Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 9

I wrote a small blog post on #Mastodon and Nazis

Published on my own blog: https://blogghoran.se/2019/07/12/on-mastodon-and-nazis/

As well as medium:
https://medium.com/@maloki/on-mastodon-and-nazis-11dcaba3f481?sk=989f55874560abf1ae002017ad76d2a6

"A Good Place: The happy accident of mistakenly logging onto gail dot com" by Cole Nowicki https://theoutline.com/post/7676/the-happy-accident-of-mistakenly-logging-onto-gail-com

This is pretty heartwarming.

Viral: biggest node on Mastodon

Spiral: biggest oat on Mastodon

Viral: biggest node on Mastodon

Spiral: biggest oat on Mastodon

Straight people: Gay people are exactly like straight people in every single way except for when they have sex and that is the only difference

Gay people: Okay there's a few more ways that—

Straight people: No it's like a DND character sheet where everything is the same but that one stat is flipped.

Gays: Uhh

Straights: I'm just saying, being gay can't mean anything that makes me even slightly uncomfortable and if it does that's your fault, not mine.

Rent is due soon and I am absolutely short. I need to gather 850$ for this months rent or I’ll be very much in the streets of Texas and that doesn’t seem like a survivable situation. If you wanna help out, please consider shooting me a donation. Anything helps.

PayPal.me/cutebridge

Venmo: bridge-bridge

Or consider donating on stream! It makes me look like a real streamer!
streamlabs.com/cutebridge

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

Gonna take the whole "Don't scab on prime day" moment to promote one of my favourite alternatives to an amazon product.

The Movie Database is a free community-run alternative to IMDB, unlike amazon's shitty website, TMDB isn't full to bursting with ads, trackers and sluggish JavaScript, and provides an excellent platform for folk to catalogue information about their favorite films without being marketed to.

Please support it, not just on prime day, but any time you need info on a film. Keep information free.

https://www.themoviedb.org/

A helpful strip to point people to if they express frustration at having to use "they/them" pronouns in conversation:

http://www.robot-hugs.com/ambiguous/

hewwo.....