Trolli Schmittlauch🦎 @schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu

You asked for it: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon-LaTeXclient Here's a mastodon LaTeX client! Screenshots of example output attached!

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here, look, I'm saying it: #systemd is great and #sysvinit can die in a hole, so glad never having to touch that again.

Mike, @torproject, on Google and ReCaptcha:

"This is a company that is basically the primary/only gateway to much of the Internet, and it has decided that certain IP addresses *do not deserve access to that Internet*. Full stop. This is not a problem that gets solved by having our devs talk to their devs to "nerd harder". This should be a PR bloodbath.. We should have made it one months ago."

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-April/001738.html

The @GIMP team has just announced GIMP 2.10.0 release candidate 2 is out with multi-threaded painting, rewritten UI themes, on-canvas panorama rotation in 3D, various improvements, and 40 bug fixes!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/17/gimp-2-10-0-rc2-released/

(Sorry - last post had the wrong URL)

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #artwithopensource #GIMP

Not sure if this is allowed by the federation: My private pear-to-pear network! 😋

#photography #photo #pear2pear

Great article on @tomshardware@twitter.com about Matrix in the French Government! https://www.tomshardware.com/news/france-alternative-whatsapp-telegram-spying-concerns,36898.html

whipped up some Creative Commons emoji for mastodon! Images taken from the CC downloads page here > https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

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Oh those "expiring e-mails" in GMail even require Google login to view as webpage? Wow, fuck that shit. That's too obvious

@schmittlauch I did and we talked about it. the post has a ton of things wrong, though at least it's thoughtfully written. I've meant to reply to it but... so little time :(

@cwebber I guess you already read this blog post by one of their maintainers? https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html

Nothing about ActivityPub is specifically "twitter-like". In fact the protocol itself, if anything, is way more facebook-like than twitter-like (and largely derives from the facebook-like pump.io). It just so happens that the largest implementors are Twitter-like. But that's not reflective of any protocol restriction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836027

We also designed the thing *so Diaspora could adopt it*, even though that didn't happen.

> Chrome is scanning your files, including private folders, in the background as an anti-malware measure

Chrome is a proprietary software, and proprietary software developers feel free to do invasive things for whatever purpose they deem necessary. Users would have no recourse if they were using this tool for spying or data collection, other than uninstalling it.

People who use proprietary software are victims. Do not advocate for proprietary wares
in any form.

the colors on pride flag and their meanings:
red - application, presentation
orange - session
yellow - transport
green - network
blue - data link
violet - physical

#Google removes #Kodi from search autocomplete in anti-piracy effort - the article state "But, while Kodi is legal software, it remains a space that enables piracy, akin to platforms like BitTorrent."... Yes, like any general purpose computer. 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176894/google-removes-kodi-search-autocomplete-anti-piracy

"I give up! How do you humans cope with, with... being human?"
"Wait, you're not human either?"
"What do you mean, 'either'?"
Turns out, we're all faking it.
(Except Bob. Go Bob!)

Like #Mastodon but for #diaspora

As you settle into Mastodon, be sure to learn the lingo:
- "toot": a tweet
- "tusking": starting a pointless fight with another user
- "woolly": going viral, as in "wow, that toot really went woolly"
- "extinction event": when a whole instance goes down