Robey ☠️ @robey@mastodon.technology

RT @franzanth@twitter.com
Did anyone say #NationalHatDay? I'm a firm believer that shelled cephalopods are actually squid with funky hats and you can't convince me otherwise.

frankly katherine the statement that you brought "free cupcakes" is misleading at best and malicious at worst. if i cannot readily access the recipe for your cupcakes then what you have is a plate of *gratis*, but not *libre*, cupcakes. would you call iOS "free software" because it comes with your phone? no, katherine. because you're better than that.

some Soviet new year postcards

here's a little tip from your friends over at birdsite: too lazy to accept user feedback! letting them *think* they sent it is good enough!

Hoy hace 6 años que murió Aaron Swartz por la presión del Gobierno de EEUU. Él solo quería y luchaba por hacer el internet más libre. #AaronSwartz

at this stage I really just don't have any patience for any of the arguments about whether or not adblocking is "ethical."
I'm going to block as many ads as I can. No, you can't stop me. No, if you try, I'll just leave and use some other website. No, it's not theft. No, I don't give a shit. Get off my lawn.

TOOLS OF UNUSUAL PRECISION

"SymbiFlow is a work-in-progress FOSS Verilog-to-Bitstream (end-to-end) FPGA synthesis flow, currently targeting Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40 and Lattice ECP5 FPGAs. Think of it as the GCC of FPGAs."

😯

https://symbiflow.github.io

Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson

by Justin Reynolds // Like his former teacher Ursula Le Guin, Robinson has never lost faith in our capacity to use our collective intelligence and technological prowess to transcend limiting orthodoxies.

https://newsocialist.org.uk/red-moon-red-earth/