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Owl [he/him]

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Contents: 1 live owl. Do not eat.

  • Fluxor as discord alternative? Thoughts?

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  • I think the XMPP-based attempts at replacing Discord are the best bet. Movim is working on Spaces (the XMPP extension for being Slack/Discord) and making good progress.

  • Games Are Losing The Attention War With Gambling And OnlyFans (Kotaku commenter rapidly gaining class consciousness)

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  • The peak of gamergate sucked, but that was a long time ago, and now it's an increasingly irrelevant fraction of weirdos screeching about an increasingly tiny subset of games. Meanwhile, in every cool section of games (retro, indie, modding, speedruns, every niche with ultra dedicated fans), half the players have come out as trans.

  • Donald Trump is now unpopular with the majority of white americans

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  • Shit, I bet his approval finally fell below 50% because the anti-ICE protests made the libs look cool instead of owned.

  • DO NOT EAT ROCKS! YOU CANNOT EAT THEM! ROCKS ARE NOT EDIBLE! EXCEPT FOR SALT! WHICH YOU CAN AND SHOULD EAT! EVEN THOUGH IT'S A ROCK! DON'T EAT ROCKS EXCEPT FOR THAT ROCK!STOP ASKING SO MANY QUESTIONS!

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  • Chickens eat rocks. What are you, weaker than a chicken?

  • we have created the Necromancy Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Necromancy Nexus

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  • Can you really call someone who uses Facebook in 2026 alive in the first place?

  • Notice anything?

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  • It's a skull! Someone translate the "Are we the baddies" sketch into Ukrainian.

  • AI is misidentifying body parts and creating more risks after being integrated into surgeries, reports reveal

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  • It's also exactly the kind of thing that, using the methodologies accepted by the "AI" industry, AI will beat human professionals at easily every time! (Clown industry with clown methodologies.)

  • Im on Fedora (btw) and pretty happy so far

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  • Okay more seriously I've never even dabbled in Fedora, (all I know is that it uses .rpm instead of .deb, and that was 15 years ago so who knows if it's even true anymore). I'm glad it's working out for you! The more viable Linuxes the better.

  • Im on Fedora (btw) and pretty happy so far

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  • M'linux

  • I'm surprised by Hasan Piker's conviction against Vote Blue No Matter Who

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  • Every time I see a title like this take for granted that I know who this is, instead of being like "Hasan Piker (3M follower twitch news streamer)", the way you would for like, the chief editor of a major newspaper, or the mayor of a third rate city, I think everyone on this site needs to touch grass.

  • AI agent opens PR for easy first issue meant for onboarding new contributors, writes rant blog after rejection

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  • Turns out that learning the underlying meaning of sentences from a long stream of unfiltered internet is too hard to do by just wiggling a bunch of multiplication matrices. But you can get long chunks of accurate text predictions if you focus on every cliche that avoids communicating any meaning.

  • Rip to avocado toast, 2011-2026 🪦

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  • Disgusting, the only appropriate time to eat a whole rotisserie chicken is after punching a wall until it crumbles and the chicken falls out.

  • Removed

    Buger King has fallen.

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  • Yeah, vegetarian restaurants are always like:

    • Salad
    • Smoothie
    • Overpriced meat substitute in small proportions

    When what I actually want is roast root vegetables (fine to leave on a hotplate for hours), roast brussels sprouts or broccoli (takes 7 minutes in an air fryer), grilled corn, maybe a slab of seitan.

  • Doesn't the tragedy of the commons also apply to the free market?

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  • no, when capitalism does it it's called an "externality" and it's different because something

  • 37 years ago, Pizza Hut defeated communism. Today, Pizza Hut is on the brink of defeat.

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  • Recipe for Domino's pizza:

    • Order vegetable oil and desired toppings (canned) from Amazon
    • Cut the box it came in into a 12" circle
    • Soak the box in vegetable oil until soft
    • Add toppings
    • Bake until warmish

  • YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed

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  • Downloading a video locally is more bandwidth intensive than streaming (they're the same if you watch the whole video, but if you're streaming and quit halfway through, that's only half the size).

    Storage is cheap if you're some sort of curated thing like Netflix or a small service hosting just the videos for your blog. It's phenomenally expensive if you're doing what YouTube does and letting anyone upload as much as they want permanently.

    Bandwidth for a small thing (blog) isn't horrible until something goes viral, then you have a choice between your site slowing to a crawl until it's unusable (traditional hosting), suddenly going dark (cloud with a spending limit), or suddenly costing an arm and a leg (cloud).

  • I'm finally getting the urge to change my distro from Mint to something else. When distro hopping do you basically have to start from scratch again?

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  • Yeah, I know nothing about Arch, I just took the top two Arch-based ones off distrowatch.

    Listen to the Horse not the Owl on this one, folks.

  • I'm finally getting the urge to change my distro from Mint to something else. When distro hopping do you basically have to start from scratch again?

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  • You should back up your files when making a major change to your computer, regardless of if it shouldn't cause problems (you should back up your files routinely anyway; hard drives fail).

    On your next install, if you put /home in its own partition, that'll make distro hopping easier (you should STILL back up your shit sometimes though). This can sometimes be more jank than a clean install though, because programs put their config files in /home, and oops your new distro has an older version of whateverthefuck that gets confused by the newer config file.

    Some things to check out when hopping:

    • Mint is a fork of Ubuntu which is a fork of Debian. I think it's worth exploring that tree.
    • Try things with different desktop environments. Mint is Cinnamon, but a lot of people like KDE. There's also Gnome, XFCE, random shit. You can swap these around to some extent, but a distro with KDE is going to have KDE apps pre-installed and give a more consistent KDE experience.
    • Try a tiling window manager! Some people love those fuckers.
    • Sick of Debian? Try Fedora or an Arch-based distro like Cachy or Majaro.
    • Arch btw? Arch boots to a black screen and expects you to install it yourself via terminal and wiki. Hilarious.

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • He said all that stuff about caring about the labor that people have put into things, and I was so ready for Technology Connections Guy to suddenly reveal himself to actually be cool, and then BAM, we all just need to Vote Harder, baby!

    I hope you make it over the hump, Tech Connections Guy, you'd make a cool communist.

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    Extraterrestrial beans

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    what if instead of SAM missiles she was SAMANTHA missiles and congrats on the transition girl

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    what if instead of tumblr there was stumblr and it was just for the drunks

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    What's the stance on fake booger?

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    gender is a series of tubes, suspended over a tuned resonator of bamboo or metal, which are tapped with a mallet, used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music

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    Badposting is the only comm

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    shadposting

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    Trump says he has commuted sentence of George Soros in federal fraud case

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    How was the movement for legalizing gay marriage in the US organized?

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    wine made of beans. coffee made of grapes. has science gone too far? has science gone far enough?

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    How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-lone-wolf-and-a-coordinated-effort-by-the-radical-left
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    The left is picnicking

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    I condemn political violins

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    when the vegans win and the cows are all unemployed so they need to get jobs soyfacing to youtube drama that's

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    is chemistry reactionary?

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    bodega deez nuts

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    Hot Take: Every city is walkable if you're THE KOOL AID MAN

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    video kojima

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    despite being from the poisonous nightshade family, potatoes are a benign tuber

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    Don't shit bricks if you live in a ass house