misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

FOSS is amazing and important. But the FOSS community as it currently stands is toxic to an insane degree.

News flash: Not everyone who uses FOSS programs is technical enough to make their own.

If someone complains about something they find inconvenient or inaccessible about a program they otherwise enjoy using, the correct answer is NOT to respond with "Why don't you just code it yourself?"

To only offer that response is to willingly ignore the fact that plenty of users (ourselves included) don't have the technical know-how to build something so complex, even if they fork your code. Whether intentional or not, you're implicitly gatekeeping so that the only people who can enjoy the same programs you do are the ones who can build their own.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's leaving out a HUGE portion of potential users.

If you really do care about FOSS becoming mainstream, then it's in your best interests to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, not just the people who think like you do.

The only way to dismantle Big Tech's de facto monopoly is to work together to find a better solution. And refusing to objectively improve your precious source code is not the way to do that.

And guess what? Thanks to the Steam Deck, soon there's gonna be a bunch of non-techie people trying out Linux. You can't keep gatekeeping forever. If FOSS is to survive, it must adapt. Not exclude.

If you disagree with any of the above, YOU are the problem with the FOSS community. YOU are the reason FOSS isn't mainstream yet.

The block button's right there. Save yourself some time and use it. Nobody wants or needs to hear your rebuttal. Goodbye.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

"Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.

Unordered list of fun things I learned:

- google has a secret deal with facebook called "Jedi Blue" that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out

- google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation

- Google is willing to do almost everything to prevent people from circumventing their ad exchanges
- This is what AMP is about

- Google habitually insider trades on their ad exchanges in every way you can think of and every way you can't.

- Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy, lamenting occasions where they prioritized their reputation over their collective business interest

- Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!)
"

from: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053938195341314

court docs:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

Buns of steel
Abs of aluminum
Thighs of 80% post-consumer waste plastic

I want to live in a world of extreme body polymorphism. I want a world where someone can be a human, or furry, or elvan fae, four legged wolf, giant dragon, a collective of foxes, small box robot on wheels, hive of nanobots, copyright infringement, abstract geometry...

I want a world where any conceivable thing can be considered as a form, to have "personhood", and efforts are made to allow all those types of being to exist relatively in the same culture, to the best of our efforts.

wasted an evening figuring out why trees were rendering too big in this game; turns out they were using log scaling

The only reason to be using Netflix today is to cancel your account. Watching anything on it is crossing a picket line.
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RT @Phil_Lewis_
Netflix has fired the organizer of the upcoming employee walkout on October 20

The employee, who is Black and pregnant, was encouraging employees and allies to walk out of work in protest of Netflix’s handling of the Dave Chappelle special https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fire…
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1449086258551181318

- task name: Need gravedigging
- user story: As a developer, I want to be able to dig my own grave and jump in it so I don't have to deal with scrum's aggressive boilerplate and weird ceremonies.
- story points: 3
- outcome: not completed
- reason: shovel will arrive next sprint

The best things you can say about a computer are "it has not broken down today" and "it has not broken anything else today".

How is MSX this sexy?

If you were wondering what Pink Floyd sounds like on the NES, here's a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Yg0GAX5vw

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon... on NES!

My album MOON8 is once again available on cartridge, and vinyl too!

https://8bitisenough.com/

proof that GB Rober is Good

so...i actually finished a writing project. that's rare for me. i was worried that i wouldn't have the opportunity to start this one, much less finish it.

if you like stories set in the Tron universe, stories about love, loss, and the vagaries of human existence, or stories where cool smart ladies drink enough coffee to kill a horse, you might like this one.

https://zedexthree.tumblr.com/post/664985911945265152/waiting-for-the-miracle-to-come