Allen Shull :metroid:
@allenshull.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Teaching English at a branch of a branch of a state university in rural America.
I’m just this guy, you know?
BookWyrm: @Allenshull
[bridged from https://mstdn.social/@allenshull on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
I’m just this guy, you know?
BookWyrm: @Allenshull
[bridged from https://mstdn.social/@allenshull on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
I love my new steamdeck, but boy the desktop mode shows me that having a dedicated hardware with a custom tailored version of Linux still stinks. Like not recognizing clicks and the WiFi drops out and everything freezes level of “stinks.”
December 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I love my new steamdeck, but boy the desktop mode shows me that having a dedicated hardware with a custom tailored version of Linux still stinks. Like not recognizing clicks and the WiFi drops out and everything freezes level of “stinks.”
I had this dinosaur star on a T-shirt back in the day. Loved that shirt. Got compliments on that shirt from a guy who didn’t know what Mozilla was BUT was wearing an Andre OBEY shirt.
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115731969036272681
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115731969036272681
jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image It has come to my attention that the artwork for the original mozilla.org "dinosaur" logo is not widely available online. So, here it is. As I explained in some detail in my 2016 article "They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo", I commissioned this artwork from Shepard Fairey to use as the branding of the newly-founded mozilla.org and our open source release of the Netscape source code, which eventually became Firefox. This happened in March 1998... https://jwz.org/b/yk0j
mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I had this dinosaur star on a T-shirt back in the day. Loved that shirt. Got compliments on that shirt from a guy who didn’t know what Mozilla was BUT was wearing an Andre OBEY shirt.
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115731969036272681
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115731969036272681
Between Pluribus and Star Trek: Khan, there’s a lot of stuff going on with hive minds right now. Very different in tone than the Borg (1989+).
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Between Pluribus and Star Trek: Khan, there’s a lot of stuff going on with hive minds right now. Very different in tone than the Borg (1989+).
Caffeine keeps me awake, but tea is too weak for us, so we have now discovered CHICORY, and it’s delicious with a BLACK AND STRONG flavor.
Highly recommended!
Highly recommended!
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Caffeine keeps me awake, but tea is too weak for us, so we have now discovered CHICORY, and it’s delicious with a BLACK AND STRONG flavor.
Highly recommended!
Highly recommended!
Immediately every other city in TN and the STATE ITSELF passed laws to ban this.
Later, courts held that the FCC has no authority to stop states from doing this against their own cities. Chattanooga is just grandfathered in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._FCC […]
Later, courts held that the FCC has no authority to stop states from doing this against their own cities. Chattanooga is just grandfathered in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._FCC […]
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mstdn.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Immediately every other city in TN and the STATE ITSELF passed laws to ban this.
Later, courts held that the FCC has no authority to stop states from doing this against their own cities. Chattanooga is just grandfathered in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._FCC […]
Later, courts held that the FCC has no authority to stop states from doing this against their own cities. Chattanooga is just grandfathered in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._FCC […]
Reposted by Allen Shull :metroid:
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
iOS 26 Reserved Auto-Update Space: the reason why my phone periodically seems too full to even update the apps I’ve installed.
Congrats, Apple, you made me turn off OS auto-updates and auto-downloading.
Congrats, Apple, you made me turn off OS auto-updates and auto-downloading.
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
iOS 26 Reserved Auto-Update Space: the reason why my phone periodically seems too full to even update the apps I’ve installed.
Congrats, Apple, you made me turn off OS auto-updates and auto-downloading.
Congrats, Apple, you made me turn off OS auto-updates and auto-downloading.
macOS Tahoe has almost completely ruined the typography palette, which is sad because it was SO IMPROVED in Sequoia, as @nickheer noted last year: https://c.im/@nickheer/112111864231807304
#macostahoe #typography #AlanDye
#macostahoe #typography #AlanDye
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
macOS Tahoe has almost completely ruined the typography palette, which is sad because it was SO IMPROVED in Sequoia, as @nickheer noted last year: https://c.im/@nickheer/112111864231807304
#macostahoe #typography #AlanDye
#macostahoe #typography #AlanDye
I offhandedly talked about iTunes the other day, and my son, 13, asked me what that was.
Yeah, that happened SIX YEARS AGO.
Yeah, that happened SIX YEARS AGO.
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I offhandedly talked about iTunes the other day, and my son, 13, asked me what that was.
Yeah, that happened SIX YEARS AGO.
Yeah, that happened SIX YEARS AGO.
