Had a student come up to me asking permission to use the staff WiFi because she doesn't have a dongle to go from USB-C to USB-A to get a term paper off her MacBook and her carrier doesn't allow her to use her hotspot functionality. Welcome to the Great Awkward Peripheral Transition. #donglelife

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · Jun 06, 2018, 23:41

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · Jun 06, 2018, 23:41

I wasn't expecting my SSD to be delivered in an envelope and nothing else. No box around it or anything. I hope it's OK.

**John Olinda** · Jun 04, 2018, 23:50

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**Cathal Garvey** @cathal@social.coop · Jun 04, 2018, 23:50

TIL There are panda ants. They’re ants that look like pandas Show more

**John Olinda** · Jun 04, 2018, 20:30

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**Oliver** @oliverturner@toot.cafe · Jun 04, 2018, 20:30

RT @Steven37366100@twitter.com
Banker: So, you’d like a loan, to start an all marsupial fighting championship?

Me: Yes. I call it Mortal Wombat.

Banker:

Me:

Banker: I’m in.

**John Olinda** · May 28, 2018, 19:45

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**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · May 28, 2018, 19:45

@gc If this happens I think they will try to buy the biggest instances, pour money and developers into making the user experience - particularly on mobile - as slick as possible and then add ActivityPub extensions which make it incompatible with other instances. After enough time had passed they would then drop support for ActivityPub and OStatus.

That's pretty much how web 2.0 pushed out the earlier federated groupware systems.

Ways to work against this are:
* Make it easy to block bad instances
* Discourage very large instances with thousands of users, which will be the most attractive for colonization.
* Promote general awareness of the kinds of tactics which have been used in the past against federated systems
* Encourage users to value community above convenience. Colonizers will try to dazzle users with convenience and shiny/trendy features.
* Create a lot of noise if there is any company trying to subvert open protocols with their own extensions.
* Make it easy for users to switch instances, aka "nomadic identity" so that they can "vote with their feet" if an instance starts adopting bad policies. The difficulty of moving from one instance to another is definitely something which colonizers will try to exploit.

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 29, 2018, 00:54

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 29, 2018, 00:54

Does anyone have experience with installing #OpenBSD or #FreeBSD on the iMac11,2 model?

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 28, 2018, 12:25

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 28, 2018, 12:25

After about 30 seconds of using my ThinkPad T400's keyboard after a few weeks of downtime, I'm like, why do I ever use any other laptop?

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 27, 2018, 13:51

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 27, 2018, 13:51

My second son, playing outside: "BIRDS. STOP SAYING THAT."

He has a complicated relationship with nature.

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 27, 2018, 13:34

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 27, 2018, 13:34

The hospital redirects 1.1.1.1 to their Cisco captive portal. Now I need to go find their technology director and complain.

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 26, 2018, 13:39

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 26, 2018, 13:39

Tyler Henry Olinda was born this morning at 12:19am and is doing great! He's 4.5 kilograms.

**John Olinda** · May 24, 2018, 01:41

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**Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚📖✍🏻🍵]** @platypus@glammr.us · May 24, 2018, 01:41

What are your preferred alternatives to Google Drive's shared documents for writing/editing? Preferring ones which don't require accoutn/login!

Please Boost!?

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 23, 2018, 02:41

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 23, 2018, 02:41

I'm considering what it will take to start a small maker space at our school, and I'm curious what the "basic" elements are based on others' experience. In other words, I don't want to get the flashy stuff and then realize there are really simple things we overlooked. #hack #make

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 22, 2018, 02:37

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 22, 2018, 02:37

I'm tumbling down into the deep, deep hole that is #Keyboard YouTube. I need an eight-hour long track of typing sounds to play at work.

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 20, 2018, 22:48

**John Olinda** @jackivan88 · May 20, 2018, 22:48

Watching people with relatively new computers effortlessly run Gnome makes me a little envious.

**John Olinda** · May 19, 2018, 23:45

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**Elizabeth Fitzgerald** @Elizabeth_Fitz@wandering.shop · May 19, 2018, 23:45

This is your periodic reminder to back up your computer.

(No disasters here, just routine.)

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