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hey tech nerds of the fediverse, can you help me with a thing?

i need to investigate a new round of work computers for my workplace, and I don't know whats the best way to go...

Anyone got suggestions for cost effective yet still performant laptops that can be purchased in multiples easily?

@trishalynn I variously toot about personal things/frustrations and 'public interest' topics, and there's some instances that are silenced on pixie.town because they contain problematic folks that I wouldn't want to have to deal with on personal toots.

But when it's about 'public interest' topics, then it can be very valuable to engage in discussion with the good-faith folks on those silenced instances, but right now I can't find a way to do so!

With a silence being essentially a "suspension light", this seems like something that would make sense to have - allowing you to engage with silenced instances only if and when you are feeling up to it.

Is there some way in Mastodon/glitch-soc to (optionally) view mentions and notifications from silenced instances?

I don't envy GTS folks for having to deal with "but maybe we can work with bigots just a little bit" kind of buffoonery now that a bunch of new people are showing up, but the responses make me happy.

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I swear, paypal changes their payment flow more often than some people change their underwear

@joepie91 I guess it's another failure of open source too. NLnet requires projects and their documentation to be released under a suitable floss license, but that leaves a lot of room for just taking the project private afterwards, or open-core type shit

@ansuz@social.cryptography.dog " It’s annoying for everyone involved and we believe that when a user publishes something publicly they want it to reach the widest possible audience. "

Ah, well, you see,,

In retrospect, the idea that we should monetize our free time, spare space, and unused car through gig apps should have been repugnant even without knowing it would lead to an entire industry of unregulated taxis and hotels

I think that what pisses me off most about this, is that all this grant money *could* have been used to do so much good, and could have been life-changing for people... but instead, it ended up basically 'seeding' some tech for a hypercapitalist cryptoshit company, to save them a buck

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(It's Tether/Bitfinex who have taken it over, by the way. Yeah, the ones who have been artificially pumping up exchange rates.)

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I sure wonder how all the past grant providers, such as NLnet, feel about the core protocol being taken out of open governance, and instead captured by cryptoshit scammers: github.com/dat-ecosystem-archi

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@twofirstnames@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt So I was gonna recommend looking at Hypercore but *surprise*, they've been gobbled up by some horrible cryptoshit company

@kim Formerly known as the Dat protocol, and it was (formerly) a decentralized log-based protocol with no involvement of cryptoshit

Oh jesus christ, *of course* it's fucking cryptobros. Fucking hell. Well, RIP hypercore I guess.

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Experts: "Car traffic should not grow further..."
Ministry: "Car traffic will inevitably grow..."

Experts: "...which is why we shouldn't build new motorways"
Ministry: "which is why we should build new motorways"

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