If you'd like to see location tagging in Mastodon (e.g. I'd love to have it for my photo posts), plz give this issue a thumbs-up: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/281

Meanwhile in India: http://m.dw.com/en/28-million-apply-for-90000-jobs-with-indias-railway-company/a-43203142

This is why I love Arch Linux:

Feb 23: IBM releases a great new open-source font called Plex.
Feb 26: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ibm-plex-fonts

Same procedure as every year: http://shouldipanicsell.com

Anyone knows if it's possible to hide or change the "owner" etc. labels shown next to users' names in GitHub comment headers? I think it sends the wrong message when an org owner is shown as repo owner of a repo that is actually owned/managed by a community member.

Kind of in the mood for using floppy diskettes now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNiuassKZvA

Hey Mozilla, how about you switch your employees' email, calendars, chats, and whatever else from Google and other proprietary, privacy-invading services to self-hosted OSS products first, and *then* send me emails asking me to sign some anti-Facebook petition?

It boggles my mind that so many blockchain/DLT advocates publish blog posts on Medium and use Twitter over Mastodon. You can always do both, but why not do decentralized Web first and sync to central silos second?

Huh, I had totally missed that Wire pivoted from personal messaging to business team chat platform: https://wire.com/

The timing of this concerted anti-Facebook campaign is rather interesting. FB recently changed the timeline algos to contain much more actual social content from friends and family, and I see hardly any propagandistic political links anymore. Twitter otoh is worse than ever.

If you tried to switch to Mastodon in the past, but found yourself lost in the fediverse, here's a great writeup for you: https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again?zd=1&zi=uiatp7...

GitHub wants you to: "Write to EU policymakers [...] and ask them to exclude “software repositories” from Article 13." https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/

How about protesting all upload filters, period? You don't care about freedom and privacy, you only care about your bottom line here.

Would anyone find it terribly weird for remoteStorage to allow "If-None-Match" headers on PUTs, and returning 304 Not Modified in case the document already exists with that ETag? HTTP specs only mention it for GET and HEAD requests.

And there goes all post Jay-Z hope for South Africa: http://www.hinnews.com/za/national-news/we-will-print-more-money-and-give-it-to-the-unemployed-to-en...

Here's an easy and completely free way to make your (un)conference more inclusive, as well as better for the environment: have people pay for their t-shirts. If you want *great* shirts that people will actually wear, you can then also charge the proper price for those.

CW: #cycling

Just realized that the UCI mountain bike (xco) world cup is happening around me in Stellenbosch this weekend. Already saw a national champ wizz past the coffee shop, and a BMC team van just pulled out of a parking lot on the other side.

http://worldcupstellenbosch.com/

Fun fact: btcd mainnet + btcd testnet + lnd testnet + ltcd mainnet + bitcoind mainnet = 419 GB current disk usage.

Vodafone and Nokia are going to set up a mini 4G network on the moon next year, to facilitate communication between autonomous vehicles. And if things work out, we'll get an HD video live stream from the moon: https://newatlas.com/vodafone-nokia-moon-4g/53591/

Good news for pair programming: GitHub now supports adding co-authors to Git commits. https://blog.github.com/2018-01-29-commit-together-with-co-authors/ 👏

The spider app on my main phone is getting a bit out of hand. However, I can't seem to find a decent new phone that's explicitly supported by LineageOS. Any tips?