Gregory Chamberlain @chambln@mastodon.social

And here we are. Disroot has just become 6 years old! Happy birthday everyone!

I saw people worried about #vaccines causing death. My wife is a doctor so I asked her.

It's complicated, but the general takeaway is: all medicine has risk involved. Just like driving a car or even walking near a roadway. Yet the risk vs reward ratio is usually such that we decide to use medicine. In people who don't have strong independent risk factors vaccines should not cause issues. There's always outliers, but generally vaccines save way, way more lives than they cost.

#COVID19

If you find it difficult to explain to people what free software is and why freeware is not good enough - I made a video that does exactly that! Spread the good news of computing!

https://youtu.be/hmacATXd0RE
(in glorious 4K, lol).

#unfa #FOSS #opensource #libre #GNU #freesoftware

In case you need to test network speed, but want to use something FOSS:
https://librespeed.org/
#speedtest #librespeed #network #admin

If you don't like #Microsoft, please get your code off #GitHub. It's just Microsoft wearing a mask at this point.

#SourceHut, @codeberg, and #GitLab.com are all viable alternatives depending on your priorities.

What do we want? Have everyone move to #Codeberg?
No, but it should just be okay not to be on #GitHub or #GitLab!

We're proud to offer an alternative to those who care, and thankful to everyone who joins us and other free Git hosters. You rock!

Why So Many People Lack Critical Thinking Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWzU82swez0

Regular reminder that "it's better on the app" means "we want to install spyware on your phone"

Inspired by @chambln post I wrote pp in #awk https://github.com/TeddyDD/pp.awk

AWK is great tool that is installed virtually everywhere.

I think it's time to finally explain what all the #Linux system directories *really* mean:

/usr = Undeniably Severe Repercussions
/opt = Obviously Perishable Trash
/var = Viscerally Annoying Rambling
/bin = Barely Interesting Notes
/run = Rather Underwhelming Nuggets
/sys = Strange Yet Special
/etc = Exclusively True Ciphers
/dev = Delightfully Excellent Vistas

You are welcome.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.