Charlag @charlag@birb.site

MNT is restarting development of Spacedeck, a web-based realtime visual collaboration tool originally started by Martin Guether and me in 2011: https://spacedeck.com (now open-source software). The new version is now in early beta. You can ask me for the invite code if interested in beta testing the hosted version.

remember when microsoft was calling linux a cancer and promoting internet explorer over everything else, while macOS was advertising unix compatibility and openness

and now microsoft is integrating the linux kernel into windows and (slowly) open sourcing .NET while apple is creating proprietary filesystems and graphic APIs and everything elses and not only bundling and promoting safari, but requiring all iOS browsers to BE safari

don't get me wrong, both apple and microsoft are awful and have done, and continue to do, EXTREMELY anti-consumer shit, including fighting open source where possible, but like

wack

Announcing Smashtodon 2020!!!

To help keep folks entertained during the quarantine, I'm hosting a free fediverse-only online #SmashUltimate tournament next Saturday, 04/18/2020! Registration is open from now until Thursday, 04/16/2020

http://smash.gg/smashtodon

This will be a relatively casual tournament, with minimal item and stage bans. Final smashes will be turned off. Matches will be 3 stock, 1v1, best of 3, and will start with round robin pools leading into a double elimination bracket. Full rules are on the smash.gg page

Be aware that this is my first time using smash.gg and I have no earthly idea what I'm doing, so at least one technical fuckup is guaranteed or your money back. If anyone has experience with this site, please DM me! Help!!!

Please boost this post and use the #Smashtodon hashtag to spread the word!

support the troops*

*people who are forced to work minimum wage jobs during a pandemic

now my city district is creating temporary popup bikelanes for the #corona crisis.
now that traffic has gone down so much, it makes no sense to keep cyclists confined to the shitty, bumpy, narrow paths they have been forced to use.

and it's fascinating for me to see how many shitty routes I have been accepting and thinking that we deserve better - far in the future. how many "alternative routes" I have to avoid these very streets that are now being fixed.

#mastobikes

@anarchiv did you afterwards also think of this? https://youtu.be/GJ2jRABfkNI

Its hard work being this handsome

Then she takes a well earned rest in the sun.

#Mastodogs

New York City is offering three free meals a day, no questions asked, to anyone who shows up to a meal distribution hub. You can pick up at the meals at once and parents/guardians can pick up food for their children. Details:

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

Adults welcome as long as you show up during the time slot meant for adults.

Of course, with Boris in hospital, it's very important to have sympathy, despite your political leanings.

After all, he's an old rich white guy with like, 3 mistresses and possibly as many as 8 kids. Not to mention the leader of a political party who've been consistently underfunding the NHS for a decade so they can lie about how it doesn't work and then sell it to their rich friends.

So I absolutely have sympathy. I fully support all those doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who have to attend to that malicious bumbling oaf, despite everything he's done to bring this on himself.

I also have sympathy for all those people being declined medical care because they're "not serious enough" while some posh etonian boor takes up a hospital bed in an intensive care unit "just in case" he needs it.

thinking about when the smart and rational brain geniouses who run newspapers fired tons of writers and editors to "pivot to video" and then it turned out facebook was just lying about their numbers and nobody actually watched the videos