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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 06:17:58 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   the power of "do you mind" over matter
2. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:18:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   It's not just on fedi:[ . . . ] Top-level comments need to be substantiated, historical answers to the question and the rest need to be reasonably on-topic. Not layman speculation. Not which arbitrary standard is best. Not so-and-so uses so-and-so.
   
   I hate to be so stern about it but seriously... 120 of 160 comments [deleted].The question?
   When did the USA originally start using the mm/dd/yyyy format and for what reason?farside.link/teddit/r/AskHisto…
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:41:33 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     In the 40 remaining comments there are some interesting and surprising finds. In particular, mm/dd/yyyy, with digits, was not introduced with computers, contrary to what many are assuming:
     I have been working with a collection of mid-18th to early 19th-century English correspondence, and the mm/dd/yyyy format is used on occasion. Sometimes the same person will date a letter, say, 4/10/1797 (for April 10th), and the next letter will be 12/4 (for April 12th). I'd previously had no idea that this format was in use so long ago (mm/dd or exclusively numbers).farside.link/teddit/r/AskHisto…
3. cketti (cketti@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 23:15:02 UTC cketti

   Dear open source users,

   If the author of your favorite open source app has announced they stopped developing and supporting the app (because they're frustrated and possibly burned out), please don't suggest they do more free work so that you can continue using the app.
   Instead, consider thanking them for their past work and let them know that you enjoyed their app.

   Regards,
   another open source developer

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   • cketti (cketti@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:04:12 UTC cketti

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     • The Cobra

     @cobra I'm glad to learn that you're focusing on the important part of the message 🙄

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   • The Cobra (cobra@fedi.vern.cc)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:04:13 UTC The Cobra

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     @cketti
     i would listen to you but you said 'open source' and free as in 0 cost
     --hj

   • ashwansr (ashwansr@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:28:55 UTC ashwansr

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     @cketti
     Huge thanks to #M66B for all his work at the same time its so sad to see such a wonderful project going into peril. But, its totally understandable that the devs also need to make a living despite of how noble their cause is.

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4. Neal Walfield (nwalfield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:28:24 UTC Neal Walfield

   • M. Grégoire

   @mpjgregoire I don't want to get your hopes up too high, but the Octopus only addresses half of the issue. It replaces rnp with Sequoia, restores the gpg integration, and adds back web of trust support, but it does not address user facing UX issues.

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5. Elias (eliasr@social.librem.one)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:18:18 UTC Elias

   Looking for free/libre (FLOSS) computer games that can be fun for kids around 10 years old. So far, tried #minetest which is great. What else can you recommend?

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:27:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Astro
     @astro @eliasr Oooh, ah Lemmings-like!
   • Astro (astro@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:27:12 UTC Astro

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     @eliasr pingus

6. ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴 (theruran@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:19:12 UTC ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴

   I love that Don Norman gave the foreword for the UNIX-Haters Handbook (1994) and he cites his own paper from 1981:

   Norman, D. A. The Trouble with Unix: The User Interface is Horrid. Datamation, 27 (12) 1981, November. pp. 139-150. Reprinted in Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Bannon, L. J., eds. Perspectives on the Computer Revolution, 2nd revised edition, Hillsdale, NJ, Ablex, 1989.

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:19 UTC Nate Cull

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     @theruran

     "Why are programmers -- particularly the ones who talk a lot about Constant Refactoring -- so bad at refactoring the languages, editors and operating systems they use, to make them more humane?" is a question that endlessly fascinates me.

     Up there with "why does Computer Science / Data Processing / Information Technology as a field seem really bad at keeping track of its own history?"

   • Rob (robdaemon@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:19 UTC Rob

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     • Nate Cull

     @natecull @theruran I would add that we're damn good at making the systems so damn opaque it's hard for people to figure out how they work.

     That's my passion project.

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:19 UTC Nate Cull

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     • Rob

     @robdaemon @theruran

     It really bugs me that mobile touchscreen systems are actually much more opaque than 1990s desktops used to be. So many hidden, non-discoverable gestures.

     I'm sure whoever has been in charge of very expensive and very scientific data-driven UX development for the last 10 years did not intend for that to be the outcome.

     But that was the outcome regardless.

7. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:12 UTC Nate Cull

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   • Humane Tech Now
   • ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴
   • Rob

   @humanetech @robdaemon @theruran

   (after reading the Mercury description)

   Well, I like the idea of grouping things into activities rather than applications. Like that very much.

   I'm not especially sold on the Macintosh interface for it, because I'm not a Mac person and I've always found the Mac desktop super unintuitive.

   I already feel confused about the difference between Modules and Spaces.

   I want a text version of this I think?

   But otherwise, it's a good beginning.

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:13 UTC Nate Cull

     • Humane Tech Now
     • ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴
     • Rob

     @humanetech @robdaemon @theruran

     Ooh! I really like this idea of "design for users with overloaded executive function".

     I think that's what I've been feeling myself for years. Trying to get back into "flow state" is my goal.

8. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 05:24:10 UTC Nate Cull

   • Humane Tech Now
   • ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴
   • Rob

   @humanetech @robdaemon @theruran

   Yep, Bret Victor both interests and disappoints me.

   I was really excited about his Light Table debugger.... and then he threw it all away to chase the Dynamicland concept, which is super expensive and indulgent in that you have to have a purpose-built room for it. Real estate is the most expensive thing right now!

   I guess if he's getting funded to do very expensive experiments he finds fun, that's cool for him?

   But something very important was lost, imo.

