Notices by ϟт℮ ♥ε Ḻ ☺ґḓ (stevelord@mastodon.social)

Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom https://meet.jitsi.net/

Working on issue #3 of my newsletter, The Dork Web. Issue #1 comes out this thursday at 13:37 UTC.

Issue #1 is about the Pinebook Pro, ARM64 boards and CP/M SBCs.

Issue #2 is a loveletter to the Atari Lynx

Issue #3 is about Consumerism and reflections on John Carpenter's "They Live" in the 21st Century, MNT Reform, Librem 5 and Pinephone.

If that floats your boat, you can sign up here: https://thedorkweb.substack.com/

Playing with vertex transformations and procedural generation again, this time it's Ada Lovelace's turn. I think this algorithm works well with the right picture. #mastoart

Official response from #FreeBSD re: my CoC violation report over people shouting "Shut The Fuck Up" at a #BSDCan speaker. I've highlighted the point that FreeBSD does not believe repeatedly shouting "Shut the fuck up" at a speaker doesn't constitute abuse or is even unacceptable behaviour.

Scumbags creating and abusing FB support groups to sell vulnerable people shit. Wow. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17370066/facebook-addiction-support-groups-rehab-patient-brokering

Some thoughts on ethics and morals in software development, well worth reading https://www.calebthompson.io/talks/dont-get-distracted/

"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Mark?" http://i.imgur.com/WuBSNr0.jpg

A local university asked me to teach the kids IoT security, so I thought I'd use a hierarchy pyramid to illustrate it.