There’s clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It’s like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they’ll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

Ideally we’ll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that’ll be nice.

Sure. Okay. No argument.

Stallman is also his own worst enemy. Feet-picking aside, coat-tailing Linux with this whiny “but ack-shually, gnu is a big part of it so we want equal billing” is just weak and arrogant and has been for decades.

… and if stallman can’t see that without Linux he’d be just a hippie with other issues, he begs for the same trivialization of his own role.

Call it Torvalds/tridgell/baumel/Bourne/Ritchie/Linux before GNU/Linux or gtfo. And if we call it gnu/Linux, we should say chisel/David or Mussolini/UN because, like GNU, they were in the right place at the right time to have a completely fungible sidecar role in what actually happened to catalyze actual work.

Stallman made emacs. Cool. I use it daily. GNU is great but not vital. Without Edison, we’d have a Marconi somewhere.

They surrender their passport on arriving.

They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.

They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

They die.

God bot, but fix that comma-splice.

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

– randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

Please don’t humour stallman any more than necessary.

Thanks. I’m sorry it’s yet another science project, though.

I’m plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I’m tapped out!

Sister’s vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it’s a personal insult they can’t get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.

They may institute a mask mandate again

• to keep the remaining staff healthy on return
• to filter their customers further because of high correlation of shitbaggery
• because docs are always masked so lower risk is now a work perq for them.

Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I’m a dumb boy and always forget. I’m so vaxed it’s like a bad hangover, but I don’t have time for even that mess.

I found keepassium for the work phone and I was in love that I could keep a separate db with my OTPs under a password and backed up.

Then I left that job and had to split my OTPs. Vanilla keepass for droid will gives me the OTP values for gitlab etc, so it’s good there, but Vanilla keepassium for Android has no camera/QR->OTP input that I have yet, one that works like keepassium does and is all compatible down the line. I’d love to keep using it to maintain the existing separate keepass OTP db I have.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good combo for droid that gets

• keepass
• backup to box/gdoc/etc
• qr for OTP

In one final package? Does XC do it in a way we think may be compatible?

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory

This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f’n week.

I live near a hospital. I think my data connection can’t handle that kind of hit. ;-)

Maybe this will help.

I LOVE “dissolved girl” but I’m not as Gaga about the rest of the band’s material. That sultry style cut with that music tempo is amazing.

It’s like Finger Eleven has their their one massive departure track ‘paranoid’ – all good, but very different.

I’ll be checking this in the hopes it’ll match a track and give me more sexy molasses for my brain.

I use flightaware and similar apps, but they all eventually want a subscription. Bleugh.

Is this one totally free … or at least better than your average app?

I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.