Amy @PinkCathodeCat@mastodon.social

​ Big Ol' PSA ​

Hey! You should leave mastodon.social!

Here's some better places for you go instead!

-EFDN.club
-witches.live
-jorts.horse
-cybre.space
-lgbtq.cool
-radical.town

feel free to share any more instances you'd recommend!

The addition of a cw button and incredibly easy-to-use, front-and-centre accessibility options for posts has essentially just proven how many people are committed to consistently and passionately not giving a shit about disabled+neurodivergent people. Yes there are nuances and yes there are things people can't be expected to anticipate, but you're not entitled to your content being seen more than I'm entitled to not be retraumatised by it.

Finally happy with my #Emacs appearance.
- Turn off scroll bars and tool bar
- Translucent background
- tango-dark theme
- powerline menubar
- airline-doom-one powerline theme

I love the tiny, expanding Gopher network. People hosting small public access shell servers, sometimes with only 128MB RAM, sometimes more, access via a restricted shell, sometimes with git, sometimes with a weird publishing system, all of them with Gopher hosting. 😍
gopher://cosmic.voyage
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space
gopher://consensus.circumlunar.space
gopher://dome.circumlunar.space
It feels like the old days!

An item on your Steam wishlist is on sale. You can’t remember a time when an item on your Steam wishlist wasn’t on sale. Look within your heart: you know, deep down, that an item on your Steam wishlist will always be on sale for as long as you live.

In other news, Google just decided to ban people from signing in if they have JavaScript disabled in their browser.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/announcing-some-security-treats-to.html

EU just ensured I’ll never trust an autonomous car

EU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrighted...by the manufacturer / Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/10/corporate-kitts.html

@PinkCathodeCat Thing is with a lot of command line apps is that unless you get argument flags committed to memory, you'll be trawling through binders of manual pages to find what you're looking for without even knowing if that page even has what you're looking for.

Magit's smoother with visualizing unstaged, untracked, and staged files in different lists, staging with a single stroke, and it even shows most argument flags in a command's popup window for you to toggle.

This is a long shot, but if anyone here knows how to seek expedited immigration or asylum from Brazil into the EU, that information is urgently needed by friends of mine.

Capsule version: they have credible fear or persecution and harm under Bolsonaro, and any information that can get them out of harms way as they try to flee would be incredibly valuable right now.

Speaking of hotels, there's a strike here in Hawaii against the multi-billion dollar hotel industry that pays starvation-wages, jacks up rents (made me and my kids homeless) and uses bastardizations of my native culture's sacred dances as sexy entertainment for rich people (hula girls, etc). https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/10/hawaii-hotel-workers-fight-is-everyones-fight/

Don't let Google News decide which stories you see, control your own news with RSS:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-news/

Also, did you know you can follow any Mastodon account through RSS?

Just add ".rss" to the end of the account's address, for example:

https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial.rss

#RSS #News #NewsFeeds #DeleteGoogle #DeleteGoogleNews

Add the snippet below to your #eamcs init file then use `M-x mastodon-account--follow` to follow people using mastodon.el by @johnson

https://gitlab.com/snippets/1767247