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What really irritates me are the arguments against federated networks that boil down to "but you need to trust some rando and you don't know their intentions" and then go on to suggest as the alternative some tech company's centralized platform instead, even though that tech company is fundamentally also just "some rando" except now it's certain that their intentions are malicious

Professor brute-forcing the TLD on libgen by hand to find a working mirror.
vs
Professor strapped with a Z-Library login who gets right to business.

Let's ask the real question:

Firefox users,

do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?

@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante

#Firefox #InformedConsent

Kd Uni Registration Mutual Aid | Goal R5,259/R100,000 | Due End of Jan 

Still Sitting at 2% on Ko-Fi. The year is kicking off and the anxiety of being able to register for this year is really kicking in.

Please do contribute if you can 🫂 .

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kaedeart/goal?g=2
backabuddy: backabuddy.co.za/campaign/plea

#MutualAid #QueerMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Linux woes 

KDE wayland bug where left click is stuck down in softeare regardless of what you do. Thankfully touch works, but I'd appreciate being able to use a pointer device without a reboot. What kind of weird input plumbing could even cause this? Things made sense in X11, I just don't get it anymore.

To be clear. This is super rare and I have yet to intentionally replicate it. So it isn't really actionable right now.

People genuinely care about their image unless they are being critiqued by a war reenactor larper weirdo in a costume from last century. Then they don't. Pro tip. Also lose the damn vests nobody listens to anybody in a vest without resenting it.

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:sayori_dislike: Weird leftcom political vanguard roleplay.
:sayori_like: Actually speaking up over bigots and assholes in everyday life and just fucking telling them to shutup without having some kinda aesthetic obsession over performing it as political identity.

THE SINGULARITY IS HERE!

[YTP] Lil Zucc - Meta Verse

YouTube link:
youtu.be/3Bq62TPh59A

PeerTube link:
bark.video/w/8vRcWYGLDyeBBT9Ci

:boost_requested:

I put a lot of work into manually making the English captions, so if you have trouble with un-captioned YouTubePoops, don't worry!

Ancient Near East is such a bad classification. Like... near what? Huh??

Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: archive.boston.com/news/globe/

I've never met an 18 foot tall blue bird

Hilton Hotel That Refused DHS Reservations Backpedals

The hotel told 404 Media in a statement “We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.”

404media.co/hilton-hotel-that-

re: US fascists facing a minor setback 

@t54r4n1 imagining hotel chain owners who are really serious 3rd amendment guys.

@hazelnot try that and run the command again and see what the output looks like, and whether you can connect. Never hurts to ensure that it actually works on your end first.

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