Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use
has no venture capital investors
has no shareholders to answer to
has no growth targets
with a web interface with zero tracking cookies
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
Christmas afternoon walk in the park, part 2.
Chinese toy thermal printing camera, #shittycamerachallenge
Christmas afternoon walk in the park.
Chinese toy thermal printing digital camera. #shittycamerachallenge
It can be hard to celebrate Christmas (or any midwinter holiday) when your enemies are bombarding you with hate. That is why we must keep in mind that this is the season for celebrating the coming light in the middle of the dark night. Take good care of yourself!
Baristicuffs trilogy complete!
Coffee / Tea / Hot Chocolate
Tea not on the website as a print yet as I’m surrounded by boxes. https://jaunty.art
New 3d model dropped, an Ever Ready 532 to AAA adapter for dodgy old Polaroid cameras. This is for my next #ShittyCameraChallenge effort.
The baller move this guy made is he submitted a Subject Access Request under GDPR… for himself.
You can do this and request all emails, IMs and Copilot meeting summaries that mention you, from any company - send it to the listed privacy contact for the org directly, they’re legally required to fulfil.
He’s 100% going to win the employment tribunal, rightly so.
If you agree murder is bad, but you don't view insurance corporations denying critical medicine to people knowing full well they will die as a result, as a form of murder, then you don't in fact believe murder is bad. You believe rich people should be able to kill poor people and you should learn to be honest with yourself.
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.