uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
Well, it's happened. The International Criminal Court's e-mail services (specifically those of the head prosecutor) at Microsoft have been shut down, most likely as a result of the sanctions that Trump applied to the ICC after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.
The prosecutor now cannot do their job anymore.
The danger of relying on US-based tech companies is no longer hypothetical now.
I'll certainly miss having a space on the internet to ask questions and receive help
Dear Author! We always had that. It was IRC, it was mailing lists, it was forums, it was the Fediverse. Still are, really.
You know what's common between all of those? None are centralized silos run by for-profit corporations. Maybe there's something to learn from that.
I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out and help each other continue to be popular – whether they are in the form of Discord servers, WhatsApp or Telegram groups, or something else.
...or maybe some won't. Too bad.
Several commenters under this post seem upset that the pill is prescribed starting at an age of 13 years.
Do these commenters want more teen pregnancies? Cause that's how you get more teen pregnancies
my great uncle was a military orchestra conductor and eventually ended up in tiraspol and settled there with his family. no one really had contact with that part of the family...until we got a letter in the early 90s. asking for a vhs recorder. because they had heard we made it to the west, and therefore, we owed them, and they wanted a vhs recorder. so obviously my mom got them a used vhs recorder, because not doing so would be kinda admitting that all that emigration gave her was depression, xenophobia and isolation.
there's just the small issue where tiraspol ended up being the capital of an internationally unrecognized splinter republic. sending a vhs there turned out to be an bureaucratic nightmare. after regular mail failed, she eventually paid a long-distance bus driver to take it to ukraine and hand it off to someone there.
we never heard anything back.
anyway, that's the shit i think about whenever i see an vhs recorder in the trash
As someone who conversion practices were attempted on, I urge you to sign this petition and get in to the finish line.
I was lucky enough to notice early ok what that “therapist” was trying to do and get out of there. These practices are cruel and dehumanizing.
Free texture websites for 3D artists. I replaced a link with a new one: **OnlyGFX**. I believe cc0-textures' security was compromised, not sure, but playing it safe for now.
#artresources #assets #2dassets #gamedev #indiedev #textures
http://texturer.com/
https://ambientcg.com/
https://duion.com/
https://polyhaven.com/
https://stocksnap.io/
https://texture.ninja/
https://texturelabs.org/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/
https://www.onlygfx.com/
https://www.sharetextures.com/
https://www.texturecan.com/
@joepie91 Om nog maar niet te spreken dat bedrijven miljoenen over de balk smijten om de meningen en het koopgedrag van de bevolking te beïnvloeden door middel van reclames 😬
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Boosting this again for a final push:
Most petitions don't have much impact, but if this European Citizens Initiative on banning conversion therapy reaches 1 million signatures by Saturday it will mean that it will be discussed at the European Parliament.
200,000 people have signed in the last 24 hours and it only needs 190,000 to reach the target.
Please sign and share. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/
the other thing i will never get tired of is seeing cis straight boy streamers getting extremely confused about kiri's gender because she's soft butch
PSA: you're allowed to play and enjoy games on the easiest settings. This is your free time and you're not less of a gamer for playing games the way they are the most enjoyable for you.
Brought to you by me who has gotten back into Raft on the "peaceful" setting. I don't want to fight sharks, I just want to fish for resources and build. 🤷♀️ So that's what I'm doing.
The EU and honestly any other group of nations can fix the American IT hegemony problem, they can fund universally available FOSS tools that run as cloud services or locally for smaller orgs/businesses. It would not be that expensive, the work force to do it is global and very enthusiastic. Hosting is basically the same (though if you hosting was free your data was never yours) and many tools, already exist. We run infra on Next Cloud, and most of it works great (the email client is meh)
Octopus Energy posted me a 321 A4 page electricity bill printed out on paper as a physical 5cm thick package (on their "Agile tariff" the rate changes every half hour, so there are 48 line items per day). I enquired as to why they'd done that?
Apparently they tried to email it first, but the 15 MB email exceeded my email server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead.
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.