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luring all the corporations onto a mastodon instance and then throwing the server down a well, thereby killing all the corporations instantly, the curse is lifted

re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture 

@jtolio@hachyderm.io That is your choice, of course - half the point of a federated network is that people can make that choice for themselves, so that's completely fine.

This is just a heads-up to let people know that that sort of policy is generally not appreciated in much of the fediverse (this is certainly not just about pixie.town), and so it is a likely reason for future defederation.

NGOs stop using "anarchy" as an ignorant insult challenge (impossible)

@adnan @Shrigglepuss (Also the real problem with Mozilla is their leadership anyway, not their income)

@adnan @Shrigglepuss Yeah so here's the thing. Mozilla is supposedly an idealist project, that has a commercial arm for fundraising purposes.

That means it cannot just act like any other company, nor that it can be defended with "well they have to make money somehow". I expect them to find a way to do so that *doesn't* compromise on their stated values.

Mozilla please stop trying to make Firefox into an "experience" I just want to look at stuff online

Inventing a new type of person in my head, they’re in their late 30s, devopsy and they fucking love capitalism and also think mastodon is a brand new toy just for them, that nobody else had discovered til November 2022

re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture 

@hazel It's truly depressing.

meta, hachyderm, corporate capture 

@joepie91 some people have truly learned absolutely nothing about inviting corporations into open source projects

@Min75 If it's meant as an 'educational' account, I'd make it a separate account - not just because people can then separately follow it, but also because you can mark it as "archiving/scraping allowed" (as this is very useful for educational content!) without catching your personal posts in the crossfire.

meta, hachyderm, corporate capture 

Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.

They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.

This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".

[1] github.com/hachyderm/community

homophobia discussion 

Actually having queer friendships and relationships, participating in queer culture, and learning queer history have proven time and again to illustrate how the bigots and hate mongers of our world have either completely misunderstood us, or have willfully obfuscated the reality of who are and what are about.

They are forced to misrepresent us, because their arguments wilt when faced with the truth.

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re: systemd 

@rallias Worth noting that it's probably not worth doing this with anything Chromium or Electron based, since AFAIK those automatically offer themselves up to the OOM killer

systemd 

Want something to be the sacrificial lamb in the event you run out of memory?

OOMScoreAdjust=1000 makes Linux think of your process first when it brings out the OOM killer.

Frustration with cishet white men. Yes I know I'm yellibg into the void. 

Y'all need to learn a few key things, as a demographic.

1. Your good intentions don't matter for shit. Stop using "I didn't mean any harm" as an excuse for not taking responsibility for the effects of your choices.

2. Your ignorance has zero excuse. No, not even that excuse. Zero. It is not the job of everyone else on the planet to educate you. Shelve your sad little egos and put in some effort to learn under your own power. I know not having the universe handed to you for being you are feels scary and unfamiliar. I promise working on yourself won't kill you.

3. Your bubble of privilege gives you no right to invalidate the experiences of literally every other group of people on the planet. See also number 2. Not knowing something is part of being human. Willful ignorance is part of being a shitty person.

4. Quit whining when the rest of us have had enough of your childish bullshit and decide to dump your ass in the cold. Just because not all of us are fortunate enough to be able to escape from you doesn't mean anyone deserves to be subjected to you.

Sincerely,

~ Basically everyone else on Earth.

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

webbtelescope.org/contents/new

#astronomy

LGTM is an ancient spell used to ward off bugs and edge-cases

re: long 

@dan_turner @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange I don't have any *comparative* data there - this was all tested in the context of my 1:1 teaching approach, which is always project-oriented (project entirely chosen by student) and always involves a sort of interactive quizzing from my side (though different from typical 'classroom quizzes').

So I *can* conclude that active recall didn't fix the issues with video/tutorial formats, but I have no data on how the situation changes *without* active recall at all, unfortunately.

Aha, forgot that UNION also does a uniqueness check. Changing it to UNION ALL fixed that.

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