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welcome to all those beginning to notice the strongly defended ties between (the computing) industry and agents of oppression

other folks came to a similar realization not that long ago when GitHub's ICE contracts became better known

the roots are even deeper than that. You can dig into some of that by reading or listening to, for example, Fred Turner here:

thedigradio.com/podcast/counte

there's a lot more where that came from

It sure seems to me like it's doing an awful lot of detecting filament runout, for a unit which doesn't have filament runout detection

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My new 3D printer which supposedly doesn't have filament runout detection, just beeped a "change filament" screen at me when the filament jammed, and after re-feeding it it continued the print

?????

i continue to wish the post office would sell me a virtual forwarding service

i don't want a PO box. you already come to my home with mail. i want to be able to give people a code to put on the letter so it will come to my home, like an address, but have that code not also tell them where i sleep.

there are probably reasons why this is a no-go but i'm going to sulk anyway

Man, fuck ‘grind culture’ and everybody who glamorizes it.

People need to stop putting value on working so hard they destroy their brains, their bodies, and their relationships.

Just do what you have to do to enjoy what little time you have in this world.

@SigmaOne@toot.party @kim A cascading series of entropic mishaps

re: cw meta, qoto, swearing 

@david@tech.lgbt Have a link?

"Raspberry Pi announced today they had hired internet sensation Milkshake Duck, the duck who loves milkshakes..."

#FreeRadical blog: "We will not join the United Federation of Instances"

The United Federation of Instances is a bad idea, and Free Radical will not participate. The “UFoI” is an organization of fediverse instances making a compact: if an instance enters the compact, and they abide by the group’s Code of Ethics, then all members of the group promise not to [...]

blog.freeradical.zone/post/we-

(posted at Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:21:00 +0000)

I'll stop being mad about the complete and total lack of any good NB rep in media when I've seen it be handled correctly even once.

@Shine_McShine Mmmm. PINE64 certainly has its own bit of questionable history, unfortunately.

I created this image in May 2017, shortly after I started Elekk, and it was Elekk's hero image for several years. (In fact, it still should be, but the link is broken...) It predates and is not associated with the current project under the name "United Federation of Instances".

re: question about police 

@respectthefire@g0v.social (The unspoken part of the problem here is that there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that society would be worse off without police - not from an authoritarian perspective but from a harm prevention perspective, because they've bought into the widespread police propaganda)

re: question about police 

@respectthefire@g0v.social I certainly hold a police abolitionist perspective, but the question is genuine: there is tiny-but-not-zero chance that I am overlooking something, and either way it is important to get clear exactly *what* people expect or experience police to do.

A big part of police propaganda is the deliberate conflation of different tasks and purposes, muddying the waters about what the police is actually *for*, and this makes it really difficult to talk about "but what would a better solution for these issues look like?", particularly with people who aren't close to the violence.

So in the end, posing this question to people has multiple different purposes:
- Surveying the problems that police (are believed to) solve
- Making people question whether their assumptions about the purpose of police are actually correct
- Demonstrating that an abolitionist perspective makes sense - if my view that "police don't do anything that cannot be done better in another way" is correct, that should prove itself from the replies

Heads up, there's a shiny new SQL injection for wordpress. You will want to update if possible.

wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wor

If you can't update, you may want to look into input validation methods for your text boxes, move your userlists and other info to a separate sql database that then gets called as needed on your page or find a way to restrict user access to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

@whreq Omdat het feitelijk opgelegd wordt als (sociale) norm waar je geacht wordt je aan te houden, i.t.t. slechts een observatie dat er iets veranderd is?

UK politics, disinformation 

This is not a government that negotiates in good faith

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