Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca), page 4
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clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 02:24:47 EST 
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NZ PM Jacinda Ardern called ACT leader David Seymour a prick on a hot mike in parliament.
She apologized, he accepted, they had a laugh, and now together they've framed and signed a transcript of the exchange, selling it to the highest bidder, currently at 100 kNZD. The proceeds will go prostate cancer research, "to help pricks everywhere".
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 06:22:12 EST 
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@lnxw48a1 "Pop" is also the Canadian word for carbonated soft drinks... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 09:04:05 EST 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@gnu2 "soda pop", but in the Western US, it is usually just "soda". I usually only hear "pop" if I am in the Southern States. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 20:58:05 EST
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https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260
@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 18:21:03 EST 
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@simsa04
I have found that when I work, usually code or design stuff, I can't listen to podcasts because they take too much attention to what I am working on. Music is no problem. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 17:07:45 EST
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That means my computers are at least four years old and way under-powered compared to new stuff. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 17:05:57 EST
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@lnxw48a1 I tried SSB a few years ago after they presented at LibrePlanet. Even then I found the client too resource intensive. I'm usually running other people's discarded computers that I've refurbished, but that means my como -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 12:12:46 EST
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@clacke Our #KWNPSA user group chatted with the #GetTogether developer a few months ago. He said demand for self-hosted G2G instances was minimal, and event interchange even more minimal. So #ActivityPub support on G2G has stalled, and he considers G2G more or less stable and mature. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 09:10:35 EST
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@lnxw48a1 ...then to Debian with a MATE desktop in 2020. Far less faffing about, finally being productive. Sometimes... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 09:07:23 EST
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 09:07:03 EST
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@lnxw48a1 I switched to Ubuntu-MATE when they insisted in the Unity desktop, then to Debiab -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 08:59:08 EST
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@lnxw48a1 Ubuntu 22.04 has way too much reliance on snaps. Can't even get a regular install of Firefox, f'rinstance, only a snap. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 08:56:55 EST
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 23:27:04 EST
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Oh, look! Evan has his own #Mastodon server now. https://prodromou.pub/@evan -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 30-Sep-2022 02:13:51 EDT
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That "aura" around bright objects is what I saw when I first got a cataract (clouding of the lens). It wasn't bad at first, and only in one eye, so I let it go until my vision was totally obscured in that eye. Don't do that. Get your eyes checked, and maybe a referral to an opthalmologist who specializes in cataracts.
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