chutten (he/him)

@chutten
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A #software developer working for Mozilla out of his secret lair in #canada. Has opinions and capital-F Feelings. Sorry about that.
bloghttps://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/

Watched @TechConnectify 's recent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdVG45wveo about audible notifications and it ends with the most important thing I learned in first-year university:

The most important part of any feature is the ability to Turn It Off.

( Also, I miss notification LEDs on phones. )

The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts

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@jayforeman Additionally, I was pleasantly surprised that the book wasn't merely an expansion of the youtube channel, like Matt Parker's "Humble Pi" was. Though a delight, and including more information, retreading already-learnt information isn't a highlight for me.

Contrast "This Way Up" with Adam Shoalts' "A History of Canada in Ten Maps", a by-the-numbers, flat read that didn't really take the colonial context into account.

I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but I just finished Jay Foreman ( @jayforeman ) and Mark Cooper-Jones' "This Way Up". It was interesting, humorous, and had nearly as many footnotes as a Bartimeus book. It handled silly stories with seriousness and serious stories also with gravity befitting their seriousness, while still providing ample entertaining prose. Recommended for folks who like maps and stories.

This is somewhat of an "experiment" to see if we can use the official Mastodon account to motivate others to contribute (in a productive manner :D).

If you're looking for help / need to coordinate or would otherwise take a look at what other types of projects has to offer, here's a link: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing/wiki/Projects#codeberg-projects

(We're pretty busy folk; although we try to be responsive, we may still miss your message.) ~n

Projects

Want to help make Codeberg better? Here, you can find out more about our projects and who runs them. Or start your own.

Codeberg.org
Liberal commentariat take note: one of the most visible turning points was Budapest Pride last year, when the Hungarian anti-authoritarian movement refused to back down from defending queer folks. Orban's power was broken in a major way when Hungarian organizing reached a point at which regular Hungarians started defending people because they were the people under attack, without concern for the supposed issues underneath. The question was not whether gay love is equal to straight love or whether trans people are who they say they are, but rather who does the regime want us to hate and how do we fight on that front?

Whenever I get a hundred boosts on here I think about Brian Eno’s line that only thirty thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground record, but every one of those people started a band afterwards.

https://sfba.social/@minmi/116388960831813399

My entire timeline right now:

Sigh.

I do not want someone to struggle the way that I did.
I want them to go further and face new struggles I couldn't even imagine.

Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.

The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:

https://lk0.eu/bks901m

#Bookstodon #ebooks #kindle #FediReads #OpenAccess

Amazon Is Cutting Kindle Store Access on Pre-2013 Kindles.

Starting May 20, 2026, older Kindles lose Store access. The hardware still works — here’s the fix.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Garrison smoke detectors sold by Canadian Tire are thinly relabeled Kidde models with bilingual manuals and audible warnings.