Notices by Will 💜 (skirmisher@mastodon.social)

Microsoft is publishing the exFAT specification and will be supporting its inclusion in the Linux kernel and OIN. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/

exFAT being patent-encumbered always struck me as ridiculous, considering it's essentially an extension of FAT32 and would otherwise be a perfectly valid filesystem for basic, portable mass storage. (Sorry, UDF.) This technically doesn't change that, but it's still a marked improvement that I'm surprised by.

So it was this whole dance of discrete moving parts to get this to happen. Just to work around what was clearly a hardware incompatibility of some kind.

But it worked! And the only reason I wasn't left out to dry was because I already had homebrew running on the PS2. Just goes to show...

Ooh, this e-ink "pocket typewriter" looks just up the alley of folks who liked the AlphaSmart devices: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2132003782/pomera-pocket-typewriter-with-e-ink

pining for the fjorts

Hey, I'm a trans girl attending DigiPen who needs a place to stay, at least for April but possibly over the summer as well.

I need a queer-friendly place that allows me space to work in peace. Having a bus route that goes near DigiPen, or being within a mile or two of it, is also necessary.

Please let me know ASAP if you have or know a setup that MIGHT work for me. Things are tight for me right now, so anything you can offer me is really appreciated. 💜

Just read about Circles, a proposition for a #UBI system implemented via personal cryptocurrencies, which gain value through a network of individual trust relationships. That is, the money you accumulate is only usable by someone who trusts it (and you), or someone who trusts someone who trusts it, and so on.

Regardless of the viability of such a system with whatever flaws it may have, I like the fact that it functions by way of groups of people trusting each other!

https://github.com/CirclesUBI/docs/blob/master/Circles.md

I find it INCREDIBLY hilarious that *a VirtualBox VM running the Linux Mint live installer* takes up less memory than an Electron app. >_>

Reactions to net neutrality vote:

Twitter: "Keep fighting! Get Congress to act! Take it down in court!"

Mastodon: "Okay, let's get the co-op ISP ball rolling, y'all."