Notices by Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club), page 3

The newspaper equivalent of garbage TV "debates". https://mastodon.club/media/Z5hdO34dSU1D3RfUTEM

City is using seeclickfix.com. Boo. More third party nonsense.

@dheadshot It's how the computer is "helpful".

Just heard Jesse Hirsh call out CBC for their promotion of Facebook in all their shows while being interviewed on Metro Morning.

Props to Jesse for that. Facebook is a dumpster fire.

@ink_slinger It sucked, but it wasn't the end of the world. Also, as my wife says, "It's a train!" :)

It's still my favourite mode of travel.

@ink_slinger My wife and I love the train. We want to do a cross-country trip on it and we'll have to save for a while for that to happen.

That said, Toronto to Montreal is a pretty crowded trip. We've done it twice, once in the summer in a train car that had the heat on. We still liked it, though.

"Freedom isn’t everybody struggling for themselves. At least not if it’s supposed to mean anything."

https://tante.cc/2018/11/17/6-core-falsehoods-about-the-digital-sphere/

@calvin A group of us use Discord for a private meetup every now and then. The best I can say is that I tolerate it. I cannot imagine trying to have a meeting with it. However, it's better than Skype.

I also just can't stand the gaming aspect of it. But that's a personal aesthetic thing.

@calvin In this case, yes, the frying pan is preferred to the fire.

@calvin Save yourself.

This interview goes with it.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/18096352/climate-change-clean-energy-policies-guide

Neat tool to explore energy policies.

https://canada.energypolicy.solutions/

I'm encouraged when I see people who use the command line talk about how the shell could supply the terminal with more information because it pushes in the direction of creating a personal computing environment rather than just a machine that runs processes.

@thomasfuchs It felt mushy to me after a little while. I have a HHKB Pro 2 and Lite, and used them for a couple of years and recently stopped. I cleaned them to, but to no avail.

Found out someone I know contributes to the dumpster fire that is comments on news stories. They claim being banned is a freedom of speech issue. I politely explained they are doing nothing to help things and no, it's not a freedome of speech thing. They are free to publish their thoughts in other ways.

@thomasfuchs https://mastodon.club/media/sJZ2LKL2wTMwW36CdkM

"Debate is valuable when it leads to positive social outcomes. Many of those outcomes—a more informed citizenry, a diversity of viewpoints, respect for those with different opinions—may be impossible in the absence of debate, but debate itself is no guarantee of them."

https://thewalrus.ca/the-night-steve-bannon-came-to-toronto/