ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org

Neuromancer 2022

The collapse of a startup leaves implanted medical devices in > 700 people

The unavailability of the proprietary SW needed to recalibrate the devices and maintain its effectiveness, and the draining of batteries, will leave them without treatment and with HW implanted in their bodies

They have to hack their own implants

And it is not an isolated case but a trend

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html

A beautiful 800 year old oak tree in the UK called Majesty.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TreePeople

The only real failure is a failure to learn from failure.

SHITPOSTING

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TOP INSIGHTS

I saw a post on Reddit about how to cancel an Adobe subscription without the asshole "early cancellation fee" and figured it's worth sharing:

1. Login to your adobe account
2. Go to plans and payments
3. Find your current plan and select "Manage Plan"
4. The third box on the right should say "Cancel Plan"
5. It will ask you why, tell them "Go fuck yourself" and press continue
6. It will offer you to change plans, select "Photography plan (20GB)" - $9.99
7. Confirm the change
8. Now go back to your Plans and it may say "You'll be able to manage this plan shortly" and that's because there is a waiting period after starting a plan, probably to ensure you forget to cancel or something. Took about an hour for it to go away, so if it's there just walk away and refresh the page every 15 minutes or so.
9. Once you are able to manage your plan, repeat steps 3, 4, and 5. This time actually cancel the plan. There will be no early cancellation fee AND you'll be refunded the $9.99.

Fuck adobe.

I made a three minute little demo video of my fediverse server. If you are interested in what it looks like, check it out here:

https://www.loom.com/share/6badbdc6b45f4bf8b0eba293103e9246

This is a stand-alone node app that speaks ActivityPub. It has an ActivityPub API interface, a public profile, and also a browsing interface to interact with people you follow.

I interviewed @evan about creating #ActivityPub, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for #developers in the #fediverse. Needless to say, he has some excellent ideas for the fedi-future, so I do hope you read it. https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/

"Must be cool being a pasta chef, cooking all these… big tubes and stuff"
"It's 'cannelloni', actually"
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that"

“Twitter turns its back on open-source development - ZDNET”

This is going to happen a lot more as tech cos cut back. A lot of OSS exists only as an external result of internal investment. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-turns-its-back-on-open-source-development/

Is something inherent lost *whenever* a #Mastodon #instance goes large?

(The advantages are obvious, but perhaps the disadvantages, though hidden, are just as bad.)

At what size does #MastoAdmin inevitably become corporate in character, despite all intentions?

Should there be deliberate intentional deconstruction into smaller instances at some point, and explicitly planned?

#UFoI-adjacent issue.

Sunday afternoon wisdom for today: "one can only truly admire a 34" #curved #LCD screen once a *real* computer is connected to it!"

#Commodore64