sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/04/forcing-down-morales-plane-air-piracy

imagine single-handedly making EVs popular and cool, bringing internet access to every corner of the inhabited globe, trying to fix LA traffic, and trying to keep the only non-shitty social media site alive and nonbankrupt... and everyone hating you anyway

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/project-pigeon-missiles-ww2/

apparently the iphone 14 pro has startup and shutdown chimes now if your silent switch is not enabled? wow.

there is software that my tax dollars have paid to produce that is not free to me to download and is not released under open source licenses.

https://gipsy-oasis.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php?page=software

this seems wrong to me

https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-22-22.html

eternal november over here on the fediverse

i think elon musk is generally doing a good job of running the companies he runs, and i think he will do a good job with twitter, as well. it's clear twitter was massively mismanaged and was slowly evaporating as a business due to sustained and terminal unprofitability.

wherein charlie stross wipes the frothing anticrypto statist spittle from his quivering jowl long enough to techsplain to me who jwz is

https://wandering.shop/@cstross/109417260771951462

it really bothers me a lot that remote blocks cause my own local mastodon to hide content that i have in my own local db (and perhaps delete it from my db?).

this would be like your email client honoring remote deletes. it's gaslighting!

really looking forward to tor hidden service AP instances (and support in mastodon/etc to work with them).