CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@k3ym0 What about the person with half a day of food storage and no relationships?

... asking for a frie... uhh, errm.. a person I know.

@tante I actually want people to tell me if they are using a bot to speak to me. That way I can just block them lol

@greenpeace thats a bit misleading, AFAIK trump is just returning the money that the French company paid for the lease of the area?

I mean, it doesn't make it any less stupid. But kind of changes *how* its stupid.

I guess the lesson is, the orange moron can't do anything but stupid shit. One way or another.

@TheBreadmonkey Finally remembered to find the quote:

"We dont need a hanful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly." - Anne Marie Bonneau

Also known as the Zero-Waste Chef. Apparently.

@rusty__shackleford @oldoldcojote @protonprivacy @semitones

My experience is literally 30min's of doing HTML 27 years ago and 1 hour lesson of "how to code" 30 years ago, taught by the local nerd who happened to know how to do the "hello world" lesson.

So I do have some catching up to do... lol

@rusty__shackleford @oldoldcojote @protonprivacy @semitones

Its pretty funny how much stuff I've learned in the past year alone, just because I wanted to completely get off the Mr. Corporate Death Machine. I switched to Debian, ditched Discord for IRC and like mad man decided Weechat would be the client to go to. I've been looking into self hosting all my silly bullshit. I'm getting tired of reddit and missing the good ol' mid 2000's forums, so I'm looking into that as well.

By the time I get off the medical and get a job, I'll hopefully have studied enough to start doing shit.

I'm thinking of going the low/old tech approach. Seems like a fun project to do. Buy a used PC, throw a linux and a few hard drives on it and set it up as a server. etc.

@oldoldcojote @rusty__shackleford @protonprivacy @semitones

Yup I don't disagree with any of that. I've degoogled myself pretty well. I do watch youtube every now and then through Revanced app. I'll buy a Jolla or some such phone as my next one, but my biggest issue is being dirt poor at the moment. Can't do any upgrades until the situation improves.

But other than degoogled android and youtube, I don't use google services.

@rusty__shackleford @protonprivacy @semitones
Since you have the skills, I look forward to your open source VPN, email service etc.

I also look forward to your initiatives that teach children about public private keys, identity verification, trust, & best practices.

@rusty__shackleford @protonprivacy @semitones

Sure. But cant do everything at once.

@rusty__shackleford @protonprivacy @semitones

Dont let perfection be the enemy of good.

Or something like that.

@rusty__shackleford @protonprivacy @semitones
Proton: "hey google is ignoring this issue, lets make them fix it"

You: "you are not 1000% perfect, Proton! Man up! Greedy fucks!"

@TheBreadmonkey I dont remember who said it but the quote stuck with me. It went something like

"we don't need a few people to be 100% vegan. We need a lot of people to be vegan a few days per week"

Obviously that extends to stuff like fighting climate change and injustices etc. We can't do all of the things all the time, but we can do some of the things every other day.

@mariafarrell Obviously this is horrible, evil and shit...

... but, I wonder if this sort of bullshittery just ends up splitting the internet. Normies consuming what google injects into their eyes and the others enjoying stuff like The Web Revival stuff.

After Discord started to make noises about the age verification stuff, I had enough, deleted my account, installed a IRC client, found a couple of nice servers and channels and I have been having a blast. There's so many people who do self hosting, have silly websites powered by solar panels that sometimes drop off because its cloudy, have stupid neocities websites with flame backgrounds and visitor counters. Wonderful stuff like that.

I've been thinking of building one of those early-mid 2000's forums. I miss those. I just need to learn how to do... everything.

For me, google can do whatever the fuck they want and the morons can follow them. I'll be in my little corner of the internet with people. Not in reddit with bots.