I found an Imagewriter II on a curb the other day with a "FREE" sign. It's in the back of my car. I haven't told my wife about it yet. I have so many half-baked art project ideas for it...
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Ian McKellar
@ian@mckellar.social
mastodon 4.5.18Hacker, dad, husband, musician. Grew up in Australia, living in Alameda, California.
Working on Fuchsia at Google. Preciously worked on: Google WiFi, Google Glass, Rdio, Songbird, Flock, Eazel.
I like making Free Software, gadgets, music, good trouble and future freedom fighters.
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The joke's on Trump. Australia mostly exports iron ore and bauxite rather than steel and aluminium because we're terrible at having value-added industries and like to just export our raw dirt some someone else can make all of the big profit.
Democrats are refusing to clap for Trump. Meanwhile in Serbia they have a real opposition: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/serbian-mps-set-off-flares-and-smoke-grenades-inside-parliament
This makes me feel patriotic, but for a country I haven't lived in since I was a child: https://youtu.be/XKhE3EEZ4D8
As an ally I'm doubling down on mansplaining to trans women.
@peternlewis@mastodon.social @paddington@mastodon.social I was supposed to need an interview to be able to skip all of the lines (TSA PreCheck / Global Entry), but a couple of days ago I just got approved. I assume as a cost cutting measure they're lowering the bar for skipping the normal security measures.
Trump applies the same rules to the Russia/Ukraine conflict that every administration has applied to the Israel/Palestine conflict and everyone loses their mind.
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@jschuh @Popehat @mmasnick @nilay_patel
What I don't understand is why the PR team & lawyers haven't had a set of answers cooked up for this question literally years ago. This is an obvious question that any half good journalist will ask anyone launching a new publishing / social media company.
People who say Kilmar Abrego Garcia is innocent until proven guilty but don't think KSM is innocent until proven guilty (even though we've imprisoned him for more than 20 years and still haven't found enough evidence to bring him to trial) kind of disgust me.
So if Trump is taxing mobile phones, computers and computer accessories at vastly lower rates than other electronics, is anything with a CPU going to be classified as a computer and anything with USB or HDMI ports going to be classified as an accessory?
@alexr@mastodon.online @ceejbot@toot.cat I'd generally suggest against unpacking tarballs in the root of production (for sufficiently homelab values of "production") systems. Not that I've never done it...
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@kewms @jschuh @Popehat @mmasnick @nilay_patel
The problem for an American company is that overt racism is not only the editorial line of major mainstream media organizations, but also the platform of one of the two major parties. By saying "we're not going to be the Nazi bar" you're limiting your audience and revenue drastically. They don't want to have to make that call. Unfortunately for them, they've chosen a business where they have to make that call.