Notices by marcel boust (mood@jorts.horse)

i would want folks to be able to register a new instance, associate a domain name with it (with help/support, bc most people haven’t bought domain names before), etc. — basically a free version of masto.host, financially underwritten by ppl who can afford to do so

if someone who is good at server admin and is familiar with activitypub wants to team up with me, i want to contribute to building easier, free mastodon instance hosting

to me it has highlighted how nothing is ever very simple, because clearly an entire swath of the financial services industry is ALSO “addicted” to amazon

as part of switching away from being so reliant on amazon, i have done the most basic thing which is simply to buy things from their manufacturer’s websites instead of amazon’s.

my credit union’s fraud detection vendor is extremely unhappy.

my account gets frozen about once every 2 or 3 purchases. the only way to unfreeze is a phone tree and then going through my transactions with a human. it is unpleasant and annoying.

@dankwraith “it’s just like the programs you’ve been using, but you have to let people insult you the whole time”

really glad i learned cursive in school instead of, say, the real reason for any war

if anyone sees a software engineer named zach vorhies for hire, he’s an antisemite. currently in the bay area.

https://learningsynths.ableton.com this rules