Tom Willemse @ryuslash@fosstodon.org

The sun is an eldritch horror.

Inconceivably old, will last for an equally inconceivable amount of time.

Effectively eternal from our perspective.

Looking at it directly will destroy your eyesight.

Unapproachable, at risk of complete immolation.

Incomprehensible and alien.

MASTER BOOT RECORD just dropped another #music release.

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/personal-computer

Thanks to the beautiful @play0ad screenshots I got to have a great chat with my 10 year old nephew about #foss and #3dmodeling. He was very impressed by the #libre aspect and how anyone could improve and add to the software. I then showed him my name and avatar on the contribution list for @AntennaPod and he was so impressed with how many people worked together to make the app.
Just wanted to share this feel good story with the #opensource crowd, we're winning hearts and minds!

I've been logging books in Org-mode and I like it. https://baty.net/2022/book-logging-in-emacs/

Y'know, there's a lotta cool people here. You all are alright.

A whole mood.

Hey people, we really should replace #Markdown with a much more user-friendly lightweight markup such as #Orgdown:
https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

It's tedious to write MD all day. And there is almost no support for authoring MD compared to Org.

Today it's been 10 years since the first #GNU #Guix commit! 🎂

Some of the 600+ people who made it possible wrote their story:

👉 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/10-years-of-stories-behind-guix/

🎉 🥳 👏 #FreeSoftware #Guix10Years

✨️ I made a thing! 🎉️

Check out my brandnew webcomic, "Contra Chrome":

👉️ https://contrachrome.com

Subtitle: How #Google‘s browser became a threat to #privacy and #democracy.

Featuring Shoshana Zuboff, vegan Piranhas, and everything you ever wanted to know about #Chrome but were afraid to ask!

Read and download for free – hope you like it! 😊

And if you do, please spread the word!

#BoostsWelcome
#comic #comics

Guix: the official distro for time-traveling lisp witches https://guix.gnu.org/

Run Guix, Join the Coven (TM)

Hi all!

I'm looking for someone to help design a logo.

Last time I made a call-out on the Fediverse for an artist, and I found a great one.

Now I'm looking specifically for a logo, which has a bunch of constraints (size, complexity, memorability).

If you're a logo designer, ping me! Boosts welcome.

When I was 12 years old I was volunteering at a museum. One day I noticed one of the adult volunteers had a number 65316 tattooed on his arm so I asked him about it.

He told me, and his story taught me an awful lot about the world.

And you can take 3 minutes to watch, listen, and learn from him too.

🕯️ #HolocaustRemembranceDay

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/oral-history/miso-michael-vogel-describes-arrival-at-auschwitz

Things I like about personal blogs:

- angry geek comments that make no sense to anyone but other geeks
- laughing reading said comments and nodding in agreement
- learning of cool things w/ tools I already know
- learning of cool things w/ tools I *don't* know
- just learning
- Being able to comment, say hi, what's up
- Getting help from enthusiastic folks (as opposed to an unenthusiastic people, like my third grade math teacher... anyway)
- DnD! Emacs! Weird shit!

#blogs #writing #awesome

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