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Dr Who: 840
Star Trek: 741

* this includes the 97 lost episode of Dr Who. Subtract those, and the tally is 743:741.

** but it also includes Dr Who TV-movies & special while not including the 13 Star Trek movies. Still....

I **know** I used to have a @conservancy sticker somewhere.... Where did these things all go?

Just got a note from Dropbox saying I have to move my *local* Dropbox-sync folder to a disk with a different filesystem format on it. #NoThanks #StayOuttaMyFstab

Also: why aren't they called 'mastodonists' ?

Filed three new bugs this morning; hoping to get at least two more written up by the end of day.

I'd be #ok with the mastodon movement not including retweets (or whatever frankenterm they've come up with for it). Life is so much more pleasant when you don't know have to know what other people like.

@patdavid @paperdigits How much nitty-gritty do you two know about the XMP sidecar format? Is there a resident expert I can annoy?

CW

I'm glad they resisted the urge to name this FuzzyFont. I would not have. https://github.com/google/BrokenType

Food for thought: there's an overabundance of "how to not use Google services" guides out there. More than enough for Microsoft. Virtually none for Apple.

Here's a headline I just saw: "Coca Cola is fighting Gatorade by investing in Body Armor". Well, I had no idea the sugar wars had gotten so intense.

I need a GTK laptop sticker. Anybody got a spare sittin' around?

That feeling when you pitch multiple talks to a conference in order to goose your odds of getting selected, and the conference approves the one you're least interested in doing.

This coffee-chicory I'm currently drinking is named "Immediate Regrets Blend". I presume.

Saw another indie "car computer" project this morning: https://hackaday.com/2018/08/01/raspberry-pi-on-the-go-powers-car-system/
"indie" meaning "reinvents the entire software stack". Normally, a crazy amount of needless work for a DIY project is totally cool, but I can't help thinking that the prevalence of these is evidence that the Automotive Grade Linux group still hasn't produced anything people can use. I followed AGL closely SIX YEARS ago; there's still nothing you can put in your car.

3D printer: you can print the parts you need to fix your 3D printer.

Linux: you can use it to become a Linux developer.

Mastodon: you can discuss Mastodon with other people.

#whatatimetobealive

Unpopular opinion time: I'm not sympathetic to the "I've marked myself as do-not-photograph-me" movement that a proportion of FOSS conferences has taken up. When you go out in public, you're in public and you're seen. That decision has been made at that point, and you're attempting to control other people's behavior after that point. Which is not acceptable.

(and before everyone starts chiming in, it is not the "firefox %u" bit in the .desktop file. That would be trivial.)