Phil Rukin @phil@rukin.me

#Mastodon 2.8 is out 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

Today is a dark day for online freedoms and for all those laboring on a daily basis for the defense and promotion of a free, open, neutral and decentralized Internet. The European Parliament voted for generalization of automated filtering of uploads. #SaveYouInternet

Legendary Apollo project programmer Margaret Hamilton, next to a printout of the node_modules directory listing for her first Hello World react app

Sleeping.
Chrishallbeckstore.Com

"If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production."
- Peter Seeger

NewPipe is a really great app, we should use it more as an example of why FOSS puts users first and proprietary software doesn't

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ #rr

#Mastodon 2.7 is released 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/01/mastodon-2.7/

#Newpipe 0.14.2 can't play YouTube videos anymore. Downgrading to 0.14.1 seems to work for the moment. (Need to uninstall the latest version first.)

The problem is fixed upstream in version 0.15 which will be on fdroid in 1-2 days.

Just bought a stolen macbook from a flea market and found the original owner and we are returning it to them right now. My friend still needs a computer but at least someone didn’t lose all their data and school work and will probably have a little new found faith in humanity.

I can't believe @dansup did it. The absolute mad lad. @pixelfed federates!

Doom was released 25 years ago today. It was about 2.39 MB, the size of an average webpage today. News sites average closer to 8 MB.

Please shotgun the javascript demons and make more efficient & accessible websites.