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blockchain billionaire at FOSS community event 

Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey (former CEO of Twitter, billionaire, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast) holding a keynote at #fosdem2025.

drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/202

health, + 

This is my favourite graph right now

cool thing I noticed: when hetzner generates root passwords for servers, they never include "y" or "z", and also no "O" or "0"

health update, transplantation (9) 

It's now day 3 after the surgery. I can get out of bed and walk independently, albeit slowly. I've showered again, and can do that mostly independently too; just not bending over. I might walk around the hallways a bit later today.

Blood pressure is high and still a point of concern, blood sugar is a question mark (rising a little but still okay). Otherwise seemingly no side-effects from the immunosuppressive medication, and I also don't feel like I have a permanent cold anymore. Catheter is still a huge pain, as is the wound drain.

Overall very optimistic!

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proposal: a game that is just a creative management game engine and you can download mods that additively combine prisons, theme parks, hospitals, factories, restaurants, cities, beaver cities, etc.

Asking for advice re: innoculating against elder-targeted scams 

Does anyone have any tips for talking to their parents about elder-targeted scams? My mom is on Facebook and I think she is usually pretty canny, but I want to encourage her to reach out to me if she ever starts talking to someone new online that could be a romance scam or similar. I don't want to insult her or invade her privacy if she is talking to someone real, and I'm just not really sure of the best way to start that conversation.

One of my grandmothers was poisoned and robbed by mail-order medication scams, thankfully we saw the mailers once when we were visiting before it got ruinously or dangerously far, but she never thought to reach out and ask because she was very proud and didnt think it was anyone else's business. That was 15-20 years ago and the scams seem supercharged compared to then, and I'd like to avoid that if possible.

its inaccurate to be like well humans suck and elon musk types will come along every so often and wreck things...

what the anthropological record suggests is that many human societies have evolved cultural technologies that prevent people like elon musk from taking over. what's most interesting to me is that as communal mammals, we are quite capable of devising social structures that keep our worst impulses in check, we've done it in many times and places

Last August, Lynch (who had emphysema) said he might never direct again because of the "let it rip" covid unmitigation strategies adopted by governments everywhere.

Wondering how many mourners would willingly, and without prompting, wear a mask around people suffering from Long Covid, respiratory illnesses, or other immune dysfunction, out of respect for their struggle, instead of placing the entire burden on vulnerable disabled people.

independent.co.uk/arts-enterta

#DavidLynch

the truly bizzarre thing is that all of these are simultaneuosly true:

this process contains a circuilar dependency
there is absolutely zero documentation of how to deal with this circular dependency for anyone
this is still, so far, the easiest and lowest-paperwork immigration process I've ever encountered

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Amid all the bad and scary news here's a baby #gecko to brighten your day.

*reaches into your Nix store, pulls out a random path, and eats it*

Linux distro idea: Date Night OS.

A distro that exists solely to make installation of it an enjoyable date night activity

meta, I guess, social media 

I have complicated feelings about the idea that the Fediverse should be serving as a new home for people fleeing other platforms.

On the one hand, in a vacuum, I agree that from a technical/governance perspective it would be a significant improvement, and there is a real societal problem with people staying on Facebook/Twitter etc. as they are increasingly turned into fascist platforms.

On the other hand, *in practice*, what's effectively being proposed is to bestow the responsibility of handling the world's communication and social spaces, upon a group of mainly marginalized folks, who mostly just wanted to build their own corner and didn't ask for any of this.

I'm not comfortable with that dynamic, and it registers to me as belonging in the category of 'lateral violence'. Just because marginalized folks are the closest people who will listen, doesn't automatically make them responsible for solving the world's problems. Why are more privileged folks not expected to take this responsibility?

time to try to reach a part of fedi that may not even exist! does anyone know anything about save file editing for generation 2, specifically japanese crystal? i would like to add the egg ticket to my physical cart by dumping the save file and editing it.

please reboost i have no idea if i federate with anyone who cares about this atm lol

#pokemon

also imo "to do list" should be ditched as the standard web dev demonstrative task, and replaced with wikis

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