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@vantablack it baffles me that the link preview isn't just generated once, by the client of the person posting the link, and just attached to the AP note as extra data during federation after publishing.

This is how a lot of messaging apps handle it, which always ensures a link preview is only ever generated once whenever a user shares it.

White dudes, particularly cis/hetero/non-disabled/christian, lived experiences are LIMITED which means that, on the majority of subjects that interest me, so are your opinions…WITHOUT intention and strategic effort, your ideas and behavior are curated to cause harm

@KimCrayton1 white dude opinions are precisely the opposite of high-variety, full of shared blind spots begat from high privilege and highly-overpapping monotonous life circumstances. This really shouldn't be that controversial, but of course some boring low-variety guy is gonna get pissed off huh?

saw an ad with an elevator full of people coughing, visualisation of viruses flying around, and the solution for it was some silly vitamin c thing

no no, the solution is you should be wearing a mask.

subtoot, cultural appropriation, slang 

when you hear "gen Z slang", your first thought should be "is this actually just appropriated AAVE that has been stripped of its cultural context and is now being used to enrich white people instead of those who coined it?"

like I'm pretty sure skibidi toilet is its own thing, for example, but "no cap" is an Atlanta hiphop thing, "slay" originated in Black/Latinx queer ball culture, "queen" is most likely a clipping of "drag queen" ... like, this is literally what cultural appropriation is: getting elevated for doing things that would get marginalized people punished.

ICYMI, my partner @nullagent was assaulted last night protesting at a #Seattle City Council member's home over the anti-homeless/anti-SW legislation that's underway.

He's heading over to urgent care now to get a full assessment, and possible stitches for the head wound.

We are getting some extra help at home this week, but he REALLY needs to rest up and take it easy while he recovers.

Update: we launched a fundraising page! Please donate + share.

shorturl.at/A5SQA

#mutualaid

Begpost for my fiancee's birthday today (18th), please reboost 

Hey friends,

Happy birthday to the love and light of my life 🧡

I'd like to raise more money for her birthday if possible, please, to get my fiancee gifts and send her the money, so she can buy what she wants. These last months have been awful for her too, so I want her to enjoy her day as much as possible. She'd need clothing.

Any donation is appreciated if you can. Thank you so much for your precious help!

paypal.me/VirgileMougin

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Back up your stuff, folks. I'm lucky I have enough backups to deal with my external drive having a head crash

it's wild to me that people will watch tiktok on the train on max volume speakerphone and not give it a second thought

re: windows install adventure 

@reese The only difference we've noticed with "Windows To Go" is that is breaks the pirate Windows pre-activation. So you get the naggy thingy to "Activate Windows".

a compute cluster is when a bunch of robotgirls form a cuddle pile

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re: windows install adventure 

@reese this all smells like a scheme to make external drive manufacturers shell out money for an official "Windows To Go" license on their disks tbh. No way there is any functional difference between an unlicensed drive and a licensed one.

windows install adventure 

Apparently you have to use a 3rd-party tool called Rufus that is Windows-only to create a 'Windows To Go' install on any non-MS approved external drive. The official windows install mediums themselves will all just refuse if they detect a drive attached over USB. Unfortunately this is a my passport drive so I can't just shuck it to get a SATA connection, so I had to setup a Windows VM just to use Rufus, to install Windows.

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I had no clue that Windows will whine and kick like an unhappy mule if you try putting it on an external drive.

programming 

I always forget the JVM is supposed to make things easier when the time comes to actually try building a project on it. It just makes way less sense than traditional compilation and project build management regardless of what tools you use. I love several JVM languages but they will always be held back by their ridiculous and bafflingly complex build systems. I would kill to just be dealing with regular old compiling and linking errors, this is torture.

Why do all the MIME associations reset every time I update my OS 😬

No I don't wanna use Wine Notepad to open a .txt file, this is the sixth time I set it to something else, please stop 😭

School that only teaches things that bees do: masonry, carpentry, leaf cutting, bumbling, etc.

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