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Side note, but I hate how the letter Q has been hijacked by American rightwing conspiracy weirdos. Q used to be our letter, dammit.

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@lyncia It's increasingly a thing in NL as well :/ And I think in the UK it's already pretty bad

I hate how "arcade" has come to mean "children's gambling parlour"

@thomas So I couldn't get USB debugging working, but I *could* reproduce the issue in desktop Firefox by setting it to mobile emulation mode in devtools.

I'm honestly not sure what's causing this, I don't see anything that would obviously be the case. Removing the <main> element makes the overflow go away, but there's also nothing about the element itself that seems off?

My guess would be that there's some deeply-nested element somewhere that's relatively sized to the viewport (maybe 100%?) instead of to its parent, and that it's invisibly pushing out the 'boundary' of the page contents. But I haven't been able to find such an element yet.

@thomas Oh, whoops, I misread your original post and missed that it's about *mobile* devices. I *can* reproduce it on Android Firefox. Let me see if I can get developer tools attached somehow...

@thomas Also, note that the 'overflow' tag refers to *any* overflow - including the (desirable) vertical overflow/scrollability :)

@thomas I cannot reproduce this in my Firefox; it's only scrollable downwards for me.

Audio Effects Explained

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user hostile software 

signal is threatening to take away all the features unless I "upgrade" to a worse version that removes a feature I use every day

but yeah tell me more about the liberatory nature of open source, sure

To avoid disappointment, a brief reminder that EMF happens every two years and our next event will be in 2024.

If you're looking for a similar event in 2023, we will be at Chaos Communication Camp in Germany.

events.ccc.de/2022/10/18/no-congress-2022/#no-congress-2022-en

“you can’t go viral on the fediverse”, says person who hasn’t posted a joke about going viral on the fediverse

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Remember userbars? I remember making some in Macromedia (as it was) Fireworks, back in the day.

#2000s #internet #nostalgia

The Trolley Problem is that we have roads and cars and we don't have any fucking trolleys.

@cab404 Ahhh, stacked "not doing what I want" occurrences are the absolute worst

Oh and they're also almost always loudly Christian, same deal for the "arcade" (ie. childrens' gambling) operators

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Possibly my least favourite category on Youtube are the "passive income" videos where white dudes from the US (it's *always* white dudes from the US) happily extoll the virtues of getting filthy rich off running a laundromat with almost no effort.

@SabreMc @TechConnectify Unless your house doesn't *have* an extractor hood...

*looks at previous landlord*

So I just discovered that KDE Connect will actually automatically mute the music on my PC when my phone rings, and unmute it when the call ends. Neat!

I've seen a couple of "the fediverse is only used by nerds, so it won't survive - it needs the cool kids to arrive" hot takes recently.

I'm not sure the basic principle - that it is only used by nerds today - is correct anyway.

And even if it were, a small group of nerds is more than enough to keep a service running for themselves and their friends. The fediverse has already "survived" for years.

And who says nerds aren't the "cool kids" anyway?! Being nerdy is pretty cool, IMHO.

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