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Germany, good trans news 

This is the new treatment guidelines for trans minors, finally released after years of delays, and it's all good in there actually. I can't believe they finally figured it out. register.awmf.org/de/leitlinie
#trans

Hey peeps, if you're still using #GitLab and #GitHub and you're twitching a bit because they're fellating fascists, I want to point to the sign that says you can self-host @forgejo - a project which is also working on decentralisation and federation.

Failing that, @Codeberg also exists, are a European non-profit that also supports the development of Forgejo.

Hope that helps 😀

you might think these are empty words, but i mean them. why do you think militaries care so much about troop morale? despair is an effective weapon. it's a tempting tool. why fight an enemy when you can make them give up? of course they'd use it.

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if defeat was inevitable, they wouldn't need to use propaganda

When you want to clear just the browser file cache to solve an issue with a website, but accidentally clear everything except the browser file cache... ​:shinx_facepalm:

2FA paraaaaaaaade!

NixOS, grumpy rant, "you" 

I fucking warned you all that you needed to get community defense sorted out before the project got too big and popular. I fucking warned you. Since half a decade ago.

You chose to endlessly deliberate and debate over everything instead, and well, this is the result. Congratulations. You had every possible warning, insight and support structure to prevent the problem, and you simply chose not to.

(I assume that the reader will know whether this rant applies to them or not.)

Let's talk about technology.

For many of us, talk of #technology and people immediately jump to computers & electronics. That's technology. Everything else is. Well not.

As a society and culture, it's like we've forgotten that all other technological advancements that came before.

At it's core. Technology is about energy amplification. Taking an input of energy from the human, and magnifying it to get more energy out than went in.

That's all technology is.

Let's talk about this item.

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@joepie91 I've done protests with like, 8 people. handed out info. chatted with people, got them informed. always useful.

Just an observation: the number of cybertrucks out in the world numbers in the low 10s of thousands. They could easily ~all be torched in a weekend with enough organization.

But this is just an observation.

backlit panning shot i took of a bombardier Regina, one of my favourite trains

#photography #railfanning

I've been wondering, where *does* this idea come from that you need to show up with thousands of people for a protest to be 'meaningful' or 'effective'?

You only need a handful of people (like, under 100) to cause unrelenting havoc for a long time and force an organization's hand through direct action.

But to make a significant difference in an election, voting-wise, you need *way more* than a few thousand people, to do it reliably (and it must be reliable, because that's the threat underpinning the protest).

So then what strategy for change does this idea of "thousands of people protesting" serve, exactly?

*Does* it actually serve anyone's strategy?

politics, disability 

Irregular reminder to those who need it: There are disabled people in the United States of America who are unable to leave despite their lives being directly threatened.

It costs money to move internationally, and being legally considered disabled in the US means an upper limit of $2000 in assets - go over, welp you're not disabled anymore.

Plus, immigration generally requires one to have a job lined up in the destination country, and disabled people don't get hired.

USpol, Mahmoud Khalil 

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/114

edited to add the link for the online petition for his release: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema

I know online petitions are limited in their direct utility (and if you decide to sign please take time to think about how much information about yourself to include) but at least the high number of signatures is keeping this story in the news.

From August 2023, here is my incredibly long recap of the pandemic, from “crazy times lol” to “you do you” to “to what end.”

sparklingobservationalist.medi

Does anyone have any particularly readable Nix configs they might recommend for a new user? Particularly any that combine NixOS and nix-darwin configs.

Getting my 'new' dining table and chairs tomorrow! Solid wood, seems pretty old, and it was listed on the local classifieds for free pickup!

Will be nice to finally have a sturdy table to do stuff at. I expect it'll need a little work to get it back into nice shape, but with solid wood that shouldn't really be an issue.

Definitely will need to replace the seat covers at least, they're quite old and worn out.

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