Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

Your genetics do not determine who you are as a person.

Your memetics- the genetics of your ideas, the lineages of spirituality and wisdom throughout the ages, the culture that you were raised in, the faiths you follow or scorn, who you see as worthy of love and humanity- that is the measure of who you are.

IT kitties

EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-governments-choose-independence-from-us-cloud-providers-with-nextcloud/ #nextcloud #pressrelease #business #blog #news

US public libraries fighting to lend ebooks https://gnusocial.no/url/1629825

Centralization is to convenience what prison is to free housing

There should be a list somewhere of all fediverse instances that no longer exist. A social media grave yard.

the most important feature i can possibly contribute for linux 5.4:

"linux now supports up to 3 floppy drive controllers. wtf?? who needs this"

computer tech from the 1980s is still everywhere, hiding behind the scenes in everything we do, and isn't going away anytime soon

the faa uses 386 and 486 at clones running from floppies to control airplane runway lighting

that i know of, both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies are also used in textile manufacturing, as well as metal machining for aircraft parts. the most accurate cnc machines still use these and use custom interfaces, so floppy emulators aren't an option

oh my god my cs professor is presenting his slides in emacs org mode

horrible US history fact:

The US used to forcibly sterilize the mentally disabled and ill as part of a eugenics program

and yes, the Nazis were inspired by it

and I don't think the US has ever truly reconciled it's past

instead, we just buried it, just like American businessmen links with Nazis

https://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/

Receipt paper is carcinogenic.
Avoiding receipts by stealing everything.

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