Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

Things I liked about 80's/90's computing:
- Total control over my hardware
- Software that worked with me, not against me
- Superior aesthetics (yeah I said it :3 )
- Overall sense of promise and freedom

Things I like about computing today:
- Easy and open access to knowledge
- Insane amounts of storage
- The sheer computing POWERRRR

Now if only we could make these attributes come together instead of being period exclusive.

i wanna go to an alternate timeline where smartmedia won the digital flash storage war

wow i sure do love begging surveillance companies to maybe give me some of the data they have on me which they're only required to do once per year

logging on

I adopted Ziggy 8 months ago today 😍

Microsoft's anti-Right-to-Repair https://gnusocial.no/url/1602028

Textbook DRM https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_July_2019_%28Textbook_DRM%29

Oh

stop hacking and give me snuggles!

Amazon quietly removed a line from its transparency report saying it had "never participated" in the NSA's PRISM program.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/amazon-prism-transparency-data/

The US government is holding American citizens (I've seen at least three cases) claiming they're not citizens and detaining them unlawfully for extended periods - weeks, months, years!

We've seen the US also revoke some citizenships!

I don't feel safe crossing the US border.

https://pix11.com/2019/07/31/u-s-citizen-from-queens-who-was-held-by-ice-for-2-years-speaks-out/amp/

thesis: the internet is a truck

antithesis: it's a series of tubes

synthesis: the tubes have trucks in them

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order