Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale

🦊💻 "If an EV is unaffordable for you, why not simply send your butler to mechanic school"

Mastodon has bookmarks as well but bookmarks without folders is just another TIME STREAM, and you know what happens when you put something in a stream? IT FUCKING FLOATS OFF

Six months later you're running down the banks past all the other stuff you threw in the stream in the meantime and how the hell you gonna find it

foxes and boxes is what we need, let's see if that one shows up on this little walk

this is your brain on tabs

downright poetic tbh that the first boost in the latest going-through-the-tabs-trying-to-find-a-thing adventure is the one about how the hell do you even keep your brain in order

🐇 Dan you need a website
🦝 I can't even REMEMBER how many websites I have and I post on NONE of them

Can I remember who? Can I bollocks, onwards through the tabs

oh shit there's Clothes Shops For Dads, someone else was looking for that one

(seriously though go and look at how Krita presents itself, just take the most recent blog post as an example, these people Get It:
https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-29/
Tiny bit about software update at the top and then it's full steam ahead into LOOK AT THIS ART THAT PEOPLE HAVE MADE WITH THIS PROGRAM, oh and those people are in this cosy forum that you can join, you can talk to them, here are new friends who make pretty things waiting for you to make pretty things with them, oh and by the way just as a bonus the name of our software isn't complete dogshit

Krita Gets It in a way that most FOSS does not

Two things that are both true and at odds with each other:

1. I don't even wanna push people towards Linux. I don't wanna push anyone towards a thing In General. The thing should pull. Things should grow by people looking at it and going "Wow that's brilliant" and Wanting It, not by every other alternative getting worse and worse.

2. It's not enough to be as good as the corpo shit. It's not even enough to be better than the corpo shit AND free. The thing has to be enormously, wildly, night-and-day-difference better than the corpo shit, AND free, AND good enough to overcome the friction of switching, AND talked about excitedly by people who aren't horrifically off-putting. The only FOSS project I know that's doing all of that is Krita, and adobe still aren't exactly hurting for cash

Like, in the context of my Whole Thesis of "People who don't want to be in a place shouldn't be in the place," like... I rrrrreally don't relish the idea of a bunch of people suddenly and unhappily using Linux because they feel FORCED to

Like, I feel like the thing that gets people onto Linux should be Linux getting better, not Windows getting worse

That's just gonna end up with a lot of people who are now using something unfamiliar and are depressed about it

Slightly worried about October 2025 doing to Linux what November 2022 did to Mastodon

Like in the pub you might overhear

🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers

But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking

🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 *no response*
🐺 ...do you have any *objection* to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled

There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers

This isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours

🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.

🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,

🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name

🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue

🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"

🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr

🐰 I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name
🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search

🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world
🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search

🐰 *fiddling with phone* ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...