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i have spent a long time thinking about what the free software movement means to me, and why i care about it. i’ve decided that, for the most part, the free software movement is missing the point.

i’ve decided that i care about ethical software, not free software.

it’s not how free the software is that matters. it’s who uses it, and what they use it for.

most software must have its source available in order to be ethical - but that is not a requirement.

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medical device, hacking, recall, diabetes 

Medtronic is recalling insulin pump controllers because they allow third parties to change settings to fatal values--murder by hacking. The potential for this has been known for decades. fda.gov/medical-devices/medica

Text of love poem 

I'm still figuring out how to use stuff. 😅

Text of the poem reads:

Have I knelt at the altar of your beauty before?
Have I sucked dew from your skin and slept in your shade?

Petal by petal, my fingers trace the world in your skin
And you are as a cherry blossom tree;
blooming after many winters.

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Hi I am a big goof and wrote a love poem.

I like it but also my situation is not one where I should really necessarily be exchanging love poems right now. So, y'all get a secret poem till I'm ready to give it to them.

write.as/6yfs1kbt7nr3z

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twitter from a physio about ME/CFS 

suggestions from a physiotherapist about reasonable things that physiotherapy *can* actually do for ME/CFS when the topic isn't monopolised by the ascientific Graded Exercise Therapy. the suggestions are practical stuff about establishing patient baseline activity, diagnosing dysautonomic factors and so on (none of it is curative in itself, which is what the BSP clique claims about GET):

twitter.com/karenphysiocouk/st

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We know you're hiring, shut up about it. Everybody's hiring. If you're hiring, it's because you sucked at valuing your employees.

@mithrandir@raru.re @vanillacherry I'd like to posit that it does, but that they don't even realize that needing glasses or a parking lot for a vehicle, for example, is an accommodation for accessibility.

Fuckin ableist 'disability' binary.

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I've never been in a poly relationship but I imagine that means multiple people can borrow your hoodies now

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drink 

hi fedi it's been 20 days since my last toot (about drinking water) and I'd like to inform everyone that I've indulged in the consumption of many more beverages (including more water) since

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pro-tip: if you ever get a bit.ly link that you don't trust, add a "+" to the end of the URL so you can be taken to the info page instead

e.g.: bit.ly/3AOKQTQ -> bit.ly/3AOKQTQ+

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@teh_dude so cool.

Image depicts a food stand with some of the construction material emblazoned with 'sun microsystems' branding.

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i wanna help queer people learn how 2 hackig and server maid tbh

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@thegibson@hackers.town
Energetic, thrilled, bubbly valley girl voice:

I'm in!~ 💖✨

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I've been reading a lot about how color terms differ between languages and how that effects people's ability to differentiate and remember colors based on what language they speak. It kind of makes me want to create a constructed language that's only used to express color terms and see if it affects how I think about and see color.

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i cannot express my fucking schadenfreude at every boss shitting themselves at the revelation that dangling life and death over others was not the trump card they thought

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Just finished the local PBS station’s documentary on the Minneapolis Co-Op wars, telling the story of how the booming co-op grocery scene in the 1970s was almost torn apart by a fight between organic food idealists and communist organizers. Really fun and informative: tpt.org/co-op-wars/

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