Weldon @weldon@librem.one

by the way, if you put your mastodon instance in authorized fetch mode, twitter's filter can't recognize it.

between the very legitimate security benefits, and breaking twitter, you should enable it today 🙃

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

The modern programmer's keyboard.

So it's official, it seems:

Musk is now the new owner of Twitter and immediately fires a bunch of executives.

In slightly related news: Welcome to the Fediverse, everyone who made it here in recent hours!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-completes-44-bln-acquisition-twitter-2022-10-28/

I'm giving an online talk for the Calgary RASC chapter (amateur astronomy group) on Thursday about satellite pollution that's happening in our skies right now. It's open to the public, so if it works out in your time zone and you're interested, come listen!

https://www.meetup.com/the-calgary-astronomy-meetup-group/events/286966272/

I worked at a company that had NVIDIA chips in the motherboards being produced.

You don't understand. The NVIDIA guy would show up with a locked briefcase. He would go into a lab that only 4 people had access to. He'd flash some ROMS, and then disappear.

If you'd asked me 2 hours ago whether NVIDIA would *ever* release an open source driver, I'd have bet any sum of money against it.

Happy to be wrong.

Hello. I am Marc.
I teach English at Toyo University, Tokyo. Views are mine, not my employer's.
I research listening. I am pre-candidature in my PhD with TU Dortmund. I research L2 listening in multimodal contexts.
I like ridiculous snacks, wandering, the colour green, techno, indie rock, backpack hip hop, and loads of other stuff. Pangolins, yes, I love them.
I am ADHD and this will be reflected in my tangents.