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stupidjim

@stupidjim@mastodon.social

Hi there! My name is Jim, from #europe, and I'm drawing silly comics about silly people. Oh, comics can contain sarcasm. It may show a different opinion than the mainstream. Oh my.

Updated every week!

Coming from a different instance? See all my comics here: https://mastodon.social/@stupidjim

#webcomic #neutral #comic #fair #funny #silly

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GossiTheDog, to random
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Another clanger from Microsoft -

  • zero day vulnerability being exploited in Windows OS for six months in the wild by North Korea

  • They didn’t tell anybody, took six months to make a patch

  • released the patch without saying what happened

  • didn’t mark it as a zero day in Microsoft Vulnerability Management

You’d think having the largest market cap in the world and having $2bn a year in revenue from security alone would allow.. uh.. investment.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-kernel-bug-fixed-last-month-exploited-as-zero-day-since-august/

stupidjim,
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@GossiTheDog It's a corporation, what did you expect.

Stop. using. corporate. services.

stupidjim,
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@GossiTheDog Your choice, but you loose the right to complain when they frik up things again.

chrisramirez, to random
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"Strange to think that an embryo can lose it's rights if it develops into a female."

stupidjim,
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@chrisramirez Just curious: which rights?

RickiTarr, to random
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Something I've noticed a lot lately, is that especially Boomer women, but honestly, women in general, don't seem to ask for what they want or need in a direct way. I notice this a lot with my Mom and her friends. Instead of just asking for what they need directly they tell a story, to ask in a roundabout way. For instance, my Mom needed help this morning, and Instead of just saying, "Hey, I dropped my remote, can you pick it up for me?" She tells a one minute story about what happened, no ask, and eventually I get the point, and then suggest that I come pick it up. Or if one of her friends wants to do something like have a birthday party for a friend, they don't say "We should have a party!" They say, It's Sarah's Birthday coming up, you know she likes surprises, what does everyone think we should do?"

I often wonder if this is why older people think younger women are rude and demanding, because younger people often just ask for what they want and need in a more direct way. But also it's probably just straight up sexism, because men are supposed to make decisions, and women are supposed to make suggestions.

What do you all think? Is this just me? Have you experienced something similar?

stupidjim,
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@RickiTarr This is where it shows that newer generations are learnign from older ones and start to break free.

Older generations aren't 'bad', they just got tought that way, like newer generations are now in a new way.

MnemosyneSinger, to random

What if - hear me out -- what if we stopped tying people to trolley tracks and invested in public transportation?

stupidjim,
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@MnemosyneSinger That would be a severe cut in autoindustry, leading to less insurencing, less oil/gas sales, less medicine sales/hospital care after car incidents, less conflicts in the middle east and less polution.

Not sure if the US might be ok with this.

timbray, to random
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This story is mind-boggling. Air freight is now dominated by Shein, Temu, and so on; 600k packages / day, which is 108 Boeing 777 freight plane equivalents. Crazy: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rise-fast-fashion-shein-temu-roils-global-air-cargo-industry-2024-02-21/

stupidjim,
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@timbray Made a panel exactly about this.

https://mastodon.social/@stupidjim/111413784800723117

stupidjim,
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@NatureMC @timbray We need regulation indeed, and also less (social) media, which created this chaos in the first place.

kissane, to random
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Mutual aid funds helping families evacuate from Gaza. Everything helps. (Folks who are also on TikTok and Insta, lots of sharing reqs for those platforms.)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/htmlview

(I got this doc from a brilliant public-health friend I'd 100% trust with my own family's lives and who also has connections in the region, so I consider it solid.)

stupidjim,
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@kissane Are you sure it's a good thing to have a document on a platform who's investors benefit from the Israel war on Palestine?

Maybe just upload it to a server, disconnected form Google.

Just trying to help.

CindyWeinstein, to queer
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Thank you for posting this, @Lizette603_23


stupidjim,
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@CindyWeinstein @Lizette603_23 Although I do believe there are physically only 4 geneders (man, woman, both, none) I do believe every-body has the right to choose whatever the frik they want to be.

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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I’m very concerned about Apple breaking the web by intentionally removing PWA features in the EU.

If we assume good intentions and the root issue is merely one of regulatory deadlines—an almost $3 trillion (USD) market cap company would make a plan to work with third-party browsers to add that compatibility back in (or at the very least provide APIs for others to do so).

But as far as I can tell they’re just removing the feature (only in the EU??) with no plan at all to add it back? yikes

stupidjim,
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@zachleat How could anyone assume good intentions on a corporation, let alone a $3 trillion market-dominating one?

rolle, (edited ) to fediverse
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Why do you like Mastodon (or any open source Fediverse app of your choosing) the most? (You can choose multiple choices)

Boosts appreciated for reach.

stupidjim,
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@rolle How did you get more then 4 options? Sick.

stupidjim,
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@rolle Soemthing else: It's non american. (here in Europe we only have american corporate social media, not a single EU one)

stupidjim,
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@rolle Looks interesting, though 10000 chars is a bit too much I think and invites people to write more detailed then needed.

