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i'm making a cool thing for the cardputer and i don't want to open source it because i've been burned in the past with my code being taken and done stuff to that i didn't want to and i just don't want to share my code. but i'm getting hounded that it needs to be open sourced so now i'm not even going to release binaries and nobody will get to play with it 🤷‍♀️

Ok I’m doin the thread I said I wanted to do last week. (feel free to mute unless you enjoy a little second-hand drama as a Monday morning treat)

Attn #devrel people! Are you job hunting? Does this pic of search results look familiar? Have you ever seen a bunch of job postings like this from Canonical and thought “gee I should apply to one of these”?

I’m here to tell you:

IT’S A TRAP! 🧵

activitypub was a mistake, but not a bigger mistake than microblogging in of itself

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mastodon: replies don't federate so click through a post or profile to see the complete information

mastodon admins: got it (disables any public reading of posts or profiles without a logged in account, preventing this)

i am really, really angry and want to physically take it out on some very real people with very real blunt objects right now

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my fiancée: (shares a UK link to like, i don't know, a fucking kitchen appliance ship)

my brazilian-ass internet: YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED FROM VIEWING THIS WEBSITE, YOU FILTHY BOTNET GEOIP REGION

ah, to have chosen to spawn in the wrong part of the world in the eyes of colonizers

if something is too good to be true then it follows that i shouldn't be surprised when it ends.

valve is "replacing" the "old" family sharing system with a "new and improved" system which "helpfully" prevents you from sharing games with anyone outside your country

heavily impacts me who doesn't have family in even the same continent, fuck

steamcommunity.com/groups/stea

time to go back to r/crackwatch and pirate games again

yes! YES! THIS is what i remember lingscars looking like before they resigned it more recently. THIS is the web design i want back. social.treehouse.systems/@amie

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damn we're coming up on 7 years of computer fairies next month. amazed and thankful this place is still up

2024 fediverse users: god this place is becoming so cliquey

2017 fediverse users:

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