Johannes Ernst @J12t@social.coop

Let's say you are hanging up a 115,000 V power cable. On this hook. Who could have known? https://data.nbcstations.com/national/KNTV/seanmyers/pge_hooks_grid/assets/still-1.jpg https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Long-Term-Wear-Found-on-PGE-Line-That-Sparked-Camp-Fire-565181442.html

The "Google Cemetery" lists abandoned Google products. Would be funny if it weren't so awful: they are real users whose life was majorly disrupted in every case. We need more open-source, self-hosting and cut the SaaS-only companies out of our lives https://gcemetery.co/

@lufthans is providing an excellent overview over Debian package management at #SeaGL2019.

When you have to give a talk and the projector (that you tested 2 hours before) suddenly doesn't want to work any more. Can you say "hold up this laptop"? #seagl2019

@mako: "The firms developing and deploying get freedom. The end-users do not."

Overheard: "Googlectomy". #seagl2019 https://upon2020.com/blog/2019/11/notes-from-seagl-2019/

$12.95/mo is too high, dear wt.social. I pay $2.99/mo to social.coop for a mastodon account, and that sounds much better.

Updated my talk summary for #SeaGL next week on @PSpringtime, DIY open-souce hydroponics for your backyard. https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2019/program/proposals/623

The main difference between domain-specific and general-purpose programming languages is that DSLs look simple and are impossible to understand, while GPLs look complicated and are easy to understand.

‪YouTube TOS change summary says “Better alignment between the Terms and how YouTube works today.” ... is that newspeak for “we have been breaking our own terms, so let’s update the terms so you can’t complain?”‬

Much is broken in software development. But build systems, all of them, are the worst of the lot.

I want somebody to correlate the mindless running of TVs in public places (say, doctors' waiting rooms) with the mindlessness of the general population. I feel my brain dying as I sit here.

"Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant" ... that Google would do that surprises exactly nobody. We need an #IndieIoT. Want to help? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/builders-ditch-nest-as-google-ties-digital-assistant-to-devices

‪We have better #portability of #personal #data across the web for advertising and tracking purposes, than for any other purpose, including making life easier for the user. Talk about getting it backwards. #VRM #mydata‬

https://poweroutage.us/ proves that one dude can do much better than a big utility like @PGE4Me at keeping a #power #outage website up. @PowerOutage_us

An inkling of the (hot) future — Silicon Valley’s power may be switched off tomorrow. https://upon2020.com/blog/2019/10/an-inkling-of-the-hot-future-silicon-valleys-power-may-be-switched-off-tomorrow/

Now that #OfficeMax and #OfficeDepot stores have both closed in my neighborhood, only Fedex remains as a print shop. Do they need more competition!