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really need to get fedifox shield usable so I can """"upgrade"""" to mastodon 4 and then finish GoToSocial so we can actually upgrade to proper fedi software

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updating servers to NixOS 23.05 but it's a big pain, mostly boiling down to Mastodon

Save me from all the IPFS evangelists jumping on the NixOS storage issues to shill their favourite toy without thinking for a moment about the availability requirements

mozilla, advertising, grumble 

So Mozilla is just straight-up running ads on MDN now.

When are we all gonna stop pretending that they're any meaningfully different from other companies?

stop calling it "Linux" and start calling it by its actual name, "Torvalds' Monster"

tech meta, anti-indigenous/white supremacist terminology 

really dislike the prevalence of the phrase "cargo cult" in tech circles, i've seen it a few times recently and it gets on my nerves.

if you've never thought about this before: it's a white supremacist pejorative implying that indigenous folks are backward and foolish.

in the shrek universe if kitty softpaws was a stray cat while also being a talking cat, is it the norm for talking cats to literally be owned and kept as pets

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Honestly "no one got killed, there was no drone, there was no AI, there was no actual simulation, it was all a role-playing scenario run by someone *not even in the Air Force*" is exactly the pratfall I needed this week, what a clownshow

vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-

Looking at my upcoming minor schedule

> Deliver a proposal for a creature

i can think of so many critters already

also "he, she, or whatever" isn't as progressive as you think it is

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