@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

🍉🌻 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

ayo, to webdev
@ayo@ayco.io avatar

what's the laziest dark mode implementation? is there a 3-liner code change? 😄 asking for a friend (not me)

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@cheeaun @ayo Also: https://ar.al/2021/08/24/implementing-dark-mode-in-a-handful-of-lines-of-css-with-css-filters/

aral, (edited ) to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

What if we changed the rules so that if a US presidential candidate that supports arming Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people wins, 15,000 American kids are randomly chosen and killed. (Unlike Palestinian kids, they’d be killed as painlessly as possible, not screaming in anguish from having been blown apart by American bombs.)

What would you do? Still vote for Biden as is or move heaven and earth to have him change his policies and/or get the Democrats to pick another candidate?

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@Tattooed_Mummy Not a trolley problem because at least two of the tracks are clear but they require more work to pull the lever than just casting a vote.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@cferdinandi No, nothing about any of this is fun.

aral, (edited ) to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Who is worthy of your criticism?

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@godofbiscuits @Azuaron Nope, it’s not. It’s about trying to make people understand the difference between a vote and democracy. If your only two options is six months are to cast a vote for Biden or Trump, cast a vote for Biden. But what can you do in six months to either make Biden stop arming this genocide and alter the status quo? (Not you, specifically, but US citizens who cannot stomach their tax dollars being used to mass murder Palestinian kids in general.)

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@engineeringstephen There are only four options. It’s a poll, not the legal code.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@godofbiscuits @Azuaron

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@godofbiscuits @Azuaron * typo: should read “in six months”, not “is”

aral, to ireland
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

A sentiment I can completely get behind.

(@ the restrooms at Harbour Bar in Bray, Ireland)

chloe, to random
@chloe@chadthundercock.com avatar

What the FUCK did I do?

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@aud @chloe 🤣

aral, to SmallWeb
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

The new and improved Settings section for Kitten (Small Web/peer-to-peer web) apps is coming along nicely.

Should be live this week.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #Settings #SmallTech #p2p #peerToPeer #web #dev

Screenshot of same page showing the Domain section: 🏠 Domain Your Small Web place was not deployed by Domain. Here are some ways you can deploy your site. Using Domain: Use an existing Small Web host like small-web.org. Run your own instance of Domain and deploy using that. On any computer that runs Linux[1]: Deploy your site to any server (like a tiny single-board computer or your own VPS server somewhere) using Kitten’s deploy command. With systemd (this is not some political statement; it’s just easier for us to support with limited resources). We recommend Alma Linux as that’s what we deploy with at small-web.org but it should work with any Linux with systemd. ↩︎
Screenshot of same site showing the Evergreen Web section: 🌲 Evergreen Web Did you have a site here before? You can preserve it and keep existing links to it on the Web from breaking by redirecting pages that cannot be found here to the older version of this place that is now hosted the domain set below. Redirect missing pages to the following domain: Clear button. Not sure what to enter here? Please see 4042307.org
🆔 Identity This is your public identity for localhost (ed25519 public key). Copy button SSH This is your SSH public key. Copy button

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Democracy is more than just a polite vote every four years and an Instagram photo of your achievement sticker.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@Loki_Laufeyiarson Maybe I had a fancier voting office :P But I’ve seen the photos; they exist :)

davidrevoy, to random
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar

My treasure

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@davidrevoy Gorgeous :)

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

GM adds the ability to power your house from one of its new EVs

GM's Ultium-based EVs can power your house during an outage.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/gm-adds-the-ability-to-power-your-house-from-one-of-its-new-evs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@arstechnica Makes sense, it’s about the size of a one-bedroom flat in a European country.

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

USian liberals, real talk: If Biden were selling arms to a group that had so far killed over 35,000 Americans, including over 15,000 kids, you wouldn’t be telling folks to vote for him. You’d be in the streets demanding he be removed from power. The reason you’re not? Because it’s Brown people on the other side of the world being slaughtered and you, quite frankly, couldn’t give a shit.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@aran Yes, because that’s exactly what I was saying. “Don’t vote Biden, vote Trump.” was the post. Seriously, just go away.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@sergi This.

aral, to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Given the outpouring of empathy and care as well as the condemnation of violence from European politicians, can someone please inform them that over 35,000 Prime Minister Robert Ficos have been murdered in Gaza by Israel, including over 15,000 baby Prime Minister Robert Ficos.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@aurisc4 Yes, the post is definitely about hypocrisy but you’ve failed to grasp how.

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

If your democratic process leaves you no option but to vote for genocide, your democratic process has already failed.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@distantreplay I think it’s troubling that there’s a genocide going on.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@cferdinandi @josh You don’t have to convince me of it, I already know it.

What I don’t see are the same liberals telling people to vote Biden no matter what on the streets demanding Biden stop the genocide and moving heaven and earth to reform the two-party system. Folks seems resigned to just vote every four years until some flavour of Trump wins and it’s game over. Ditto in the UK and parts of Europe.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@josh @cferdinandi All I’m saying is that if it was over 35,000 Americans killed and over 15,000 American kids murdered because of guns that Biden sold, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. The sad truth is that dead Brown folks on the other side of the world just doesn’t tilt the scales the same way.

(And the students protesting don’t have tons of privilege and they are, perhaps more than anyone right now, having an impact.)

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@cferdinandi @josh I get that. And my criticism isn’t aimed at you. It’s aimed at the people who have agency and aren’t using it but rather protecting Biden from any and all criticism and equating criticism of Biden’s genocidal policies with getting Trump elected as if there isn’t a third way of actually doing whatever is possible to get Biden to stop arming this genocide.

aral, (edited ) to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

  • #Israel is carrying out #genocide in #Gaza.

  • Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.

  • Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)

  • No, no, not like that.

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

@mikewaghorne Indeed.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • khanakhh
  • mdbf
  • InstantRegret
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • rosin
  • slotface
  • thenastyranch
  • osvaldo12
  • ngwrru68w68
  • kavyap
  • cisconetworking
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • magazineikmin
  • cubers
  • vwfavf
  • modclub
  • everett
  • ethstaker
  • normalnudes
  • tacticalgear
  • tester
  • provamag3
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Leos
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •