Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets

You want to know why people who use FOSS are annoying? This is part of it. There is a constant, feverish, frenzied conversation retreading the same ground over and over and over again, ground I read about Richard Dipshit Stallman walking in the 20th fucking century, and nobody ever learns a goddamn thing.

I spent my whole childhood with the options being either a) to learn how to patch together a working comptuer system from literal dumpster-dived trash, or b) not have any connection to the Internet (and, thus, my only friends, my only queer community, etc.). I was able to do that because of Debian, and local LUGs, and probably a thousand people's work, minimum. Every project that enabled that is chronically underfunded and unappreciated.

Not only *can* we build something different, we *already have*. And maybe that's not the right thing, but it's proof that we can make a different choice.

Ed and all his friends need to get the hell on board.

Ed Zitron went to Amazon and bought its best-selling laptop — a $238 machine running Microsoft S, a hobbled version designed to limit what a user can do

The laptop is janky, slow, awful — and the internet it opens onto is a shitshow of upselling, slop, and con schemes, where the walled gardens are preferable mostly because they offer an illusion of order

His point: for *most* people, computing is psychologically abusive

He’s right

Read the whole thing!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

@catsalad OK. I have therapied myself out of this and I can stop looking.

#decemberAdventure days 12-16: music, DIY, and webfinger

https://nilfm.cc/decadv_2024.html

DIY photovoltaics | https://nilfm.cc/solar_setup_on_the_gypsy_wagon.html

blue eyes wife dragon

#Consume #Fuck #Big #Pharma #Photo

なんか気になったのでおもむろに PC-6001 128x192 4色花隈千冬さん修正版

People's year in review are all like My favourite song this year is you must first enable DRM to-

my microvan is now equipped with a photovoltaic module

final moments in Sydney

Critical systems made by companies extensively using LLMs are, in fact, built on the slippery slop.

Cyberpunk atmosphere - empty platform with power plant in the background.

#photography #cyberpunk

> There is a way forward. There is a narrow path, I believe — but the part of the path I want to show you reveals my materialist-communist roots. It is not for me to judge whether this path is wise; I hope only that it inspires. I mean to illustrate a transformative revolution in the imperial core. I mean the death of America, and the birth of a new people.

https://blog.bovid.space/the_killer_is_in_the_house

me

#decemberAdventure days 10 and 11 - implementing a data navigator

https://nilfm.cc/decadv_2024.html

What me, @neauoire and @voidxwitch were up to last friday night 🐺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzEfsPFRbIo

phonk mode still on

#cuteposting

taco tuesday. it's happening

@paulgatling still grinding! only now it's happening inside my knees. 🤙

how do I even begin to explain that over a decade of devaluating design and frontend as disciplines coupled with the JavaScript frameworks pure disregard for the web platform resulted in absolute dogshit interfaces being the norm

This is, among other reasons, why I can't find myself getting excited or interested in AI.

This amazing new tech is *pulls off the glittery curtain* ....just more human exploitation. 🤦‍♀️

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/labelers-training-ai-say-theyre-overworked-underpaid-and-exploited-60-minutes-transcript/

can't spell #phonk without #honk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JdnEw7slVpk

#theStudio

@jack python, not even once

that's how it be sometimes

FileReader API is stupid :>

how about a lightcrystal?

ironically this post will feature no audio attachments

honking twice removed

testing donks from underbbs

#decemberAdventure days 6 and 7 - timeline switcher and refactoring

https://nilfm.cc/decadv_2024.html