Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@WolfIsMe I have an Ubuntu server running comfortably in 4 GB. In fact, it's my #Mastodon instance, among other things.

The “free but has ads” fallacy: if I can’t afford your paid tier I certainly can’t afford to buy anything from the ads you’re blasting at me. The only ones who actually benefit from this model are ad companies themselves, not the advertisers and certainly not the end user. #enshittification #youtube

4 years ago, an exec for a top PPE producer testified to Congress that in Jan 2020 (as fear of covid began to spread) his firm offered to ramp up production to make 1.7 million N95 masks available to the public per week.

The Trump admin said no.

@NathanZimriBorgman @pluralistic "forcing me into bankruptcy won’t actually get you the money you need to settle a big claim — it’ll just ruin my life"

This behaviour is intentional and premeditated, and not merely lawyers "eliminating liability": it is engineered to create a hostile environment which instills fear and subservience to make independent contractors afraid to exercise *any* of their legal rights. It's designed to turn craftspeople into serfs.

@mhoye @yhancik @darius Your gender should have at least two digits and two special characters

@yhancik @darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.

We must recognize and fight legislation like KOSA that’s pushing us to cede our power, privacy, and control over our health care and free expression, EFF’s @ericabp writes in TheAdvocate. https://www.advocate.com/voices/erica-portnoy-upholding-privacy

@workingclasshistory I don't think people will ever understand how important knowledge of events like these from the past are.
People ask all the time how could that have happened? How do such fascist come to power?
The answer is as it always has been, by the welcoming embrace of those too greedy to care.

This is related to why so many white Americans love cops and hate protesters.

No amount of peaceful protest will ever be acceptable and indeed, will automatically be perceived as violent, whenever it opposes the interests of the white ethnostate.

Summer of 2023 was hottest in two millennia https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/05/14/summer-2023-hottest-millennia/7951715707785/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You want… "unity"… "togetherness"… and "diversity of thought"… so you close… the offices… Of *DIVERSITY*… *EQUITY*… and *INCLUSION*… and hired *COPS*.

Words mean nothing to the right. They have no value or consistency of intent. All words are merely empty ciphers to them, and y'all KEEP LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT
https://www.wunc.org/education/2024-05-13/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police

The New York Trump Case Is Kind of Perfect

“What the case is really about is Trump’s modus operandi—lying. He’s a matryoshka doll of mendacity. He lies, usually lies some more, and then often lies about the lies he’s previously told.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/stormy-daniels-on-stand-trump-trials/678373/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f7wXdPmgGKSkJ0gd9Bsg8PE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

• Justice Clarence Thomas told the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference that Washington is a “hideous place,” which I point out follows 40+ years of his amassing power in Washington — and exploiting it. https://www.lawdork.com/p/justice-thomas-attacks-dc-as-hideous

Everybody thinks about poor Prometheus stuck to the mountain but no one spares a thought for the eagle who is also trapped in this relationship and is probably thinking “ugh, liver? Again?!”

One of my absolutely favorite Linux utilities is "sshfs", that allows you to mount other machine's file systems locally over ssh. I use it everywhere, between Linux machines, Chromebooks, and even sometimes Windows boxes. Absolutely brilliant and incredibly easy to setup and use compared with various other file system sharing models.

Eventually, when all is said and done, we will realize that the only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do her job was Stormy Daniels.

Organized religions aren't the root of all evils -- just a big chunk of them.

EDITED: One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite Trump-appointed judges, who (to his credit) objected to the process, but then predictably ruled against the administration.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.