

Chaturbate
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuiler


Chaturbate


Firefox is teetering on the edge
Get LibreWolf . They take FF builds and rip out the telemetry/ads/AI/enshit.
It’s… beautiful


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Paraphrasing Robert Heinlein:
Editors are people who like the taste of a drink better after they’ve pissed in it a little


Honestly I wish people treated their emotions like their plumbing.
When something is making wierd noises or seems like it’s going whack or spewing shit on you, you call a pro
Human emotions are way way more complex and fiddly than plumbing. Don’t be stupid and wind up covered in feces. Hire a pro.




Loudly say what I really think of certain people.
My God, the one time I wasn’t on mute almost ended my career


It’s the very best of Clarke’s work: when he lets a good writer do the storytelling, and sticks himself to figuring out the logical conclusion of new technology



One of the plot points is that in response to panopticon-style surveillance, an underground counterculture emerges of people who become invisible – hiding under camo, blankets, etc. And never speaking; only using sign language directly touching another person’s hands to keep communication private.
Non rooted phones usually have read-only OS partition so even if malware is present, it can’t affect the OS itself
Which do you like best for a daily driver?
Same boat here. I still futz with my PinePhone but mostly as a portable music/video player.
Eagerly awaiting the rebirth of CalyxOS


privacy nightmare
If lots of random civilians are wearing them and training them on ICE/police/fascism then the privacy nightmare might run both ways. There are a lot fewer masked enforcers than civilians. And a lot more stochastic violence in the air.
Piefed is more like Slide or one of the other alternative Reddit clients
More privacy, cleaner Python code anyone can help improve, less weird rightwing science denialism


Scientific research
Sci-hub FTW


50+ Caucasian cis male multinational tech company middle manager here.
I speak Spanish on work zooms, when everyone else is in Mexico.
TBH I do it because I try to avoid being the asshole boss who everyone else has to accommodate, and instead be the pluralistic, humble boss that shows appropriate deference and respect to the employees that actually do the work.


Offense: “a bit rude”
Punishment: no job, bad references, no health insurance
Thank you for your past service o7
(I want to normalize open source contributors getting the same kind of recognition for providing a Public Good that we currently give to teachers, de-escalatory police, and following-legal-orders military)