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This is where I (fail to) discuss gaming (because the world is on fire and I don't have time to game)!

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2026-04-27 23:28:31 UTC

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Your embrace of AI coding eliminates Zulip from any consideration of mine. AI is not a modern coding tool, it's garbage code written by a fascism machine.

2026-04-06 19:51:47 UTC

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Mine tried at my current company, with encouragement from the VP level. They did a three month trial of Claude and CoPilot last fall. This included direct training from MS & Anthropic in the first month and on call support. At the end of the trial the devs, who went into it excited, presented results.
It was not pretty. They were very neutral in the presentation but the numbers were devastating. At *best* it didn't get in the way. On average it was a huge time/money/quality suck.

2026-03-23 21:38:20 UTC

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Do they force you to unlock the phone? If not then it's still encrypted even when you turn it on.

2026-02-17 17:53:11 UTC

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True, ATProto's intent is to cash in and make it's backers rich, ActivityPub's intent is to provide a protocol for an open web.
Thanks for calling that out!

2026-01-17 00:12:05 UTC

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I'm a big fan of papering a neighborhood with notices of dangerous people living there.

2025-12-18 00:16:43 UTC

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Prosecutors are assholes. Fuck them.

2025-12-17 18:24:11 UTC

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Even if it had been paint that is relatively trivial to remove from glass. Ridiculous prosecution.

2025-10-23 14:05:13 UTC

Hey @npub1hpw…cd0d are you fucking serious?
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/165092/242
No fucking #AI should be anywhere near any GPL project without it being not only human reviewed, but from a model that is certified fully open source, open and consent given datasets and an open model.
Bullshit, if you go through with this I'm distro hunting again.
#fedora #linux

2025-10-14 11:14:36 UTC

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Fascism is bad unless it's convenient for me personally. Got it.

2025-10-13 18:42:14 UTC

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Honestly surprised you'd use Hyprland given the project lead is an unapologetic bigot.

2025-10-06 21:43:33 UTC

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I'd add that other ways marginalized people, especially people of color, get targeted is with coded language white people do not recognize by default, then dismissing those who are being targeted as overreacting.
There was also a push to put CW on every photo of, say, police interactions. For the comfort of a largely white audience.
There are a lot of ways to socially degrade a group, and the largely white and EU Mastodon hits many of them.

2025-09-11 17:32:18 UTC

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It supposedly said "trantifa" which is a slur the right uses against trans people and antifa. Not that that will stop this administration from pretending it's a term actually used on the left.

2025-08-20 19:56:28 UTC

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Awesome, thank you!

2025-08-20 19:37:25 UTC

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Any chance you could publish your app to @npub1a7y…x85l for security reasons?
Appreciate the app, it's great!

2025-08-20 18:36:59 UTC

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They need to recognize that these 'unique problems' are the canary in the coal mine. Take the stand now when fewer jobs are on the line and avoid the bigger fight later.

2025-07-16 17:08:07 UTC

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This. I'd rather my objections to Bluesky were more like my objections to Threads, the single too big to block instance problem, but instead it's that they are not actually decentralized at all and do not seem to have real plans to be.

2025-07-07 23:46:26 UTC

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My wife once jumped into a bunch of birds on the sidewalk and yelled "BARBECUE!" over and over as she jumped around pointing at different birds. They mostly ignored her.

2025-07-07 23:45:10 UTC

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Fair, fair.

2025-07-07 23:41:56 UTC

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Dinner!

2025-07-07 18:09:50 UTC

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All I know is that Twitter is dwindling, Bluesky is in decline and the Fediverse is growing. Slowly, stably, but sustainably with stickiness.

2025-07-01 17:02:40 UTC

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I had no idea he was yet another fascist enabler. Ugh.
And yeah I prefer flatpak, and no it's not perfect, but it has the potential to solve for most scenarios and is actually open unlike Snap.

