Drew got back into Divinity today, if anyone wants to check out the VOD it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cDMueyCdU

At the end we talk about whether we think we should be streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or OwnCast.

@codemonkeymike Another vote for Jellyfin, you can set up profiles and moderate what the kids watch. It also does save your place and there's a bunch of settings to customise that.

A thought about public transit.

Why do we have to pay for it?

We built it. It was our tax money and our labour and our commonly-held land. The buses and trains we bought, we paid for. The people who drive them? We pay that.

So why do we charge people to use it?

We don't charge road users to use the roads. "We pay for them," the drivers say. "So do we pay for them," say I. "We have to have insurance!" "So do transit vehicles."

"We have to pay for our go-juice of choice!" "Us too."

"We have to pay to maintain our own vehicles." "Yep, that's a pain for us too."

So why, exactly, do we provide use of the roads free to people who have the money to have their own vehicle, but NOT to the people who *don't* have that money, or choose not to spend it on a car for all kinds of society-benefiting reasons?

It's ridiculous. In order to facilitate the fare collection, we have to have MORE POLICE in our lives, people going up and down the LRT trains, bothering people trying to journey, and writing expensive tickets if they find someone forgot to tap their card on the out-of-the-way pedestals for such. How many hundreds of thousands are we paying in the salary for that couple of dozen people? Do we come even CLOSE to recovering that money by catching so-called "fare cheats"? No. Nothing like it.

It's a big ripoff, in favour of individual car use, and allows them to underfund our public transit so that it can take me an hour and a quarter to get to an appointment a private vehicle could reach in fifteen minutes, because it's about five km from my apartment. But in our rattletrap system, that's 3 buses.

This kind of thinking is burning our planet and our people alive. And still we hem and haw about whether it's worth the expenditure, and make it easy for people to live 100+km from their place of work - and yet still attend every day.

Madness!

Got my Jellyfin setup working last night. Really cool piece of software. Now I'm just tempted to get a home media server set up, rather than just running it off my PC.

@Edent That was an interesting read, to be fair.

"Woke and gay" will always be better than "cucked and corporate".

sexiest man alive

@futzle being a dead language able to be read by the educated elites, memespeak became the language of science and philosophy, preserving the culture and knowledge through the dark ages following the Rising of the Waters.

@monarchist Compeltely disagree. Did you read what I posted? Fediverse is the MOST lively social network I have ever used. Thousands of interactions every day.

Try following 7000 and you see the difference. It's NOT posting into the void.

What's your favorite Windows distro? :windows:

Black Mesa for $2.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

Also, you should be playing with this mod if you fire up Deus Ex today. :) :deusex:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay-d-denton-project

im ready to go viral on mastodon:

uwu

Overheard last night from two users in #Cuba

user1: "the people are currently in need not only to save data plan but also to have more security in their conversations"

user2: "also stability. Right now the whole of Guantanamo is in blackout with problems in several radio-bases/cell-towers due to the lack of power/electricity and here I am talking like nothing / without breaking a sweat"

user2: "while WhatsApp doesn't even manage to connect"

#DeltaChat is for when centralization hits the fan

The house has divided to vote on the first of the amendments, which simply removes all threat of prosecution (and by extension, investigation, police harassment etc) from all people who are/have been pregnant, on any matter relating to their pregnancy.

This would not affect anything else in relation to abortion. It would only ensure that the pregnant person cannot face any criminal charge if they have failed (or are suspected to have failed, accused of having failed, etc) to stay within the strict regulatory bounds of our abortion law.

In practice, no more prosecution or police investigations for people who were attempting to have a wholly legal abortion, who believed they were having a wholly legal abortion, who broke one of those rules through no fault of their own. It also would mean no more prosecution and harassment of people who have miscarried, and who are accused by police of having an illegal abortion.



There are arguments in favour of both this amendment and the other one that may come later (which would introduce much more sweeping reforms in addition to the core principle). Whichever is the ideal amendment, I'm very nervous that neither will pass.

#UKPol #abortion

@BlippyTheWonderSlug you fkn rebel! 😁

ActivityPub? Don't you mean OcapPub?!

I like BIND exclusively greyscale, for ease of printing, but now I'm thinking maybe a little colour, just for pride, wouldn't hurt?

But it does hurt. I've never learnt how colours work, and every chapter looks like a new kind of headache.

Hell froze over, I made a macOS app! https://github.com/robb/FolderIconGenerator Use it to generate custom folder icons that match the ones found on macOS Sequoia.

The British left is coming for the Government - New Statesman
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/05/the-british-left-is-coming-for-the-government