Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

#introduction

Hi, Pat here. I'm just a geek.
(she, he, they... anything but it)

I'm a refugee from that bird-brained platform. (They shadow-banned me.)

I think privacy is important.

Here's a weird joke I made up as an intro:

A man walks into a bar...

At first he's in limbo,
then the bar falls.

Then the bartender hangs up the bar again.

Then it's the next guy's turn to try to bend over backwards and shimmy under the bar.

Biggest Tech Mergers and Acquisitions of 2020

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-biggest-tech-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-2020/

The article has been super popular and it seems using old machines for a very long time is a quite common practice but one that people also feel insecure about. A cursory reading of comments across the web tells me that part of the attraction to the article (or at least to commenting on it) is the recognition or validation of other people doing the same.

Here's an interesting statistic from the web logs: 10% (~7k unique visitors) of all traffic to the article has used a machine with OS X 10.1 Puma. That is an OS from 2002. I believe that is the last generation of #PowerPC #Apple computers, but I might be mistaken. It seems to good to be true though but I can't really think of a reason why this number would be wrong..

Massive use of user agent switching should lead to way more even distribution of other uncommon OSes as well? Does anyone know what could be up?

@OCRbot

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Now Supports WPA3 to Make Wi-Fi Safe Again

https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-distro-now-supports-wpa3-to-make-wi-fi-safe-again

#Linuxdistribution #IPFire #firewall #Linuxfirewall #WPA3

Massive Chip Shortage is hitting the #Semiconductor Industry

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318554-a-massive-chip-shortage-is-hitting-the-entire-semiconductor-industry

LibreOffice won the Best Community 2020 award at the recent DINAcon (Digital Sustainability Conference). We're super proud of our worldwide community and everyone involved – so if you help out in the LibreOffice project, this is for you! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/12/22/best-community-2020-libreoffice-at-dinacon/

How do you know when something is complex? When a free and open source person tells you that it’s simple.

Trump Appointee Seeks to Cut Off Funding for Global Internet Access Group https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-appointee-seeks-to-cut-off-funding-for-global-internet-access-group.html

Don’t expect breaking up Google and Facebook to solve our information woes https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/12/dont-expect-breaking-up-google-and-facebook-to-solve-our-information-woes/