locus solus @berandajiwa@fosstodon.org

Was trying to learn how mastodon finds other servers and stumbled on this article: https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/

Then found out it was made by a local here @kev and instantly this noggin went 🤯

Sooo guess the tldr here is THANKS! Super awesome resource!

https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-toshiba-laptops-it-s-been-good-knowing-ya-1844660507

Protip: whenever updating your linux kernel, don't 'autoremove' the old ones until you're sure you've done reboot.

This will save you the trouble of having to cobble together a solution for how to install the previous kernel version.

Personal experience: once had to find a way to put Ubuntu on a USB key using my smartphone because I was in dire straits at the time. It was not pretty...

my biggest complaint about vim, now that it's been a full year since I committed to using it:

why isn't j used for scrolling universally?

I just sit on a webpages trying to scroll with j like an idiot and that never happened before vim.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.
-
Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (aka Jelaluddin Rumi)

Learn accepting people and respecting others' believes (and opinions) from Mevlana.

Abstruse Goose
https://abstrusegoose.com/

Here's something that explains why all big social networks and platforms are garbage:

"The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

"Friends don’t let friends use Google Analytics" in action... love it!

https://exsaasperated.com/2020/07/05/our-goal.html

So the Facebook SDK included in apps like Spotify, Tinder, and more is causing them to crash thanks to a bug following an update.

Just goes to show that #Facebook poisons everything it touches

#facebookistoxic

It is not important to me which #Linux distro someone is using. I am celebrating that you are using GNU/Linux. 🤗 At the end of the day, we're all using the same software and the same kernel.🤔😇 #Fosslove

Wow, that's a graph that's a real sucker punch to the gut. For reference this is payroll job change numbers for the last 15 years or so. The dip on the left is the 2008 housing crash. The crater on the right is this April...

It is amazing that this sort of thing can still happen:

...the list was compiled by scanning the entire internet for devices that were exposing their Telnet port. The hacker then tried using (1) factory-set default usernames and passwords, or (2) custom, but easy-to-guess password combinations.

Telnet? Default passwords? In 2020?

We have a long way to go to secure the IoT.

Huawei’s ARM-based desktop PC could leave you scratching your head http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/139610 #huawei preinstalling #gnu #linux and bypassing #x86 monoculture

Do not force yourself to be productive. Especially if you are struggling with depression. Instead accept your momentary weakness as part of the situation you are currently in. You will feel a lot better.
#depression #mentalhealth

I just discovered https://marktext.app/ which is a #FOSS #markdown editor, and a drop-in replacement for non-free #Typora, which I had been using in lieu of a FOSS equivalent that compared with it.