Hisham @hisham_hm@mastodon.social

(due to pandemic and time restrictions, that's me playing every instrument!)

it's my birthday!! 🥳

So to mark the date I decided to release a song! It fits in a tweet!

(And there's even a B-side over there at Bandcamp! → https://colorbleed.bandcamp.com/album/right-place-wrong-time )

Check it out!

That's what's happening, Twitter.

memes

Also, the govt thinks we're idiots when their official oversight board claims there's no competition issues when a piece of a Brazilian *oil* company is being sold to a *Gulf country*.

Fast forward a couple of decades and now the telephony sector which was split and "privatized" has barely any competition due to a series of mergers, and the government ends up picking up the tab for the ones that go bankrupt anyway.

You have to be a real fool to talk about the benefits of "the efficiency of the private sector" when a state company is being sold to another state. They talk about telephony as the "prime example", but they're now owned by companies co-owned by EU governments (.it, .es, .pt...)

What annoys me the most about Brazilian fans of "privatizations" is that they're not even privatizations: the govt sells our strategic assets (at suspicious prices) to other governments.

I haven't released music online since forever (apart from posting on YouTube) — what's the best way to do it nowadays? Can I upload it on Bandcamp and have it online right away? To get stuff on Spotify I need to pay some other publishing service and then it takes weeks, I heard?

It happened again, @compay@twitter.com! Remember that song I was writing? I'm now writing the "B side" for it, and again I'm writing the song around a chorus idea! I'm setting myself a deadline to write and record both quickly and get them online by the end of the week!

Google Calendar on Android is being really aggressive in trying to push me to use Google Meet instead of Zoom.

A user-hostile product is made by piling a series of small dark-pattern changes, each of which is enough in a gray area to get approval:

Remember extras in DVDs? Director's commentary, deleted scenes, etc. Where did it all go in the age of streaming?