Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I told you I was super serial...

But the flood that remained when it barely rained is not going to drain as soon as you close your eyes. NO!
And every time I scratch my pen to pay my city tax I hope you spend it. WHERE DID YOU SPEND IT?

Cuz I'm HERE to remind YOU
of the mess you left whenever it rains
It's not fair to deprive me,
of the kids I bred cuz the flood won't drain
YOU YOU YOU OUTGHTA KNOW

In honor of those of you dealing with Houston's infrastructure:

I want you to know, that school's out for you
I hope that you have, a raft or a boat

I know a normal city can handle when it's rainy
It won't go down on you in a river
It drains it elegantly, so you can get your baby
And prove you are a very excellent mother

@jeremiah Everybody's got a closed up kind of OS
Everybody's phone's a data mine
But It don't matter what you got, not a lot
Your data is all theirs, they'll have yours but I'll have mine
And with Librem I'll be fine

Cuz it takes
PureOS to move the world,
yes it does it takes
a free OS to move the world.

@jeremiah Now the world don't move to the beat of just one phone
What might be free to you, might not be free to some
A phone is born, RYF it seems,
hardware kill switch too, so no tracker in your jeans

And it's got
PureOS it takes
PureOS it takes
a free OS to move the world

@jeremiah I think I reference my own books more than anyone else--after all I know what's in them and where.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 It's been a decade since I last checked, maybe the price has gone down, but this included installation and my house is not big.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 Last time I quoted it here in California, panels alone were about $30-40k, I'm assuming another 10 for a proper lithium battery bank.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 Yes but $40k-$50k is a pretty big investment.

I just heard from my school district that because our local utility hasn't maintained their lines for years and have a policy now of cutting power if winds are high enough, that the school (and we by extension) have to prepare for county-wide outages lasting upwards of 3-5 days at a time!

My copy of the Snowden memoir, Permanent Record arrived! Can't wait to dig into this tonight!

@blacklight447 Thanks for the offer. If I write new pieces for a publication down the road, it will need to be one that compensates their writers. I believe strongly in that.

@kylejj I have another writing project that's taking my attention right now. Maybe once I finish that and take a break...

I'm really missing Linux Journal today. This RMS/FSF news would have had us editors working together to publish a well-thought-out story...

@n0btc@mastodon.radio Sounds like it would be possible if you set up a DNS server in the pihole server and pointed it to localhost.

@fribbledom I'll give you a (hopefully) safe example: the Oxford comma debate. As a pro writer of both books and mag articles I can tell you that there is no one "style" but instead a few high-level ones (AP/Chicago/MLA) + a "house" style a pub bases on one of those. I know each major + house style for my pubs and apply Oxford comma when it's house style and I don't when it's not. It's like MMA for grammar.

@abbluiz Funny you should say that... :)

@fribbledom Simplifying a dispute into only two sides allows those in power on each side to silence any critique and shut down attempts to bridge differences: "You are with us or else you are with our enemy."

I'm reading through many of my old (some a decade old) Linux Journal articles right now and I'm uncovering all of these really interesting and still-useful articles I had forgotten about.

Someone just referred to warrant canaries as a dead man's switch, so my brain went immediately to this. Apologies to Oingo Boingo:

I was struck by lightnin'
Walkin' down the street
I was served with warrants that I had to meet
It's a dead man's switch
Who could ask for more
Government is coming, leave canary at the door
Leave warrant canary at the door

Don't run away, it's canary
Don't be afraid of what you can't see
Don't run away, it's canary
Don't be afraid of what you can't see