Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@gardiner_bryant Based on what I know of royalties, purchasing physical media (along with attending shows and buying merch) is a much better way to support artists (and authors btw) than streaming or digital media.

You would think the extra costs behind physical media would result in lower royalties to creators but at least in my experience the opposite is true.

The Brewer's Advent calendar from Costco is a personal treat every holiday season. Each day there's a new obscure German beer I can't find locally. 23 more days of this! #beer #advent

My 3D printer has been busy making things small enough to fit in my son's advent calendar. For starters I went with tiny articulated snakes. #3dprinting

@yaelwrites @sbourne I keep meaning to pitch when I see CfP and then it slips my mind! I have enjoyed it when I was there.

@yaelwrites @sbourne I've felt that way in the past too. These days I just try my best to accept generosity when it comes my way, and use it as motivation/inspiration to up my own generosity game.

@roland @purism Our UTM codes are only so we know which *platform* incoming traffic comes from (like referral links in web server logs). If you inspect them you can see there are no random strings or attempts to identify/track individuals.

@Texou @purism I agree that accessibility still needs a lot of work on free software, especially on mobile. It is something we think is important and want to continue to improve as we can!

@Wildbill @socallinuxexpo I guess it will depend on what talk (if any) they accept! Maybe after last year they are (rightly) concerned about explosions.

Whew, just under the radar but I managed to submit my @socallinuxexpo talks. If you are procrastinating like I did, you only have until TOMORROW to get your talks in! #SCALE20x

And when Cindy-Lou Toot went to bed with her cup,
He went to his instance and fired it back up!
Then the last thing he did was make his follows higher
By just spawning a bunch of new bots, the old liar.
On his timelines were nothing but memes, trolls and fire.
And the one speck of kindness he left in a post,
Was a compliment shortly preceding a roast.

@yaelwrites Some folks have difficulty figuring out how to accept generosity. I imagine it is more that than a flaw in your generosity.

"Why, my sweet little mod," the rich billionaire lied,
"There's a bug in my instance and hackers inside."
"So I'm taking it down for some upgrades, my dear."
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."
And his fib fooled the mod. The she shook her mod head,
And he turned off his instance, and she went to bed.

The Grinch had been caught by this tiny Toot daughter,
Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at the Grinch and said, "New instance, why,"
"Why are you tainting our nice timeline? WHY?"
But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick,
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!

@matthew_d_green It starts out being true because the upstart has to be competitive with alternatives. Once they get market dominance they can use network effects and lock in to maintain it, so less urgency to improve the product/service. This is when you start to see new features/UI revamps that no one asked for and everyone dislikes.

With decentralized systems and open protocols ppl can easily switch to competition and do. With free software they can even undo/fork anti-features.