Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 50

@eniko Congrats :)

@ScienceCommunicator @gerrymcgovern Indeed. It’s called a retort.

@PixysJourney @mforester Keeping my fingers crossed for Arwen. Please give her a huge hug from me.

🐶💕

@_L1vY_ @otfrom @DecaturNature Thank you :)

Americans: “We’re the greatest nation on Earth!”

Meanwhile, in other nations…

@ScienceCommunicator @gerrymcgovern You’re correct that capitalism is as much a fundamental problem as religions. One of the existential threats facing our species is that we have 21st century technology driven by 1st century thinking.

@LeftistLawyer Are we talking poor people or rich people?

I am fucking sick of otherwise normal people from Germany turning up on my timeline and pushing Israeli propaganda. What's happening in Gaza and elsewhere is a genocide, and no amount of bullshit and ignorance of history can justify that.

Yes, I know you feel very bad for your country having done a genocide, but the trick here is to *not just cheer on the next one in a weird attempt to compensate*.

Go clean up the Nazi problem in your own country.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but “more capitalism, harder” isn’t going to fix the problems created by capitalism.

@olimould We didn’t. A relative handful of sociopaths did. But we do seem incapable – for some reason – of deposing them.

@hamishcampbell Thanks, will have a look.

@fabienmarry No, you fund independent organisations from the commons.

@hamishcampbell Socialhub? Gotta link?

(I’m up to my neck in dev so have very little time in general.)

@fabienmarry I couldn’t care less. As their head of public policy once told me, they’re “just another Silicon Valley tech company.” So they’re the wrong vehicle to provide a browser for the common good (or anything else). And yes, I could care less how just another Silicon Valley tech company funds itself. What I do care about is them representing themselves publicly as something they are not, being a honeypot for devs who care, and generally sucking all the air out of the room.

@JustinH @Zitron That’s ok, we will have exacerbated the climate crisis and further decimated our habitat so there’ll at least be something to show for it.

Mozilla: We’re going to start cannibalising babies

Tech apologists: Well, developers gotta eat too…

Daily reminder, that resistance requires an oppressor.

@aral @EUCommission

I’m getting a DNS error, can't even reach the site.

@aral it errors after authenticating in my browser. That doesn’t help 😅

@hvangalen @guido @aral
How can we get that to the attention of the voting website?