Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@Jo @squirrel SQUIRRELS HUGGING SQUIRRELS!

@squirrel ah, right

Not sure why anyone would want to avoid you, people are weird

@squirrel wait, what's this?

@mdhughes@cybre.space why is it you guys always have to bring up the war of colonial ingratitude?

It's like you think you lot shooting at us while we owned your country is somehow special

We owned a third of the planet at one point, a lot of people shot at us

Try to insult us with something original

Like how our judges still wear stupid curly wigs or something

@adeptomega@awoo.space whimsical and fun april fool's jokes I'm all in favour for

But far too many people around (probably that aren't on here to be fair) just make things unusable or break stuff and generally be assholes

@thor it's like your mother in law coming to visit

you can technically say no, but you don't

@thor nowt to do with being a UK citizen or not (people aren't "Subjects" any more (except in some very rare circumstances)), it's a case of "if we invite you to speak here it's technically optional, but you fucking better be dead or dying if you don't"

@devurandom@cybre.space they probably wouldn't jump to that first, but I wouldn't put it past them

I've realised that some non-English-English speakers may be confused by the British reaction to Mark Zuckerberg sending other people in his place after his invitation to speak to the UK Parliament

While "you are invited to Parliament to speak on this subject" may be interpreted as "we'd like you come and talk if it's not too much bother" to some foreign ears, the phrase actually means "COME HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND YOU LITTLE SHIT AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF"

Apparently the latest company to shutter their facebook accounts is Playboy

Huh, this is an interesting thing I've just been made aware of

https://getoutline.org/en/home

Outline, it's a slick bit of software for setting up shadowsocks proxies on a vps somewhere

Really ridiculously easy to use even for people that aren't massively techy

Open source, has been audited, but it does have Google involvement so y'know, think about your threat model

@Jo luckily I'm the first one that sees that kind of stuff so I can wipe it before it gets to the general public, but still

@Jo https://computerfairi.es/@troubleMoney/99762323121252662

PSA: Wipe your goddamn drives before donating them to a charity shop

Or otherwise getting rid of them, but especially if you're donating them to a charity shop

Local charity shop occasionally asks me to take a look at laptops that have been donated to make sure they work and if they're actually of a spec that's halfway useful

Got one today that not only has some french dude's personal data all over the drive including work documents and photos but it also tries to autoconnect to his fucking dropbox account the moment it boots into windows

Harry should be bloody glad I'm not more nefarious than I am

@squirrel 10/10 good poem

@squirrel tie-dye gender