My 2025 #applemusicreplay:
Top 5 Artists:
1 Aphex Twin
2 The Raincoats
3 George Harrison
4 Boards of Canada
5 John Lennon
Top 5 Albums:
1 Music From the Merch Desk (AFX)
2 All Things Must Pass (Harrison)
3 The Raincoats (Raincoats)
4 Moving (Raincoats)
5 Odyshape (Raincoats)
Top 5 Songs:
1 No […]
Top 5 Artists:
1 Aphex Twin
2 The Raincoats
3 George Harrison
4 Boards of Canada
5 John Lennon
Top 5 Albums:
1 Music From the Merch Desk (AFX)
2 All Things Must Pass (Harrison)
3 The Raincoats (Raincoats)
4 Moving (Raincoats)
5 Odyshape (Raincoats)
Top 5 Songs:
1 No […]
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mstdn.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My 2025 #applemusicreplay:
Top 5 Artists:
1 Aphex Twin
2 The Raincoats
3 George Harrison
4 Boards of Canada
5 John Lennon
Top 5 Albums:
1 Music From the Merch Desk (AFX)
2 All Things Must Pass (Harrison)
3 The Raincoats (Raincoats)
4 Moving (Raincoats)
5 Odyshape (Raincoats)
Top 5 Songs:
1 No […]
Top 5 Artists:
1 Aphex Twin
2 The Raincoats
3 George Harrison
4 Boards of Canada
5 John Lennon
Top 5 Albums:
1 Music From the Merch Desk (AFX)
2 All Things Must Pass (Harrison)
3 The Raincoats (Raincoats)
4 Moving (Raincoats)
5 Odyshape (Raincoats)
Top 5 Songs:
1 No […]
Aside from the virtue and usefulness of Roselli’s whole piece I’m retooting, this is a fantastic piece of writing:
“*This* is why we keep working at accessibility. To shrink those cases. To move halfway to the wall, over and over, until we cannot slide a sheet of paper between our nose and the […]
“*This* is why we keep working at accessibility. To shrink those cases. To move halfway to the wall, over and over, until we cannot slide a sheet of paper between our nose and the […]
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mstdn.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Aside from the virtue and usefulness of Roselli’s whole piece I’m retooting, this is a fantastic piece of writing:
“*This* is why we keep working at accessibility. To shrink those cases. To move halfway to the wall, over and over, until we cannot slide a sheet of paper between our nose and the […]
“*This* is why we keep working at accessibility. To shrink those cases. To move halfway to the wall, over and over, until we cannot slide a sheet of paper between our nose and the […]
Looking at a new #FOSS app:
Me: Wow! This looks great! Is there a Mac version? I mean, Mac runs on BSD, right?
FOSS: Wake up, sheeple. Get a real computer.
Also FOSS: (Of course here’s a Windows binary.)
(Note: generally this does not apply to command line programs)
Me: Wow! This looks great! Is there a Mac version? I mean, Mac runs on BSD, right?
FOSS: Wake up, sheeple. Get a real computer.
Also FOSS: (Of course here’s a Windows binary.)
(Note: generally this does not apply to command line programs)
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Looking at a new #FOSS app:
Me: Wow! This looks great! Is there a Mac version? I mean, Mac runs on BSD, right?
FOSS: Wake up, sheeple. Get a real computer.
Also FOSS: (Of course here’s a Windows binary.)
(Note: generally this does not apply to command line programs)
Me: Wow! This looks great! Is there a Mac version? I mean, Mac runs on BSD, right?
FOSS: Wake up, sheeple. Get a real computer.
Also FOSS: (Of course here’s a Windows binary.)
(Note: generally this does not apply to command line programs)
It seems that Elon is talking more about #iainbanks in interviews lately. Is he doing a reread? Is he getting to the parts where people with power do actually intervene to help people out instead of just talking?
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It seems that Elon is talking more about #iainbanks in interviews lately. Is he doing a reread? Is he getting to the parts where people with power do actually intervene to help people out instead of just talking?
“I had no motives of choice to regulate my voyage; it was sufficient for me that, wherever I wandered, I should see a country which I had not seen before.”
#page42
#page42
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“I had no motives of choice to regulate my voyage; it was sufficient for me that, wherever I wandered, I should see a country which I had not seen before.”
#page42
#page42
The Tahoe corespotlightd issues are real and terrible.
The fact that I’m using Pages and Numbers, apps that still haven’t been updated, doesn’t help.
The fact that I’m using Pages and Numbers, apps that still haven’t been updated, doesn’t help.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Tahoe corespotlightd issues are real and terrible.
The fact that I’m using Pages and Numbers, apps that still haven’t been updated, doesn’t help.
The fact that I’m using Pages and Numbers, apps that still haven’t been updated, doesn’t help.
