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Lead administrator of federate.cc and its services. Please don't DM me for support with federate.cc, make a post in /c/meta instead.

Originally from Portland 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎

  • 🐑🥁🐍

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  • since OP appears to be one of Ze Germans, i’m going to take the charitable interpretation that they were probably not aware of the connotation

  • Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

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  • As an Apple shareholder, I’d just like to thank Microsoft for their outstanding contribution to selling more Macs.

  • Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

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  • But most users never need to open it because Apple at least tests their OS before yeeting it into prod, unlike this hot mess.

  • Fuming Trump, 79, Loses It at ‘Bum’ Late-Night Host

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  • It makes me so fucking angry and sad that my good-hearted father passed away at 74 but this cunt is still ticking at 79, and making millions of peoples’ lives worse.

  • Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

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  • Reading this as a self hoster: god damn it, is there ANOTHER fucking instance I need to defederate?

  • Ukraine offered “Kremlin peace plan”: Halve armed forces, cede territories, abandon weapons, accept Russian as official language

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  • We generally don’t want to defederate .ml, except when they post anything, or comment on anything, or vote on anything. It’s just those times that we think about it.

  • 10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection

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  • Your second paragraph explains exactly why they’re all so horny for AI.

  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • I think the “friendly” distros like Linux Mint with built-in driver detection/management and pretty broad package repositories (surfaced as an “App Store”) are probably to the point where many normal people could use them, without significantly more technical chops than Windows. Particularly as a gaming rig where you basically just need Firefox, LibreOffice and Steam.

  • I am always prepared to move into this version of life

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  • That’s enough internet for me today

  • Nebraska GOP Sen. warns Trump buying beef from Argentina will hurt U.S. ranchers

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  • Argentine beef is widely considered some of the best in the world, so your steak is about to get a lot tastier!

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Windows is becoming so trash that a bunch of my not-that-tech-savvy friends have been hitting me up asking about gaming on various Linux distros. (Just a few years ago it was all “Linux? Haha nerd”.) And the non gamers are switching to Mac at a remarkable rate.

    And things have progressed so well that even for the non-technical crew, after installing Mint and showing them how to use ProtonPlus to install and select Proton-GE, they’re pretty much off to the races without much further hand holding.

  • Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory."

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  • Lol. Yes, but also, even with the typo it wasn’t that wrong

  • US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’

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  • Hi, I’d like to buy a plane ticket to San Fr-

    PENIS OR VAGINA?

  • Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory."

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  • The more I see .ml users’ comments, the more I understand why they keep getting degenerated defederated.

  • lazy ass

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  • Also worked in SV from 2011-2023. The shift is absolutely crazy. For basically my whole career there, you could waltz your way into an interview and offer anywhere you felt like - complete employee’s market. It’s hard to wrap your head around there being no jobs anymore. LLMs are cancer.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • Seconding Kagi, it’s worth every penny.

  • Trump: No Money for Health Care, Plenty for Argentina

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  • It’s a currency swap. Basically, we give them dollars and they give us pesos. Eventually, they could theoretically be swapped back.

    Holding dollars is good for them because it shows foreign investors’ confidence in their economy, and allows them to shore up the peso if necessary by using dollars to prop it up through central bank buybacks.

    Holding pesos is a high risk for us because the inflation rate has historically been extremely high. $1 US was like 300 pesos five years ago, and it’s more like 1500 today. So if we swap them back down the road, we will probably lose money, since we swapped dollars at $1 = 1500 pesos, but may swap back later at $1 = 2000+ pesos.

    In a way it’s like we gave them an interest free loan. Or actually: more like we gave them a loan with a negative interest rate. Because we likely lose money the longer they hold it.

    Why would we do this? Because Milei says lots of nice things about the orange man on TV.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • Yes, on the one hand, this is a chilling precedent that can only lead to long term despair and national ruination. But on the other hand, line go up next quarter. I think we all know which one Tim Apple will choose.

  • Making it great again, I guess?

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  • Because Milei is also an embattled right wing nut job who frequently says nice things about orange man on TV.