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please boost this post ​:boosts_ok_gay:
Hi, I was forced to quit my job about a month ago now due to being forced to move by my partners anti-lgbt parents.

We moved to a much more rural area out of necessity unfortunyately job prospects are not looking so great out here.

They effectively kicked us out because they did not approve of what their church teaches them about "homosexual relationships" like the one i have with my transfem partner....

Both my partner and myself have cut down on a lot of our expenses and we desperately need assistance to help pay for a 3+ hour trip to the specialty clinic my partner goes to for her medical needs. Gas is expensive and I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide even if it's only boosting this post.

If you are able to donyate I've setup a revolut account, stripe donyation page as well as a Ko-fi page for donyations

Revolut - revolut.me/meowmreoow
Stripe - donate.stripe.com/fZe00Y16K2jB…
Ko-Fi - ko-fi.com/cyberboy3

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidrequests #mutualaidreqest
#mutual_aid

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Begpost, mutual aid

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I've been using a web site for #soroban practice that generates exercise sheets. They offer a service where they'll send you a worksheet by email on a scheduled basis, and I finally signed up for that. When I did, I was presented with a captcha. I normally despise these, but I think I'll let this one slide.

in reply to Dgar

Much of that going round these days.

I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.

And I have no intention of stop running them.


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Me in 1991, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation:
"Oh boy, I can't wait until the 21st century. Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!!!!"

Me in 2024:
"Oh dear heavens, not another stupid touchscreen!!! AAAAAAAAAH!"

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An #urban #alley in #Kitchener called Hall's Lane looks like a canyon.

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@jerkface
My first thought: that photo looks familiar.

Then I read the caption.

Then I noticed the Oracle building.


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Advantages of right to repair. You can take your device apart to check what has been added along the supply chain.

Right to repair is now a security issue.

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in reply to Quixoticgeek

This is an excellent point,

though I doubt that anyone has ever derived much happiness from suing the Mossad.

in reply to Rocketman

@slothrop not sure where suing comes into it. But checking the device is what you think it is should now be the norm.
in reply to Quixoticgeek

What I meant was:

Technically speaking, you can always take apart and inspect a device in your possession. But e.g. sharing information about it publicly might get you sued by the OEM.

This is something that private individuals and companies worry about, but not intelligence agencies.

in reply to Rocketman

@slothrop a right to repair legal framework should make it so that your devices are built in a way that you can put them back together after taking them apart
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@uzayran @slothrop Imagine telling surgeons that we should all be able to complete surgeries
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@delric @uzayran @slothrop rather, I would say that we *should* indeed tell surgeons that it is not acceptable to implant life saving devices with locked up software that stops working, bricking the device, when the manufacturer goes bust or loses interest. (Which is something that has actually happened, as I recall)
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I've been wondering all day since learning it was a supply chain attack if those who planned and implemented this operation realized the Pandora's box they were opening.

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"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)

#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus

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How do I know I'm getting old (and boring). I literally got excited about a new pill organizer.

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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains

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#terrypratchett

Source of the post:
serialephemera.tumblr.com/post…

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As I like to say, hatred is a precious part of us. Those who control your hatred control you. Don't let them take control. Protect your hatred, cultivate it, hate carefully and deliberately. They'll never see it coming.

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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
Unknown parent

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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Imagine being the sorry excuse for a human being who wrote this.


It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.

I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.

Edit: typo

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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.

ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org

Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.

#retrocomputing #unix #vintage

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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II

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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:

1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command

2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)

3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal

edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one

This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".

#terminal #tui #linux

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are you certain? It could last I checked!

[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt

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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
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@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:

Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
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@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt

Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.

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