Notices by Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social)

Google continues to impress in their lack of wanting to be stewards.

If you don't have an exit plan for your Google services you may want to rethink that plan.

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

(Note: Not the space to tell me how evil Google is or your history with Google. I think we're on the same page, Sparky.)

Your periodic reminder that if the words "Identi.ca", "Laconica", "Friendica", "Pump.io", and "GNU Social" don't ring a bell then you might want to STFU about the history of the Fediverse.

Happy to share knowledge, but will give you a stern look if you think the Fediverse started in 2022.

@coin I am being vague on purpose. I have Stahe 4 rectal cancer. You can connect the dots.

Just another god-damned reminder not to go too far from the house.

fucking hell.

Launching your campaign on Twitter Spaces is like:

@coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jader_Bignamini

The most metal of bands.

CW: eye contact.

I can't tell if Matrix is over or under-designed but I do know that if someone wants to port over a community from Discord to the rooms and spaces interface is, to put it mildly, infuriating.

Note: Not the space to tell me I'm holding it wrong or your opinions on literally any form of human or computer communication. I couldn't care less.

@coin Yes, mom.

Gaze upon my mighty mess and despair.

Y'know, if everyone just stopped caring about Nintendo and let the company bitrot in their own arrogance we could move on with life and let them burn in peace.

"3DS, Wii U eShop Shutdown Leaves Archivists In the Wind, Hobbyists Pick Up the Pieces"

https://games.slashdot.org/story/23/03/22/0449247/3ds-wii-u-eshop-shutdown-leaves-archivists-in-the-wind-hobbyists-pick-up-the-pieces

Your periodic reminder that if your conference doesn't take a strong stance against COVID with masking precautions, vaccination requirements, and on-site temperature checks, and doesn't have an online component then folks like myself aren't coming and aren't participating.

You've basically told immunocompromised folks that we're no longer welcome.

And frankly I don't have time to navigate whatever weak-sauce placations you might offer up in hopes that the virus might stay away. This is a modern disease, not an old-testament ritual performed in the hopes that God might spare his people.

Simple.

Emotional support kitten working hard to provide emotional support.

@javan Every web developer that lived through the 1990s: "We're still in the damn room and can hear you."

Your gentle reminder that gccgo exists and likely doesn't have telemetry installed.

(And before someone sidles into my mentions to tell me how this is a bad idea: I learned my lessons with corporate-controlled languages back when Java ran in your browser. Your words are like kindling to your own roasting. Approach with caution.)

Sadly I could see this one coming:

"'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards"

They had several iterations of the next-generation hardare and a lot of lead-time to get something to production. Now they're struggling.

"The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now."

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/0413229/mycroft-open-source-voice-assistant-out-of-funds-cant-fulfill-remaining-kickstarter-rewards