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Time for an . I've been involved in and since the late `90s. My career started as a sysadmin, pivoting to security. I'm the President of @purism and work on hardware and software to protect , and freedom.

I've written a number of books (kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.

I have many hobbies including , refurbishing mechanical , , , and many other things.

Is it weird that I don't know how to knit, but I want a machine (like a Brother KX-350, but a KH-930e would be cool too)?

How to do threads... 

@shawnp0wers And in the case of librem.one we even take it a step further and disable timelines so you only see content you explicitly opt into, and DMs because they aren't private. It's a pretty controversial stance in this community and you definitely trade off some positive benefits to avoid the negative. I guess in our case folks who don't care for our approach have plenty of alternative instances they can join.

@shawnp0wers There are certainly a number of features that are intentionally missing because even though they can have a legitimate positive use, the feeling is that the risk and likelihood of negative use is higher. Same goes for instantly viewing # of likes/boosts on a post in the timeline. It is considered to encourage negative social behavior.

Hi and welcome! 👋

I'm Gina aka foosel. I'm a nerd, full-time open source maintainer and creator of OctoPrint ("the snappy web interface for your 3d printer"), and in my free time I also happen to game (video games and boardgames), bake bread (since before the pandemic even!) or go bouldering.

@crashbox @shawnp0wers I like them quite a bit. The charging speeds are particularly nice on both the ones I have--the Delta can pull a kW to charge at times which was handy when I had to recharge it at a campground bathroom! I don't know what that does to longevity though.

Tomorrow 11/2 at 11:30AM EDT: I'm joining a panel of experts in DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) for some lively discussion around and frontiersdigitaldevforum.com/a

I have been using the curaslicer plugin in for years, making small tweaks when I moved to new printers. I just tried and saw a significant improvement in print quality just with the default Ender 5 profile.

@shawnp0wers "Superfluous Aesthetic Frivolity" is the name of my polka band!

A tip for those who haven't seen this yet. has its own "" system. Adding a link to your Mastodon profile from your website using the rel="me" attribute will that the owner of both the site and profile are the same, and you get this nifty green highlight to show it.

@shawnp0wers All of my DR plans essentially center on my camper van, and I try to pick tech for it that is easily adaptable to home-based disasters (earthquakes, extended power outages) for maximum flexibility, which is why when I could have invested in new fancy BattleBorn house batteries for the van, I opted for removable Ecoflows instead.

@josh It also means it's time to go outside and check for all the non-waterproof stuff I mistakenly left out there.

@shawnp0wers One thing I discovered, however, is that my Ecoflow Delta doesn't show up as properly grounded to my UPS, while my Ecoflow River does, so the UPS complains about the power source if I use the Delta.

@shawnp0wers Yeah home storage is the first thing that got a battery backup. My plan for extended outages is to re-purpose one of the "solar generators" from my van and plug the battery backup into it, then recharge it periodically (if power continues to go out) via a generator.

@shawnp0wers Yeah events like that are useful specifically because they point out gaps like that. In my case we have an external tube speaker for the TV that doesn't automatically power back on.

@shawnp0wers Same here, and one of the reasons I used nagios for so long too. Reliability counts for a lot more than a fancy interface, especially after I've already climbed the learning curve.

I saw this graph on HN and people are arguing about how they’ll need to get more familiar with low-level asm again. That’s not really the lesson I take. Seems like the real lesson is: get better at writing multi-threaded tasks and outsourcing work to other machines.

Btw. on #Mastodon you can edit your posts and as it is #FreeSoftware everyone can do that, no matter from which country.

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