Mastodawn

Update. "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor."
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

Brilliant solution to a real problem. Subtract user-hostile tech.

"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a #Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management [#DRM] systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an “authorized” repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods."

#RightToRepair

Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

404 Media

Christopher Isene 19m ago

Bryan Davis 41m ago

1989-06-04 was 37 years ago. The CCP is still trying to hide what they did. Wikipedia remembers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia

Christopher Isene 51m ago

Fesshole 🧻6h ago

My biggest act of middle aged rebellion is removing the UTM link from the end of a URL when sharing it so that the brand won't know where that share originated from.

Christopher Isene 57m ago

Sumana Harihareswara 2h ago

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.

I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

Christopher Isene 58m ago

4am ❧1h ago

Total Replay v6.0 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.0

No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

Christopher Isene 2h ago

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

6h ago

Especially now. More than ever. This is the way.

#LGBTQ #Pride #PrideMonth #DontLetFolksRollAlone

Christopher Isene 3h ago

Ben Cox 2d ago

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

Christopher Isene 3h ago

masukomi 3d ago

The "Touch Meme" has been floating around for a while now in the autistic community as a tool to help convey which parts of our body we're comfortable having touched (or not) by different groups.

I've recreated it, & made a few tweaks, so that we can have a nice clean version without JPEG artifacts. It's available in vector formats too.

Download it, color in the BODY PARTS with the appropriate colors.

Other formats, and an example of it filled in on my blog:
https://weblog.masukomi.org/posts/touchability_graphic/

#autism