tjk @tjk@oldbytes.space

✋Raise your hand if you downloaded the shareware version of DOOM from a BBS when it was released in 1993

RT @fsf@twitter.com

Richard M. Stallman has resigned as FSF president and from the board of directors: https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1173780935910797312

“the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will leave the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on October 17, ending 144 years of U.S. involvement”

tl;dr if you’re not a giant corporation, sendings stuff internationally will get prohibitively expensive and small businesses will falter

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month

FOR i:=0 TO numInParty-1 DO

wondering how long it'll be before we have "privacy tourists" ... US citizens who travel to the EU in order to qualify for the data rights granted to EU residents by the GDPR, so that Facebook et al will finally be legally compelled to actually delete their account instead of just pretending

"Discord’s terms of service, particularly with respect to the rights they assert over participants’ data, are expansive and very grabby, effectively giving them unlimited rights to do anything they want with anything we put into their service. Coupling that with their active hostility towards interoperability and alternative clients has disqualified them as a community platform." - @mhoye http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/09/06/forward-motion/

Switched to Firefox on my Windows machines (mainly laptop for astrophotography). Give it a whirl, they have been hard at work to make super awesome.

Little town generator is cutening up, happier and happier with the results it's producing

I don’t have most other Google garbage installed, but YouTube for iOS basically removed Safari as an option for opening a link. What is this fresh hell.

Public Transit Projects Cheaper Than Uber's $5.2 Billion Q2 Losses, Ranked https://jalopnik.com/public-transit-projects-cheaper-than-ubers-5-2-billion-1837080980

Please fund more transit for people instead of pernicious capitalist nightmares for rich sycophants.

Reclaiming #RSS, by @yogthos 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/yogthos/statuses/101071920068502468

Reclaiming RSS
https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

To escape censorship by Big Social, all web sites and blogs should implement this one trick.

Q: what's your current yak-shaving depth?
A: *glances around nervously* uuuuuuhhhhh

https://lobste.rs/s/ngswph/what_s_your_current_yak_shaving_depth#c_shbgvb

An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/an-11-year-old-changed-election-results-on-a-replica-florida-state-website-in-under-10-minutes

Stop praying, start legislating, you fucks

Stolen from the internets

ICE only managed to abduct 35 out of 2000 people they targeted in the latest raid, due to a combination of rights education (i.e. not opening the door without a warrant), direct action (forming human chains to stop arrests), and deterrence efforts (hiding them at someone else's house). Of those 35, 17 are not the people they were trying to kidnap.

Keep fighting.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/politics/ice-raids-35-arrests/index.html

Goddammit.

Glad you asked!
1. Pages load twice as fast
2. Laptop battery lasts longer
3. My privacy isn't invaded by 50 different douchebro Silicon Valley companies
4. Your fucking site doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl and I can actually read your fucking articles