SqueⒶky Pancakes @squeakypancakes@sunbeam.city

#latestagecapitalism

I know there's a lot of negativity right now about the Fediverse but I just want to say how much I appreciate that people here actually seem to talk about things that interest them and have genuine conversations and let themselves be vulnerable rather than trying to make every toot some kind of carefully engineered witticism or snarky comeback for popularity points

It's like a breath of fresh air to have a public forum where you can actually just, like, talk??

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one way that talking to retrocomputing enthusiasts is pretty cool is that it makes you think hard about the longterm survivability / adaptability of the current generation of hardware & software.

Meet your local gestapo, PDX edition:

Remember those kids in school who SSSSSHHH'd at other kids who were whispering but their shush was louder than the whispering?

they're all call centre managers now

A well-phrased short talk by @mako on free tools for free software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY

source: http://fakehistory.tumblr.com/post/174982805894

> German citizen sending his friend illegal memes (2018)

What a gem

#tokyocameraclub https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/media/4xHRTDF_ai4wt2Q6nTE

This has aged very poorly

You can now watch my #LibrePlanet keynote (edited w/ slides) about how firms and markets have coopted the free culture and free software movement's most powerful weapon (mass collaboration) and where that leaves us. https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/libreplanet-2018-keynote