I deactivated Google Play on my phone. The electricity company app was the first to be bricked. 'You must update.'
I wrote to them: ’I don’t have Google or Apple. Where else can I update the app?’ Nowhere else, they replied.
I wrote (politely) back: ’I can’t use your app any more then. It’s an odd requirement to make of your customers. A Norlys customer can only access all Norlys services if they are also a customer of one of two specific private for-profit US companies.’
Did you know that most Android #XMPP apps also work as a #UnifiedPush distributor and thus can easily replace apps like #ntfy (recently became vibe-coded) for this? Find our tutorial here: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/unifiedpush/
It's International Women's Day, so when you see people zooming by on electric scooters, I remember Lady Norman and her autoped. She was a suffragist who insisted on being mobile without manly "protection" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Norman
(UPDATE: Yes, many men in the replies. The autoped used a combustion engine, I know. My post is however NOT about the autoped, it's about the woman standing on it. I know, that's really hard for some of you to deal with. :)
Once again, International Women's Day has fallen on the same day as the start of Daylight Saving Time, because for every day a man earns, a comparably-qualified woman only earns 23 hours.
#InternationalWomensDay #DaylightSavingTime
A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!
I found $20 in a parking lot, and I thought to myself, what would Jesus do?
So I turned it into wine.
Join us tomorrow (7 March) at 11 AM to listen to @contrapunctus talk about @OSMIndia - https://fossunited.org/c/fosshack/2026-builders-1
Every Saturday this month (March), we’ll be listening to builders from the Indian FOSS ecosystem as part of the @fossunited FOSS Hack 2026!
i swear like mainstream GenX and boomers don't understand that people actually like providing their time and services free of charge in order to help people and make them happy
there is an insane anti volunteer push in my area at the moment and its fucking weird
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