Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud

@erosdiscordia

I've talked before about being from a coal mining family.

Union miners.

I watched family get tear gassed at strikes when I was in second grade.

I remember clearly wondering why this conflict needed to be. "Bosses" became an evil thing to me... an unbearable thing.

That represented to me an evil power structure.

I was also beginning to experience bullying. I didn't have it as bad as other kids... I was a little bigger than most.

But I recognized later, that the bullying quickly ramped into fights for me. Not because I sought fights, but I refused to submit.

Why did I refuse to submit? Because deep down I knew that this was that hierarchy trying to place me.

I've really never stopped having that knee-jerk reaction to seek conflict with any rigidly organized structure.

It's hard to exist in the modern world with these emotions.

I think it's why I do what I do.

Just realised I apparently hadn’t blocked gab.com. Fixed.

extremely important museum plaque that addresses the language we use to talk about slavery in the american south. @OCRbot

5. There are few open source Android readers. However, I now intend to fork LibreraReader and fix it so that it has all the features I want (highlighting what text is being read, proper autoscroll, changing current sentence with touch)

After a week of trying every single TTS App I could find for Android, I come to the following conclusions:

gPodder.net is looking for a new maintainer!

If nobody comes forward by 2020, it'll be forced to shut down. Please boost to spread the word.

https://github.com/gpodder/mygpo/blob/master/maintainer-needed.md

Note that this is the podcast-sharing website: I'm not sure about the status of the app, but I think that's still doing fine.

#gPodder #podcasts #python #webdev #helpwanted

Forget slowly does its thing. Posts down from 4.4K to 2K and declining. I feel light in my Grundéns. Most important to me about keeping a light footprint is less electricity burning as a result.

By far the most common request I get is for alternatives to Google's Re-Captcha.

The situation is so unclear that I haven't done an alternatives section on the site.

Do you have suggestions for re-captcha alternatives?

(I know this has come up before, but the discussions are scattered across many threads which people are failing to find.)

#Google #Captcha #ReCaptcha #Alternatives #DeleteGoogle

Sinclair Lewis: When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes9/#quotenr4458

MetaFilter, the online community I run, is 20 years old today, which is just whaaaaaat when I really think about it.

I wrote up some thoughts about what the site means to me and what I want it to be.

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/25256/Happy-20th-Anniversary-MetaFilter

Dear #lazyweb, what's the largest #cgit instance you know, in terms of hosted #git repositories?

The standing champion is http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ , but I'm confident there are larger instances out there…

#lazyweb any great example of websites using prefers-reduced-motion?

Any recommendations for custom branded self-order type swag shops, in the style of Spreadshirt (https://www.spreadshirt.com/)?

Requirements:
* easy set up
* possibility to upload multiple designs
* buyers self-order from the shop
* print + shipping done by provider

Huge bonus for some kind of carbon offset scheme and/or environmentally friendly materials.

#lazyweb #swag #shops #promo

I went to brunch with my partner and her wife today. The restaurant was loud and busy.

The TV over the bar was set to ESPN. After a commercial break, there was a brief news segment.

Pictures from the camps were on screen for a moment. Then a bartender reached up and changed the channel.

I guess this is what it feels like to live under fascism.

I wonder if there was a moment in pre war Germany when some queer trans person was having breakfast in a restaurant, the radio started giving a news brief between music, and the bartender changed the station so he wouldn't have to hear about the camps.