FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

1. There's a "Follow Request" button. It's really easy to overlook it entirely. It contains manual approvals for followers your server thinks are sketch.

2. If you find the "block DMs from non-followers" checkbox, beware— it *does not warn* people DMing you that their DMs won't be seen.

3. There's a "filter" feature that lets you hide *or add a clickthrough for* keywords. You can make any one annoying post Go Away by hitting ⋯ then "Filter this post"

i've completed the #gameboycamera experience #gbcamera #gameboyprinter #webgbcam

all social networks really are the same aren't they

welp, if anybody's looking for a staff SWE with expertise in media handling, ffmpeg, C, C++, x86, ARM, reverse engineering, libc customization, network APIs, TLS, and plenty more… hit me up

@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"

Twitter, once the most powerful real-time information system ever built, so much so someone accidentally live tweeted the death of bin Laden, now not only can’t be used to save lives from bad weather, but won’t even let the existence of bad weather be seen by the weather people.

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