A minor takeaway from the latest emails:
Wow, Jeffrey Epstein was either terrible at typing or terrible at writing—and he just didn’t care about it at all. The slovenliness of the whole thing. This is a man who Did Not Care.
Wow, Jeffrey Epstein was either terrible at typing or terrible at writing—and he just didn’t care about it at all. The slovenliness of the whole thing. This is a man who Did Not Care.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A minor takeaway from the latest emails:
Wow, Jeffrey Epstein was either terrible at typing or terrible at writing—and he just didn’t care about it at all. The slovenliness of the whole thing. This is a man who Did Not Care.
Wow, Jeffrey Epstein was either terrible at typing or terrible at writing—and he just didn’t care about it at all. The slovenliness of the whole thing. This is a man who Did Not Care.
I can’t be the only one who thinks Zohran Mamdani looks like Charlie Cox, right?
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I can’t be the only one who thinks Zohran Mamdani looks like Charlie Cox, right?
I think the cash-only perspective is generational for a few reasons:
- If you remember a world before credit cards (I.e. 1980 for mass adoption), then they’re all cautionary tales
- if you think $20 is $20 is $20, 1980 and 2000 and 2025 are all very different $20
- Gas prices keep going up
- Gas […]
- If you remember a world before credit cards (I.e. 1980 for mass adoption), then they’re all cautionary tales
- if you think $20 is $20 is $20, 1980 and 2000 and 2025 are all very different $20
- Gas prices keep going up
- Gas […]
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mstdn.social
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think the cash-only perspective is generational for a few reasons:
- If you remember a world before credit cards (I.e. 1980 for mass adoption), then they’re all cautionary tales
- if you think $20 is $20 is $20, 1980 and 2000 and 2025 are all very different $20
- Gas prices keep going up
- Gas […]
- If you remember a world before credit cards (I.e. 1980 for mass adoption), then they’re all cautionary tales
- if you think $20 is $20 is $20, 1980 and 2000 and 2025 are all very different $20
- Gas prices keep going up
- Gas […]
For those curious, in this season of #SlowHorses, Jackson Lamb’s tie is made by Steven Harris, and they’re all over eBay for cheap.
October 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
For those curious, in this season of #SlowHorses, Jackson Lamb’s tie is made by Steven Harris, and they’re all over eBay for cheap.
Reposted by Allen Shull :metroid:
Kagi's big feature was site blocklists; now apparently Duck Duck Go has added it. But this is an individual solution to a systemic problem. I don't want to play whack-a-mole with a fathomless galaxy of slop. We need *collective* site blocklists that can be shared and curated by trusted […]
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mastodon.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Kagi's big feature was site blocklists; now apparently Duck Duck Go has added it. But this is an individual solution to a systemic problem. I don't want to play whack-a-mole with a fathomless galaxy of slop. We need *collective* site blocklists that can be shared and curated by trusted […]
So as a lifelong Beatles fan, I’ve been listening to post-Beatles albums for the first time.
I know. Bear with me.
- *McCartney* doesn’t have enough good songs. “Junk” is great, but otherwise too much jam-session noodling.
- *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band* is powerful, but some could have been […]
I know. Bear with me.
- *McCartney* doesn’t have enough good songs. “Junk” is great, but otherwise too much jam-session noodling.
- *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band* is powerful, but some could have been […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So as a lifelong Beatles fan, I’ve been listening to post-Beatles albums for the first time.
I know. Bear with me.
- *McCartney* doesn’t have enough good songs. “Junk” is great, but otherwise too much jam-session noodling.
- *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band* is powerful, but some could have been […]
I know. Bear with me.
- *McCartney* doesn’t have enough good songs. “Junk” is great, but otherwise too much jam-session noodling.
- *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band* is powerful, but some could have been […]
Today I learned that Gillette used to own Duracell. Makes me think of Makers by @pluralistic https://mastodon.social/@blankbaby/115217382977361952
Scott McNulty (@blankbaby@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I wondered why the smoke detector in our rental was ever so softly beeping. Well, that'll do it (and it is connected to the house's electricity so it was working!).
mastodon.social
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today I learned that Gillette used to own Duracell. Makes me think of Makers by @pluralistic https://mastodon.social/@blankbaby/115217382977361952
Apple OSes 26 so far: I guess ovals are cooler than circles?
September 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Apple OSes 26 so far: I guess ovals are cooler than circles?
My friends, I implore you.
You don’t have to post about everything.
You don’t have to post about everything.
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My friends, I implore you.
You don’t have to post about everything.
You don’t have to post about everything.