Radical Edward @RadicalEdward@hackers.town

New townies, new #Introduction #Introductions!

Just a fellow technomancer screaming into the void.

Posting about privacy, the dystopia of big tech and utopian small tech, cyberpunk, embedded/low-level stuff, retro computing, other arcane bits.

Restricting follow, will approve if you got an avi and some toots and don't seem like a total ghoul.

Tend to follow those that interact often enough, or are interesting, and aren't a firehose of toots.

Auto follow approval and follow back for townies.

this feels like the right place

Ed will introduce Ed. Full name; Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Trivusky the 4th.

Ed made it up, you know. Nice to meet you!

#introduction #introductions

If you're good at something, ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶ do it for free, destroy capitalism, build a community.

Tech enthusiast: "I want smart lights, smart tv, everything, and connect them all to my digital assisstant!"

Tech worker: *looks wistfully into distance* "I should get a small place in a little town, with a garden, make my own furniture."

"I know, I'll search for git merge conflicts in my c++ code by looking for >>>>"

finds several deeply nested templates

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to microwave for one minute, do you enter:

Dungeons & Dragons character where they magically broadcast their adventures to others for entertainment.

"Be sure to like and scry."

#dnd

still very humbled to be chosen as Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year

putting the "Fed" in "Fediverse"

video meeting mute button:

is your icon the current state, or the state pressing you it will become?

work newsletter

"World Password Day quiz!"

oh no, how many people put their passwords as answers

xkcd standards cartoon, but about meetings

Situation: there is a meeting the technical people have to go to

"There's a lot discussed in this meeting the engineers don't need to be here for. Let's make a second shorter meeting for technical discussion so the engineers don't have to attend this business one to better utilize their time."

"Yeah! But, you know what, let's get them back in this business meeting too in case some technical stuff comes up."

Situation: there are two meetings the technical people have to go to

sees that it's 12 noon

luchy breank

one benefit I just thought about federation: we don't see a screenshot of a social media post that's a screenshot

we just see the thing itself because it's federated. might not even know it's from something different, see a pixelfed or peertube on mastodon

just thinking, Code 46 is like Lost in Translation, except with some dystopia mixed in

oh hello video streaming service thinking people can't download a stream, you must be wondering why one user has so many streams at once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OYNMO_mNw

My self-boosts are a service to the fediverse. There's a lot of new people here, and I have some absolute bangers they haven't seen.

there's discourse about self boosting?

👀

need to start a beef with someone, if only to get into a hack-off, Kate Libby/Dade Murphy style

ok i got work to do

how did I miss @snipe moving into town

need to pay more attention to the local timeline

can I get a "Hack the Planet!" in the timeline

Cavè Dwellers, wasn't he in...

welcome to the desert of the real