cuan_knaggs

in the wrong trouser leg of time to be sure. #CapeTown, #SouthAfrica
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website: https://paradox-echo.com
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2026-07-07 08:37:42 UTC

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yeah, the lesser evil is still better than evil until you can find something not evil

2026-05-30 15:29:23 UTC

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i know a lot of youtube content is slowed down. so 1.5 speed actually tends to be closer to natural

2026-02-23 08:22:22 UTC

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we've been at it for a minute. 1890 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Nowhere

2026-02-03 09:25:10 UTC

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and this is what happens when you step into the discworld, you start talking about power dynamics, and science, and identity politics, and all the messiness of being human

2026-01-20 10:21:35 UTC

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it's one of the reasons it took me so long to start using linux full time

2026-01-18 07:29:12 UTC

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i imagine the head bop you're thinking of is head banging

2025-12-23 09:01:59 UTC

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there is so much potential for historical fiction between africa, asia, and the middle east. see my thoughts from march https://freeradical.zone/@mensrea/114120674569534608
#note1uus…mh37

2025-12-22 18:44:47 UTC

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I got very lucky with my new gig. they're all old school SQL folk who don't know, and know that they don't know, web tech. so they're giving me the freedom to build out the frontend as I see. no react, no tailwind, no build pipelines, no dark patterns

2025-11-22 21:40:02 UTC

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you should also look up "haybox cooking"

2025-11-05 20:32:28 UTC

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if you have a smart phone that will let you install a new os that is

2025-10-10 13:06:21 UTC

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i really wish skribus would get a UI and workflow overhaul. feature wise everything i need is there but ...

2025-09-05 14:09:22 UTC

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look at you fins, always posing for black metal album art

2025-09-05 07:25:50 UTC

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i haven't been to his channel in a while but as far as i understand karl and deviant are friends. if that helps

2025-08-22 13:23:13 UTC

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i suspect that most in the top positions know. the problem is they think they can politic their way to more power with it

2025-08-22 12:48:25 UTC

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"In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.
... Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever." ~ https://medium.com/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-fascism-in-history-the-success-rate-is-0-a665e2e048a2

2025-08-07 07:09:27 UTC

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not to upset you more but here in za for the last 3 years i haven't even done my returns. i get a notice from the tax man they're ready for review, i have a quick look, and then do nothing. a few days later the refund is in my bank account

2025-08-01 09:10:43 UTC

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back to the land movements come around quite often, and tend to not go very well. urban centers are where we collect resources and mass create culture. these 2 things are what most are coming to the urban areas for. and for me as a basic suburban boy, that rural life seems great to visit but i wouldn't want to live there, it looks like far too much work

2025-08-01 08:37:09 UTC

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people would resist that sort of change. once we had a predictable climate we started building urban centers and we don't seem to have ever given up on that idea. but greening them, getting rid of the cars, bringing in some agriculture, those sorts of things could get you to something that looks a bit like what you're after

2025-07-29 05:57:44 UTC

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bagpipes have always been a tool of war

2025-07-09 08:05:49 UTC

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that's how you become "that guy" and whenever there's a strange IT issue you get called in

2025-07-01 07:43:16 UTC

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that quality is: the uncanny valley and an image averaging effect. which also brings a sort of chiaroscuro to the images making them overly dramatic

2025-06-30 10:28:20 UTC

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in the other direction there's something like https://thepihut.com/products/smartipi-touch-2 but you'll need to add a battery and a keyboard

2025-06-30 09:29:58 UTC

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ish. there are options but they are all have a lot of diy

2025-06-19 12:28:55 UTC

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or just fill all the keyholes you can find with super glue

2025-06-07 14:51:30 UTC

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polio and mmr vaccines. the internet would be a bit abstract, but zoom (or similar) would do quite well

2025-05-30 23:30:16 UTC

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if it is a frozen shoulder you just have to wait it out, was about 6 months for me. I'd recommend seeing a physo just to make sure it's not an impingement though

2025-05-02 09:19:53 UTC

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i'm still conflicted about calling consuming audiobooks reading. i get the sentiment but it's listening, which is different. not less than though

2025-03-17 10:45:02 UTC

a quick reminder: it should be called "teeth paste".

2025-03-07 10:28:20 UTC

anyone looking to write a swash-buckling adventure story should consider setting it in the early to mid 1800s around the indian ocean. you can have pirates of all stripes, samurai, ninjas, cowboys, zulu warriors, chinese rebels, opium wars, the rise of the robber barons, french revolutionaries, italian anarchists ... all historically plausibly

2025-02-10 07:26:21 UTC

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or it could be in a country that simply doesn't pay that well

2025-02-09 09:51:17 UTC

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just wondering when he comes out as a eugenicist

2025-02-02 08:35:58 UTC

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which i think is quite a disruption

2025-02-02 08:20:00 UTC

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disrupt direct control maybe but isn't the point of a drone that you don't need direct control all the time?

2025-01-13 10:19:12 UTC

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good god man! we don't need that much hot air fanning those flames

2025-01-09 11:52:00 UTC

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apparently as of ff 116 you can import them from chrome ~ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome#w_choose-data-and-complete-the-import ~ never tried it though

2024-12-13 08:38:19 UTC

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i haven't read the report yet (it's one the list now though) but in the south african context the primary social network tool is whatsapp. and that it for 2 reasons: network effect, and data subsidies from the cell providers

2024-12-07 17:16:33 UTC

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favourite is tricky but ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA #altMas

2024-11-27 22:02:41 UTC

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"how old are you?"
"badger badger badger badger ..."

2024-11-25 07:00:37 UTC

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we'll not mention the toothpaste though

2024-11-23 10:06:11 UTC

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2024-11-10 10:16:27 UTC

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yeah, i'm unlikely to get to the forum. it's a additional sort option for the queue: interleaved. in a queue with multiple podcasts it would sort each podcast by date and then alternate between each pod. so if you have podcasts a, b, c, d your queue would be a1, b1, c1, d1, a2, b2, c2, d2, ...

2024-11-10 10:07:01 UTC

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can we drop a feature request here?

2024-10-10 11:31:53 UTC

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it depends on what is meant by "collected". all apps store data on local, all manner of data and that's the point of having the app installed. the issue comes in with data that leaves the device: what is, where is it going, and why. that said, the only way to know some of that is to do a deep dive into the app with static and dynamic analysis

2024-10-03 09:38:18 UTC

which profession is more unserious:

2024-09-29 10:27:33 UTC

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i've started thinking that no one has ever really lived in precedented times. was thinking about my grand father at one point: he was born in a time where horses where the primary mode of transport and indoor plumbing was only for the rich. made it through 2 world wars, a great depression, the cold war, ..., and passed away with wikipedia and iphones

2024-09-05 14:50:56 UTC

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there is also a very pervasive idea that "serious people" wont want to do business with you if you don't use windows

2024-09-03 22:06:13 UTC

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rip your notifications. but also manjaro kde

2024-08-22 09:58:29 UTC

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no, set before 1853. the samurai was smuggled out of the country on a mission from his daimyo. this is how he met the pirate

2024-08-12 06:46:12 UTC

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i'd say it is accurate that a lot of public money is being lost on these programs. but it's mostly lost on paying people that don't need money to make sure that people that do need it cant get to it

2024-08-11 11:30:17 UTC

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and one more: layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible
set to true to disable auto hide

2024-08-11 11:19:44 UTC

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you can set them in firefox if you fiddle in the about:config
in the URL bar go to about:config
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override
and
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style
and set values that work for you. i've used 20 and 4, respectively