Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

The things you rent, end up owning you.

So Big Tech companies can't manage to make a simple protocol like messaging interoperable (FB owns 3, Google 6), but we are supposed to believe something complicated like the Metaverse will be different?

@yaelwrites I figure each person has their own limits and philosophy for what they want in their feed, and while federation means you can better match a moderator to your style, it's still going to be less perfect than if you (and perhaps your peers) had more direct control over curating your feed.

I tend to give people operating in good faith the benefit of the doubt (people have bad days etc), but I'm more likely to block folks obviously operating in bad faith.

@yaelwrites I think because the incentives on this platform are somewhat different (at least so far) there's at least a potential for things to be better.

My personal goal is to empower users with more moderation-like powers to control their own feed because I'm not convinced centralized moderation is scalable or even necessarily ethical to impose on administrators. It's not implemented yet, but the vision itself is here: https://source.puri.sm/liberty/host/smilodon/-/issues/6

@yaelwrites I think one measure of a good social network is a place where a person feels they can most be themselves.

Pick a random consumer device lying around your house and imagine someone coming across it after 70 years of neglect. Part of the device no longer works. Would they be able to fix it? https://puri.sm/posts/beyond-right-to-repair/

@yaelwrites Lock picking is fun. You might enjoy the Lockpicking Lawyer's Youtube channel as he talks through what he's feeling as he picks each lock, which gives you a good idea as to the technique.

Ok I think we are ready for tomorrow.

I fixed the timing but this is as clean as I dare to make it right now. It got wet in storage some time in the past and rust worked its way under the black paint and through part of a screw. The rest of the paint is very flaky. I removed as much surface rust as much as I dared.

Round 2. This time with a Gem portable adding machine from 1941 (I have the original box, receipt, and warranty card) that's rusty *and* has two digits out of time with the rest of the register.

Done! One reason I cleaned it is I smelled that "old appliance" smell and wanted to ensure the motor wasn't strained. I ran it with the cover off and saw flashes in the back. The mechanism disconnects the motor when it's not needed, and that makes it arc. I was smelling ozone!

Time to clean and oil (and this time not have to repair) a National Cash Register 11-EN electro-mechanical adding machine from the early 1950s.

Facebook's rebrand to Meta finally answers the long-standing question of whether Zuckerberg uses VI or Emacs.

@yaelwrites I force myself to read one book at a time but I do often have a stack underneath it. The only exception is taking breaks in the middle of a Durant volume. Currently I'm reading The Turn of The Screw to get in the Halloween spirit.

@joao Heh, if I wouldn't have to go through and blur out identifying details I could, but my video editing skills are pretty weak and I fear it'd take me forever to get it right.

I just sent and received calls between my SIP account and landline phone using my #Librem5 and the native Calls application, and it was pretty exciting.

The heavy rain revealed a leaky exhaust pipe for my tankless hot water heater right before my morning shower. A few rainy trips on the roof, a trip to the hardware store, and some soaked-through clothes later, and I finally got my hot shower.