⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

@TheSpaceshipper I know the guy who actually did the camera work for those shots: Tim McHugh. He became my boss at Area 51 working on Space: Above & Beyond.

And here’s the Tyrell building miniature which now lives at the Museum of the Moving Image in Brooklyn, NY.

This piece from 404 Media's @jasonkoebler on why he now believes Mastodon is the best option out of the social networks is funny, nuanced, poignant. Touches on moderation, audiences, interoperability, more.

"Mastodon is the Good One."

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

You don't need a reason to want to block adverts.

It doesn't have to be for security reasons (although there are good security reasons).

You don't have to do it because you want to lessen online surveillance (although that's a good thing too).

You can do it just because you don't want someone trying to sell you something the whole damn time, getting up in your face and interrupting your reading/viewing.

You can block ads because it's simply a form of self-care.

Haven’t been here for a while, but hope to be here more frequently. A good friend has offered to help me with some aspects of the mechanics of the place that puzzled me earlier.

#introduction #HamRadio #OpenSource

Hi! I am Bruce Perens K6BP. I am one of the founders of the Open Source movement in software, and also founder of No-Code International, which successfully lobbied to end Morse code testing for Radio Amateurs in most countries.

I make my living as an Intellectual Property Consultant, specializing in Open Source, and am building a startup company.

Here are slides on a ham remote site I'm building:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G8o8Q7DmIHOjN5ifiyLe1OhYs4LNRA6MDRb4Pe6TlZo/edit?usp=sharing

Okay! I just end-to-end on my Linux laptop did a python->quartus->deploy to SD build of a Analogue Pocket core! And it runs!

My Linux laptop is now a fully armed and operational development workstation!

how to choose a linux distribution, a small guide

you want a system that just works
⇒ mint

you want a system that just works but cooler
⇒ fedora

you are scared of the commandline
⇒ ubuntu

you are not scared of the commandline
⇒ debian

you would like to capture the flag
⇒ kali linux

you are very good at following how-tos
⇒ arch

you want arch but somehow worse
⇒ manjaro

you like to watch unreadable letters float by like you’re in the matrix
⇒ gentoo

your computer is old enough to vote
⇒ alpine

“by the way, i use…”
⇒ nixOS

Also as long as I am loudly complaining about Ubuntu: I do not like that new Ubuntu (starting with 23.10) has a permanent icon in the top left that looks like a USB-C plug. I don't think this is a descriptive icon and the thing it does is mildly unhelpful. It is distracting me for reasons I cannot elucidate. Yes, I am very picky about UIs.

Filed a bug on Ubuntu for my "can't turn off large text accessibility option" bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2039722

So far this week I have had more luck reaching Ubuntu maintainers by loudly complaining on Mastodon than I have in the official IRC help channel, so if you know how to find someone who can either tell me what package/category to put the bug in, or what diagnostic data to gather before I go nuclear on my gsettings and possibly destroy useful debugging data, help much appreciated.