If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
it's from a video game stream. someone else used the word 'hoe' while gardening in a game called starbound. here's a clip, there's a link to the actual source in the description.
"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."
the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."
with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.
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Black Mastodon users are writing in frustration that people don’t believe that #racism exists on Mastodon. As a new moderator, I can assure you that racism is very real here. Be sure to report it when you find it so that we can stamp it out.
@dan613 I like the approach! Black Mastodon – although never heard of it – might be the reason, there is no rascism on Mastodon! #BlackMastodon#rascism#goodnews
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that ANYONE who belittles someone else's experience has some baggage, either:
• guilt over their own past behavior or lack of helping, or
• delusional denial of reality on all topics
Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.
Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa:
When an app asks for permissions, the OS should not only let you answer yes or no. Every category should have a "yes, but feed the app fake data" option.
Want my contacts for no reason? Have these generated fake ones! Wanna listen to my microphone? Here's random ambiance sounds! Location? I'm on a tiny 5x5m island!
Hell yeah! Put it all in your databases mfers!
Actively punishing services wins over boycotts any day. Didn't want that junk in the database? Don't ask for it!
@Nifflas Love it. Some privacy-focused Android forks can do this for some kinds of sensor data. IIRC you can spoof location data by using only the developer menu and an app.
Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.
The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".
@petergleick Yup. Plus: If there are 1000 Mozarts at the same time, doing the same thing, will any of them be recognized as a Mozart? And if we are really talking Mozart: Do we need 1000 Mozarts? Given that his work is around forever already and for all to enjoy - don't we rather need more music education, more musicians, more opportunities to enjoy live music for all, which we all could have if money weren't in the hands of billionaires?
...so obviously the problem isn't a matter of not enough people.
Actually the fact that people who are just so fucking beyond-the-pale stupid, mediocre, and unequivocally unremarkable happen to be the richest people in the world today has a lot more to do with it than birth rates... I mean Musk is proof-positive that this isn't a meritocracy.
ABAAMM?
ABAMAM?
BAMAMA?
MAMABA?
MAMBAA? Oh, there we go, that's close. a little sheepish at the end though.
MAAMBA? Not bad. I like it. Rolls off the tongue.
Cyber-MAMBAA...
Techno-MAAMBA...
"The EU has just designated the cyber-MAAMBA overlords as Gatekeepers..."
Thank you for clarifying what is happening here. Because I was unsure if some rooms were stacks or heaps. But sorted by last modified makes more sense. 😂
The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c
@hacks4pancakes Imagine being able to track the online activity of an entire firm and sell that information to their competitors. Phrased that way, if there was a simple way to make that data difficult to aggregate and correlate plus reduce non-business-related network traffic, how many C-suite and IT execs would turn it down? Frame this surveillance and security issue as "just ads" and watch the vast majority shrug it off. :/
This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.
Anyway, she's 11 now. Her bedtime is later, and she knows we don't mind if she stays up reading. She still loves books, but there are lots of things – messaging with friends, Roblox, etc – competing for her attention.
At some point, though, she figured out how to check out books on Libby, and read them on her iPad. She doesn't need our help at all.
It's the weirdest thing. Someone must have installed the app, entered her library card information, and left the icon there on the home screen.
Quite a few people sure were surprised to learn that all their posts can be read without a BlueSky account. Especially those who fled Xitter to be a bit more sheltered from harassers and nazis.
For all its faults, Mastodon is the better platform for people who care about having control over their data. It's definitely not perfect in that regard either, but at least it tries.
Also, it has GIFs and videos and polls. Based on BlueSky's dev velocity, they'll have that sometime 2032.