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I'm still so surprised it worked but I transferred this book to the ereader I've barely used in years using a 10 cent usb-c to micro-b adapter and a c-c cable, from my phone

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> The ultimate crisis that Earth is now facing means that open technology is the unavoidable responsibility that countries have to all humanity

(Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest)

great.. another mastodon notification that crashes the interface

rant, programming, javascript, individualism 

It's really telling how many people will go to extreme lengths and efforts to develop and use JS blockers for browsers... but put zero effort into eg. educating developers on better development approaches to solve the problem at the root.

"Using a script blocker" is an individualist "solution" to a collective problem. It doesn't work. It's even worse when people try to peddle it to *others* as some sort of obligation to 'protect themselves'.

Collective problems require collective solutions. Please stop this weird "I got mine" approach and actually put work into solving the underlying problem. I'm sick and tired of being the only person in the room doing this.

Made a react-native Android app yesterday and it was actually quite nice? might post some more in a bit

someone: "GoToSocial looks good"
me on the inside: yay
me on the outside: "es caca señor"

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there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so might as well go for the most dogshit fucking garbage option available, right?

stop being so shitty my server is gonna run out of space storing an instance blocklist this long

trying the cloud vendor-lock-in-ish service to build this app because that could still be preferable to setting up android studio locally :|

@joepie91 the pixie.town blocklist would make dial-up shudder

tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!

tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!

There's *always* room for nuance

except sometimes, there's not

when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis

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The magic smoke
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The magic smoke is out

can someone open an issue to remove that for "better analytics support"

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unfortunately Wildebeest puts the standard `noreferrer` on outgoing links so can't specifically rickroll anyone who clicks through their instances :((

ah yes of course cloudflare is actively cooperating with soapbox

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