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"Look what we’re left with—no walled gardens. Just guard towers and searchlights and snarling dogs keeping us at bay."
"Personal websites matter - now, more than ever - because we can see, clearly, with our own eyes, what happens when a handful of companies control and own the medium and the message. " "I want a world where musicians don't have to tailor their music to the 5-second attention span of a million swiping doomscrollers and can instead rely on the support of an audience who care enough not to sleepwalk their way through the Internet."

"My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time..."

"In 2018, I created the "Move Purposefully and Fix Things" sticker to help counter the "Move Fast And Break Things" mentality of Silicon Valley."

"Privacy is intrinsically intertwined with politics. Each change in governance can have serious effects on privacy rights and privacy tools, for better or for worse. Let's examine with concrete examples how politics affect legislations that can have an immense impact on the privacy tools and features we use."

"Play The Oregon Trail game online, in a web browser."

MC <= 1.16 uses Java 8
MC 1.17 - 1.20.4 uses Java 17 MC >= 1.20.5 uses Java 21

Fedora is deprecating the in-house packages for older JDKs with Fedora 42 and, starting with 39, making it easy to install the Temurin repository which focuses on Java and maintains builds for Fedora.

"For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We made it easier to file taxes, get veterans' benefits, and apply for financial aid. During times of crisis, we helped refugees navigate immigration processes, helped everyone find vaccines, and helped parents find baby formula."
"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you."

"I replaced Mastodon's native post embeds with lightweight HTML and CSS snippets that are faster to load, more resilient to outages, and support dark mode -- and I had fun doing it. "