mattbk @mattbk@mspsocial.net

This didn't suck as badly as I thought it would based on the title, but I've definitely read the kids better books about civil rights, etc

"I wanted a LORA/MESH small tool to communicate besides SIM CARD controlled networks. Something really free and capable of helping people in emergency situation or just helping people to communicated freely."

http://www.snaponair.com
#LORA #mesh

How ad-driven services without ads work:

"There are businesses, Cegłowski notes, that make money from advertising, like Yahoo and Gawker. But most businesses use advertising in a different way. Their revenue source is investor storytime:

Investor storytime is when someone pays you to tell them how rich they’ll get when you finally put ads on your site.

Pinterest is a site that runs on investor storytime. Most startups run on investor storytime.

(cont.)

Random thought:

If Harry was making weird shit happen as a kid before he ever got a wand or training, this means:
1) a wand was never essential to magic
2) magic is not a conventionalized thing; you can make nearly anything happen if you want it enough
3) if anything spells are a crutch at best and intentional limitation at worst to prevent people from doing things magic "can't" do
4) kids are naturally adept and boarding school is the PERFECT place to crush their creativity

#HarryPotter

I (a computer) drew a pixelly tree for you.

Annoyed that the 2M band is always dead in your town? Get your HT out this weekend and call CQ; Light up 2M night, this Saturday. Use your favorite information super highway search for more info.

https://gentle.town is a new, generalistic instance that is looking for friendly users willing to be part of a local-oriented community.

we run the lightweight masto fork Hometown that @darius mantains. hello, #mastoadmin and fediverse at large!

No one is saying M4All is more important than climate change, justice reform, citizens united etc. What we ARE saying is sick people cant get into the streets, sick people can’t unionize, sick parents can’t fight to live AND fight for their childrens´ futures. How do you organize when you’re on chemo, trying to keep your job, fighting medical bankruptcy, possibly while also raising a family?

Stripe will pay $1 million a year to take carbon out of the air — but will it work? https://prismo.xyz/posts/1a11aed8-7d64-4efa-93bd-8c78121ca0c0

I'm pleased to announce the v1.0.0 release of Hometown, my Mastodon fork! It's up to date with Mastodon v2.9.3, and unique features include:

- Local only posting
- Full support for rendering incoming `Article` posts from federated blogs like Write.As
- "Exclusive" lists that let you follow someone without clogging up your home timeline

For more info, including rationale for each new feature, check out our wiki:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki

And the release itself is here:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.0%2B2.9.3

Using open source libraries by your company without contributing back is not only useless, it's also terribly risky.

You see, the real advantage of open source is not that you get code for free, but that your developers become a part of a global community of experienced engineers, gain experience, familiarity with the tools and code, and influence in those projects.

Without that you are at the mercy of chance, with projects becoming abandoned, rewritten to support different use cases than yours, etc.

Since the issues of generational demographics and what all boomers have done comes up frequently on here, I recommend this piece, which argues that boomers did not create the 1960s but merely consumed them:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-misconception-about-baby-boomers-and-the-sixties

Interesting to me personally is that the article uses fairly precise cutoff dates for the generation: July 1946 through December 1964 - and then argues that that is a very broad cohort whose oldest and youngest members have little in common

@wigglytuffitout

New things! We just opened registration for a six-hour option on each day of the Halloween Double Feature. Check it out at https://endracing.com/double-feature. #extreme701 #turtleriverstatepark #NorthDakota