Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Hot take: Material Design is terrible and bootstrapping your FOSS app with it just makes your app worse.

Why are people talking about Facebook being down on Super Tuesday like it's a bad thing? I'm more upset that it came back up.

It's official. I'll be in Europe for 2+ weeks starting in late March, and I'll be in Saarbrücken for #RevisionParty2024!

Flying to Munich, then making my way by train to Stuttgart, Saarbrücken, Paris, and London, then flying to Dublin for a few days before my flight home.

YouTube just hit me with a copyright block on my only pubic video. :(

It was a potato-quality Japanese music video I found on a p2p network that pulled in 90,000 views since I uploaded it 17 years ago.

Sony waited until after they uploaded an official HD version of the same video, so I guess I forgive them.

The track slaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ20Tgq3jk4

Stability AI just screwed up and published their latest project with an MIT license instead of the proprietary license they wanted. They just tried to pull a switcharoo a day later.

If anyone is interested in teaching a lesson to a company that doesn't respect intellectual property, consider forking their repo before this commit to set the precedent that this is FOSS whether they like it or not: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade/commit/209a52600f35dfe2a205daef54c0ff4068e86bc7

@ploum What's funny is that Jack Dorsey, the billionaire who everyone thinks owns Bluesky, is just on the board of directors, doesn't have an account, and is actively endorsing a Web3 competitor to Bluesky. Bluesky is just a shady for-profit Mastodon wannabe that will never amount to anything in the federated social media space. Now we watch as their own users get angry that federation is coming, even though that was the promise from the beginning.

@theverge The Verge is really going to compare having involuntary pornography distributed of you to getting fired for hate speech, huh?

At least it's clear who will win this thing: The lawyers.

Exploring music by @gribbles. Good background music to focus to. Enjoying the tracks "What are the media" and "Jetty".

@suricrasia crackles like pop rocks candy.

Just followed every artist on the @radiofreefedi rotational. Looking forward to discovering lots of new music.

@vegan4alivingplanet Context: This picture was from the Australian protests against COVID safety measures in 2020. A movement largely celebrated by right-wing conspiracy theorists who felt that basic public safety measures during a pandemic were actually a deliberate and coordinated effort to deprive them of their freedom.

Just so that everyone knows exactly what this right-wing anti-science picket sign actually means.

@davidnjoku It's well organized chaos.

@davidnjoku Between all the tab groups on all my open browser windows between all of my virtual desktops, I rarely have less than 100 tabs open at any given time, and that's just my personal laptop. Closer to 200 on my work computer.

I really hate Microsoft products. Thankfully I only have to deal with them at work, and not all the time.

Answer: It discreetly opens a "create share link" dialog in another part of the program (where I can't see it), and DOES NOT COPY ANYTHING TO THE CLIPBOARD.

To a casual user, it appears successful though.

And that's how I pasted a malicous spam link I was reporting earlier into a Teams chat when I was trying to share a SharePoint file from another chat...

You try to share a link to a SharePoint item from a Teams chat, and there's this button. Take a guess what it does. Remember, this is a Microsoft product.