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9. ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊: (dajbelshaw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 11:46:00 UTC ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊:

   I'm off to what in the past has been my favourite event - the Thinking Digital Conference

   https://thinkingdigital.co.uk

   It's got it all - spectacular venue, great speakers, and local to me (15 miles away)

   It hasn't been on for the last couple of years due to the pandemic, so I'm hoping it's as good as I remember. I've changed a lot (as has the world!) since 2019, and I hope it's not just a big apology for capitalism. I'm sure it won't be 😅

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   • Basil (basil@sarcasm.stream)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 03:04:25 UTC Basil

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     @dajbelshaw that does sound great.

   • ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊: (dajbelshaw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 03:04:26 UTC ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊:

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     • Basil

     @basil Of course not! Just how great it is to be able to track down Nazi war criminals.

   • Basil (basil@sarcasm.stream)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 03:04:27 UTC Basil

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     @dajbelshaw did #1 touch on anything about race issues.

10. liffy 💜 (lifning@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 23:04:32 UTC liffy 💜

    roses are red
    violets are blue
    in surveillance capitalism
    poem reads you

    and shows you ads
    for flower shops
    and tracks your clicks
    and never stops

    it cares not about
    if privacy's harmed
    the money is green
    when people are farmed

    twitter is cyan
    facebook is blue
    your friends are the product
    and so are you

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    • Khrys (khrys@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 02:52:15 UTC Khrys

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      @lifning 🤩

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11. Neal Walfield (nwalfield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 02:33:09 UTC Neal Walfield

    Thunderbird recently issued two CVEs related to unencrypted secret key material. In CVE-2021-29956, TB forgot to encrypt the secret key material for newly imported keys. In CVE-2021-29950, which introduced the previous CVE, they forgot to reprotect secret key material in memory. In this blog post, I discuss what we can learn. https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/05/22/202105-a-look-at-two-recent-cves-in-thunderbirds-openpgp-support/
12. Neal Walfield (nwalfield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 02:31:47 UTC Neal Walfield

    Sequoia PGP is now licensed under the LGPL 2.0+. Read more about why here: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/10/18/202110-sequoia-pgp-is-now-lgpl-2.0/ #pgp #sequoia
13. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 01:47:57 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Taking my administrative day off and moving to another hotel tomorrow.
    
    If we’re back in our building on Monday, it is close enough to walk to work.
14. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:59:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2S1nmxYmUg I had such a major crush on her.
15. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:34:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://qz.com/2166945/research-offers-a-clue-to-why-sids-might-happen/ [qz com]
    Research into #SIDS finds lower levels of a compound linked to waking. Results are very preliminary, not a known cause yet.
16. Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN) (ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:05:30 UTC Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)

    • notklaatu

    Anyone else have it that when the #coffee break comes in the GNU World Podcast, I'm never near coffee ?

    I'm going to have to ask @klaatu to open another bug.

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17. nae (fuchsiashock@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 00:47:26 UTC nae

    i read a thing recently that blew my mind a little.
    went something like:

    people can imagine time travel to the past and one little act making massive differences in the timeline

    but in their present they think even the greatest effort they can put in will not make any difference to the future

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    • nae (fuchsiashock@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:03:09 UTC nae

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      imagine the difference people with actual platforms or influence or resources or power could make

      but they frequently choose instead to be unkind, to be greedy, to be cruel, to tear others down, to exploit other human beings

      for personal profit

    • nae (fuchsiashock@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:03:10 UTC nae

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      my life is pretty small and nothing special
      i usually think of myself as powerless and unable to make a difference
      but i have made positive differences in some people's lives, maybe saved a couple of lives even
      i've been told a couple of times that my social media posts have inspired someone to transition and live as their true self
      i've been told once or twice that my listening to and being kind to someone has led them away from the edge
      i've been told that my defiance in the face of ongoing hatred has had positive effects on the lives of others

      and i'm just one unemployed trans woman living in poverty with no direct power over anything

    • nae (fuchsiashock@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:03:11 UTC nae

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      what if the small positive thing you do for someone today has a domino effect?

      or even, on a smaller scale, what if just listening to someone or showing them kindness or aiding them when they needed it most, saves a life?

      what if some positive change you made in your own life inspired someone to make a positive change in their own, and then they inspired another, and they inspired another?

18. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 00:00:03 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

    • M. Grégoire
    • Basil
    @mpjgregoire @basil Sweden with its self-image as a "humanitarian superpower", strong belief in the right to political asylum and a soft spot for the underdogs of the world has been a popular home away from home for separatist or dissident groups in exile, including people from Xinjiang, Chile and the PKK from Turkey.
19. wistful and spooky (checkervest@laserdisc.party)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 12:57:07 UTC wistful and spooky

    Tea time mug check! Show me your current mugs

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    • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 13:09:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

      in reply to
      The milk tea is at a pretty mellow temperature after a ten minute walk home from the shop, so I actually drink it from my sturdy glass.
      
      
      
      @checkervest
    • bois de vache (boisdevache@guineapig.party)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 23:53:58 UTC bois de vache

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      @checkervest

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    • :teapot: Mari :nb_crossbow: (bouncinglime@spanner.works)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 23:54:44 UTC :teapot: Mari :nb_crossbow:

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      @checkervest here's mine for this week! one of my few intentional UK souvenirs - an extremely '70s hedgehog family ^_^

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20. Basil (basil@sarcasm.stream)'s status on Thursday, 19-May-2022 23:54:33 UTC Basil

    • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
    • M. Grégoire

    @mpjgregoire @clacke it's the requirement of a "functioning democratic political system" rather than military might that prompts my reaction.

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