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  • Behold.

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  • I hate bottle episodes. After watching "Fly" I came away still hating bottle episodes, even if they are done well.

    Best bottle episode ever, imo, was done by Community. And still, fuck bottle episodes.

  • Incel propaganda in my music app

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  • Thankfully, I don't use Tidal for music discovery. I luckily have a lot of people I've met over the years that love music, perform themselves, work for venues, or are crew for artists. That plus indie radio like KEXP and NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts has kept me exploring for new music via recommendations from those areas.

    I use Tidal for high fidelity music with a more acceptable artist payout than Spotify.

    That said, I'm slowly working towards going back to the old days where my massive CD collection rips (i still have those binders too), direct purchases of high fidelity content sitting on my network share, and records aremy primary source of listening pleasure. The only problem here is acquiring the hardware to scale thanks to the AI boom buying up all the production lines of consumer grade hardware, and business class storage drives having gone up in cost. Technically I can afford it, but I could also spend that same money and buy tickets to several local shows for both my wife and I, which will support the live music industry and artists more directly.

  • Incel propaganda in my music app

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  • You also have to remember that Google has been switching their search tools over to AI search tools and the results have degraded as a result.

    Even before then, there was manipulation of the search algorithm by content creators, even on the YouTube side.

    It's probably a combination of all factors tbh.

    • Google is slowly pushing on the scale of authoritarianism.
    • Search changes being a degradation in results.
    • Search algo manipulation.
    • Google intentionally showing divisive content due to the higher revenue opportunities
    • And the sheer breadth of right wing grift content.

  • the influence is immense

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  • You just described a sizeable portion of the FOSS community.

    As somebody that loves FOSS, the community around it can come off like a morally superior vegan/christian/other-commilunity-known-for-this-attitude quite often. "I DID IT, WHY CANT YOU!?" Is an attitude I've encountered frequently, and it's hard to get them to understand that not everybody has the same tech knowledge level, or use cases, or can manage the loss that comes with stopping/moving away from corporate solutions.

  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • So fighting against this new understanding of the term is either pedantry for the sake of it, or you have some sort of stake in Google perhaps?

    Great use of a bad reason fallacy with a touch of ad hominem in an attempt to discredit.

    Your claim is that the term has been used to mean something negative. You present no evidence to back this up other than your feelings.

    I don't discredit that major corporations do evil shit.

    However, I presented you with the experience I've had with the term dating back nearly 30 years where I, and the people I talked tech with, was sideloading files onto our PDA and Rio MP3 players.

    The term started out as a technical distinction in the circles I ran in (Detroit area) back then.

    Aside from your feelings on the term, I see no valid justification to stop using it when I'm trying to clearly communicate something. I work in tech (and no, it's not Google or Apple. Fuck publicly traded companies) as a lead on the platform support group, and I need to be able to clearly communicate with my peers and reports. Sideload is a widely recognized term in the spaces I have worked in.

    I'm not going to stop using a precise technical term because some internet strangers have unfounded negative feelings about the possible marketing connotations.

    Present me with evidence that it actually means what you're saying and maybe I'll consider working on making the language change. Just like I've done with actually real problematic industry terms (master/slave, black/white lists. Etc).

  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • I've been using the term side loading since the late 90s/early 2000s for installing software or files to a device via a transfer cable. And by the time Android came along, the early app development community was using the term to push the app to your device via ADB. And from there it's expanded from transfer cable push to download and install from an unmanaged 3rd party source on a mobile computing device.

    So the term has existed in some form throughout the tech/power user community before modern mobile computing. Now did Apple and Google usurp the term? Ehhh, possibly? I've yet to encounter somebody that uses sideloading to mean something negative, but I'm sure there is a group out there that does. I'm not convinced that group is large enough for me to stop using language I started using nearly 30 years ago to mean something specific. "Why use more, less precise, words when this single term says it already?"

  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • There is.

    It's called Parental Controls.

    It also does a fairly good job at preventing stuff from getting through.

    One of the big issues right now is that there's a lot of sexualized content on social media right now that's bypassing parental controls because the social media services are doing a poor job of limiting that content when encountering a parental controlled device.

  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • Federation of self-hosted servers is on the Fluxer road map.

    However, the team has had massive growth in the last two weeks and pulled enough visibility that assholes being assholes decided that it would be fun to DDoS them while also dealing with sudden growth.

    Fluxer's majn benefits are that it is so close to discord that it, in theory, supports existing Discord bots with minimal effort, and the kid behind it is obsessed with the tech stack and FOSS.

  • puts on witch hat SILENCE, INCEL! FWOOOM!

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  • To add on about using a knife for defense that you lightly touched.

    You never want to be in a knife fight. Nobody wins in a knife fight. Especially if it's a pocket knife.

    I have a bright neon orange & green bush/field/combat knife that I take with me when I go camping. It's largely a tool for managing my camp, but I have practiced defensive fighting with it, but I am no knife fighting expert. I see it as a last-ditch effort of defense against a wild animal or human where my life is already on the line. And wearing it on my hip around camp advertises "this person is armed" to any human that has ill intent that comes across my camp during daylight hours. I'd still rather grab my walking stick for a good head bonking and sternum busting, and I would do my best to do that before pulling the knife for defensive combat use.

    So, to be abundantly clear. There are no winners in a knife fight. The "winner" goes to the hospital.

  • Smells

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  • Sweat plus the scent of sexual fluids.

  • House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate

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  • We don't? Says who? You? Your bubble?

    I live in the PNW and am surrounded by progressive people and hear "Zionist" used as a perjorative for fasciast frequently. Hell, I could easily go into a local coffee shop or bar and find a sticker that will have a "fuck zionists" message on it. Hell, one of my best friends is of Jewish heritage, and is the biggest critic of the Zionist movement I know, to the point where he even attends a moderately sized local synagogue that's also critical

    So obviously there are US citizens in the PNW that use that language. But I'll be sure to tell them that according to some random internet gate keeper of the American English dialect says they don't talk like an American.

  • Han Solo quote irl

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  • I know this isnt cannon, but it my personal head cannon. I've always thought of Han as somebody that "the force" is using as a pawn to maintain balance and as a result, has a shit ton of "luck".

    I've always wanted to see media in the SW cannon to explore this kind of concept minor force users that either unknowingly use the force, or the force uses to maintain balance in the universe/galaxy.

  • fedi is my home

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  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • Or it could be the economy tanking,a particularly bad winter storm or other natural disaster, another epidemic/pandemic, a complicit billionaire caught on a hot mic doing something dumb with the world watching, another inflamed and unstable right winger takes another run at Trump for some unhinged reason.

    We're in such a precarious position right now that we're ready to burst at one of our many weak seams.

  • Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’

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  • There's always a Franz Ferdinand.

  • It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.

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  • I have to use a Win 11 machine for work.

    If any of you are able to install software on the Win10/Win11 you're using, install Microsoft PowerToys (Run). It adds a Spotlight-like run/search dialog with a hotkey press that works as you would expect an indexed search to work. I never use the windows start menu anymore due to the enshittification of it.

  • Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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  • If you actually read that page, you'd realize that "Requirements" is a misnomer, or at least misleading, page title for what's being described.

    This article is more of a Troubleshooting page and how to resolve for your specific configuration.

    There is not an Ubuntu official support requirement for Proton.

    With SteamOS being Arch based, and Valve being a significant Proton contributer, if there were a specific OS requirement, it'd be Arch or AUR capable distro. But that's obviously not the case.

  • Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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  • And runs even better on Arch thanks to CachyOS.

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