Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

what kind of mint is linux mint

#LinuxMint #Linux #FOSS

The kids on reddit are memeing us

Some of you are likely already aware of this, but I organize a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use payphones in Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!

We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.

Hope to see you there! https://philtel.org

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.