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google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this

The Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.

Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.

Oh, it’s not?

If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.

For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:

solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.net

Yes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.

Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.

(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)

Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.

Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.

#art #t0000000000bs_ #writing

A pillbug suggested by @twistylittlepassages (you really need to see this one in 3D, it looks goofy in the photo) (also cc @nash )

went to the doctor cause i couldn't close the linux command prompt

he told me it's terminal

If everything goes according to plan, then next release of #GoToSocial (0.18.0) will contain:

Domain block/allow list subscriptions (subscribe your instance to a list hosted remotely somewhere, and pull domain blocks and/or domain allows from that list every 24hrs or so).
Edit support.
Push notification support.

Three features that we've wanted for a while :) Quite exciting! Not sure yet when that release will arrive. Probably in a month or so, I'd guess.

I'm particularly excited about block/allow list subscriptions because they'll make it much easier for people to collaborate on moderation. Also you can feasibly upload an allowlist on something like github and have people make pull requests to add their instance to the list. Once it's added, everyone who subscribes to that allowlist will automatically start federating with the newly-added instance. Will make allowlist clusters much more practical!

#GoToSocial

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I know most people already have an idea of how bad things are in here recently but I’m sitting here, again, with no food and minus fifty quid and the past couple of months, a run of things breaking I need and can’t afford to replace.

I’ve started a gofundme because this has got impossible and the sheer unrelenting nature of things has broken me. Way more detail than I really wanted people to know in there though some here already know.

If folks could pass it round?

gofundme.com/f/rob-and-family-

Last August a fellow dev's mother had a severe stroke that throughly changed their lives. Right now she needs not only medical care, as well as a proper place to call home. The Unstoppable Bundle aims to raise funds to properly repair her property and bring her back home. The bundle has over 200 items, from assets to games!

itch.io/b/2741/unstoppable-bun

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fundraiser #bundle #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Mars will make its closest approach to earth in years in January 2025, and will continue to appear larger in the sky until then when it enters downtown san jose somewhere over chávez plaza

mundane daily body horror (blood) 

living in this mortal form and taking apart computers for a living involves the following:

- coworkers pointing out that I have once again split open a knuckle without noticing
- "why the fuck am I bleeding again"
- murder-scene nosebleeds all winter
- asking the pharmacist at CVS how often I *can* get a tetanus booster, not how often I *should*

Hey Fedi, does anyone have experience getting Huion Kamvas drivers to play nice with multiple displays under Wayland?

Under X11 I can select a screen as my working area and everything is good, whereas on Wayland it maps my pen to the full area of all my screens.

I'm trying to set things up with Wayland in order to scale my system on a 4k monitor without causing blurring (X11 seems to suck at that).

On Wayland, xinput only detects generic xwayland-tablet devices rather than the Huion pen, so I haven't been able to map the pen to the screen I want via xrandr.

I'm hoping someone else has gone through this before and has advice!

*Update*
I can get it to map to just one screen, but the working area is smaller than the physical area (a section of the screen rather than the whole thing)

#linux #wayland #huion

Kid has drawn a fearsome bug army and unleashed them upon his homework

The candles at the points of the pentagram flickered. A demon appeared.

"Do you do Black Friday deals?" the conjuror said.

"What?"

"Like, unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, for less than my soul?"

"Actually, it was five souls, but today it's only one."

"Oh? That's cheap!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

in an effort to get folks to contribute more to the most marginalized folks' mutual aid requests, i'm open for small sketch requests for donations. send me proof of $10+ donation to a black or indigenous person's mutual aid and you get a little doodle request !

A wip I began at the beggining of 2024 c:
It's my non binary oc named Willow !
I hope that someday I'll create a webtoon or another thing which could tell their adventures !

#originalcharacter #adventures #fantasy #mastoart

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