Stringbender @Stringbender@mastodon.xyz
Plucks a single guitar note, letting it ring out without interference.
Sews an internal combustion engine, with a leather cased electronic ignition module.
Do Krispy Kreme send subscribers promotional updates from a donutreply@ address?
HAPPY SOLSTICE! we are here in the peak of the sun. let us all take a moment today to put our faces towards the face of the sun and appreciate it. 🔆 🔆 🔆
amazon: so, bought a bike lock, huh?
me: ya
amazon: gonna start showing u bike locks then if u like them so much
me: but I just bought one!
amazon: here's some more you disgusting bike lock lover! why don't u just marry one if u love them so much huh? fuckface. piece of shit.
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A neat aircraft I was able to fly [under instruction] on my family vacation near the south of France. A Jodel DR400 Eco, with a diesel engine running on Jet A1 fuel, controlled by two independent FADECS. Has automatic propeller pitch control to boot.
Really nice aeroclub there with a great airport mostly to themselves, a helpful CFI and fair prices for tours and instruction.
Because of the #youtube ban, #blender foundation is now testing #peertube as a video distribution model https://video.blender.org/
Best wishes to Simone Giertz on her surgery today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1DbvHHVH0
There's this default assumption that what you see in-person is the real person & what you see online, if it's different from the real person, is fake.
Obs this doesn't apply to literally using a fake photo or similar. But I've always felt like it's only in text that I can really "be myself." I can express my emotions better/more freely in text, (or text+emoji), my personality comes through better in text than in person. So if you want to know who I really am, meet me online. #actuallyautistic
We all need a free alternative to YouTube!
PeerTube is a decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software.
PeerTube is currently in beta version, that's why @Framasoft needs your help to pave the road to version 1.0!
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
(Framasoft is a small french non-profit, so do not hesitate to Boost this Toot to non-french user and invite them to help us fund PeerTube v1)
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It's like with telecoms and net neutrality.
Telecoms: online content is using too much of our bandwidth, infrastructure costs a lot of money, content sites need to pay up!
People: uhm, but nobody would be buying Internet access from you guys without the content. Creating content costs a lot of money. Perhaps Telecoms need to pay the content sites instead?
Telecoms: *blank stare* *back away slowly*
I love the hypocrisy of Microzon Facegoopple and their ilk regarding #GDPR and similar regulations.
Corp: Selling user data is ok and users are perfectly fine with it, because they get their personalized ads. Precious precious personalized ads.
EU: Ok, then show them this information clearly and ask them for consent explicitly.
Corp: OH NOES THAT WILL TURN USERS AWAY!!1!
EU: Wait, I thought users wanted it? You wouldn't be lying about that, would you, eh?
GDPR emails from orgs that are seeking Opt-In are great. I can ignore them, not bother to look up their site, and thereby instantly opt out.
Win!
GDPR is being misinterpreted by a number of small operators that emailed me, reminding me that I can always unsubscribe if I want to change my communications preferences.
Doth Not Equal Opt-In, friends.
*Civil War-era violin music begins to play*
My dearest Lulabelle,
Beloved, it is with a heavy heart that I write to you from the battlefield to tell you that we have updated the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy...
As I lift the toilet lid a disembodied voice says, "We've updated our privacy policy."
Kayenta Solar Project, built and owned by the Navajo Nation.
