Dr. Otto Skrzyk @docskrzyk@hackers.town

I get it: I don't like it when I see a profile and someone has a long laundry list of boundaries and requirements for following.

I'll say it in the same breath though... read the person's bio before following. You might like that toot that you saw boosted, but they might not want a follow. You might not want to see their other shit (1/2)

Other than this making you a boundary respecting and pleasant fediverse netizen, it also makes it more likely that someone who has criteria won't shut you out.

I have seen a rash of new people (based on follow/follower/toot count or lack of avatar) requesting follows of me without interacting first. It's not just that they haven't read my bio. I don't feel comfortable being one of the first people someone new on the fedi interacts with unawares.

I'm snarky and surreal because that pleases me, and if you don't know what you're getting into you might get the wrong impression overall.

Anyhow, read the damn bio,
Dr. Skrzyk.
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Ahhhhh. So that's why they won't be in the next season.

In case the acronyms are not familiar to you:

• EEE is "Embrace / Extend / Extinguish" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish - Not only is it a strategy used in tech, but has been used by conquerors throughout history. I mean, did you really think Europe spoke Latin because they liked it better?
• PoS is Piece of Shit. Not Point of Sale (though the two do tend to overlap when you create a Venn Diagram).

I am upset by the layoffs at Mozilla.

I have also been waiting for when my insistence on Firefox only on my systems would become akin to being an Opera holdout circa 10 (or more) years ago. I still hope that doesn't happen.

I'm disgusted that we were so distracted by hating Microsoft/IE that we gave the keys to the internet to Google, who was flying under the flag of being Open Source Friendly long enough to EEE us like every other PoS tech giant.

So the thing that I knew would happen if I tried getting into SDR is starting to happen: Gear Lust

https://www.nuand.com/product/bladerf-x40/

The things I could do with this... but you know... I don't have that mind of money laying about.

Recalling fond memories of my grandather, Ol' "Beans" Wwwwtaoctp

subtoot: We've done a traceroute and found the updates are coming from inside the datacenter.

NooooooO!!!!

Pour one out for Tim Smith, founder and genius behind The Cardiacs. I just found out he passed away July 22nd. In a way I'm relieved for him, since he'd suffered a heart attack which caused oxygen starvation and permanent dystonia.

In 2017, Smith described his condition: “Imagine if you were wearing a skintight bodysuit made of fishnet all around you, with electrical pulses going all the time. This is what my body feels like unless I fall asleep.”

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

Quote from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/tim-smith-frontman-cult-band-the-cardiacs-dies-aged-59

Nobody:
Me: Did you say you wanted to hear a song with a bass line that would melt your face off? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34H2D9bfig&t=545s

#nowplaying️

New game: Guess someone's favorite musician. I'm going to take a shot at some of the townies wherein I can make an educated guess.

@thegibson : Dimebag Darrell (Pantera)
@ryen : Ben Gibbard (Postal Service / Death Cab for Cutie)
@banjofox Tera Melos? (long shot BIG WARNING: STROBING IN VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyv7fjaRMT8)

Did you know there are still some isolated norsemen who continue to use Windows ᚷᚹ?

Some music for a sunny day, about a guy who sneaks into a cemetery to visit a dead lover after dark.

Firewater is so gloriously instrumentally varied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskgpvVqm-w

#nowplaying

grammar / edit: Since this has gotten boosted I'm nervous about deleting and redrafting, but I meant the last sentence to be "Just adding a datapoint of things that Canonical does that make me wary"

I really need be somewhere people aren't talking at me when I'm trying to type.

Things that make me nervous about a technical product:

• a service or package that sounds like market speak. e.g. ubuntu-advantage-tools
• Bundling that so the core functionality is destroyed although it is not necessary. e.g.:

$ sudo apt remove ubuntu-advantage-tools

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ubuntu-advantage-tools ubuntu-minimal

• Killing discussion on how to pull this tool off of a system: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1189368/is-there-a-way-to-remove-ubuntu-advantage-updates

I'm not looking for a bunch of "hurhur 'buntu sux" or "you should be using OpenBSD" here. Just adding a data point on things that Canonical goes about doing things that make me wary.

ugh, soo tired.

good night fedi.

PANIC B700:CEE2 - Parsed As Bleu Cheese

Press any key to reboot...

I have fallen down the "BtAF Well" again.

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