Ben Cohen @ben@ischool.social

I’ve also got a bunch of updates I’ll be making to Watson – the best-practices elementary OS application template – based on my experiences in building Comet as a Vala app for elementary OS.

You can follow the issues here: https://github.com/small-tech/watson/issues

Once those are done, I’ll consider Watson ~beta quality.

And once Comet has been accepted on AppCenter and I’ve added anything else I’ve learned to it (and hopefully got some feedback from the community), it should be ready for general use.

There was a new person at cribbage club tonight who had a board *tattooed on her arm* so she could play anywhere with just cards and a marker and I’m still not over it

PS. That’s the administration page, not what folks who want to sign up for a Small Web place will see. That’s currently this ;)

#SmallWeb #Domain #Place

Ripcord test builds for the next release (WIP, not finished)

https://cancel.fm/dl/test/

Fixes username & password sign-in on Slack (changed on server), fixes file upload on Slack (changed on server), adds new permissions admin stuff to Discord, adds new experimental disk IO/memory tuning option, adds option to highlight current tab with a colored line, adds dedicated mute button in Discord voice calls, and more stuff I don't have space for here.

WAT?! You're telling me there has been a team at Facebook designing and implementing this feature, and not one person has stood up and asked:

"Uhm, isn't that super creepy, even for us?"

Hell site

“Going forward, I will no longer be checking Twitter or responding on it … I plan to concentrate as much of my time and energy as possible on building the Small Web.”

https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/

#twitter #fediverse #SmallWeb #SurveillanceCapitalism

The Network Timeline is now available!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/2719 #pixelfed

Take action against #EarnIt: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/ #Fight4Privacy #Fight4Encryption

How to identify the features that a system needs:

1. Use the system as-is
2. Notice over time that the lack of a feature is a conspicuous limitation
3. Implement the feature

How NOT to identify the features that a system needs:

1. Skim a blog post about the system
2. "It doesn't support $FEATURE? Ridiculous!"
3. Dismiss it outhand

Someone please buy booksin.space and turn it into a Gemini server full of public domain reading material

🎉 It is time! #Mastodon 3.2.0 is here! What's in it? Have a look:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.2.0

The network, it is growing. Is this what is called a "LAN Party"?

tired: "nonlethal weapons"

also tired: "less-lethal weapons

wired: mutilating weapons

inspired: sadistic weapons

Why it's important to use a real email address for your sourcehut account: I just emailed a dozen people to tell them that their CI builds are going to break with the incoming deprecation of a build image. One of their emails bounced, and they're in for a nasty surprise when their shit starts breaking next week

I wonder how much better Prey (2017) would've done if it wasn't called Prey

We started folding 4 days ago.

Be Mighty.

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/236421

Things Covid has proven:

1. The job you were told couldn't be done remotely can be done remotely

2. Many disabled workers could have been working from home, but corporations just didn't want them to.

3. Internet is a utility, not a luxury.

4. Universal healthcare is a necessity.

Apple steals over eighty hours of work per retail employee per year by making them stay after they have clocked out to be searched before they go home.

Wage theft is a tax levied on workers by their bosses.

Apple, that's indefensible.

Please share.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-13/apple-workers-paid-for-searches

I have successfully (mostly) transitioned from `master` as my git mainline branch name to `latest`. My favorite typo for this new branch is `lastest`. As in `git co lastest`.