Mark Shane Hayden @msh@coales.co

developer applies a hotfix in production

See this is why I bought a camera. I didn't even know birds did this!

They are great crested grebes. The other parent was cruising around looking for food.

#birbposting

What if Super Mario Bros 2 would have been released on the Atari 2600?

OK, this is a "boosts needed" post, please boost this if you see it. At least one organisation I'm involved in has a major problem in that it runs online and needs to be able to ballot members, and just about all the easy services for doing so aren't GDPR compliant.

Would anyone be interested in clubbing together to try and run a Euro-side, compliant server of CIVS or a similar e-voting system that could be used by community groups, activist orgs, and so on?

#democracy #cooperatives

The absence of @djsundog was felt all across the fediverse.

Tooters of all ages and genders found it difficult to find the right Sunday morning jam.

The pats of the hallowed blobs they send somehow weren't enlivening their friend sitting on the other side of the world.

Dark times.

The elephant, mascot of Mastodon, let out an sad, empty toot.

A toot of sorrow.
A cry of sorrow.

A toot that echoed through the timelines.

The toot federates on,
waiting for djsundog's return.

Looking for technical help online sounds like this:

“Folks, my shower drain is clogged up, how do I unclog it?”

“Why don’t you move to a house with a bathtub?”
“Try not to clog it up in the first place, duh”
“Why would you even need to take your showers at home?”
“Just take out the things that are clogging the drain, how difficult is that”
“If you can’t maintain a shower stall in good conditions, why do you even clean yourself?”

Hey so capitalism and fixing things and robot hoovers!

A fun thing about being a fixy sort of person is the stuff that rich people throw away or sell super-cheap. Rich people don't bother fixing things, they just throw the thing away and buy a new one, and half the time the thing is very easily repaired!

Which brings us to Roombas! They're great. They're for rich people. I've got two, and I'm a LONG way off being rich!

500 series Roombas are very cheap on Craigslist. Let's look inside one!

I would be more concerned about the extreme vulnerability of this terrible face recognition system but whatever
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RT @mattcarthy@twitter.com
So, I was wondering why the battery on my laptop was running down every time I left it at home.
Turns out the kids have been using my election leaflets to get through the facial recognition lock...
I’m not sure whether to be proud by the wit or concerned by the sneakiness?
https://twitter.com/mattcarthy/status/1120641557886058496

Let me out of the bottle 😂 @msh

@KitRedgrave not sure if you've seen this, but for web applications this is a cool sorta tool which I'd recommend to anyone

https://khan.github.io/tota11y/