Nick

@stereopixels
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C# / React web app developer based in UK 🇬🇧. Dog lover. Beer enjoyer. Homelabber. Tinkerer. I have no leather-bound books and my house probably doesn’t smell of mahogany.
Personal sitehttps://www.nickquinn.co.uk
GitHubhttps://github.com/nickyquinn

I asked around so-called influencers why they were not on #Mastodon . Here are the most common replies:

1) We can't go viral on Mastodon (read as we can't game the system because humans only boost good stuff)

2) They want a algo driven system (why do you want to see angry posts all day & night?)

3) You can't make money on Mastodon (WTF that even mean?)

4) It is way too technical & confusing. Which server to join? WTF is the server?

Only the last one is valid. The rest are all lazy reasons.

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

I’m done with #x formally known as #twitter (you know a name change has gone well when they have to refer to it as that constantly too). It was a brilliant social network, it’s now a dumpster fire of right-wing lies driven by a billionaire with an agenda.

Not actually @torvalds

(see Mastodon, this is why we need quote toots)

The EU government will be returning to work on #ChatContol on Wednesday!!! ⏰

Let's get loud and make our voices heard that we will never stop opposing this push towards mass surveillance!

New to ChatControl? We've got you covered 👇
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Just got an email from #Lenovo that they won't replace the failed hard drive on my #ThinkPad under warranty because "#Fedora #Linux is not a supported operating system on this model." 😩
"In a world where Elon Musk seems to have proven that practically no privately owned communication forum is immune from a single rich person’s whims, Signal stands as a counterfactual: evidence that venture capitalism and surveillance capitalism—hell, capitalism, period—are not the only paths forward for the future of technology." https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

WIRED
Installed the #cosmic DE from #system76 in #Fedora - for an alpha it's in pretty good shape and is a pleasure to use. But it currently seems to have the same fractional scaling blurriness in X11 apps that #GNOME has; hopefully they'll resolve this in a similar way to #kde by allowing apps to scale themselves.
The way that #Firefox 's reader view makes ad ridden websites usable again.. *chefs kiss 
Apple trying to break the Open Web by removing PWA functionality from iphone https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/ #openweb #apple
It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy