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millie

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    Jerkoff

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  • This framing isn't particularly helpful for solidarity.

    The left relies on coalitions. Criticizing the stewards of those coalitions because they fail to address the needs of the people they rely on for votes is helpful and constructive. Just reducing all left-wing voters to a pair of stereotypes and trying to push one of those stereotypes away from the other? Not helpful.

    We need nuanced dialogue and mutual aid. It's a matter of survival. This isn't that.

  • Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars."

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  • Why is this thread full of Nazi propaganda? Yikes. 😬

  • China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

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  • Your estimation of what constitutes "objective reality" is in fact the opinion that you're being asked about.

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    How to Be Bad at YouTube

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  • Nebula is a decent way to be bad at youtube. They don't have too many people on it at the moment, but there are some decent ones. And at least they get a cut.

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • I definitely agree that there are problems with some FOSS enthusiasts, but I don't think it's constructive to paint FOSS and FOSS enthusiasts as a whole based on their actions. To me, responding to problems involving diminishing the visibility of Linux and FOSS with "but why don't you care about x" isn't particularly constructive, and does little more than drive a wedge between people who think FOSS is a priority (but not their only priority) and people who place FOSS as a lower priority but who are otherwise natural allies.

    In particular, the casting of open source devs focusing on what their own creative impulses drive them to make as 'authoritarian' is itself an attempt at authoritarian imposition. To take one's own time out of one's own day to code something is an act of creativity. FOSS is, by nature, less inclined to operate on a top-down model than corporate software development.

    What you're asking for isn't a less hierarchical structure, it's a more hierarchical structure. As it stands, open source devs create what they feel is best and you are, as they say, absolutely welcome to fork it. There's nothing authoritarian about that. They've put their time in to create what they see the need for, and you literally are able to either go code additions you want to see yourself, roll back to earlier versions, or even hire someone to make it for you. You are not free to demand that they create what you want to see.

    That isn't them holding an authoritarian model over end-users, that's them graciously handing out their hard work, their mental energy, indeed even their spoons, to the rest of us. The only authoritarian part of the conversation between end users making demands of developers and developers focusing on what they choose to spend their time on is the attempted authoritarian demands of end-users.

    This is work that they literally give out for free. Not just the end product, but the source. If there's a feature you want, you literally are welcome to add it. That is not the case with closed-source software. In fact, if you attempt to modify closed-source software and redistribute it, there's a significant chance that you'll end up with a lawsuit or at least a DMCA take-down notice on your hands.

    Stallman is a creep. 100%. There are other creeps who code. 100%. But there are also all sorts of other people, including members of marginalized groups, who code. For some of them coding is something that helps them feel okay. For others it's something that takes up a lot of the energy that they have. Sometimes it's both. It is completely unfair to demand that they code what you want the way you want when you're unwilling to do that yourself.

    I think you're not really looking at the demands that you're making of others and exempting yourself from out of hand in the same breath. If you want to see something in FOSS, you have every right to go add that thing. You do not have a right to others doing it for you.

    FOSS is the solution to a lot of the problems we're running into right now. It's no coincidence that Trump's inauguration was packed full of billionaire tech bros who are currently doing everything in their power to further marginalize every marginalized group. FOSS may well be the only reason we continue to have spaces where we can have these sorts of discussions and actually advocate for social progress or any form of leftist solidarity.

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • I'm curious how this approach is meant to achieve solidarity. Can you elaborate on your thinking?

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • You know, like, targeting leftist solidarity and looking for anywhere and everywhere to drive wedges. Wedge-like.

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • Weird that you assume nobody who supports FOSS is helpful to any other leftist causes.

    Kinda wedge-like.

  • meanwhile: a rabbit

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  • Can I catch a ride?

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • I still can't tell if this is sarcasm.

  • ISO 8601 ftw rule

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  • Well, not really. Sort of.

    2025/"04-28-2025.xls"

    You still want the year in the title format so you have it if it ends up on its own somewhere.

