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@doe @angilly And to expand on this: full-text indexing of the fediverse is a harassment vector, and that's a big part of *why* people do not want it, and why it deliberately does not exist.

@scoots I don't really even *have* a CV myself, so take this with a grain of salt - but from what I've seen, a common approach is to just list that entire period as a single 'job' called "self-employed", and giving some examples of (types of) customer projects that were worked on.

@mattwelke@mstdn.ca @ariadne@treehouse.systems There is no such thing as "running a particular package from apt". Apt is a package manager, not a package *repository*. It's just a piece of software that installs from a specified source based on some standard(ish) repository API. Without a source, it does nothing.

Which means that this shouldn't be called "install from apt" at all, because the implementation detail is the *package manager* and what actually matters is *where* it installs from, which package repository (ie. distro), because that determines what packages you actually get.

@aeva The absolute most infuriating part of this is that *this is already how most appliances work*, in that the same internals get used with tens/hundreds of different faceplates sold under different brands... just none of these faceplates are user-serviceable/replaceable.

Somewhere out there in the grand cosmos of infinite possibility that we'll never see is a parallel universe where the grand innovation of decadent materialism was interchangeable face-plates for all of your appliances, so you'd buy the basics and they'd be good enough to last your entire life and then some, but you'd "upgrade" your kitchen every year by buying new façades for everything. This variant of planned obsolescence continues to go strong into the current day, even with mobile devices.

Copyright is a terrible thing. The fact that its literally only today that the entirety of Sherlock Holmes is public domain is a crime against culture.

I am looking for recommendations for #mmo #gaming mice. I want something with the 12 buttons on the side. But my hands are teeny tiny. I've been using the Corsair Scimitar, but it's definitely uncomfortablely large, even w adjusting the side panel. I've been using it for years, however. But the scroll wheel is starting to skip, and I havent been able to fix it. It's not a huge deal right now. But I want to start collecting a list of small-hand friendly mice for the day I eventually am forced to replace it. #mmorpg #GamingMouse

"am i trans?" -> do you want to be?

it seems impossibly simple but that's really all there is to it. every other test is a gate being kept by you or someone else.

@hollanditis@kolektiva.social Is er ook ergens een tekstversie van de podcast te vinden?

oh no, someone forgot to water the wind turbine.

Asking for a friend, boosts appreciated: is there any wiki software that is free, user-friendly and doesn't require self-hosting or is very easy, (for people with very limited technical expertise) to host?

@kendraserra Depending on the exact needs, TiddlyWiki *may* be an option: tiddlywiki.com/

It's built for a highly specific usecase (personal notes wiki and not much else, basically), but in the absolute simplest mode it can run as a wholly self-contained HTML file that's just stored on your PC.

@f0x What I'm reading is that honeypots would be an effective defense against scrapers

@vitak One thing that really stood out to me was the "I have control over the information I share online" item. Am I reading correctly that Dutch respondents hold this belief more strongly than American respondents? But how would that mesh with the higher degree of fatalism among Dutch respondents?

(Very interesting research, by the way!)

I'm excited to share this article (open access!) comparing privacy attitudes in the US and Netherlands using factorial vignettes. This was one of my favorite projects (and teams) to work on over the last decade, and this paper represents the last study in the 3+ year project. ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Ah, right. Shot in the dark: tried Yandex's reverse image search?

Regarding fatphobia and ableism:

No matter how progressive or broadminded people think they are, as long as they attach arbitrary conditions to the value of a human being, they are effectively gatekeeping humanity itself.

They are, therefore, holding on to the seeds of fascism, unwilling to let go.

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