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If you'd date a tankie you tacitly admit you'd allow your polycule's opsec to be comprised by Kim Jong Un

Found a nice nudibranch yesterday at the tide pools.

There should be a word for when OEMs ship intentionally broken and stripped down versions of the OS loaded with their own spyware or premium services to replace what was intentionally broken. So that I can use that term to essentially describe their white collar programmer crime of intentionally making shit worse as a middleware designer.

For example, AOSP, what Android is based on, has many useful, free features that device manufacturers intentionally remove before they ship. The hotspot settings tile that lets you make a wifi AP from your phone using your 4G/5G cellular modem as an internet gateway. Everyone loves that, but it gets removed and then users are tricked into installing or enabling paid spyware that replaces it, or denied the feature outright. I'm sure there are more examples. Removing functional features that serve everyone free of cost from upstream code and grafting some corporate middleware grift in its place if anything at all.

bad idea: USB-C flash drive shaped like a 5.25" floppy disk.

and it checks which way you plugged it in, and only shows you that half of the files. You want to see the other files? flip it over!

Across Africa, a growing number of people are struggling to meet their most basic needs.

See Afrobarometer's latest in this week’s issue

#LivedPoverty #VoicesAfrica

I saw a lot of media groups that were putting out pro-Gaza content carefully removing or editing out any pride flags at protests in the U.S.

Do not allow that without comment. Queer people organized for Gaza.

Remember that.

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this is a tankie hate account 

yeah sure let's take medical advice from the guy who died in his own piss because he had all the doctors killed for being jewish. such an inspiration. german leftists still hump their stalin bodypillows all night long and fantasize about putting all the women who rejected them in gulags

oh shit i gotta go beddy bye. i gotta go night night. i'm hankering ta honk shoo honk shoo

The government doesn't care about your bugs. You can have as many as you want.

I highly recommend using Signal for your DnD group chat, Tor to look up hummus recipes and an encrypted email for your wedding RSVPs. The more people are using this sort of thing for completely innocuous stuff the less suspicious it becomes, and as a bonus you feel like you're doing something helpful while you're working out minicabs and compiling your Auntie Mary's dietary requirements.

I kept putting off finishing it because, you know, everything sucks, but I put together a mastodon archive viewer website/tool here:

mastodon-viewer.muffinlabs.com

It does the whole '100% local processing' thing, so you can specify your archive zipfile and everything is processed/stored locally. You can also use it to generate a website suitable for uploading somewhere and sharing your toots if you want.

My initial goal was to have this out in the world before botsin.space closed down, but again, the world/etc.

There's a few other tools out there that will do this for you, and a couple of them are definitely nicer looking, if not more functional than this one, but this might be the only mastodon archive viewer that does in-browser processing, offers an export, and also has the source code available -- at github.com/muffinista/mastodon

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