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Rowan Thorpe

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  • Working below minimum wage to save the planet

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  • And also the tax/pension/health/VAT deductions from money earned is x% for varying scary values of x, but the equivalent from money "avoided" AKA "money you didn't need to earn because you didn't need to spend it because you fixed stuff yourself" is 0%. That is the reason DIY, Right-To-Repair, barter systems, etc are all demonised institutionally. They are wedge-issues which run counter to the fostered futility-narrative that keeps the wage-slaves quietly running on their mouse-wheels, and out of the way of the ownership-class while they constantly "repair" society to their liking.

  • Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

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  • AKA "Disaster Capitalism"

  • Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

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  • I'm waiting to see the headline: "Fired NNSA employees can't be found for reemployment because they moved to off-grid locations outside the blast-radius of all major centres"

  • The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.

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  • PACK 1a

    €5/month

    Get access to "my self-hosted VPN + obfuscation proxy"

  • Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

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  • In terms of the "default instance" suggestion, I have an interesting hybrid suggestion. What about having an "easy on-ramp" instance where you get registered for one month with a hard-exit (auto-migrate to other instance, perhaps using some kind of federated-auth/token system for the migration, and forced password-setup on first use of the new instance). At any point during on-ramp the user could configure destination-instance from a list in the settings (or configure auto-export for manual import to any other "auto-migrate-unsupported" instance), with optional early-migration if the user has decided before the end of the month. Optionally a recommendation engine could iteratively curate a list of suggested instances based on usage during on-ramp (admins of those instances could provide - limited number of - tags of their choosing for the engine to use for matching). That part could be opt-in because probably a lot of users would find it creepy. The UX would need to be very user-friendly "pointy clicky" because that would be the overwhelming target demographic of such an instance. I think "on-boarding and educating" is better than "gatekeeping" (which feels like the "if you need to ask the price you can't afford it" shopping trope). A nice side-effect is it already painlessly introduces users to the killer-feature "easy migration" between instances due to data-portability.

  • academic writing software recommendations from fellow researchers?

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  • For a powerful and resilient LaTeX experience, having used many editors and IDEs, I really feel nothing comes close to a properly configured Emacs with the right packages installed (there are various blogposts and walkthroughs online for that).

  • Not the same

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  • I think some of the expandable GenAI "made-up explanations" and "images" on that page are the icing on the cake.

  • macro

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  • ...which are all layers on Debian.

  • Doppler

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  • For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can't get out of the way fast enough https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

  • A daunting realization

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  • Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.

  • A daunting realization

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  • In reality, we are actually farming jpegs, by posting reencoded versions of them daily, until they all eventually decompose so we can merge with them.

  • Giving the neighbors a laugh

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  • Humble-brag number-plate, too.

  • Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

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  • Just like the playbook against NHS in UK:

    "NHS doesn't work, it must be privatised (and contracted out to companies owned by my friends)!!"

    /proceeds to starve funds and undermine NHS at every turn

    "See?! I told ya it doesn't work" 🥴

  • What y'all talking about?

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  • I remember having a bit of fun playing things like Stunt Car Racer on MS-DOS back in the early 90s for a few days. Yeah, that's about it. That's the best I can do even when I'm trying to be charitable. As soon as I owned my first computer (late 90s) I bought a Linux magazine, installed a distro from a cover CD-ROM, and never looked back.

  • Kanye West sued, dropped by talent agency and retail platform over antisemitic slurs

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  • Kanye -> Hitler -> Shopify -> Spotify -> Arrested Development -> ...

    Anyone else experiencing whiplash, or is it just me? I think I need to lie down for a bit.

  • I'd just like to interject for a moment.

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  • ...and you just gzipped it.

  • MAGA melts down over Super Bowl halftime performance

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  • Very cool, thanks for finding that. I must admit that factlet (which turns out to be a factoid after all) always hovered in a grey-area part of my brain between "interesting enough to remember" and "urgent enough to actually research/verify" (hence why I wisely added the "not verified" parenthesis).

  • EU far-right parties rally in Madrid behind slogan 'Make Europe Great Again'

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  • Although I think Patriot is such a loaded, dangerous word and would usually doubt there is ever an appropriate time for actual grown-ups to use it, I think I have found one use-case: it would be interesting to form a pan-European collective of actually sane, grown-up, people-before-money leaning Europeans (i.e. not the emotionally stunted, tribalism-fuelled morons obsessed with the accumulation of trinkets and perpetuation of endless persecution sprees in service of their hate/anger/stress-based adrenaline & cortisol addictions), and call that new collective "Actual Patriots for Actual Europe". Then just sit back with popcorn and watch the pompous outrage chain-reaction from the PfE kiddies unfold in realtime.

  • Does anyone else feel like they are “lagging behind” on Anglophone pop culture?

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  • In my case not so much "lagging behind" as "stopped caring, ignoring, life's too short for so much churn over nonessential filler".