Gwmngilfen @gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org

Microsoft Word is far and away the worst program I have to regularly use. It sucks at everything it tries to do. Literally the only thing it has going for it is that lots of people use it. That's it. At everything else, it's junk. And yet people love it, I suspect largely because they've never experienced something better (like, well, *anything* but particularly an *actual* writing app like Scrivener that was designed for people who actually want to write, not screw around with formatting).

I just wanted to say, hanging out in this space which is so rich in non-binary and trans and genderqueer people of all sorts, has taught me a lot.

I was never hostile. But I did have a pretty typical "oh that's a bit weird in a sexually charged way" feeling about people who didn't neatly fit into a gender binary.

Part of me still does, I guess, but less than before. Increasingly y'all are just people with all the usual good and bad bits that make us human. I feel like that's progress.

...

This snuck up on me.

I realized it the other day at a family get-together, where people I know for a fact are more or less where I was a few years ago (ignorant but friendly) were casually mis-gendering and being obviously confused about the difference between cross-dressing and being trans.

I gently corrected one of them in private afterwards. I managed to do so without putting them on the defensive. Yay!

There are of course hostile bigots out there. But there are also lots of friendlies who are just genuinely confused. So if I can help educate them and lighten the load on my queer friends who are tired of constantly explaining their existence.... that's worth an effort.

It's not much, but it's also not nothing?

@bjarni As an aside, I think people are very touchy about the term ignorance.

Ignorance isn't a personal failing as long as we don't wallow in it and refuse to acknowledge the limitations of our understanding.

Ignorance is just a starting point. We're all ignorant about so many things at any given time. The best thing to do is admit it when necessary, and work on it from there. :)

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

Hm, "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach". Catchy slogan.

Scott’s Law: „Never put order in a system before you understand the structure underneath its chaos“ #interesting https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/09/04/the-efficiency-destroying-magic-of-tidying-up/

Openstreetmap is reaching the point that it is just more information rich and beautiful than google maps and that is awesome

PSA: We've been made aware of attempts to scan for private Matrix servers and join rooms from their room directories. ***Please make sure your room directory and rooms are locked down if you run a private server** - for more details see: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/09/avoiding-unwelcome-visitors-on-private-matrix-servers. Please pass it on

Hello.

I am willing to pay cold, hard, FIAT cash to someone willing and able to port https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py

to golang (that compiles/works on mips64 as a single, static binary -- if that matters. which it probably will)

how much? YOU TELL ME (and let me know why you're a great fit for this task). I am willing and able to pay a premium because this is something far more useful to me in two weeks than two months.

boosts very much appreciated.

"Tell a scary story!"
"Once upon a time, leaders were vain and corrupt-"
"That's not fiction!"
"- and monsters only concerned with gold were burning-
"Still not fiction."
"- the world. And..."
"And?"
"And people lost hope and gave up."
"Oh."
"Mm."
"I'll make sure that's fiction!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Germany's BSI tested #Firefox, #Chrome, #IE, and #Edge. Firefox was only browser to pass all minimum requirements for mandatory security features. https://www.zdnet.com/article/germanys-cyber-security-agency-recommends-firefox-as-most-secure-browser/ #browser #security