This is a note to people moving their repositories blindly to Gitlab.org: do you know Google is actually a huge investor in Gitlab?
The issue is not about Microsoft buying Github. The issue is about centralization and silos.
You do not solve that by moving your data from one silo to another.
You solve that by relying on small providers you can trust, or by becoming a provider yourself.
Hmm. Is there a Fediverse gaming instance, or not really...? I don;t want to spam this account with non-FOSS stuff if I can at all help it.
This github fiasco makes me glad I host my projects by printing out all the code on paper and pinning the pages to a bulletin board in the basement of an abandoned warehouse.
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Toying with font designs, here's a very constrained 6x6 pixel font, full ASCII range. Use for whatever you want as long as you want it to look retro-techy. Use lowercase at your own risk.
hmm, for €5/month, using masto.host sure looks like it'll take a lot of the ballache out of running a personal instance.
I hate spending money, but it's like one coffee a month. 
Other creatures can count
Other creatures have language
Other creatures even have culture
The biggest difference between us and other intelligent species on Earth seems to be coffee
Dance like you're using the entropy generated by your movement to create cryptographic keys
remember how many years ago was this "oh no we're gonna run out of ipv4 like right fucking now"? haha i feel old
Just compressed a PDF using Adobe Acrobat
108 MB uncompressed
241 MB compressed
What? How is it even possible?
me: oh they have seats. How long does this go for...
swmbo: two hours
me: holy shit
And man, this preacher is is going hard.
thats ones nervous looking ginga
Facebook: depression because all of your friends and family are closet morons
Instagram: depression because you aren't living on a beach with gorgeous friends like every other person on the planet
Twitter: depression because the world is a garbage fire and you must bear witness to the horror
Mastodon currently feels my older forum days, it's fantastic. I make a post about something and it reaches just enough people that generally someone reaches out with a similar interest and we connect from there
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause from Its Code of Conduct
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393
(submitted by ourmandave)
