Notices by maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz), page 11

#Ferguson

Just a reminder that while Deray MKcesson built his monetizable brand of wokeness off of Ferguson’s horror show, 5 actual boots on the ground activists have been found dead under "mysterious circumstances". One who actually slapped him in the face for profiteering off their city’s pain. And Cori Bush herself is currently being targeted and violently intimidated.

Cutiepie ·

'Have you done any research?'

Yep, but budget in the realm of tech, among the most informed users and sales/hype/review websites tends to see a-fuckin'-grand as cheap lol.

I'm aware of the Samsung Galaxy A10.1 (2019 version) but am unsure if there's a non-major brand copy of that hardware that works just as well.

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.

"He's not a racist…he has a good heart." And white skin and lives in a privileged neighborhood, so of course he can't possibly be racist, no matter what racist thing he does.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/07/12/so-what-is-a-racist-then/

@maloki What would actually have an effect is sympathy strikes among e.g. lorry drivers (refuse to drive Amazon transports), postal workers (refuse to sort Amazon packets), network/electricity repairmen (stop work on Amazon facilities) and other required secondary businesses that Amazon absolutely depend on and where _they_ can't fire the strikers.

I hereby declare the #MastoOps hashtag for the use of Mastodon System Operators (MSOs) to discuss the operation of Mastodon Systems (known as Mastodon Instances in the common vernacular).

Such topics could include, but are not limited to:

Containerization Strategy and Logistics
Webscale Engineering
Content Delivery Network (
CDN
) Comparisons and Discussion
Coordination between instance MSOs
Cloud

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.

we got a beanbag but i guess it belongs to pearl now

Good morning folks! I really enjoyed working on my game on stream last time, so I think I'll do it again! Hope you can join me! https://www.mixer.com/CookieMom

It's boosting time. A series in two toots:

1. Send me a little something about yourself and your donation links.

2. Send me a little something about someone else, or their project, again with a donation link.

Let's give back to the community this weekend.

I don't have a lot right now, but I'll try to contribute to a few, along with the boosts.

Hey y'all.

There's a tenant in the building I manage (not own) that has a brother in his 40s who has real bad dementia and just denied benefits, so the tenant will be moving out and him and his brother back in with their ~65yo mom. Tenant already had to quit job at the hospital to have time for helping his family, and is back to working as a line cook.

Any donations to me through the end of the month will go to him as I get them to help him make this transition.

https://emsenn.net/support/

@hollyamory @Juju @lapis @Neea @maloki
You know, I've never learned to read IPA? I really should sometime, I think.

The double-t is interesting. If you go to some parts of Scotland the double-t is replaced by a glottal stop. And my favourite part of this is that the best way to demonstrate a glottal stop is to say "glottal stop" in a Glasgow accent!