  • meanwhile: a rabbit

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  • I wonder how many people have taken the time to make electronic go bags because of these comics.

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  • This is a sealion.

  • ISO 8601 ftw rule

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  • Sorting with either the month or the day ahead of the year results in more immediately relevant identifiable information being displayed first. The year doesn't change very often, so it's not something you necessarily need to scan past for every entry. The hour changes so frequently as to be irrelevant in many cases. Both the month and the day represent a more useful range of time that you might want to see immediately.

    Personally, I find the month first to be more practical because it tells you how relatively recent something is on a scale that actually lasts a while. Going day first means if you've got files sorted this way you're going to have days of the month listed more prominently than months themselves, so the first of January through the first of December will all be closer together then the first and second of January in your list. Impractical.

    Year first makes sense if you're keeping a list around for multiple years, but the application there is less useful in the short term. It's probably simpler to just have individual folders for years and then also tack it on after days to make sure it's not missing.

    Also, like, this format is how physical calendars work assuming you don't have a whole stack of them sitting in front of you.

  • Shein, AliExpress, Temu: More than 85% of products from Chinese platforms fail to meet EU regulations regarding health and safety

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  • As much as I am not remotely bothered by the banning of TikTok (which seems like it may well not go through anyway), maybe we should start with banning the sites that literally funnel a bunch of heavy metals into people's mailboxes and cause actual known physical harm both to the naive people who still buy this stuff and to their neighbors, family members, and postal workers?

  • Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco.

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  • I live in a very small city with a Walgreens and 2 CVSes, all within a mile or so of each other, and they all seem pretty busy. We also have a Walmart, a medical supply store, and a small neighborhood pharmacy, as well as two grocery stores. I think how busy your local drug store is is pretty variable. We do have a college in town and also a pretty active main street with a lot of shops and restaurants that bring in a lot of tourists and people from neighboring towns and bigger nearby cities.

    But like, we have kind of a lot of CVSes and Walgreens around here and they all seem to do well enough. I don't think it's just that we're in a college town. Though, again, we do have a lot of colleges in general.

  • CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music

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  • I honestly don't understand the concept of it being "easier" to make music. Like, okay, instruments can take a little time to learn. But, like, can you not whistle? Sing? Hum?

    Music, to me, largely makes itself. Refining and recording music, okay yeah that's kinda hard. Memorizing other people's music and learning to play it the way they do? Sure. Composing something you're really happy with? Fair.

    But just.. making music? I can't think of anything easier or more natural. You just.. make sounds happen.

    Like, do y'all not whistle little original tunes and write silly little songs to sing while you're wandering around going about your day? It isn't rocket science. It doesn't have to be for anyone else or be flawless. There's joy and beauty just in letting it out of you. It feels great.

    Getting an AI to write and compose some shit for you will never feel like that. It's just screwing yourself out of the joy and catharsis of expression.

  • Did social media made people unable to properly chat?

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  • Have you tried Discord? I've met a ton of people on Discord servers or in games that have a focus on Discord, and we talk at length on a regular basis, both in text and in voice. Hell, sometimes I'll sit in a voice chat with them and talk about nothing in particular all day or literally just sleep in digital proximity.

    Instagram or any social media with DMs is probably shit for chat because it's literally not intended as a chat client. That's a function that's tacked on as an afterthought and usually pretty poorly.

    Something like Discord, Element, or IRC is probably a way better bet. It's the same as trying to hold a conversation over email or Livejournal in the late 90s or early 00s rather than using an AIM, ICQ, YIM, or MSN client. Or like, IRC or even Palace or just some small web-based Java chat. You're just kind of doing it wrong, I think.

  • What are some aspects of your life that are currently solarpunk?

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  • I live on this wet little ball of rock that not only gets its heat directly from a sun, but like half of my food harvests the radiation for its energy! And the other half gets its energy from that stuff!