Damnit. I’m using the FUTO swipe keyboard straight from their fdroid repo.

You know what?

Fuck that. As an open source dev, my solidarity is needed, and it isn’t lesser than the convenience their keyboard gives. It may be a small gesture, but it’s better than ignoring my principles.

BOOTY

Bye Felicia

And Clippy 2.0… I mean, Copilot

It really has. We’re so conditioned into accepting this abusive relationship where we can’t opt out of questionable stipulations during signups and purchases.

When I saw this earlier today, I almost just mindlessly consented without a 2nd thought. What stopped me was wondering:

• what shitty thing they got in trouble for
• if this a precursory legal maneuver because our user data has been compromised
• or if they are doing wholesale transactions with data brokerages, AI companies, law enforcement, etc.

I’m about ready to just leave the fucking job hunt and start my own business. Been at it since last May and have landed a total of 5 interviews.

Hello, would you be interested in an exciting career as a writer at Wall Street Journal?

• Edited: I forgot the image, and I also clarified that you can contact them to optout on the legal page I linked to.

Pre-coffee vibes

Nexus 5 with CopperheadOS . it was such a solid combo in terms of speed and lack of corporate bloatware. Oh, and the vibration mechanism needs to be brought back.

Kumquat

Because it’s fun to say

Considering how long this game has been out, that 100 hours gets stretched over a long time.

I hope the fury of a million meth-fueled fire ants set up a colony in this person’s urethra.

He said while sipping on his cup of covfefe…

I like how God decided to ragequit The Sims game he was playing.

I demand a primitive cave drawing. Otherwise, it didn’t happen

The kind of hard hitting journalism we need in these times…

Seriously, you beat me to it. All I know is that I’m not tangling with the Voodoo Boys.

start rant/

Ah yes, dansup, aka the Fediverse superstar who cranks out such hits as “VAGUE FEATURE is Coming Soon”, and “The rarely updated official app for Pixelfed/Loops is going to get updated soon!”. Both of those are from the album" I insist on gatekeeping outside developers from contributing".

I’ve interacted with him as a fellow developer of the same stack he uses, and I have always appreciated where his heart is at regarding the fedi. But, the track record of quality work suffers from chasing shiny objects, and absolute spaghetti code.

Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.

This SSO thing is the antithesis of decentralization and the spirit of digital sovereignty. Literally handing Google more user data for the sake of fedi adoption via SSO is mind boggling. How many people here left big tech because of the blatant surveillance state that’s been built?

I keep trying to support his work, but I’m killing my Pixelfed and Loops accounts.

/rant

Damn, this guy seems all about the healthy lifestyle.

Gaslighting. Pure And simple. Which, is and has always been, one of the most disgusting tactics an abuser deploys for self-serving reasons.

I fucking hate Medium almost as much as I hate the tech industry’s disregard to earning our consent through honesty.