2025-06-30 20:11:34 UTC

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I mean we don't, the point of Flatpak is to only have one system, and devs only have to target one platform to reach all distros. Snap is proprietary and I ignore it. Flatpak is not. AppImage is a great idea but with a maintainer who isn't interested in, well, maintaining.
Distro packaging is both not a scalable approach and is poor practice from a security perspective. Every app and every update is a potential supply chain attack, and the apps themselves are not sandboxed.

2025-06-30 20:06:41 UTC

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I've used Gear Lever for a while, but unfortunately the lead of the Appimage project refuses to update for Fusev3 so eventually support for the format will end in most distros as Fusev2 is considered unmaintained and a potential security vuln. I know Fedora has been discussing dropping it.
That said, Flatpaks are nice these days and my preferred format. I avoid .rpm/deb/etc as installing apps with root permissions is poor security.

2025-06-05 19:41:34 UTC

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I remember being annoyed at the constant breathless tech industry wailing about a supposed running out of IPv4 addresses when it was always obvious they'd just get more sophisticated with NAT.
I wish we'd move to IPv6 of course, but seriously we were never at any risk.

2025-05-29 14:34:16 UTC

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I understand that is the corporate line and one you must repeat, however Kauff McGuire & Margolis is who Medium hired and union busting is their specialty.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/medium-tells-journalists-to-feel-free-to-quit-after-busting-union-drive/

2025-05-28 17:06:25 UTC

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Thank you for the update. Most board tracking sites seem to still list Kevin as a board member, so that's stale data. It's also good to see that A16Z is mostly gone, I guess with Substack they don't need Medium anymore.
Any changes regarding labor practices? That is the other primary complaint about Medium in general.
I appreciate the information, truly.

2025-05-28 16:30:04 UTC

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I mean, Andreeson has always been an ancap, I knew people who worked with him in university. He didn't change.
For much of Medium's history, the VC representative to the board was Ben Horowitz, of Andreeson-Horowitz. Currently the VC spot is held by Kevin Thau, of Spark Capital.
I agree that Medium is better than substack, but I get why people don't like it and I'll generally choose content on other platforms when possible. Their union busting activities alone are enough to stay away

2025-05-28 15:46:17 UTC

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I mean I don't like Medium either, it's another Marc Andreeson project to undermine public media. But it's better than Substack by a long shot.

2025-05-21 17:38:47 UTC

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Man I hope this project is still a going concern.

2025-05-20 21:24:39 UTC

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I don't suppose you'd consider submitting it on more secure stores as well, like @npub1a7y…x85l by chance? I understand if you don't given the overhead, but it would be nice to have.
Thank you for putting it on stores other than Play btw, it is appreciated!

2025-05-14 14:46:20 UTC

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I love cats but unless you live on an actual farm they are indoor animals and it frustrates me to see them outside decimating the local wildlife population.

2025-05-06 15:53:59 UTC

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I do think it will reflect worse on Carney however, as pointed out English is his first language, he's not in need of support, he should be able to hold his own.

2025-05-06 15:47:25 UTC

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I think Xi has the right idea, decline to be part of the clown show.

2025-05-06 15:46:23 UTC

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Great, it's going to be another Zelenski moment.

2025-04-16 13:25:21 UTC

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It's funny to me how people keep buying into this idea that it will actually be decentralized when in reality that needed to be baked in from the very beginning to have any chance of being viable. It will likely always be an 'on paper' decentralized network but in reality, tightly controlled like every other corp social network.

2025-03-17 23:47:34 UTC

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Wasn't a name change in the works?

2025-03-10 12:33:37 UTC

#BriannaWu continues to promote #fascism by encouraging violations of the first amendment, #Islamophobia & #Transphobia
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2025-03-06 16:45:29 UTC

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Apple Butter is one of those things I haven't found here in Portugal yet, sadly.

2025-02-28 16:16:26 UTC

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What's the simple version, did the right take over/gain or not?

