I make software, recently with Python, Elixir, Clojurescript, Rust, and Linux.
I like free software and copyleft licenses.
he/him | southern california
| web | https://orbital.rodeo/~mike |
| Keyoxide | https://keyoxide.org/hkp/9AB5080403D11501C9BCCD05B8CA58CA097220A4 |
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion
Cancel it. Delete your account. Help your friends delete theirs. Abandon that dumpster fire.
Okay, all my old friends who didn't leave Facebook back when I did, this is where I draw the line, it's time to go.
After this if you're still suckling at Zuckerberg's teat I consider you complacent, I don't even want to send you a holiday card any more.
Get a real website for your business.
Use the telephone to talk to grandma.
Coordinate the soccer team with email.
Chat with XMPP or Signal.
Share photos on Flickr.
No more excuses. There's plenty of great alternatives.
Delete your Facebook account.
A public service announcement for you and the loved ones in your life:
STAY THE FUCK OFF FACEBOOK
End of PSA.
Image is a screencap of this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/?sh=1087c5a1579c
Agglomerated some more words onto my 2016 critique of "pretending proprietary software doesn't exist as a form of activism"
https://orbital.rodeo/~mike/shun/
But wow what it really needs instead is a good sharpening, it feels like an unfocused ramble too long for anybody to actually read at this point
i picked out my new domain name 1. because it was cheap and 2. so that my email address would be easy and unambiguous to communicate via speech when necessary, without spelling it out
i got the chance to try that out for the first time the other day!
clerk: email address?
me: mike. at. orbital. dot. rodeo.
clerk: (typing)
clerk: (waiting)
me: (is he gonna ask me to spell it?)
clerk: ... dot com?
me: uh! no.
success, kinda
baleeted!
I'm moving all my public git repositories away from GitHub, to the little git forge hosted on https://orbital.rodeo.
The move isn't complete and the new destination isn't pretty yet either, but I have already gone ahead and removed everything from GitHub.
Feels good, and gives motivation to tidy up, and publish what I think is useful to keep.
Finally! At long last! I am decommissioning my loathsome Gmail account.
I migrated to https://fastmail.com and so far I _love_ it. It's not the janky web-mail of yesteryear. Their web-based UI is super slick, way better than google's even.
I'm super happy with it, and I'll probably write some longform blogpost about all the reasons it's great in the next week or two.
@AbbieNormal good point 😳
"you say you are the person posting at that social media account but i don't believe you" is never a problem i've ever had, nor expect to have
the converse would be more useful - if someone steals an account of mine or posts on some service claiming to be me, someone could challenge them to prove their identity via keyoxide
i like that it's an easy public interface to PGP, that gives people a mechanism to send me an encrypted message or verify that i signed a file without knowing much about PGP
not that those things are anything i've ever really needed before either 🤷
Keyoxide works great
Finally got around to deleting my Keybase account, not that I ever used it for anything
Tekniquelly correct
Vincent Jorgensen
Siren 🌙
