Ben Cohen @ben@ischool.social

Hello. This weekend I'm going to update this instance to Mastodon v3.0.0... There are a lot of changes, some are breaking too, so take a look at the changelog:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0

The most important, I thinks, is that OStatus support has been removed.

Side note, if you don't know what ncdu is, look it up because I guarantee that you will need it someday

Similar: corporate gaslighting

Microsoft pretending Windows incorporating ads and spyware is good for the customer, Shell trying to convince us they're into green tech now, Oracle doing literally anything

Getting vaccinated against brands. "M̷̱̈́͝c̶̰̓̂D̵̢̖̓͝ǒ̵̡̭͝n̸̨̉ǎ̷̝͒l̶̝̈d̸͉̟́ș̷͙̒" the doctor asks? I shrug, the sounds not lining up in my head. In my stomach I feel un-hunger.

PSA:

I do this every so often but just wanted to give a shout out to my favorite RSS reader software, Miniflux. Set it up for the umpteenth time recently and its always exactly what I need.

https://miniflux.app/

Guys guys I finally did it

I made man.sr.ht look good 😁

https://man.sr.ht

https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

🎉 🎉

semi-regular reminder: the #Firefox and Chrome add-on Bypass Paywalls lets you easily get past the article-hiding nag screens on numerous major media websites, even WSJ

both mozilla and google rudely delisted it from their add-on sites so you have to get it from the author's github:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I just submitted the first release of Contrast to Flathub! It's a beautifully designed app to check the contrast ratio between two colors made with GTK & Rust by the GNOME Design Tooling team.🎉🥳

RT @nathenharvey@twitter.com
I facilitated a #TalkPayIRL discussion at @DevOpsDaysDC@twitter.com. The lowest paid developer in the room just accepted a position wherein their salary is 65% higher. Thank you to the amazing #DevOps community for the support and @jpaulreed@twitter.com for the process. https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/talking-pay-in-the-public-square-70e588f54c8 1/2

RT @martinezmau@twitter.com

Artists installed seesaws at the border wall so that kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together. It was designed by architect Ronald Rael. ⁣
⁣
Beautiful reminder that we are connected: what happens on one side impacts the other.
🇲🇽 ❤️ 🇺🇸

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/martinezmau/status/1156045826810159104

La nouvelle interface de Roundcube est pas mal du tout.

it really was surreal to peruse scottish witch trial records and find inquisitors dutifully notating how they coerced confessions, how they interpreted healers and political agitators and neuroatypical folx alike as satanists in order to have everyone they knew captured and killed. we downplay it today, somehow, but the witch trials were a pan-european political genocide without which the modern nation-state and all its crimes, perhaps even whiteness itself, would not be possible.

PREORDERS LIVE! #pinebookpro Find the link here :) pine64.org

I finally get to talk about what I’ve been helping build since I started at Betterment! Introducing Betterment Everyday: https://www.betterment.com/checking-savings/

“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill

I'm looking for a fairly rugged, dependable laptop running under #linux with decent hardware support.

My instinct is to go with a ThinkPad. Anyone think I'm wrong about that?

If not, which ThinkPad?

if anyone here needs Ethernet cable hit me up. I'll cut a cable up to 10 feet for you and ship it anywhere in the US

boosts welcome

In my quest to build an #ActivityPub based simple, no-frills bulletin board / forum system, I've gone ahead and pushed up my work-in-progress #golang ActivityPub single server framework: apcore. It has no README (yet) and still has a lot left TODO.

https://github.com/go-fed/apcore

I hope to use it in the future to launch multiple small ActivityPub applications leveraging common serving, storing, and moderation features. But new #ActivityStreams vocabulary can be readily innovated upon.

@mdszy I'm already testing Fedilab, I have never used the 4 apps in the poll.