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xinit

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I grew up in #Canada, but it just didn't work out. I've been in the #Netherlands since 2018, and sometime in 2024, we plan to apply for citizenship.

Maybe we know each other from #LiveJournal some #Vancouver or #Toronto events. I've done #Music #Journalism, #Photography and #FineArts and accidentally "fell into" #IT, and then further into Financial IT.

#DragonCon

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benroyce, to twitter
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I've been pretty tolerant of people still on #Twitter

I'm now going to full intolerant

#ElonMusk recently reinstated the account of an outright #Nazi

GET. THE. FUCK. OFF. TWITTER.

It is a Russian #troll farm, #racist, #bigot paradise. Stop feeding this cesspool!

GET. THE. FUCK. OFF. TWITTER.

NOW

xinit,
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@benroyce I thought for a second someone had legit boosted Nick here. That was terrifying.

xinit,
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@SnoopJ

Even if there was a sign that it was a screenshot, it would help - I've seen people draw a red line through screenshots to indicate it's not a live display, for example.

I'm relieved it wasn't Nick, but held my breath for a second.

@benroyce

xinit,
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@benroyce it's perfectly fine for me, I was just surprised not critiquing per se. I think a CW is the way to go, but the attached image is what I've seen on other networks before (not fedi).

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE. 1/…

Bower:

Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.

He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.

The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.

But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.

xinit,
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@GottaLaff "will have to consider" is too soft to get through Trump's skull. It's going to have to be "this is the last time this court will sentence you to pennies for your contempt. Next time you will enjoy the facilities at Riker's"

xinit,
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@GottaLaff my first thought was that it sounds like (in the text, which is hard) he's a soft parent using weasel words like "might have to consider" with a petulant child.

I hope he really is able to follow through, but the idea of having to spend all day Wednesday or over a weekend in a Riker's dorm amuses me.

Thanks for ensuring the courtroom for those of us with less patience :D

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Really wish I'd had another choice in voting for a president. Listening to the current presidents remarks about the legality of the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide student protests does not inspire me.

xinit,
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@BobC7000

Did you get lost on your way to Twitter this morning? I think it's perfectly reasonable to have regret over having to pick from two different shitty options.

@Adam_Cadmon1

atomicpoet, to random
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Unskippable intros in video games suck.

xinit,
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@atomicpoet how will we ever know how to move around or jump without a tutorial being a jerk.

I would love to see a game start off with "Have you ever played any game ever? To answer yes, press any button. To answer no, shout "HELP ME! into either your TV remote or your computer's mouse"

Loukas, to random
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The EU is abandoning its Mastodon project.

I had thought the main way Mastodon could develop into a major social media was by attracting bodies who want to respect EU law and similar regulation. If even the EU institutions themselves don't prioritise it, then that's another nail in the coffin.
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

xinit,
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@Loukas maybe not...

https://social.network.europa.eu/

xinit, to random
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Well, that's fun.

Mounted a WebDAV folder from a storage host, thinking "Hey, I can just copy my Google Photos from the Takeout archives into the folder that way."

I rarely work with DAV but assumed that it would let me know if it dropped the remote connection.

Nope. Lost the connection only a couple GB in but nothing TELLS me. It just carries on copying spontaneously to local path, and I start getting alerts that my root filesystem is filling up.

Bah.

Sftp it is, then.

xinit,
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@olav it felt like my machine was so proud of itself, carrying on happily with writing like there was never a mounted filesystem there.

Like it was a golden retriever that was interrupted while ripping a couch to pieces. Looks at you with big eyes, tail wagging "LOOK WHAT I DID! I KILLED IT! CAN I HAVE A COOKIE?"

noellemitchell, to mastodon
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suddenly remembers the countless number of articles I've bookmarked on Mastodon sitting unread 😳😆 :blobcatlaugh:

xinit,
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@noellemitchell I'd like an extension for Firefox that just goes through my un-visited bookmarks and deletes them silently after a year.

drahardja, (edited ) to cars
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Pranking self-driving cars with a T-shirt with a Stop sign on it

Source: https://twitter.com/S3XYengineering/status/1782027533749223441

xinit,
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@drahardja @jchaven trap them all in a parking lot.

xinit, to random
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I think the real gap in getting rid of Google is that DuckDuckGo and Yahoo just don't seem to return useful results.

