Notices by Old Man in the Shoe (jenzi@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft the desktop has been dead for a while

@nixCraft They get free mastodon advertising so they pass on the savings

@nixCraft Engagement farming, just like this

@nixCraft Return to the 36 Chambers

@nixCraft

One theory of life on planet Earth is that it arose to order proteins from the right to the left. That's it, stacking proteins to one side. And here we are inventing computers that kind of did the same thing.

@eff Surprised the EFF stance isn't to get off Twitter entirely.

Check it out, #MastodonForHarris has raised over $250,000 in 2 days. That's more than a quarter million dollars. @heidilifeldman is an effective fundraiser.

https://kindalame.com/2024/07/25/mastodon-users-raise-250000-for-kamala-harris-in-just-2-days/

@Gargron good work!

@nixCraft laughs in ZSH

@arstechnica Written by a group who doesn't want warning labels on their products it seems.

@arstechnica

Glad I got my mother a Chromebook

@aral You're still blaming software and standards and not servers

@aral it's up to servers to federate... threads stole the code, what can you do except block them... not mastodon's fault

@nixCraft

If the model was open then I'd say to rip off whatever you wanted

@nixCraft this is indeed happening