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I literally yell “fuck you” at my alarm from time to time.

They did do some damage control. But it was a pretty terrible thing for the CEO to say.

I’m shocked (haha pun) that it still worked but it did.

Also the cord from the power supply to the outlet ran next to the sink.

Pfft. I have trazodone.

I was once so broke that I couldn’t afford a case for a computer I had.

So I brought my computer to a LAN in a trash bag and set it up on the host’s electric stove.

I’ve had a bowel obstruction. It’s not fun. Worst pain in my life.

This is the part when I’m supposed to say I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I would though.

We’ve been explicitly told at work to be courteous when asking Copilot for help because it gives better answers that way.

For everyone who isn’t trying to mine crypto, yeah.

The thing about people like Andy is they see everything through the lens of how it affects their business. Gail Slater could be the most evil person in the world, but as long as she’s “good on antitrust” then he thinks she’s a good pick. Someone not being in thrall to a fascist is more important.

In an updated version of his post he talks about how JD Vance agreed with Lina Khan on tech antitrust. He doesn’t mention (either through ignorance or explicit neglect) that Vance is behind tech antitrust because he believed that they were “woke” and would fact check obvious lies by him and his party. He wants them broken up based on viewpoint discrimination, not because he has a problem with large tech companies spying on us and violating our privacy. Vance probably doesn’t believe that anymore given the right turn the big tech companies have made in the last 2 months. As long as big tech is doing what the Republican party wants, they’re going to get a free hand.

Either Andy is too stupid to understand this or he thinks we’re stupid enough to believe him.

I turn off Folding@Home in the summer. Otherwise it’s on 24x7.

Of course you can fork it, but you can’t call it Mastodon. That’s trademarked. Just like how you can fork Firefox but have to call it Waterfox or Iceweasel or Librewolf.

The confusion here is between Mastodon the company and Mastodon the software and instances of the running software. Eugen Rochko owns the first two. He also owns the instances mastodon.social and mastodon.online. Everything else is outside of his control.

It was never controlled by a single person to begin with.

The computer program called Mastodon was (and still is for now) completely controlled by Eugen Rochko. In the future it will be controlled by a non-profit.

See this and this for more info.

You can see exactly what he made in 2023. The report is available here.

€60k

First, ass world. Then die mart.