On the other hand, I've been looking for a feature that would really be interesting: make a regional setting for the explore tabs.

https://mastodon.social/@stupidjim/111444743206207983

Because here in the EU, 32 countries, and even on mastodon I still only get suggested US stuff, which is really annoying and kind of why I left regular social media. I could explain you more detail if you'd like.

aires, to windows
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Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use , , or any version of with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

@blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

stupidjim,
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@aires @blackmastodon Just curious, did his re-using trick for the punch cards involved adding a sticker on it? (just had a brainfart, sorry)

stupidjim,
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@drwex @dcreemer @aires @blackmastodon You two should grab a coffee!

ncoca, to privacy
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Looking for a new for my Some requirements

  • minded (so with servers not in a 5-eyes nation) and secure.
  • Truly independent, does not piggyback off of Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Cloudfare services.
  • User friendly - I'm not a coder!
  • Good customer service.
  • Ideally, supports the and web.

Willing to pay more for this, as I know privacy isn't cheap. Hoping .Coop folks also have ideas!

stupidjim,
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@ncoca If european ones are ok for you then Hetzner or Centron seem good to start.

stupidjim, to journalism
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German media coverage is raising questions.

Half a million people through the whole of Germany (not just berlin) are demonstrating hard to keep things fair for everybody, they deserve fair coverage.

Why is center-left media toning down on these huge protests, they should be supporting it.

ProPublica, to oregon
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The Timber Industry Won Huge Cuts in the 1990s. Now It May Get Another Break Thanks to a Top Lawmaker.

As the cost of fighting increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from the biggest landowners and onto taxpayers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-timber-industry-tax-cuts-legislature?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

stupidjim,
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@ProPublica *tree-cuts *top Lawnmaker

davidho, to random
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Pro tip: Bring your phone with you on a hike. That way, if you get lost, you can post on Mastodon and someone will invariably come up behind you and tell you how to write your alt text.

stupidjim,
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@davidho I hate to say it, but alt text is for blind people, who are getting lost without any directions.

CindyWeinstein, to random
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Thanks @debblue

stupidjim,
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@CindyWeinstein @debblue Damn right. Grab them where it hurts.

stupidjim, to Canada
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Any CANADIANS here?

These guys taking the lead with demanding a first PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA server and need 500 signatures to spin it off. Go sign!

https://mastodon.social/@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/111800528813454219

p.s. every country should have this!

campuscodi, (edited ) to random
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Mozilla has accused the three major browser makers—Apple, Google, and Microsoft—of sabotaging Firefox.

The company says it launched a new issue tracker where it intends to document the ways in which platforms put Firefox at a disadvantage.

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/

stupidjim,
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@medina87 @strife @campuscodi @jztusk Safari is Apple and Gnome is full of google stuff. The top menu starts with 'Me and google'.

Not a single european browser, only american ones, there's nothing 'free' in that.

nixCraft, to opensource
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Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms
utilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube (or Piped.video or JioSaavn) as an audio source,
eliminating the need for Spotify Premium

stupidjim,
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@niavy @nixCraft It's still youtube. (using it -even though ripped- is still promoting it)

GottaLaff, to Zelensky
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Bluff called.

“President Volodymyr has extended an invitation to Donald to visit Kyiv, with a specific condition attached.

Speaking with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 News, Zelensky said that Trump would be warmly received in the capital under one stipulation: the former U.S. president must demonstrate his ability to bring an end to the war with Russia within 24 hours, as he once promised.”

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-invites-trump-to-ukraine/

stupidjim,
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@accretionist @GottaLaff In 2014 huge gas fields were found in the black sea. (UKRAINE..)

The US saw business (LNG) and went there, including their (social) media.

All of a sudden the president gets changed into a pro-american.. comedy actor?

Russia wants to get the US out of Kiev, because they know what time it is and so they march to Kiev to get the US out.

The US then starts the typical: Scream war, take resources, sell weapons blame neighbours, while swimming in profits.

w7voa, to random
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In Australia, “some ABC journalists, worried about losing their jobs, are deleting their past social media posts in which they’ve shared Human Rights Watch content.” https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/01/18

stupidjim,
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@w7voa Look, ABC is an american 'news' channel owned by Disney.

Disney is owned by investors who also invest in US arms corperations. They need to have a favour for Israel to keep bombing. That's how they make money.

Showing evidence that Israel is not allowed to bomb, means no more weapons sold, means no more profit.

You do the math.

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