d3z @d3z@nitech.online

For lent, I _really_ want to give up computers.

Just checked today. They wear slip-ons.

No, it's not.

Of course, the joke may be on me, and this is really, really smart code that I'm missing the point of.

Currently reading code that actually makes me wonder how the author can tie their own shoe laces. And it's not even my code!

@OpinionatedGeek I'll try to live in the spirit of the rules then.

@OpinionatedGeek To be honest, I'll probably still be quiet. I haven't much to add to most conversations.

@OpinionatedGeek I have been for a while, just quiet. I may have followed you from my nitech.online account, but I have a mastodon.social one too.

@nivrig @mo @paddy I was going to suggest running our own IRC server.

@mo @paddy maybe. I've nothing useful to say whatever platform is decided on.

@paddy I just need to make sure I'm not being too credulous.

@paddy but, to ban people who have apparent _links_ to countries is a crappy way to do things. I've read stories of people being banned whose link appears to be nothing more than their ethnicity. If that's the case, that's more than a little shitty.

@paddy that's a new one for me.

@paddy I don't think they have a free offering. You can download and host yourself.

@paddy I assume so it's the current backlash against slack.

@paddy with either of those we're looking at hosting. Is there a free alternative?

@paddy what do we look at instead? Mattermost? Rocket?

@paddy OK, I'm not sure I'm a fan either.