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I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

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I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

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Friendly reminder that you should consider everything you say on the Fediverse to be publicly available and archived by your adversaries, who can and will use it against you.

"Quiet public" isn't saving you from that. "Followers-only" isn't saving you from that. Don't assume your DMs are private either.

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Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

Fun fact about me. I like to let my cats out in the hallway to let them run around and sometimes my neighbors let their cats out too and we have lil cat parties.

Fur real wtf am I supposed to do all night?

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Buh I wish ottawa actually had night life and didn't die by 2 am 😵

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π day blood moon.

There was light cloud and the camera seemed to be fighting me a bit, so this is short on detail; taken as the thicker clouds started to roll in; the moon was gone like 45 seconds after this shot. 300mm, 𝑓6.3, ISO 10000.

#photography #bloodmoon

Consistantly partitioning my tolerance

Should I finally update my mastodon instance? 🤔 It may result in losing all my data forever, but at least replies will finally be fixed

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"Adapt swiftly to changing algorithms, for in stagnation lies defeat." - The Art of Cyber War

One of my cats seems to love laying down om my legs when I'm hanging out in bed. It's cute but also it effectively immobalizes me unless I am willing to be mean and kick her off before she gets bored. Good excuse to play Balatro thk

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I'm really getting sick of having to keep turning off Apple Intelligence every time one of my devices updates, which they do fairly frequently. Apple needs to respect their customers' choices and stop this crap now.

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uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution.

@ublockorigin

mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

#infosec #opsec #ublockorigin #privacy #environment

Getting acquainted with a new codebase is like putting on one of those costumes with a dozen pieces attached with little belts and buckles. Gotta figure out which side is up and where the hands are supposed to go.

Question for folks on the other side of the @6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9 bridge: What does it look like my Nostr ID is to you? I want to link to it on my websites but I'm not able to see it on the mostr site. I signed up back before they had a nice UI so I wonder if my account is bugged

More like eventually inconsistant with low availability amirite? 🤪

Low key contemplating writing a new encrypted p2p chat thingie to aggregate messages from other apps but skipping the dependency on append only logs and pre-indexing the data for sparse querying when booting the device 👀

*shakes fist in the air* Curse you operation logs with long historyyyy~~

Every time I try to boot element on Android it becomes unusable because it can't handle the volume of channels I'm in.

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"They only think about one thing, and it's disgusting."

I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking about rent. And the people who see the world through the rent-seeking lens.

Someone, ideally everyone needs to pay tithes to them, they reason. And not for some ongoing service. Not because of any value they create, but because of value they hold. Value that can never be bought and paid off in full. A nation or king might collect tax, why not me they reason.

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