@blogdiva
I've watched that door get narrower for years and finally this month I've grudgingly started shifting to Graphene... But how to normalise is indeed the hard part, in the face of a determined duopoly.

When you go into a deli and they ask how thin you want it sliced and you ask for it wafer thin so when you put it in your mouth you can barely taste it that's how thin I'm slicing this project

This isn't asleep at the wheel.
This is in a coma at the wheel - thank God for ABS and lane assist

I've paid you for the snake oil but my hair isn't growing, so I've padlocked you in building, so you can't leave in your gypsy caravan in the middle of the night

It finally happened.
The weird UI choice of putting "delete all notifications" right next to "view notifications" on Tusky got me.
I've tapped it but then hit cancel at least 20 times.
Sigh.

After dropping the #chatcontrol proposals EU governors could next ask themselves why they have, in all of the EU's history, never provided such a pleasant and informative, adaptive and fast user interface to access democratic representatives and governments of EU member countries ... as the one […]

@mariafarrell @Privacymatters
What scares me is that this only didn't happen because the memory of the Stasi remains (just) fresh enough...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry.

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

THANK YOU […]

Obsolete skill of the day: re-folding road maps along their original creases.

important

There’s a beautiful world where tech companies all meticulously restricted their training corpus to the public domain and LLM-powered Ask Jeeves actually talks like Jeeves because he is powered entirely by pre-1930 texts

@superflippy meeting invites don't show up in sent messages.
I replied to my toot with a workaround I found, but it's dumb.

OK best workaround is:

- View tabo on the ribbon
- Views
- Manage views
- Make a copy of the default "List" view
- Add a filter to the new view: Organizer=me

Use the new view to see meetings I organized.

Corporate Outlook: anyone know how to search for "meetings I created"?

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this.
What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

Sounds like a normal way for the president of a country to be talking to the military about the opposition party.

Europeans: stop thinking America will play ANY role in defending your democracy, you gullible fools! America may well need to be fought. Maybe militarily, maybe sooner than you think.

@tginsider
Because those leaving are Russian sympathisers or Ukrainians deported at gunpoint.
#PutinIsaWarCriminal

"This relationship [between Antarctic sea ice extent and future ocean warming] isn’t merely correlative: it is mechanistically explained through ocean-atmosphere feedback. Higher sea ice extent enhances cloud cover, which has a cooling effect overall by reducing incoming solar radiation. Greater […]

[Parenting whinge]

It can be a _very_ fine line between "this is normal emotional labour involved in raising a teenager", and "this is some bullshit I don't have to put up with"

(genuine question as to why there's new refugees on fedi)