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Nog even los van de zwakke reden voor het afbreken van formatiegesprekken, als je als politicus verbaasd bent dat meneer "Ik Doe Niet Meer Mee Als De Richting Me Niet Zint" Omtzigt wegloopt omdat de richting hem niet zint, dan heb je het echt niet helemaal begrepen. Man man man...

When you book your :ns_nl_b: off-peak train tickets a couple of weeks in advance, this can be cheaper than having a paid off-peak discount card (normally € 5,60/month, now € 2,50/month). I’m not sure if I am fond of this idea. Some examples.

Commentary on autism "functioning" labels 

Yeah, sounds about right to me.

@whreq Soup is a dish produced by steeping any sort of ingredient in water; tea is a dish produced by steeping tea leaves (or, colloquially, functionally equivalent ingredients that are low in nutrition but high in flavour) in water; therefore the latter is a subset of the former

Gentle reminder for anyone that needs it right now: It's alright to cry, it's alright to be angry, bad feelings are here for a reason and it doesn't make you bad for having them. What you say to others is important, but what you say to yourself is everything. Speak words of kindness and encouragement.✨✨✨✨

reference to AnonOps, "journalism" 

@gsuberland@chaos.social I'm reminded of how back in the AnonOps days we decided to do a little experiment and send a completely false and unverifiable claim about a non-existent hacker group (with an obviously unserious name) to a bunch of Dutch and Flemish news outlets.

A bunch just ignored it. Several national tabloids printed it without any verification - one of the tabloids even *made up extra stuff* to fill the story, without asking anyone. We were just baffled by this. The only outlet that did any attempt at fact-checking and then decided not to run the story, was a small regional outlet.

It's hilariously (and frankly concerningly) easy to get something published in large mainstream press outlets with absolutely zero credentials or verification.

"this crowd is not law enforcement friendly" good. good

Its hilarious that Windows is just bootleg Linux with ads and tracking now.

Felt like a big 'ol rugpull. And what of phones that got abandoned by their manufacturer? Custom ROMs trip SafetyNet. Not so bad when it was only things like Android Pay, but then Google opened up the SafetyNet check to *EVERY* dev to use, and then you had a bunch of apps doing SNet checks for no real good reason other than as a total middle finger for those of us rolling third party ROMs/have our phones deeply customized.

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A convo in a group chat reminded me to touch on something: Why I fell out hard with Android.

I was with Android from the very beginning. Android felt built for enthusiast users who wanted to play around. You could ignore that aspect if you so wished but it was nice for those of us who liked to play around.

...until Google decided to unleash the blight that is SafetyNet upon us, and let slip the biggest "fuck you" to those of us here from the very beginning.

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Matrix encryption will keep the contents of your conversation safe from everyone, even the participants

Proton Mail does not care about blind people. Straight up.

Which does not make them all that unusual, but it is striking. Especially given their posture on the importance of everyone using <strike>their</strike> private, secure email.

Almost as if it's all a *gasp!* marketing ploy.

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LOLOL

Yet another mandatory upgrade of the Proton mail bridge, yet they still can't get the thumb out of the sphincter to add even a modicum of #accessibility.

Like, I don't know, labeling their controls. Or, making the password field, the entire point of the app, focusable so that I can f*cking read it and use my email.

Oh well!

And yes, I've sent them emails. Dozens, actually. As have several others. They do not care.

I am a web designer in my twenties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my thirties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my forties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my fifties. I’m wonderi

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