Mastodawn

We need world-historic numbers tomorrow. To defend our democracy, protect our neighbors, and make it crystal clear that Americans will never do kings, we must be louder than ever.

Find your local protest and help us make No Kings Day an inescapable roar of nonviolent defiance: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible #NoKings

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

No Kings

Justin Derrick 5d ago

Michael Collins / Mr. 30㎝ / 🍆💦

🔞Mar 19

#Server and #hosting costs are going through the roof for #instance #admins. If you like your instance, and want to see it continue to stick around, please consider #supporting your instance #financially if you're able to. #Fediverse #Sharkey #Pixelfed #Pleroma #Misskey #Iceshrimp #PeerTube #Friendica #Lemmy #WriteFreely

Justin Derrick 5d ago

Jon Schwenn Mar 19

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jonschwenn/116257603652396275

In the spirit of #MARCHintosh, it was fun to look back through photos of the Mac hosting company I founded and built 16 years ago.🧵

Justin Derrick Mar 18

Emily Velasco Mar 16

I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.

They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/dining/us-alcohol-restaurants.html

Dinner and No Drinks: Restaurants Are Struggling as Americans Drink Less

Traditionally a reliable revenue stream for restaurants, alcoholic drinks are down markedly — and the bottom line is, too.

The New York Times

Justin Derrick Mar 17

theirongiant Mar 17

@kalleboo has done it again with a wonderful new app for #marchintosh: an interactive click-and-paint canvas.

It's only been up for 24 hours, and already lots of people have made their mark.

Who knows how much fun you can have with pixel painting on a vintage Mac after you've had a few pints of Guinness today? Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 🍻

To play with the MARCHintosh Canvas, get yourself onto #GlobalTalk, connect to the BaroNet zone, go to the "landisk" share, and look for it in the #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk folder.

Justin Derrick Mar 16

Okay #hardware #nerd types and #DataHoarders or #DigitalArchivists...

I'm using #Ubuntu #Linux on an old #iMac with #dvgrab to download the exact copies of all my #MiniDV tapes in #DV format.

But I have to say... This thing is a monster.

Can anyone recommend a laptop with #Firewire 800 that also runs Linux well?

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Justin Derrick Mar 15

#MARCHintosh
Worst case scenario is here…. Plugging anything into the second IDE bus stops the Mac from booting into the finder. It gets about half way, then locks up. I’m hoping I didn’t kill the Zip Drive, since the “click of death” rendered them so rare. It might be time for a BlueSCSI, or maybe it’s time to part this thing out.

I’m genuinely shocked that this thing made it to its 29th birthday.

Justin Derrick Mar 15

So…. Just a reminder to all the folks working on #MARCHintosh - when tinkering inside your Macs and adding new stuff…. Don’t let random pins on the new equipment touch anything grounded.

I let the magic smoke out of an IDE -> CF adapter… and appear to have killed a 40GB drive… which is the best case scenario…. I hope I haven’t killed the IDE bus on my PowerMac G3.

Thankfully, it was a mostly empty data drive, not my boot disk with all my data.

Justin Derrick Mar 10

paulrickards Mar 10

The Terminator

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #LiveLaughLocalTalk

Justin Derrick Mar 4

So, planning on participating in #MARCHintosh this year -- broke my old #PowerMac #G3 out of storage, and it's sitting on my desk... But the only monitor I can find with a VGA socket doesn't have a power adapter... So that's the last missing piece...

The plan for this year is to back up the internal IDE drives to a CF->IDE adapter, then image the disks and throw them onto my backup server (ZFS zraid3!) for safekeeping. I have a 128GB CF card, but only 70GB of drives... So with the rest, I'll try and mirror some archives from MacintoshGarden, etc.