Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Also, it's really handy to have a $25/year linux VM in the cloud with lots of net bandwidth to which I forward ports via autossh from trash computers in my basement.

Today in a meeting I joked that I wanted to display bad apple on the IP phone that my employer gave to me.

That's a nice evening project, so I'll take you on the journey of trying to get this working. [Thread]

mastodon used to be an incredibly small, tight-knit, and like-minded community.

then april 2017 happened and more people came in that mastodon.social could handle, so we adapted.

things change, life moves on. this isn't the first endless september and it won't be the last. meet new people, make new friends, be kind, etc

"If you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth."
- Meghna Jayanth

Wow. This needs to be read by everyone who joined Mastodon in the last week: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy.

Because I'm on a German server my trending topics are #keinVergessen and #niemalsVergessen. This is because 9 November is the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

These brass plates in the pavements memorialise Jewish people at what were their addresses. I saw this one in Berlin in the spring. #NeverForget

hey everyone. quickly pick a random tech company on twitter and randomly @ them with "@tech_company hey name of different company, I can't login, my password is <make something up> and my username is <make something up> can you help me?"

okay fuck it

here's gargron's cover of "fireside" by arctic monkeys

he uploaded it to announce audio uploads a few years ago but the file is missing now

i saved it bc i figured it was an important bit of mastodon history lol

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

This site shows you how the quote retweet function is actually kind of destructive.

So it appears Microsoft, GitHub (so M$, twice) and OpenAI are being sued for violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI (GitHub Copilot) without attribution and such.

What do you think about this lawsuit?

Personally, while I do think attribution should be there, they are making too big of a fuzz about it, considering those same people probably got their code from SO or something...