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We need to shut down an alt-right anti-trans conference happening in a few weeks here. If you live in Canada, not just Victoria, this is a tourist town and they are a Canada-wide hate group. The more people show that they’re watching and acting, the more likely councilors or the conference centre will take action. Please sign, or at least bump (the latter goes for folks outside the country as well, please).
Happy Pride, please help us keep the fascists down.
#Canada #LGBTQIA2S #2SLGBTQIA #Queer #Pride #MSTDNCA
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Letter campaign to oppose the "We Unify: Reclaiming Canada 2024 Conference" at the Victoria Conference Centre from June 21st to 23rd. Guest speakers include known transphobic and anti-2SLGBTQ+ activists.nmshr.io
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@Cabbidges To be honest, this whole thread has gone down such a non-sequitur rabbit hole that I'm really not sure how to respond.
I believe the questions you're asking have already been answered.
"I don't understand why other people don't think like me" says more about one's lack of curiosity or understanding than about the people mentioned. One doesn't have to agree with someone else to understand what underpins their diverging opinion. Worse, it may show one's assuming there's only One True Way of thinking about something which increases one's sensibility to propaganda.
No matter what you believe in, staying curious about why other people think differently allows you to understand exactly why you disagree beyond a knee-jerk reaction and makes you more able to change your own opinions if the reasons for them change.
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@vic This mindset is independent of specific opinions and invoking it to peddle your personal grievances is exactly what I've been trying to warn about in my post.
In particular, branding anything as "evil" directly falls in the "One True Way" pitfall by preemptively forbidding any understanding of any kind. Again, you don't have to agree to understand.
Quick heads up: annihilation.social is the latest home for racist edgelords
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Sourcery - BookWyrm
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now, magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage. But that's not all...bookwyrm.social
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I remember before the pandemic there was a plan to shut it down regularly on weekends, I don’t suppose they’ve picked that up again.
And I’m probably biased because I lived at the park but I also want the same treatment for jubilee dr.
So, the one advantage to being out of ADHD meds is that I can have a drink without worrying about drug interactions.
I'll take my victories where I can.
Okay, sqlitebrowser (from the #Debian repositories) is actually a pretty decent tool. It provides a nice point-and-click interface that makes working with #sqlite3 databases a little bit nicer. Knowledge of how to write an #SQL query is still a requirement, but it makes creating/editing tables more convenient. Maybe it's well known, but I just discovered it yesterday.
Edit: sqlite browser, not mysqlbrowser
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The verdict means: That, IN FACT, Trump unlawfully cheated to win the 2016 election.
Then the election law felon went on to nominate 3 SCOTUS judges.
What profound injustice to us all that our system has no mechanism to right this history-altering crime.
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So, I get that #KiCad can't have symbols and footprints for every component ever in their default library, but some of the things they've chosen to include can be a little confusing when compared against what they haven't chosen to include. Here's an example:
There are symbols for the TC74HC00 (quad NAND gate) and TC74HC08 (six channel inverter) series of chips, but none for the TC74HC04 (quad AND gate). Sure, the 74HC00 symbol can fairly trivially be edited into a 74HC04, but still... Am I missing something here?
Fortunately, for this particular board I was able to do some boolean magic with a single 74HC00, so it's a moot point.
I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?
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I'd try this out on a breadboard, but I don't currently have the necessary parts so I'll just ask instead.
What happens on a 555 timer if you simultaneously drive the trigger low and the threshold high? Is this an error state that could vary from chip to chip?
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Q and ~Q outputs of the SR latch to be driven low.
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Okay okay okay... get this.
Nvidia is getting sued for copyright infringement, specifically related to its use of the books3 dataset right? So right now, their defensive strat seems to be:
Hey, a library is a library and that includes shadow libraries. Indeed, those so-called "shadow libraries" aren't shadowy at all. They're valid sources of data and information, just like any other public library.
If, in the course of this lawsuit, Nvidia somehow legally legitimizes shadow libraries? I'm going to laugh my ass off.
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Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit
Will quibbling over the meaning of "shadow libraries" help Nvidia's case?Ars Technica
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Woo! Got my clock module down to two chips total (plus resistors, capacitors, and such).
Really basic stuff, but I'm still learning #KiCad.
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~HLT instead of +5V. No additional logic gates required.
Decided to look into Nostr since everyone here seems to hate it (so I can figure out why).
From their website, they tout that it's "censorship-resistant"* while also complaining that traditional social media is overrun by bots and spam.
How does one go about solving the bot/spam problem without resorting to censorship? This feels rather mutually exclusive to me.
* frequently a fascist dog whistle
“This change comes after celebrities and billionaires voiced concerns over their flight data being too easily accessible online.”
Great, can the rest of us get some kind of bill that limits all these tech shitheads from tracking all our fucking lives? No? Right.
When the oligarchs want something from #Congress, they get it within weeks. When the rest of us want something, we’re shit out of luck. #classwar
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8bitdo makes bluetooth receivers that plug into an nes controller port, been thinking about getting one of those.
And there are plenty of no name 3rd party nes controllers on websites like aliexpress
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We are getting ready to expand our Torment Nexus experiences in your region.
To help bring these experiences to you we will kidnap your firstborn, based on our legitimate interest.
This means you have a right to object. If your objection is honored we might return your firstborn at some point.
We have updated our firstborn policy. Pray we don't update it any further.
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This is why #RightToRepair is important.
I'd like to thank my Brother-in-law for suggesting I check all the connections and fuses on the
stairlift. That was it! One connection to the motor had come off.
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Here's the funny thing about propaganda:
It gets started by someone (or a group of someones) with an agenda, but when it's effective, it gets swallowed and spread by well-meaning individuals who simply don't know any better. When this happens, it becomes even more effective, making it a vicious cycle.
Not everyone who spreads it is doing so for nefarious reasons (though many are).
"X doesn't justify Y."
"What kind of monster are you to deny that X is true?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Don't YOU change the subject!"
Every time.
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...and I've officially let myself run out of my ADHD meds.
Shit.
screen for many years. I somewhat recently switched to tmux. Both are solid options, though tmux seems more popular.
Help SDF grow the #fediverse and get some fun stickers and badges! sdf.org/?store
#fundraiser #support #community
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in reply to Lorena 🍏 • •@Lorena 🍏 ...assuming they have the money to but a whole new computer?
There really isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.
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in reply to Lorena 🍏 • •@Lorena 🍏 Macs do not work for me and I can generally switch an existing Windows machine over to some Linux distro for $0.
Plus, you say that like everyone's got an extra $600 laying around.
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