The garden of no heathen February 18, 2020 > Actor William Shatner had this to say:
>
> “I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really
> high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions
> of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about
> technology.”
That said, more than a few Star Trek episodes featured at least one female thinking the worlds of his, “technology”....
<coughs>
> Why Mastodon Is The Last Social Media You'll Need
Lucky me: turns out I don't need social media at all!
> “This messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it
> won’t change unless we want it to change. There will be
> no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a
> userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point,
> but that will be our decision, too. What is this feeling?
> Independence? Security? Sovereignty?
>
> Is it simply… the feeling of being home?”
>
> The feeling of being in a place.
'Tis how a relatively small number of flowers feel in the absence of hoards of weeds storming for formers' garden gates by way of the evolving coding chicanery of bored, restless developers....