Jason Self jxself@identi.ca

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology is a good word to refer antivaxxers and the likes to, thanks @digit@joindiaspora.com
just like tobacco industry developed and learned much of the science of dispelling truths and instilling lies, a textbook case for the science named agnotology, others have come to exploit for profit such techniques to get people to doubt actual science over rumors, at their own peril.  the technique is developed to the point that believers in the contradictory claims become blind to the contradictions, and believe it's those who can see the contradictions are the actual victims of manipulation, rather than themselves

.oO friend says he's learning to program in rust
I wonder, is the proper response "rust in peace"?

yay, third covid-19 shot scheduled!  32-day countdown initiated

.oO crypto, from greek kryptós, means hidden, e.g. cryptography, hidden writing.  now consider crypto money: transactions go in a public ledger: opposite of hidden.  it's only crypto money when you lose the key to the wallet, then it's more like kryptonite

.oO let's celebrate the 10th anniversary of #Freesh, the .deb distribution of #GNU #Linux-libre for multiple architectures maintained by Jason Self.  please join me in thanking Jason for his tireless work for Free Software

#GNU #Linux-libre 5.9-gnu sources and updated cleaning up scripts (changed from 5.9-rc8-gnu) are now available
#Freed-ora 5.9-rc8-gnu rpms for f34 are available for testing, and 5.8.13-gnu ones for f3[123] are available as stable updates

happy original software freedom day!
on this day, 37 years ago, Richard Stallman launched the Free Software Movement, and the GNU Project, to build a user-freedom-respecting operating system, so that all users could do their computing in freedom

.oO Dec 25 is upon us; have you been a good, solidary and ethical person? may you be inspired by the good old long-bearded man who travels around the world bringing us all the gift that won't stop giving, and become a Santa IGNUcius yourself! merry freedom, and happy GNU year!
(modified version of picture by Krassotkin, both CC0)

.oO as for black friday, visit gnu.org/distros and get 100% off on the 100% free distros listed there now.  offer available until black friday any other year.  as a bonus, you get the freedom touch, that enables you to extend freedom to all your loved ones

.oO interrupting use of fitbit stuff after google bought it, because you don't trust google, is clever, just not as clever as realizing that all your data needlessly gathered by fitbit could be bought by an untrusted corp at any time.  think and learn!

Sé que es un chiste muy de nicho, pero es tan bueno y me ha hecho tanta gracia, que tenía que compartirlo. 😂😂😂

time for you to get a fake third hand to leave sitting idle next to the cat and see how she reacts when she sees it while you pet her with both real hands :-)

.oO should we start creating pages with Javascript that replaces the page text with just the message "please block Javascript by default to view this and other pages, it's just good practice"?

#GNU #Linux-libre 5.1-gnu source tarballs and patches are now available

» Stephen Michael Kellat:

“[...] I don't think having POTUS go nuts would be good for anybody. [...]”

Does that mean the clown is not already nuts? 😂

LOL, Google's autocomplete is obviously programmed NOT to include "bitch" in some circumstances (all perhaps?) so searching for Sheldon's gravity quote from Big Bang Theory, autocomplete does "gravity thou art a heartless" but NOTHING further...