FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@ariadne There's a big big elephant in the room nobody (especially Red Hat) is talking about: a lot of public research institutions run EL derivatives, licensing costs for RHEL would be higher than their IT budget (sometimes even higher than their *entire* budget) and essentially gobble up public funds that would be better spent for actual research.

Previously I worked in such an institution: we had ~1500 dual-socket physical systems and ~3000 virtual machines in one datacenter alone, all running CentOS or Scientific Linux. One day, Red Hat asked to meet us and tried to sell RHEL with the usual bullshit about CentOS/SL being essentially "stolen work", when we asked if they had discounted licenses for non-profit research institutions they replied with the publicly listed prices for RHEL. Given our numbers, that would have put yearly operating costs in the range of tens of millions of euros just to bless our machines with a license.

We laughed hard and told them they were wasting their time if they thought we'd give them that much money for basically nothing in return ("no, we don't support that" was their recurring answer when we told them what kind of workload was running on those systems).

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

For some non-bird site internet #enshittification news, I just switched my default search engine from #Google for the first time in a decade after the second day in a row of Google returning zero search results.

Let me clarify; I don't mean nothing was returned. I mean every. single. result was an advertisement.

This is not hyperbole. I scrolled for at least 50 results. All ads. Google as a search engine is dead.

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!" 🍿

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Common abbreviations:
RT - re-tweet. we don't do that here.
OH - overheard, just what it sounds like.
LB - last boost, usually addressing the contents of the poster's most recent boosted post.
EC - eye contact, which is often put behind a spoiler because it can be hard for a lot of us. please be courteous.
PH - personal health
MH - mental health
FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
GAY - this is what I am.
Cis - it's short for cisgendered, meaning that you're the gender you were assigned at birth. generally a bad idea.
Trans - it's short for transgender, meaning that you're a different gender from what they claimed you were at birth. this is a very good idea. this is what I am.
T4T - trans for trans. everyone here loves this. this is what I am.

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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.