Huh. I must have already updated to the new Debian. I had to reboot twice yesterday. I should... pay more attention. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome #update

People who are really into LLMs ("AI" if you swallow the marketing language) are expressing a desire for *willing* slaves. #AI #LLM #computers

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

So, #Pika backup seems to just *fail* after a while, eventually giving my external drive errors that it chokes on. Any recommendations for another backup system like that? I used #TimeMachine when I was on a #MacBook, and I would love something with that functionality. #FOSS #floss#FOSS#macbook…]

I don't normally do this, but this performance of "Sultans of Swing" rocks progressively harder and harder. It very much worth putting on and letting it play: #guitar #DireStraights #MarkKnopfler #sultansofswing#markknopfler#direstraights#guitarttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1WYIu_gA4

#zenbrowser is very well designed, but I had to get off it. It turns your browser into a whole world, like a desktop on top of your desktop. It pulled me in and wouldn't let go. It felt like when you realized you've been captured by something like Facebook. Had to get off. Can't trust myself […]

I didn't understand Americans' faith in America *before* Trump. I'm baffled by it now. But go off, I guess? #America #FourthOfJuly #AmericaDay #USPol #politics #nationalism #patriotism

Seen on teh internets. Nickname for US secretary of losing wars, Pete Hegseth: Supershallowpugilisticwhiskeyhalitosis #uspolitics #trumpcabinet

Ten years ago I wrote about Canada & provinces agreeing to shift funding from urban highway expansion (which makes traffic worse & increases carbon pollution) to low-carbon public transit etc. Today, two climate arsonists wiped their asses with that agreement. 🤦😠 #vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli

BREAKING: Today Vancouver City Council voted to EXTEND the massively successful Granville Street people-first transformation/pedestrianization until September 7th! With budget, which is key. Now the key is to DO IT WELL post- #WorldCup. Also direction for next year, & a November Christmas Market.

Correction: this article is about them trying to sell "AI" capacity that's going unused because it's not useful to them! That's a pretty big deal. I'm picturing a snake-oil salesman who bought too much nonsense water and has to slash prices to recoup some of his costs.

Does anyone know a similar tool for Windows that wasn't made with an LLM and has no LLM features? I haven't looked at the below Mac app closely but it sounded handy. Rulebook Set up rules, and Rulebook quietly sorts, renames, converts, beeps, moves, copies, archives and tags your files in the […]

I just realized that a big part of why I use Gnome DE is because it works best with one application per workspace, and that really helps with (my) #ADHD workflow. Iiiiiiinteresting. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome #neurodivergent #neurodiverse

RE: https://social.souverain.ovh/@souverain/116830136337222206 Nous formons un mouvement ✊🏾

I thought "eggs don't lay eggs" was about failing to value labour. Sigh. #GoldenGoose #EggsDoNotLayEggs #GoldenEggs #eggs #goose

Interesting video! Short version: obviously Star Fleet is a military, but it makes no sense to combine "exploration" with a war fleet even if it makes dramatic sense. Good point, Steve. But here's the thing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iht-B0WOsJ4&t=1423s

It's my fiftieth #birthday today, and yes I am fishing a little, but also, I have #thoughts! I'm old enough to have learned some things... #UnsolicitedAdvice #wisdom

being trans has a lower regret rate than being UK prime minister and yet somehow i'm the one people are "worried about"

The ultra-rich only have themselves to blame for people detesting them at unprecedented levels. They had choices for how to behave.

The longer I spend observing, learning and reading about "ruling classes," the more apparent it is that they fight tooth and nail not just for money and power, but also for the ability to be shockingly immature, incompetent, and uncaring. They think they "get to" be a whole social class of […]

No disrespect to the CFL, which is a Canadian institution, but with the #WorldCup in Canada and the massive growth of the sport here, are we ready to definitively stop calling football soccer? I suspect the United States may never do that with the NFL, but we’re different in Canada. Opinions?

People who know about Linux on Android Is there a way to fully replace the OS with Linux? Can I do it on any phone? My needs are: I have a tablet with Android that is very slow and has little battery. I tried deleting a lot of Google and manufacturer apps with Canta but it is still slow and […]

Another reason to consider Linux. #linux #AI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116794564829834624 Tangent: The thing people don't (or refuse to) get about this is that there's a difference between being in the elite group and the marginalized group. Only if you start from the premise that there's no power differential can you […]

If an iphone CPU (or whatever it's called) can run a small laptop then I *ought to* be able to plug my existing phone into a monitor, bluetooth it to a keyboard and mouse, and use it as my computer. The fact that I can't is surely by design. #iphone #computers #Apple #Mac #macbookneo

