re: "Stop complaining and just block them" crowd
The "just block them" crowd would get more reception from people complaining about the shit culture on fedi if:
- They actually had the same idea about who needs to be blocked. Threads complaining about people complaining about being told to just "block everybody" to solve the problem bring the shithead mutuals out there for us to all see. News flash! The rest of us did block them, as well as your smug asshole mutuals.
- Shared moderation tools were more prevalent to avoid repeated work on new instances.
- There still needs to be a "suspend every server involved in this thread" button.
- Paid minority moderation staff. Can't state this enough. Way easier for more privileged userbases to find comfort here on a hobbyist level of effort. Combating racism on here in particular takes some full-time shit and gets very little intersectional sympathy, much less action, from the majority white users/admins.
Yeah being able to fucking block everybody is a great feature. However it isn't winning hearts and minds being a smug asshole about it when it works so easily *for you*. And! If somebody is in your replies being a bit overeager to be smug towards people being harassed online, maybe reevaluate whether you should block them too!
Fermat's Little Theorem cannot be used to test if someone is a Little- I mean- primality of a number
Considering 4chan’s continuing fight for influence in the fedi, you really should read this.
There is a reckoning coming that’s right around the corner and the fedi is going to have to make a choice in what it’s about.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet
Firefox nightly gets “AI” kill switch
After a seemingly endless stream of tone deaf news from Mozilla, we've finally got some good news for Firefox users. As the company's been hinting at for a while on social media now, they've added an "AI" kill switch to the latest Firefox nightly release, as well as a set of toggles to disable specific "AI" features.
You can choose to use some of the
https://www.osnews.com/story/144321/firefox-nightly-gets-ai-kill-switch/
sigh So I gotta move next month (end of March, at most) while dealing with legal snafus of my car accident from last year.
And worse, I was out sick last week and will be short on rent, due on the 1st.
2026 is going great, y'all! (NOT)
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It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu
Next year at the FSF we are partnering with Northrup Grumann to ensure the entire stack, from the runway to the killing fields, is fully libre. Right now users have complained that the missiles killing them contain non-free proprietary "blobs" and we heard you! Next year you can be reduced to cinders and ash by anyone willing to reciprocate with open contributions to the Torment Nexus.
Don't worry! It runs Linux and FOSS software is here to help you! If we restricted this usage you would be less free. Oh. And missiles just do that. Sorry about your house.
February is the Black History Month here in the US, and a great opportunity to recommit to making the fediverse (and beyond!) a safe and welcoming place for Black people.
Let's continue to lift up their voices, celebrate their joys, and if you see trouble, step in and help out.
us/latam pol (cold war era) / open source
apparently, SIL, the organizaton which made the Open Font License, is an evangelical christian org which, in its efforts to spread the word of god to people, strongly collaborated with u.s. intelligence (which sought to use evangelical christianity as a weapon in the cold war against catholic liberation theology, which aligned priests with the working class) and had a hand in persecuting liberation-theory-involved catholics in central and south america
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C++ C MIPS x86 Java Python Rust and a few others :P