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small and apologetic mutual aid request please:

could anyone help us a bit with the cost of a new car battery? it's going to be around 200€. rent is due, and thanks to the EU's ppwr + US absurdity and the increasing cost of everything, i've made precisely one sale in the past nearly 4 weeks, so the extra battery cost is a bit :oh_no:

we live in the middle of nowhere, have one car, and i'm disabled and getting sicker, so it's very essential.

BUT please look after yourselves first! everyone's struggling these days.

thank you if you can help; no worries at all if you can't.
🙏 :Blobhaj_Heart_Rainbow: :Blobhaj_Pumpkin:

ko-fi.com/moon_bun/

#MutualAid

Buy laen a Coffee

help laen, husband, and floofs with things essential for life
Ko-fi
#mutualaid
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Setting the time range on DuckDuckGo to before December 2022 kind of helps search results

This fails when articles were "updated" any time after 2022 or if they just lie about their publication date

I don't have this set as default, since it adds kind of a fingerprint

(Search URL format is below, not screen-reader friendly)

noai[.]duckduckgo[.]com/?q=%s&noai=1&df=2000-01-01..2022-11-29&ia=web

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It's embarassing to see senior software developers go "I used AI and I managed to pull values from this API and then write them to a file!"

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Olivier

I remember when software engineering was a thing (like mechanical or civil engineering). I even moved far away from home specifically to study at a university that had developed a new program 3 years earlier. A bunch of the faculty had worked at nuclear plants, developed formal methods of verifiably correct software for safety critical systems.

It's been over 20 years. I wonder if that's still a thing now. Part of me still hopes so.

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We’ve been Evicted. All the old keep the place going money needs are moot now.

Temporarily given sanctuary by a neighbor .

Anything.
Anything at all.
Would be a help at this point.

If you can give please do so.

If you cannot, please boost

Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️

2026-10-27 14:27:34

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Looking to raise $60 today to cover medicine costs for a pharmacy delivery this afternoon.

Please Help.

Every little bit gets us closer to our goal.

♲ @MedeaVanamonde@beige.party:

MUTUAL AID REQUEST: Broke TransWoman
My Unemployment ran out last month and I still have not landed a new job

Down to 43 cents in my bank account.

Need to get groceries and medication and keep the services on here and potentially relocate.

Please help!

Looking to raise $200-250 today.

venmo.com/u/MedeaVanamonde



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Forget fold up phones! I want one that unrolls from both edges like an old timey scroll!

Bonus if you roll it back up by smacking it against your wrist.

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So since this morning I've been having this weird weakness in my arm. I figured it was possibly a result of the muscle relaxant I was prescribed last night, but I imagine that should be well out of my system by now. I called the telehealth system again and am currently waiting on a callback from a nurse—which should happen in the next couple hours.

It was suggested that I could use their online symptom assessment tool for faster advice, but after jumping through those hoops, all it tells me is "seek medical advice".

Umm... what exactly is it you think I've been doing all this time?

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:angery:
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Stop
suggesting
Discord
as
a
support
solution
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ok i'm now addicted to this website

1in8b.life/en/

1 in 8 Billion · Who will you be born as?

Become one of the babies being born right now and live their whole life inside the real statistics of 172 countries. Where will you be born?
1 in 8 Billion

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Today's Internet Apocalypse is brought to you by the letters P, H, and P along with the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237

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Jonathan Lamothe

@Jim P.hantom I woke up to the PHP thing this morning. All I'd heard at that point was "immediately shut down all PHP servers until a patch is available" and so, down went my fedi services until I could get a handle on what the hell was going on. Fortunately, patches were already available at that point.

0/10—would not recommend

Anyhow, back to running my daily backups/updates...

@Jim P.hantom
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

Also Denmark has a functioning free healthcare system.

Damn commie bastards!

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me: "I think my opsec could be better, i'm probably below average"

the industrial accident of a certificate authority: "our private key is 4"

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finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize

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A white person who tells you change can only be accomplished by voting and you should only protest peacefully and never fight back even as the regime is gunning you down is a fascist.

