A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe - Richard Stallman https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance
Hello everyone who is new to Mastodon! Make sure you try and find some folks to follow who have been here for a long time. Don't make the mistake of just following folks joining right now or those you know from other places. Because many of these will leave soon, making you think this place is dead when in reality it's buzzing with activity. I've seen it happen too often with new social services and sites.
Bonjour Mastodon o/ https://hostux.social/media/kGZP6zqEtXMlVg2p3qc
If you're struggling with time management, learn about how others approach it. Here's some information that may help: https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/exercises/time-management.pdf
"When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
Susan Kare, graphic designer who created many familiar icons & fonts for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM.
Her creations include most of the iconography and fonts which shipped with the original Macintosh, and many icons which persisted in Windows from version 3 until XP.
#SusanKare #iconic #womenintech #design #designers #graphicdesign #Macintosh #NeXT #Windows #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing
Mario Odyssey knows what chord is playing on the soundtrack and uses that info when playing musical sound effects.
how do I explain this to birdsite. "Mastodon is really good everyone has been talking about oats for 2 hours and it really gives a sense of community and family"
If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
Still looking for a really compelling auxiliary language. Lojban is unwieldy. Toki Pona is simple but inefficient. Something in between? Both have great design improvements over natural languages (including Esperanto).
Daft Microwave
https://youtu.be/kL-bWXJMZm0