Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca), page 7
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Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Oct-2020 17:12:12 UTC 
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Not only are Duplo blocks *like* Lego blocks, they *are* Lego blocks, and I don't just mean that Duplo is a Lego brand and produced in the same factory, the two systems are actually compatible.
A Lego 2x2 block fits and sticks to the underside of a Duplo block, and the nob on the top of a Duplo block fits with the pillar in the middle under a Lego 2x2 block.
That's the reason the Duplo nobs are hollowed-out circles rather than the filled-in circles Lego blocks have! And it's why Duplo undersides have little tabs along the inner edge -- they're not necessary for fitting with Duplo nobs, but they're essential for grabbing Lego nobs! -
Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 12:07:55 UTC 
Tobias
β² @frederic@pouet.couchet.org: "Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it." September 27, 1983 - Richard Stallman. www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announβ¦
Happy birthday to GNU \0/ -
Alexandre Oliva (lxoliva@social.libreplanetbr.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 15:31:03 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
happy original software freedom day!
on this day, 37 years ago, Richard Stallman launched the Free Software Movement, and the GNU Project, to build a user-freedom-respecting operating system, so that all users could do their computing in freedom -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Sep-2020 02:43:54 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
In the Netherlands (which the Dutch call "Nederland") the language is called "Nederlands", so that makes sense. Perhaps English speakers couldn't differentiate between "Nederlands" and "Deutsch", which corrupted to "Dutch".
And why do we call the country "Germany" and the inhabitants "Germans" when they call their country "Deutschland" and themselves "die Deutsche"? -
Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 06:43:31 UTC 
Erik Moeller
Disturbing reports that Google Play is threatening to kick out Mastodon apps. See:
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104765191594914330
App stores have a track record of acting capriciously & are also easy targets for gov't censors (including Trump). This is why alternatives like @fdroidorg are so important for user freedom.
If unfamiliar: F-Droid is a free & open source app you can use to install other Android apps, with focus on free & open source software. Get it here:
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 15:24:57 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I do like the taste of onion bagels. When the other bagels in the bag acquire an onion flavour it's a poor experience at best, almost certainly leading to the purchase of a *real* onion bagel. #AOBFS #AcquiredOnionBagelFlavourSyndrome -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 23:50:58 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@bobjonkman @blacksam Would that still be true if you actually liked onion bagels?
Asking because, although I don't eat bagels at all, it seems to me that you're probably unusually sensitive to the flavor of onion ... which would likely be the case if you disliked that flavor. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 21:18:32 UTC
Bob Jonkman
If there is one onion bagel in a bag of bagels, they're *all* onion bagels... -
Brian Γ (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 12:53:16 UTC 
Brian Γ
How come no matter what flavor bagel you buy from the bakery, it's always, to some extent, an onion bagel?
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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2020 17:58:29 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
Remote education has provided an unfortunate opportunity for privacy-invading proprietary software to invade students' lives. Learn how many people are fighting back: https://u.fsf.org/32h -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 04:26:44 UTC
Bob Jonkman
He'll never find it again. But you get a tree! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 04:05:44 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Ja, ich bin hier noch. Aber meine timeline ist oft zwei oder drei monaten langzam... -
Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 12:46:43 UTC 
Doug Webb
#ExtinctionRebellion session @ #35c3 is FULL! One third of the people sitting on the floor π
Amazing to see a room full of hackers excited to join the cause. There's enthusiasm to help non-techy people switch to #signal, #mastodon & #nextcloud β‘ π» π
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Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 21:03:48 UTC
Doug Webb
In the last week I've started moving my calendars π , contacts π« and email βοΈ off of Google
It really feels like coming to the end of an abusive relationship π It was worse than I liked to admit, and it's easier to leave than I thought πThanks so much to the #Nextcloud, #Thunderbird, #Dav5X and #LineageOS people for making this possible! And thanks to my techie buddies who helped me out. Look to your local hacklab for help if you need it! You can do it!
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 22:24:06 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Unrelated, except for the error-prone: ISO1806 specifies a method of determining the mesh-breaking force of netting for fishing. This does not help in organizing your #Linux filesystem. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 22:22:14 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I start almost every folder and filename with the date in ISO8601 format. So, "2020-02-25 Folder of stuff/2020-02-27 Document.txt"
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Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 18:55:40 UTC
Doug Webb
Anyone got advice on organizing your (#linux) filesystem? Naming conventions, etc?
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2020 22:45:39 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I too am with Canadian ISP #Teksavvy. I checked my bill last month, and was surprised to find it less than I expected. Apparently they lowered prices around November 2019. A couple of years ago they upgraded to unlimited/month at no charge. No way I'm ever changing! (is #Teksavvy somewhere in the !Fediverse?) /cc @guizzy -
feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2019 23:20:15 UTC 
feld
@mewmew @er1n If your goal is to be hidden from search engines you'll have things like valuable technical discussions lost forever.
Yes you deserve the right to be forgotten.
Yes you deserve to be anonymous if you want to be.
Yes you deserve ownership and control over your data as much as is technically feasible. (e.g., once it leaves your machine... all bets are off, sorry)
If what you think you need is to be hidden, you're not a social network and you're not helping us create a solution to end the digital tyranny the other 7 billion of us face on a daily basis.
I want AP to liberate 7 billion people from algorithmic manipulation and corporate-sponsored censorship.
I want AP to bring back what communicating with friends was like in the 90s and early 00s.
It's going to take money, time, blood, sweat, and tears.
Yes, money. I know people get very distracted by the fact that there's money flowing into ActivityPub's development. This is a requirement if we're going to get this off the ground. I can't think of a single widespread protocol we consider foundational to our daily lives that didn't have money behind it.
The internet itself (TCP/IP) was not birthed by some free software zealots. It was billions of dollars of military research brought to the public. Some people might even hate the military that did it!
The Web was also not birthed by free software zealots. It was done at CERN. On a NeXT machine. Some people might even hate the countries funding CERN, or Steve Jobs/Apple.
This lead to Mosaic and then Netscape.
"Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the nascent World Wide Web."
Mozilla is now the darling of the internet, but it was born out of capitalism. I'm sure the thought of this is offensive to some people. Most don't even recognize the fact.
The point is, we need a good protocol with a healthy standards body of members participating from MANY projects because diversity is strength and we cannot have a single member trying to throw their weight around and control how the protocol is developed. And if we don't care about doing security right we will fail.
I don't know how to bring everyone together to solve this, but I know damn well that Mastodon's goals are directly at odds with the rest of us right now. I hope they come around though because we'll be stronger together. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2019 14:20:56 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Just this once, only for this video and no other, should you #ReadTheComments!
https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
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