Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 2

“I do see the merits of touch for small screens and handhelds, but if you have a keyboard and a pointer, I don’t see the point of touch ... Touching means taking my hands off the steering wheel or poking the computer in the eye — a big No-No.”
- #RobertPogson in 2015
https://linuxinsider.com/story/loving-linux-in-a-touchscreen-world-81576.html

I've been using Pinafore.social as my main fediverse app since I switched to a Mastodon account (after the death of most of the Quitter family of GNU social instances). It's easy to look at, easy to use, has some offline support (with more planned), and new features appear regularly enough to keep me excited without overwhelming me.

#HatTip to @nolan for all your great work on this.

#fediverse

For my first post today, I want to send a bouquet to Nolan, the developer of the Pinafore web app for Mastodon and Pleroma. Thanks for creating such a brilliant freedom-respecting UX!

#Pinafore # Mastodon #Pleroma #UX

A bit of humour for anyone who found that a bit freaky, here's Dark Tower from Aotearoa, whose video for 'Baggy Trousers' parodied a movie that was a big deal at the time:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=7sM6nXRsyHI

Of course, there's no going past the ultimate 90s video clip, Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy':
https://invidio.us/watch?v=TZ827lkktYs

They weren't playing this one between shows on mainstream TV ;)

#music #video

@johnpierremaeli Here's another list of free code audio programs, not sure how much it overlaps with the list that @greyor shared, but at least some of these will have Windows versions:
https://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/list_of_open-source_music_production_software

"Forgiveness doesn’t minimize harm, nor does it exonerate the perpetrators. But maybe it can free victims. Free us from carrying someone else’s burden - someone else’s shame - someone else’s sin."
- # NadiaBolzWeber
https://nadiabolzweber.substack.com/p/forgiveness-can-you-imagine

SubStack are looking for a "Full Stack Engineer" and a "Product Designer" to be based in SF (although given the current global situation they may be open to a remote hire ;)
https://substack.breezy.hr/

#NowHiring #Jobs

Just tried out the AndStatus app on Android. I successfully added accounts for pump.io and Titter, but adding this Mastodon account failed. I tried adding a Friendica account as a GNU social account, since it supports OStatus and I can't see any other way to do it, but that failed. I don't think I have a GNU social account since the Quitter. sites went down, but I'll have to check and maybe set up a new one for testing purposes.

#AndStatus #Android #pumpIO #GNUsocial #Friendica #OStatus

Hey #Substack, hyperlinks do not require #Javascript:
https://substack.com/

#MakeJavascriptOptional!

@icedquinn
Capitalism is not a "market system". The term was coined, by analogy with feudalism, to describe any system in which centralized control of capital is used to allow capitalists to rule everyone else (just as control of land was used the same way in feudalism). So-called "communist" dictatorships (USSR et al) are non-market capitalism, which I agree is worse than market capitalism, but only by degrees.
@incognitum

@lightone fantastic! Admins now have a strong argument for refusing ideological instance blocks, in that users can DIY for their own feeds.

@stuartcroall
> Is the use of free code software in education common?

Not really, but that's something the OERF and others like @ntnsndr are working to change. There was a primary school in Aotearoa that had a policy of using only free code software where possible, but that's because the Principal was a GNU/Linux user and software freedom activist.

@emi
are you part of mutualinterest.coop?

@cowanon
you're a waste of space aren't you. Muted.

@guyjames that doesn't seem to be any software available there other than a non-free update automator. Are you sure that ninite.com was the URL you were thinking of?

@vik
never tried that. Got any noob-friendly links on how to do that?

Here's a great track by Archive, called 'Again':
https://video.gafamfree.party/videos/watch/8b241824-da76-42b3-858c-abb27d80e652

#music #song #Archive

#LBRY.tv offers downloads with a single, simple download button that just works. This is something the #PeerTube devs utterly refuse to do:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1797

Instead, they've gone for a three dot menu, which drops down a download button, which triggers a confusing popup containing a direct download option and torrent file that AFAIK has never worked.
#UXfail