Rob Vincent 🎙️ @Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town

OH: "I have no admin rights, only admin responsibilities"

At any moment we could be reduced to sneakernets again.

always remember this.

por que no

hey whats everyone's go to for rasbpi over wifi? what dongle thingy do you use?

old and busted: yes, but
new and trusted: yes butt

On #InternationalNonBinaryPeoplesDay remember that no matter how you present and no matter how you identify, if you don’t fit into the gender binary and you want to be, you are 100%

You do not have to look a certain way, you do not have to have a certain orientation, you do not have to broadcast your identity—you are an #enby in my #NonBinary family and I love you 💖

Now if you will excuse me, I have to read this toot back to myself

Do not help ICE in any single way shape or form.

any warrants they may have must and absoulutely must be signed by a judge and not ICE’s “warrants”.

Do not answer the door without looking.

Do not answer questions.

DO NOT HELP ICE!

My mom was born in Mexico, immigrated to the US and became a US citizen. not everyone is this blessed and a chunk of my family is still in Mexico so you best fucking believe im very vocal on those surviving the ICE raids

#RT #RTplease #Boost #ICEraid

One redeeming aspect of ubiquitous surveillance cameras: they've allowed researchers to disprove the misanthropic "bystander effect" https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/07/bystander-effect-stranger-danger-crime-public-safety-video/593755/

@drwho I see http as a fundamentally pull protocol, not a push one. If I'm visiting a website in a client that doesn't support images, I'm not blocking images, I'm simply not requesting them, same with all the tracking garbage. It's a misnomer to call it "blocking", I'm just not asking for them. To pretend that that's some kind of hackery and breaking the website, is disingenuous at best, as there's nothing in the way that the web works that requires websites to be packaged in a certain way.

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.

Hey! :) The Recurse Center is "funding Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on programming projects, research, and art at RC this fall.

Apply by July 22nd and start August 12th or September 23rd."

https://www.recurse.com/blog/149-10000-fellowships-for-women-trans-non-binary-programmers

This is an incredible opportunity – if you want to be part of a diverse, kind programming community, and spend three months focusing on projects close to your heart, this is your chance! Happy to answer any questions you might have! \o/

Voting machine makers claim the names of the entities that own them are trade secrets https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190706/17082642527/voting-machine-makers-claim-names-entities-that-own-them-are-trade-secrets.shtml