Beej Jorgensen

The absolute best thing about it was that after suffering under Microsoft’s shitty operating systems for years, you were running a Unix-like on your own hardware. That part was amazing.

I built soooo many kernels. 😅

Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.

Oh, the things I’m going to create under the X logo…

To the rich, fines are just fees.

Whoever wrote that code is definitely the right team to rewrite social security.

The website couldn’t handle 9000 submissions? That’s embarrassing for us Oregonians… 😊

I love TB, but I also love simplicity. I just configured mutt (which I haven’t used in 20 years) and love how fast and easy it is. Of course, it took me days to get it where I needed it, but using it reminded me of how bloated these other apps can get after years of additions.

Glad to hear about the mail service.

FML. This reminds me I just got trn to built for reading Usenet. I’m reverting.

Public comment made. Thanks for the heads up.

There are real risks with relying on a private company, owned by Elon Musk, as a channel for communications

Damn right. Time to fire up a mastodon instance.

I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose “lockdown”. The next unlock will require a PIN.

I’m following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I’m a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.

I want to throw in a second good word for hashtags. I follow a tiny handful of people, almost entirely personal friends. But I follow a lot of hashtags. Because it typically is the content that I’m after as opposed to a particular person. If my favorite poster of weather information decides to post something about accounting, I don’t really want to see that. Also following a hashtag gets you a lot more exposure to like-minded people than you would if you were trying to follow them all individually, and you see a lot more posts about things you enjoy.

That escalated quickly. Uh… “Bring manufacturing back to America!” Or something.

You gonna delete the equal time rule, too? Didn’t think so.

Tricky case. You can pay someone to make a custom work you hold the copyright on. But you can’t pay for a machine to do it if you want the copyright.

I have zero evidence Musk ordered the Tesla vandalism. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how surprised I’d be to find out he had.

They’re working hard to make sure piracy provides the best experience.