Hey, folks who have blogs: when I load the page, turn on Reader Mode, and it says, "25 - 30 minutes," I'm not reading it. Not because I'm lazy. Not because I can't. I'm an English prof. I can read long texts. I'm not reading it because I'm confident it doesn't *need* to be that long. #blogs […]

The #ReflectingPool thing is yet another indication that not only does Trump and his admin. just plain not know a lot of things, they also lack the self-awareness to realize they don't know as well as the self-confidence to ask about the things they don't know. #Trump #politics #uspol

I assume that @pluralistic has seen this, but if not: Here's THE NIB's take on "Ludditism." It's damn good. https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

Today's owner class would 100% reinstate slavery if they could, and the neoliberals and fascists currently occupying our government buildings would help them do it. Happy #Juneteenth. #politics #USPol #canpol

I keep seeing analyses of "AI" as containing no traces of a person's work or intentionality, and I hate to break it to you, but you don't have access to those in work created by people, either. You can infer, certainly, and you'll often be right, but you'll very often be wrong, too. 1/5 #ai

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Fairly regularly, I'm *deeply* grateful to have been raised by hippies who made it extremely clear that boys and men are allowed to cry. #masculinity

Scored some pure undiluted 70s Fantasy Bullshit at the thrift store

RE: https://beige.party/@Lana/116760541673596310 I am not a lake or pool expert but IDK, with a body of water of this size I would think the question would be "what kind of algae and water life do we want?" not an attempt to make it as dead as the blue water in a mall fountain (even mall […]

Does anyone know if there's a way to get a right-click menu (or equivalent) in #ZenBrowser? It saves loads of time to be able to "save" images and then "paste" them into email or whatever, but that option doesn't appear to exist, and it's potentially enough to drive me back to #WaterFox #FOSS#waterfox#zenbrowser…]

The Warner/Paramount merger means the DCU movies are about to be openly racist and misogynist. We'll get maybe five "woke" DC movies, in total, before the new fascist oligarchs take over. Brace yourself for the shock of it. #DCU #DCComics #Paramount #WarnerBros #WB #comics #movies#comics#wb…]

A timely safety reminder from Natalie Horberg 🤔 #roadsafety #drivinglaw

The left and the right work towards precisely the opposite results: one tries to distribute resources / power widely, the other tries to concentrate it in the hands of the "deserving." eg, Mitch McConnell worked to prevent Americans from accessing healthcare bc he doesn't think they deserve it […]

I don't know which is the real #PattonOswalt on here, but I just watched #teaandscotch#pattonoswalt and he is a *skilled* standup. That is a man who's been doing it a very very long time, and he knows his craft. I made the mistake of listening to it on headphones during a workout, and I had to pause to […]

This feels very much like a Fediverse thing…I’m looking to re-wild my backyard. Anyone know someone in Metro Vancouver who could help me? Boost for each please. #gardening #rewilding

God damn. Gnome's "activities" overview remains absolutely genius design. You tap *one* button, and you have access to 95% of what you use on a regular basis. It's sad that other desktop environments don't have this. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #GNOME

For 7 weeks, a 5-block long “segment of Granville Street in Downtown Vancouver will be completely closed to all vehicles for its transformation into the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone, coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup.” Via @iamkennethchan.bsky.social It’s a good start. #StreetsForPeople

Got my first breast scan today. I opted for a clinic that uses the Koning Vera CT scan—no painful compression, you just lay down and stick your boob in a hole and they scan each one. I believe you get about 30 cross section images of each breast from a scan that only takes a few seconds. If you […]

I was in Toronto over the weekend, and there were Trumpist MAGAts staked out near Eaton Centre, trolling passersby. Like a schmuck, I actually got into it with them. I know! I shouldn't have! But. The thing they got maddest at was when I told them 75% of Americans HATE Trump. They were *hurt* […]

I'm not convinced that I'm autistic, despite certain shall we say indirect evidence that I could be. But I'm also not convinced I'm not. It's a funny thing, having a body. It makes all kinds of decisions for you without even asking. #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity#neurodivergent#autism…]

RE: https://mas.to/@OrionKidder/116706187007919449 The only solution to this #enshittified #wifi was to log in using vanilla #Firefox. Neither #Waterfox nor #ZenBrowser are insecure enough to allow me onto this #HotelWifi. This does not speak well about Firefox. #computers #hack #workaround#hack#computers…]

RE: https://mas.to/@OrionKidder/116706193743600090 Public service announcement: THIS DOES NOT WORK! My computer was drawing on the cellular data plan. Somehow, the enshittified wifi refused the hotspot tether. #wifi *HotelWifi #computers #iphone #hack #workaround #kludge #Linux

So I'm a hotel with #enshittified wifi. My Linux laptop can't connect to it bc my browsers are like, "Hell no, we're not touching that corporate surveillance crap." So... #Linux #phone #wifi #hack