Mike Trotz @mtrotz@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
Mike Trotz
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There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
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As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.
* Your full name
* Your full home address
* Your phone number
* Your e-mail
* Your government ID
* Your consumer report history
* The name of every family member
* The name of every friend
* The name of their family / friends
* Your marital status
* If you are faithful to your partner
* Your work history (all of it)
* Your education history (all of it)
* Your travel history (going back years)
* Your birth gender
* Your gender ID
* Your sexuality
* Your sexual preferences
* How often you're having sex
* Your partner's details (all the above)
* Your political ideology
* Your involvement with any group
* If you protest, we know
* If you're unhappy, we know
The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.
So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.
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I think man pages are awesome.
Mike Trotz
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#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬
Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:
➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing
➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation
➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing
➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects
➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration
➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing
➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos
➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)
@nixCraft The origenal X-Com
@vkc It is the anti-reading thing that has been developing for a while. There is a section of the population that doesn't do long-format reading, tl:dr, for anything more than three or four paragraphs. If a summary isn't readily available, AI can make one.
@vkc It is definitely the muscle memory thing for me. It is hard to let go of it sometimes, I still want to hit SHFT+F7, then 1 to print a document.
I had to head down the historical rabbit hole; Red Hat ran a version of CDE that was a bit different than the Unix versions until they switched to Gnome as the default
@nixCraft In the US, it is not important. Most high school graduates can barely read and write and lack math skills. The OS they use to watch YouTube has no bearing on fixing those problems.
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Totally scientific, flawless poll.
If you use Linux, pick your *only* desktop environment. You only get one option. There are no other options you can choose from in this poll. Yes I probably ignored your specific favorite but that's not the point. You only get one option and it's one of these. Do not comment with what you want to see, only select one of these. Only one- no other options. There are no other options in this poll for you to choose or tell me about.
Choose one (1):
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#Switch to #opensource solutions:
Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee
Mike Trotz
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Hey! You! With the computing device!
Good job this week.
@vkc I am having flashbacks to installing 100+ NE2000 compatable ISA NICS on Windows 95 machines. They had a RJ45 and a BNC connector, we used the RJ45, and I took all the T connectors for the BNC attached them together in the worst, crokedest but chromeiest snake ever.
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How many women are on Mastodon's team which builds moderation features?
Serious question. Boosts welcome.
Mike Trotz
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By age 30, you should be able to use whatever text editor or operating system you want and not get upset about those flamewars.
Mike Trotz
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[sighs, takes deep breath]
OK, on my recent critiques of Mastodon, lots of you are replying with "you're talking about *people* and not *the platform*".
As if the *platforms design* isn't influencing the way *people* can abuse us here.
This place is designed in a way that encourages abuse.
@nixCraft 20MB, MFM
@vkc, You Need to mark it as "non-altered" or something similar because you will upload the newer versions, too.
Joined Jun 2019
