Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Like, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"

One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files

The worker-owned cooperative technology consultancy @hypha.coop has been a long-time supporter of DWebYVR initiatives and we would love to thank them again for helping us with #DWebCampCascadia 🎉🎉🎉 dwebyvr.org/thanking-cam...

Hypha Co-op + DWeb Local-First...

the Linux-compatible tax package I switched to is
https://www.mytaxexpress.com/index24.html

It's a desktop app, not an online service. I don't really want to share my tax data with online services and their backing US cloud-services providers. So works for me.

It's CRA-certified. A list of CRA-certified packages is at

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-income-tax/how-file/tax-software/find-software.html

Someone here pointed me to that tax software months ago, so thank you, forgotten Mastonaut.

I used Intuit TurboTax for several years, until 2024, when I went looking for, and found, a certified, very affordable, Linux-compatible tax package, produced by a Canadian small business.

Intuit noticed I didn't buy TT this year, and emailed me a survey to try to understand why.

Completing that was a LOT of fun. Repeatedly explaining that yes, I bought it 15x in a row, not buying it because they're a US company with shit data privacy, & nothing is getting me back.

#elbowsup #Linux #Canada

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose

Someone on the internet is wrong, but, I must not be pedantic. Pedantry is the mind-killer. Pedantry is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the pedantry has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Is there a Fediverse alternative to Meetup? They are definitely following the bait-and-switch plan where they let you get used to a lot of no-pay features, then start charging for them (what Doctorow calls "enshittification"). A number of groups I'm in use Meetup, but the rising costs have us all looking for other platforms.

Any suggestions?

So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away?

1. Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using):

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

2. Open the plugin and click the settings button.

3. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input:

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

That’s it! Worked flawlessly for me.

(Updated URL. Thx @IceWolf
and @emz!)

#Google #Privacy #Security #PopUps #InfoSec #BadGoogle

Most types of business exhibit linear growth. But VC will only fund exponential growth.

The result: companies that would create a lot of jobs and actually maintain their products never get funded and never start. If you must hire more to make more product, that's unacceptable linear growth.

We live in an exhausting VC hype machine because it's more profitable to repeatedly hype up and cash out of short-term exponential growth spurts than to build something real.

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I've come to believe there are basically two good architectures for apps: - Elm App Architecture: strict tree of state machines - Message bus: no direct parent-child relationships, everything connected via messages over one bus

It's just something that I've been playing with... Simplest version: - Components emit custom events for requests like "toggle sidebar" - Sidebar component listens on window for bubbled "toggle sidebar" events. Components don't need to know about each other, they just pub/sub custom events.