FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.

Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

Blåhaj: “i sniff packets here”

broo i have serious doubts about your survival skills. i don't think you'd survive very long if you had to negotiate with a dragon. no offense but you've got that "dragon lunch" look written all over your face. they'd take one look at you and be like, "yeah this guy's my lunch"

One thing the twitter outage/limits shows more than anything is how many organisations rely on it for public service communications despite it being an enclosed system. Free is not the same as open and certainly not the same as accessible to all.

This seems to be endemic among large and small organisations, my housing association use FB for group meetings where they invite tenants to take part. I have never been able to take part in this because I don't use FB.

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Wint (dril) finally leaving Twitter really is the end of the era. Reading back through his quotes, he all but defined the vibe of Internet discourse through the 10's. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dril

Also I love the idea that a legendary shitposter leaving is what will finally mark the site as dead. Not when everyone else left, famous people, when the site broke, etc, no- because what truly defined Twitter was:

"who the fuck is scraeming 'LOG OFF' at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off'' -dril

the fact archiving services like web.archive.org and archive.today can no longer archive tweets means this is now a great time for twitter users to audaciously lie about shit they'll soon be proved wrong about, and they can just plausibly deny it later

Of employers who forced staff back to the office, 42% said "attrition" was higher than normal, 21% said the move had actually lost them some of their "key" staff. 29% were now "struggling" to recruit altogether. Ha ha ha. https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/wfh_rto_survey/

"Oh wow, you are on fire lately!" 🍿

#krita #MastoArt

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#Furry #Furryart #furryartist #mastodonart #anthro

After a lot of painful desoldering
(my desoldering gun has a fucked tip, I've just discovered) I've dumped it.

This is the main ROM for the Laser Compumate-1: A little portable device from 1988-1989 that can do spellchecking, calulatoring, and it's a phone book.

Twitter

i don't want Another Twitter i want digital infrastructure that i know will still be around in 15 years

Spinoff #1: as-of-yet unnamed planetary exploration game starring Keke!
#babaisyou

I haven't had to think about rate limits since the good old days when I tweeted an entire genome and had to be very careful to stop them from putting me in Twitter jail. And then I had several genomes going at once bwahaha. It was an art. As quick as possible but only just. And they tried everything to stop me making accounts but I have about 80 lol

it's cool to see twitter breaking a major function of cross-platform info sharing by killing off-site embeds in exactly the same way google did by killing reader, the same way apple did by killing flash

the enemy of all infrastructural stability online is the corporation's irrational hunger for profit at all costs. just because the head of today's dragon is a fucking court jester doesn't change the fact that this will only keep happening as long as the web is a playground for venture capital