DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Alert: #cybredecke has reached beta status and is fully untethered!

I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.

There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.

I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.

In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]

Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.

But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.

And love.

My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.

Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.

Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.

[1] unbeknownst to many, stale infosec memes are extremely buoyant
[2] assuming the raccoon consented to be swung such
[3] assuming someone wasn't throwing their face at the nearest bit of fur
[4] h/t to @priryo for https://linernotes.club/@priryo/100565446740959131 and @sydneyfalk for https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/sydneyfalk/updates/85279
[5] ​
[6] assuming I consented to be changed such [7]
[7] I did

achievement heckin GET

mastodon streaming on a #Kaypro 2-83 #retrocomputing

this is my semi-regular yet aperiodic reminder that this place here is a distributed federated version of Callahan's as far as I can tell and that is one of the most bestest things that can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

Would it be problematic for a "members only" organization of some kind that required financial dues for membership to offer the ability to offset some or all of the dues in return for volunteering to help out for x amount of time per membership period instead?

Having "add a poll" as an option when replying feels like having a button for "weird flex incoming"

Really looking forward to the #pinephone and I hope I'm still using it five years after I get it.

Someone from ameridroid posted a coupon code for 10% off their pijuice solar panels for #pine64 and #pinebook community members in the irc channel recently if you're interested - irc channel is archived at http://irc.pine64.uk/?date=2019-08-22T00:57:00.000Z

Back to thinking about having folk in for cofe and a chat whilst I assemble them a computer and gosh it sounds civilized.

(cc future customer @sungo )

Detail shots of:

• the button to trigger reflashing the board over usb hiding behind the back end of the audio/composite video TRRS connector

• four holes whomst should be uart for boot-time serial output goodness

A quick go with a case opener and three small screws and we're graced with the single-board computer whomst android set top box, the #H96Max

Self-hosted social media is neat because "going viral" has a cost exerted back on the point of origin, so while your photo is super popular, your network is super laggy.

Balance is maintained.