CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The headlines should always say "in mice" (etc) but -- in mice is still pretty impressive!

@NatureMC @kcarruthers

USian football culture is ludicrously dominant. Never mind its capture of public money, this month it has overtaken what should’ve been news sections of my city paper; relit the skyline; pretended that advertising is news. I am grateful for the birders who dilute it a little.

@aroundthehills @losttourist

It’s like having a neighborhood as well as the global connection, and the health of the neighborhood depends on you and the neighbors.

@taylorlorenz

Vaguely related; Microsoft pays help desk (or, okay, used to). And for decades most people learned Windows somewhere with paid support of some kind - schools, enterprise contracts.

And it doesn’t FOSS the same way the software does because teaching people doesn’t copy for free. Software’s like a tune, those always spread almost on their own. User education is like learning to play an instrument, that’s just as hard now as it was a hundred years ago.

@nawanp @Linux_in_a_Bit

“Own their data” sounds interestingly nerdy - all the way down to the hardware on their bikes, or on a server they own ?cooperatively?, or what?

(Eta, oh, I see at least one hosting expert has already answered! Good stuff.)

@spencexyz