dude, Relax.

You can just follow hashtags instead of users on Mastodon. In fact I think that’s the best way to use it.

You can also subscribe to a hashtag via RSS, which is really useful.

That’s great news. The actual number of viewers will be higher too because not everyone who’s watching a video will be logged in to a PT account.

I downloaded the apk because it wasn’t on f-droid yet - maybe others did the same.

“Don’t bite the anus that feeds you”

Grandfather: “How is your garden”

Grandson: “Needs a firmware update”

The most useful thing about interacting with another human mind is that it can see when the question needs to be updated in order to get a correct answer.

A crude example would be:

Q1: how many screws should I use to join these pieces of wood?

A1: It’s more relevant to use screws which are long enough.

Q2: Which screws should I use?

A2: This size.

All lick the anus

Keep saying I’ll make things better but never take the political risks necessary to actually do it. Give the financial industry everything it wants.

Links to download the app are halfway down the article

Good news :)

I use free software. Is this for me or for the people who make free software and receive donations from people like me?

If a business makes it too difficult to use them I just use someone else. I’m sure they understand that but are making a killing at the expense of other people.

I havent finished reading it yet but I really like the setting in A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers. It’s a wholesome and positive vision of a world that saw the error of its ways and decided to make amends and do things right, technologically, environmentally and socially. It gives me a sense of hope and pride in humanity which is an unusual thing to get from a setting rather than characters and story.

Also Solaris by Stanislaw Lem for blurring (or even erasing) the distinction between place and person and evoking a powerful sense of wonder and total ‘alienness’. It was the last story I read that I was completely captivated by. Horrifying, beautiful and compelling.

It’s probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn’t have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It’s the same idea behind the “sticks and stones” saying.

Can’t say I’ve noticed a problem tbh.

Yeah, probably more than I laugh about anything else tbh!

“Come on Elon, you’re going to get us all assassinated.”

Wishing you well and that you find a partner to build a future with 👍

I add my voice to this request. Cough up the names.