Wiz

joined 2 years ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.

Also, we double space after periods. That's a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.

Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for articulating that so well.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

want/need to do X as fast and painlessly as possible.

Yes, but money is a pain point. Free software eliminated that pain.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Newbie here - Can you recommend a good Linux VPN? (For totally legal Distro Torrents, of course.)

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

Something that might be helpful in posts like this: Please tell us what this app does! Why would I want it? Instead we get a list of things that changed in an app that I'm not familiar with.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Well that's gotta be an interesting story! Don't leave us hanging!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

issues with the Covid-19 vax

healthy for opposing viewpoints

Vaccine skepticism is not a "healthy viewpoint", but quite the opposite. Vaccines and inoculations are about as much "proven science" as we have, with hundreds of years behind the science. Spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda kills people.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

I'm convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

That anonymizes Google results. It's Google, all the way down.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

I've heard "dub-dub-dub". But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it's abbreviating! 😀

[–] Wiz@midwest.social -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  1. So what?
  2. Damn straight they are locked. Other wise you get Nicole spam on all of them, instead of just a few.
  3. So what?
 

As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.

In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:

Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.

Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.

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