Do I have to Bing?

dwarf, to random
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UGH I SNEEZED

xinit,
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@dwarf It's ALL over the inside of my display now. Gross.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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How can women this adorable support a cold Blooded murderer like Putin... Sigh 😢
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video/mp4

xinit,
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@Free_Press Even evil people like to dance.

ZekuZelalem, to random
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Great to learn of a growing African presence on the fediverse. For the first time, I came across an Algeria themed 🇩🇿 instance, perhaps the first instance set up for and by an African community here (there could be others that I'm not aware of).

The instance is dz.social (Dz, short for the country's local name "Dzayer" and .dz is the country's internet domain code.

It's a start. Happy to see a Maghreb presence here. P.S Algerians are amazing people to befriend.

https://dz.social/about

xinit,
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@prefec2 @ZekuZelalem @tobi @kari not sure that meets the point of making access easier.

TexasObserver, (edited ) to ukteachers
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Featured Story: Timothy Murray, the 11-year-old #Brownsville honor student who spent 3 days in solitary after his arrest at the orders of the principal, is still awaiting hearing to determine whether charges proceed against him. https://www.texasobserver.org/why-was-this-11-year-old-honor-roll-student-put-in-solitary/
(Correction: Timothy's hearing is December 13, not November 13 as originally reported. We apologize for the error. We will continue to investigate this troubling story.)
#education #Prison #police #Texas #HumanRights #schools #children #news

xinit,
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@TexasObserver that principal is like some grotesque Roald Dahl villain. In the picture they included, it looks like it's causing her physical pain to smile.

<<“Timothy’s doing better. But he no longer feels safe to speak up when he needs something,” Rincon said.>>

I believe that was the intended result of these actions.

chrischirp, to random
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If you have covid, wearing a mask at home and not sharing the same bedroom (if possible) with your household members greatly reduces the chance of you infecting them.

New study out!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-023-00325-6

xinit, (edited )
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@sabik @pfred60 @chrischirp @auscovid19 i had my first COVID infection about two months ago, and my ten year old and I would each wear a mask when in shared areas of the house. He didn't catch it or carry it back to his class.

Worked out pretty well for us, but he's pretty independent.

My wife did catch it though we slept separately as soon as I tested positive, but was likely infected before I had symptoms..

GreatDismal, to random
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Scary shit. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111303158768347067

xinit,
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@GreatDismal I KNEW crypto was bad for people.

futurebird, to random
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If you saw a business called “rumble” with a big neon sign and boxing mitts on the wall what would you think they sold?

a dojo, right? or a gym.

Now what if I tell you their full name is “rumble dry bar”

that’s cute. boxing themed bar—

wrong again. You will never guess what they do. try.

(this kind of thing is exactly why everyone makes fun of us, nyc)

xinit,
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@futurebird At a guess, it's a hair salon.

Though, I wouldn't have been surprised if it was one of those fancy over-priced non-alcoholic drink places.

xinit,
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@futurebird I hate being right sometimes.

stux, to random
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Aha! See what you did there :rickroll:

xinit,
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@stux malicious compliance can be magical

malwaretech, to random

An unintended side effect of Twitter becoming paid is it makes existing accounts more valuable. It may be more convenient for bad actors to purchase hacked accounts rather than make their own. Verified accounts used to face a lot of phishing attacks, but less so now you can just buy verification.

If phishing of regular Twitter accounts does become more common, it's going to absolutely suck for users. Previously, it was near impossible to recover a hacked Twitter account when they actually had a support team. Now, there's absolutely no way they could handle an volume of support requests.

xinit,
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@malwaretech so, what I'm hearing is "don't close your Twitter account - sell it."

If anything will help the death spiral.

shoq, to random
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Can we all please keep in mind that Facebook & Zuckerberg helped fuck the entire world? Are you REALLY sure you want their Threads product to become a de facto news outlet to replace Xitter? it should be clear now that social media isn’t just your entertainment. It’s a key influencer of our world.

xinit,
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@shoq Yeah. I have similar feelings about Bluesky. Not even worth signing up for either in my books.

orci, to random
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Okay, so I've tried Threads and Bluesky now. And I still like this place the best ❤️

xinit, (edited )
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@orci I think gonorrhea's got some upward potential in that list.

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