Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 9

You know what, why don’t you fuck off? (3/3)

Which is why I implemented Nano initially. But yes, the libertarian ideals behind them are shit. Is traditional banking better. Is Stipe just the most ethical thing ever? Would you rather we simply didn’t exist? Because apparently we need this money shit to keep a roof over our heads and eat. But don’t worry, given we don’t receive enough in donations to exist as it is and we haven’t gotten a single euro of EU funding, you might get your wish. Actually, fuck this. (2/3)

@serapath @vegafjord How much money did who offer, dude? You must be mistaking me with someone people offer money to. Do you know what we do? Do you understand that NOBODY pays for it? We scrape by because Laura works at Penpot and because I sold two houses to work on what we work on. What changed is what I said: they moved from proof of work (proof of waste) to proof of stake. Digital currency != bad. (1/3)

@Flatulenator Fuck off, Nazi scum.

@ryanprior Indeed, but it was slated for 8. And it’s still busted.

@AndrewDavidBaron 💕

I just updated the Small Technology Foundation funding page to use Ethereum instead of Nano as the cryptocurrency option since Ethereum is now proof-of-stake instead of the planet-destroying proof-of-work (hello, Bitcoin and co.) and because Nano is apparently a pain to obtain (had a few folks complain).

So if you want to donate anonymously, this should make it easier to do so.

Your donations do help. So thank you! :)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

💕

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #SmallTech #SmallWeb

@spencerbeswick Glad to hear you’re ok.

Revolving doors go round and round, round and round, round and round…

#institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EU #BigTech #Meta https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/113493491174499463

@ryanprior Not on 8: https://news.itsfoss.com/elementary-os-8/

You just wait, Elon Musk has only just started killing people. https://mastodon.social/@EverMama8_/113493057196176315

@ryanprior This was the last drop: https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

@ryanprior No condolences necessary. I’ve been more productive than I have been in ages. Amazing what you can do when you’re not constantly distracted by little things in your display environment not working as they should. Heck, I took a three month diversion at one point to contribute to Elementary OS (for which I was thanked recently by being slandered for my contribution as the Linux crowd closed ranks around deflecting criticism of lack of accessibility in GNOME). Yeah, no.

@badambassador It’s the Streacom ST-DB4 in Black (which, I just checked, they’re sold out of. They still do carry it in other colours, though.)

https://streacom.com/products/db4-fanless-mini-itx-case/

PS. I’ve been running Fedora Silverblue on it but I’m happy to install whichever Linux distribution you like on it.

And, in case you care about such things, this is the machine I used to code Kitten¹ and the one I was using for my videos/live streams.

(And yes, this is my work machine and the money for it will go to Small Technology Foundation².)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://small-tech.org

#Linux #machine #forSale #Ireland #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech

Looks like I’m going to have to part with my beloved cube PC.

It’s a gorgeous fanless/silent machine that just screams. Best computer I’ve owned but I’m back to daily driving a Mac for dev and I’d rather it went to someone who’d use it every day instead of having it gather dust here.

Ryzen 5700G, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Full specs in alt text of first image.

Thought I’d mention it here first. Ideally, will go to someone in Ireland. Thinking €1,500+shipping or pick up.

#computer #forSale #ireland

6/ The authors conclude: "Republican accounts benefited from increased visibility or recommendation bias post-change. This could imply an algorithmic adjustment, potentially in the For You feed, designed to place certain content in front of more users, thus driving up views selectively for these accounts."

@originlbookgirl Alt text: Black and white photo of James Baldwin overlaid with text:

“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.

James Baldwin,
African American novelist, poet, playwright, intellectual and social critic
(1924 - 1987)”

It feels like some folks think democracy amounts to doing whatever the majority of those who voted in an election want. That’s not democracy. That’s tyranny of the majority.

If your society votes to start eating babies, you don’t start eating babies. You protect your babies with your life and you fight tooth and nail until you rid your society of baby eaters so you don’t end up as a nation of cannibals.

@tomarsch @nerdherz So you read this and reached that conclusion how, exactly?