Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 8

RMS/ESR/etc. are very deeply flawed, and rather unsuitable as figureheads for their ideas.

this doesn't mean software freedom is somehow bad, and it doesn't mean we should frame social movements as being fundamentally at odds with it by association.

I am extremely suspect of people (esp. on birb) sowing discontent with such broad scope.

it's extremely useful for tech corporations if the core principles of copyleft get dragged through the mud. let's not align with them either.

Fantastic deep dive here in the history (and sometimes assumptions) behind the British treatment of -ize/-ise words.

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.fr/2013/01/some-random-thoughts-about-ise-and-ize.html

Domain fronting is critical to the open web https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-web

Tor is an open network, and all Tor relay IPs are public, which makes it simple for repressive governments to block them all.

Meek is a domain fronting pluggable transport that censored users rely on to bypass these blocks. Since Amazon and Google have blocked domain fronting, only Microsoft's Azure cloud still works, but Tor hears Microsoft might block it next.

Look at this ridiculous little keyboard. Look at it!

($11 and yes of course I bought one.)

One of my proudest work accomplishments is that when I'm explaining something, and eyes glaze over, and I ask "does this make sense to you?", then my coworkers feel comfortable saying "no, not really".

RT @gutenberg_org
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*exasperated sigh*

Validating user input 😩🙃

Since the Facebook debacle I have:

Deleted Facebook
Deleted Twitter
Cut back everything Google to just gmail
Dumped the chrome browser
Switched from windows to Linux Mint
Started using Firefox
Started using Proton Mail

Quit being a product, starve big tech where your information is concerned.

#mastoadmin talk time!

Last night I decided to take a shot at moving my instance out of Docker (which I don't know very well) and into just a regular install with the system PostgreSQL and Redis etc.

I stopped my instance, updated to latest stable and dumped the database, using my usual backup command fired via docker-compose:
docker-compose exec --user postgres db pg_dump -Fc postgres > social.chinwag.org-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.psqld

The toot's going to mangle that but you get the idea.

tbc

#introductions

Hi all! I'm a Phd Candidate in anthropology, studying the physical effects of stress in childhood and stress involved in living as a recent immigrant in the US.

I'm also a cellist and a (bad) gardener. I use R for my statistical and graphic purposes.

Je parle français et/y hablo español

Nice to meet you all!