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Nowhere Girl

The only thing these people care about is their own material comfort and safety and the illusion of order even under an authoritarian state, including the protection of all those possessions and wealth and privilege, and the possessions and privilege of people like them. "Don't disrupt anything. Don't resist. Just lie down and die if you don't like it."
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Nowhere Girl

The phrase "false peace" broke the light of day across my mind when I first heard it. It's white people's favorite thing.

Don't punish them. Don't hold them accountable. Don't ask for reparations. Don't fight them. Don't make them fight each other! Just let them hold power in perpetuity, which is the natural order of things in their minds, and if you have a grievance, you must convince them peacefully or not at all, at their leisure, when they deign to receive you.

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i've come up with a new versioning system for software, it's called cemetery versioning (cemver for short. pronounced the same as semver)

the version numbers have the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are natural numbers. there is no meaning attached to any of the numbers.

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I was out walking with my girlfriend, and we found a new Fedi reaction pic.

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I'm sure everyone here has "the tech box": that box where you shove the miscelaneous cables and dongles and other crap that isn't currently being used but is too useful to just get rid of. In my case it had spilled over into multiple boxes and had just become a bit of a nightmare.

Anyhow, my parents were getting rid of this guy, so we took it home with us. Katy and I just spent the past hour meticulously going over every single item in our various tech boxes and cataloging them into a system inspired by the one described in @Cory Doctorow's book, Makers.* It's not quite so elaborate as in the book. It's just an org-mode document that tells me exactly which drawer each item is in—no fancy RFID tags, but they're not items with a lot of churn either, so it's fine. Got to admit, it was rather satisfying to my probably #AuDHD brain.

Anyhow, I present to you the new gay tech organizer.

* That system has lived rent free in my head since I read the book like a decade an a half ago.

Edit: I make one little edit to fix a typo (okay two typos) and then need like three more edits to fix the formatting errors those introduced. I'm fired.

a stainless steel framed storage cabinet with colourful plastic drawers, filled to capacity with junk... I mean, useful things
#AuDHD @Cory Doctorow
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juliadream

Went on a short break with a friend last weekend.. They "forgot" the usb-c wire their stupid modern phone needs (mine is sensible micro usb like 99% of its era) .. They had to go find one in a very expensive tourist city... 2 hours later I found one still new complete with it's little wire tie lying on the street....... so now I have my own usb-c charging cable and nothing to plug it ..

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My bulk mail folder sure has been a source of comedy gold lately. Just got an email offering to sell me a variant on a domain I already own for a mere USD 699. Apparently it's been offered to several other "matching businesses" and will be sold on a first come first served basis.

The best part: my registrar says it's available and I can have it for $17.99.

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Got an email from a recruiter this morning. I thought it was for a position at a well-established company, and despite the yellow flags I decided to at least look into it.

It's clearly a different company than I thought, with a prominent typo right on their landing page (apparently they're a "worldwid" organization).

Also, they have both 10+ years of experience and were established in 2024? 🤷‍♂️

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Jonathan Lamothe started reading Count Zero

Count Zero

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
William Gibson

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When I first learned about CollapseOS four years ago, I thought that it's a very cool concept, but did find the idea "you'll have to implement from scratch everything in your computing stack" very disconnected from the reality. Like, what kind of plausible scenario could there be that one won't be able to get system software for their computer that they could trust to be of safe origin, free from backdoors and malware, and fit for the purpose, I thought.

Ha-ha.

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Jonathan Lamothe wants to read Count Zero

Count Zero

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
William Gibson

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Review of "Neuromancer" (5 stars): None
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It's hard to believe this book was written in the '80s. I'm going to have to give it a re-read at some point soon because there were a lot of moving parts and I'm sure I missed stuff that I'll pick up on the second time around. All in all, an enjoyable read.

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Jonathan Lamothe finished reading Neuromancer

Neuromancer

The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. More information on the [novel's official page][1]. [1]: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp
William F. Gibson

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Welp, Nextcloud went sideways when I tried to upgrade it today. I am however happy to report that I have confirmed that my backup system works.

I'm probably gonna have to figure out how to do a manual upgrade again. I have to do this every few years, but not often enough that I can remember off the top of my head how. I just remember that it's a pain in the ass.

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