Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social

A spaceship landed in the park. An alien emerged, carrying a foldable chair. They set the chair up on the grass, and settled down.
"Ah, hello," a dog-walker said. "Shall I take you to our leader?"
"Why would I want that?" the alien said. "I came here to get away from mine.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

*checks news*
not sure if karma or just obvious, preventable outcome

Haters gonna hate in the comments but I've learned to not let that stop me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24631299

When we started working on ActivityPub, the most common thing I heard was "This will never happen." Now ActivityPub is the most successful federated social network web standard of all time.

I didn't give up then, and I'm not giving up on @spritelyproject
now.

#Mozilla is losing a quarter of the company, 250 people are losing jobs

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

Just confirmed I will be working with a professional UX designer starting later this week to figure out how to improve the joinmastodon.org onboarding flow.

"There's a problem with the Timescope."
"What?"
"It's useless for future vision-"
"Because it'll show any possible future, yes, I know. But the past is fixed."
"We thought so. But look here. It's tuned to 200 years ago."
"2020? Okay, lets see... What? That can't have happened!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"There’s Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT"

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-now-even-worse-anti-encryption-bill-earn-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-earn-it-bill-ok

Get your IT business out of the US. This needs to have an impact on the economy.

Sensitive data must be encrypted. Always. This should be a reminder to the authorities to never again ask for encryption backdoors:
https://www.businessinsider.com/blueleaks-hackers-publish-sensitive-files-from-200-police-departments-2020-6?r=DE&IR=T

More on why we oppose any attempt to backdoor encryption: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/ #Backdoor #Encryption

"It’s amazing how great computer products can be when they don’t need to deal with corporate bullsh*t, don’t have to promote a brand or to sell its users... Contrast this with Dropbox..."

https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/

@ricardojmendez I don't think we can expect people to learn from history without putting in the effort to do so, and I can't say that even my history lessons at school ever made it clear that this could happen here. There's always this sense of "otherness" about the whole thing.

(West) Germany at the very least has tried to identify the causes and educate on them. The US and UK just run with the narrative "nazis bad!" and skip over the reasons behind the rise of fascism.

As we've always taken a stand against state surveillance, we stand now against state violence — especially as it's inflicted disproportionately on the Black community. We stand with those seeking justice for the brutality committed by our unjust system. #BlackLivesMatter