2025-02-21 15:30:48 UTC

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To be clear I want Framework to succeed, but the support situation is not great as it stands. They have repeatedly pledged to improve but to date they really haven't substantially. I've received multiple firmware updates on my 2019 Dell XPS13 every year including this year for every security/compatibility issue Intel and other vendors have issued advisories for.
FW needs to match this.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

2025-02-19 13:26:19 UTC

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They'd have to commit to keeping the firmware up to date to land Graphene, which is something Framework has failed pretty spectacularly at unfortunately.

2025-02-13 15:44:32 UTC

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This is a problem for me as well. And not a small size either. I love ice cream so much that I try to always keep my distance. People sometimes ask why I spend more for smaller sizes and it's due to the fact that I have no portion control with ice cream.

2025-02-12 00:21:27 UTC

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Andor is one of only two post OG Trilogy SW productions I've honestly liked. The other was Rogue One, so no surprise.
Andor would be a good show without the SW trappings.

2025-02-10 17:39:45 UTC

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Well then it has nothing to do with being a doomer over the election then, just a non sequitur as I said.

2025-02-10 17:31:41 UTC

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I don't understand the point of your old men comment. The first sentence, yes, doomerism gets us nowhere. But what does the part about old men dying refer to? To me it looks like the usual bs about how supposedly we can demographic our way out of the mess if we can just hold on. It's a long since failed argument.
So what are you trying to say there?

2025-02-10 17:21:49 UTC

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"The world is run by old men, and these old men will eventually pass on. And time is always undefeated."
These old men will be replaced by new old men, who will carry forward the same or worse policies. If you aren't willing to fight the old men of today you won't be willing to fight the old men of tomorrow. That they will die is a non sequitur and addresses nothing.
I'm not saying we are doomed, I'm saying the time to fight is today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

2025-02-10 12:31:09 UTC

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The idea that the younger generations will save us is as time honored a belief as is the inevitable disappointment when not only do they fail to do so, they actively contribute to the problems.
GenX now votes Republican, the alt-right is millennial driven, and GenZ is already tilting rightward.
We have to confront the issue head on, not wait for some imaginary time when they may die off with no replacements. Otherwise we will be doomed.

2025-02-05 21:32:11 UTC

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I mean Canada is also a source of far right terror organizations and the founding place of the Proud Boys.
Not really a safe haven for lgbtqia+ people.

2025-01-06 18:35:14 UTC

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I'm not looking forward to figuring this migration out. Happy about what it brings however.
Just out of curiosity, can Matrix use Nextcloud as a storage back end?

2024-12-16 15:01:20 UTC

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Honestly the stealth archer mechanic is a big part of what made realtime fun to me. I never had interest in playing it with a sword and shield for instance.

2024-12-16 14:55:11 UTC

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I still prefer turn based but Skyrim was good enough to make me ignore all that realtime. I still play Fallout with VATS activated however.

2024-12-16 14:53:06 UTC

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Everything else seems neverending! I have never even beaten Skyrim's main story despite playing god knows how many thousands of hours.

2024-12-16 08:41:05 UTC

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People do the main quest in Bethesda games?

2024-12-13 18:44:42 UTC

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I was looking at Molly earlier, is the fork only the client or is it it's own server as well?

2024-12-13 17:54:29 UTC

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Next steps are to see if it's possible to resolve notification reliability when using @npub1kwa…e0nj and potentially using the bridge functionality to make Matrix my app notifier for other services (or maybe non messaging apps via websockets?).

2024-12-13 17:52:07 UTC

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Using the ansible project you linked me a while back I deployed Matrix last April and even managed to integrate it with Authentik for SSO with my other self hosted cloud apps. I've got a bunch of friends/family on there and it's been a great experience.

2024-12-08 00:06:25 UTC

Hey everyone! I created a starter pack for those looking for who to follow. Only four people right now but please nominate must follow accounts for gaming, retrogaming and all other forms of gaming and I'll add them to the list!
https://fedidevs.com/s/NzQ/
#retrogaming #gaming #StarterPack #mastodon

2024-09-11 22:06:33 UTC

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PSAC is right.