Zatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

"Make [X] Great Again" is fascist rhetoric.

It implies that there was a Golden Age where [X] was Good, and that "We" should return to that age.

It's a slogan designed to evoke the "Myth of National Rebirth"(1) that is central to Fascism, while still being vague enough that any disagreement can be dismissed as "Against [X]".

It's a dogwhistle(2).

If you use it, you're either ignorant, naive or a fascist.

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This is me doing re- #introductions

Hello! I'm a programmer and a (new-ish) parent, I've been running this personal instance since time immemorial.

I talk mostly about tech, but I try to branch out into artsy stuff on my secondary account: @zatnosk

From time to time I get #crazyidea|s, and some of those ideas have been channeled into my #MastoGram and #MastoCity projects.

I do my best to be kind and understanding, and I'm not afraid of some emotional labor for friends :)

When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.

1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.

2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.

3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.

I just received a (-n unanswered) call from Poland.

Not anyone particular in Poland, just Poland in general.

It had the country code +48, but no phone number after that.

Should I call back to see what Poland wanted?

Fun fact:
Birthdays are zero-indexed. The day you were born is your 0th birthday.

I still think toots should be editable with visible/available history.

#SocialWeb

Free as in Bird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA

If/when I get around to building that integrated multi-instance mastodon client I've been thinking about for so long, I think I'm going to name it "Multidon".

That's a good name right?

#CrazyIdea #SocialWeb (I don't know which tags are relevant, but I'm likely to see this post again with those two tags)

Is #Ratatosk a good name for a fediverse server software? If so, I'm hereby claiming it.

#SocialWeb

Someone remind me to avoid nvidia next time I get a computer...

I found out why the thing kept locking up after the upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10.
Bugs in the nouveau open-source driver for nvidia cards. Yaaaaay.

I just want software that works. Is that really too much to ask?

Makes me want to switch back to windows.

Ffs, Ubuntu. I wanted to upgrade from 18.04 to 19.04, the updater wanted to upgrade me to 18.10 first, so I did that, and now whenever I start my computer, it more or less deadlocks after it loads the desktop. UI becomes extremely laggy or unresponsive, and the CPU is running 100%.

This time I only got it to run top, and then everything froze.... -.-

When/if I build my fediverse server, it's going to be opt-in federation instead of opt-out federation.

Default-public-everything is toxic.