Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

The way people in school security talk about school shooting security measures is absolutely haunting and surreal.

"In the society that we are living in today, it's no longer [just] law enforcement; everyone plays a key part in this."

"I always tell them, 'I need more time than an hour.' I need to be able to teach these teachers how can you barricade yourself in a room if you have to." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/uvalde-shooting-puts-school-security-in-the-spotlight/ar-AAXOGbs

What the fuck. What the fuck. This is the talk of someone living in a war zone. And they just... accept that?? The way they talk about this like it's something to take in stride creeps me out. They do know it's not normal, right? Or are they so deceived about the state of the world (I'm reminded of USians confidently asserting that countries with "socialized healthcare" are utter hellholes) that they think this is just how things work everywhere? The amount of cruelty and violence these people have learned to accept is mind-numbing. I can't help but compare them to indoctrinated North Koreans, except many North Koreans aren't this naive and know better things are possible.

One single type of payment terminal (the Verifone H5000), a rather old platform, officially announced End of Life 2018 with some sort of support until 2023, brought down big parts of card payment all over Germany as one of the embedded certificates expired unnoticed on Tuesday.

We have 3X as much COVID on this Memorial Day weekend as last year and people don't give a shit anymore. This will hurt the most vulnerable people, like the chronically ill, kids and the elderly.

Please be considerate and protect yourself and others by wearing a well-fitting N95 (or better) mask.

Good morning. ☕️ Here to confirm that aging sucks, and you should avoid it if at all possible.

One overlooked #mastodon feature I enjoy is knowing that reading a toot or opening an image isn't contributing to some advertising algorithm's dataset on me and my purchasing preferences.

Is redirecting all Go-related traffic through a proxy, presumably with the added benefit of being able to inspect it, Go-ogling?

https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourcehut.html

Years ago, I set up an account that auto-tweets the same 25ish funny Sun Tzu quotes I made up every few hours. Incredibly, this thing has amassed over 14000 followers. People are weird.

Hi fediverse! Boosts appreciated on this one.

I’m part of a co-op building a platform for artists to sell art without getting exploited. I’ve been working on it for a while but there’s a lot of work to do and I could use some help. A ton of the main features are in place, but there’s still some big gaps and a lot of polish left before it can launch.

The platform is fully open source and developed in the open. It’s built on Phoenix/Elixir and Tailwindcss. Our co-op is already incorporated and established and it’s open to members that want to actually commit but you don’t need to be a member to contribute or help.

Does this sound interesting? I’d love some help! I’m also happy to answer questions. And no, you don’t need to know Elixir already. It’s pretty easy to learn for the things you’d be using it for. Even some design help would be welcome. Feel free to reply here or DM me!

#noxp

Hey folks working on #Fediverse projects like #Mastodon, #PixelFed, #WriteAs: I'm a writer who's spent 20 years writing blog posts, documentation, product copy, social media, and a little UX writing for a variety of orgs large and small.

Recent work involves the Bear notes app, previously: 1Password.

I can't contribute as a dev, but I can definitely help write, edit, or just polish your user-facing comms.

Can anyone help get this in front of relevant folks? Or point out how I can reach them?

Yes, it is that easy: