Nigel @ignitionigel@fosstodon.org

IF YOU WANT TO RAID WITH THE DADS, YOU GOTTA BE READY TO SNACK.
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It's kind of frustrating coming from a family of mostly non-technical people. I showed my brother (who's visiting for the first time in 2 years) some stuff I have around the house. A Mycroft Mark I, a RetroPi Nintendo emulator, a computer I have setup for a coding workstation. I pointed out that they're all running on a Raspberry Pi (a $35 computer), which I think is amazingly cool. He didn't even seem to register how amazing that is.

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An attempt to 'reboot' the abandoned and spammed linlap dot com which is now unusable.

Please consider participating on building a new "HQ" sending in your model / experiences!

Any help appreciated!

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#Linlap #Linux #laptops #compatibility #info #wiki #hardware

So, the doctor tells me they have new pills for paranoia, and to make sure people take them, they have trackers in them. Who the hell thought that would be a good idea to give to paranoid people?!

Getting the dailies done... then I'd better put a wall jack in our living room, with ethernet and TV aerial. Need to rearrange the room as we're getting a new woodfire put in soon 😁
Unfortunately, this also means I need to crawl under the house to run the cables. hmm.

Here's a screenshot of me procrastinating.
#GW2 #GuildWars2 #gaming

DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.

Assistance reqd oh lovely fedihivemind!

I want to setup one of my raspis as a VPN server, as I'm working in China for a couple of weeks later this year.

The online tutorial I was following just fell apart 😡

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good one please.

Thanks in advance.

Help me fedihivemind, you're my only hope... 😍

Wait, what. Windows 10 sends info on USB devices plugged in directly to Microsoft?

And it does that using pure HTTP?
https://pastebin.com/ttYp5rLg

You gotta be kidding me.

#InfoSec

Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.

-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel

Morning everyone 🌇

I've set up an account @rtwx for #gaming stuff, so if any of my followers are interested then there it is. 🙂

@steckerhalter Interestingly this is what the #scuttlebutt community did. They have created an application platform where you can hook in additional functionality as plugins, enabling you to:
rate books, play chess, play go, chat, share long blog posts, have a microblog like interface (the default), vote, announce gatherings and participations, ...

So yes, I agree such a thing would be really really helpful. Also you will get the one application as your door to the fediverse.

look, now everybody builds some #federated shit, like #pixelfed #mastodon #peertube #pleroma #hubzilla etc.

what we should to instead is to build an #activitypub framework that can be extended with plugins to whatever purpose necessary

one core that contains the federation tidbits and a myriad of plugins to fit any crazy idea, got it?

and let's include federated storage into the whole thing as well

Alright here's my #introduction.

PC gamer, I used to play BFBC2, various MMOs, but now I play Guild Wars 2 exclusively, as that is all my laptop run.

My "Gaming Rig" is now 11 years old and doesn't cut it. Upgrading isn't a priority at the moment...
I have a family, so gaming has to fit around the various other priorities in my life.

I'd like to game on Linux once I build a new machine.
For #Linux/#FOSS related suff, I'm found at @ignitionigel

#GW2 #MMO #gaming #PCmasterrace

RT @textfiles@twitter.com
So, 500px, which positioned itself as a Flickr alternative, has announced they're deleting/removing access to all Creative Commons photos on their site. Like, tomorrow. https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005097533 NO warning.

an inner conflict: i like tracking technologies, as they use such complicated techniques, and manage data in a really interesting way

but i dislike tracking ideologically. i need the number of a website visitors to know if somebody still needs it, and to get motivation to continue the development. i like data such as country statistics, especially in context of some of my projects. but things like... heatmaps, deep social network sharing tracking, etc just feel wrong