Thomas 🇦🇺🌏🦘🐨

I hate that going on the computer is just for getting mad now. computers used to be for sending your friends a mysterious file called free_drink_coaster.exe that popped out their cd tray when they ran it. we have lost our way

When asked why would I open source software that is usually only available commercially my answer is: Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

The tool purchases will continue until the skill catches up.

the problem with tackling "wasteful government bureaucracy" is it's like deleting files from your computer called hostserver.dll that look useless and take up a lot of space and then your computer stops working

What’s the subject of your new book? 😀

Link?

Mine is the same 😂😅

Funniest thing I’ve heard about today is normies seeing the Twitter app change to a black X icon and deleting it because they assume they got malware

So it’s called “ten” now?

It’s so frickin good!!

I started listening to the audio books after the season one finale and they’re also pretty dope!

Urgh, I literally just bought one during the prime week sales 🤦🏻‍♂️
Usually I wait for the slim hardware to come out before getting a console, but the rumours this time around seemed a bit shaky, so I bit the bullet. Oh well…

Absolutely called out by this post

you’re living in it, baby

Elon Musk made an idiotic but binding offer while he was on drugs then spent weeks very publicly saying he didn’t want to buy the company and trying to worm out of it while twitter’s board threatened to sue him and STILL there are absolute idiots who think this is some kind of 17-dimensional chess.

nazi bar owner: “what if I change the curtains”

Screenshot of @twitter

The Twitter account just officially rebranded to X but they can’t figure out how to change the handle

Orbstack is also quite nice as a docker desktop replacement, and it can run VMs

https://orbstack.dev

Threads: we’re going to scold you for using the word “fuck”

Bluesky: please make sure that picture of your ass has alt text so everyone can enjoy it 💕💕

Threads makes a lot of sense when you remember what Zuck wanted the Metaverse to be: a heavily branded, inscrutable morass where you might have a fleeting, benign interaction with a celebrity who immediately tries to sell you an Apple Watch.

/honk

The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.

New: I wrote about the degradation of Google Search due to SEO and the garbage work consumers and businesses have to do to find stuff and be found.

With AI tools increasingly being used, the problem is poised to spiral.
https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

Priorities!

This works really well, good job 👏👏👏

Ice Cubes release notes

The first of its kind? Open source Mastodon client Ice Cubes now supports cross-posting to Bluesky!

Let the games begin!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

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