Nora is Fed Up

no prisons, no bombs / in olam haba 🇵🇸✊ :chicago_flag:

"faridu la sima net / do ni pwanah voli net / pi nah somi mani set / danafosu lo-bon!"

"leave us free as we choose to be / we will never be ruled again."

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2026-02-18 21:08:10 UTC

Do you know why getting off Discord is hard? Because Discord spent vast amounts of VC money destroying the user bases of alternatives. They did things nobody could sustainably do for free or even make a profit on, like host images for free without a stated time limit, because it *didn't have to be sustainable*.
Remember how their tagline was "Time to ditch TeamSpeak and Skype?" They meant it. I'm no huge Skype fan, but it's upsetting that Discord transparently destroyed the userbases (and thus community support and income) of every alternative and has so thoroughly brainwashed its userbase that they think it's the fault of the people who don't want to use it.

2025-12-15 14:36:21 UTC

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@nprofile…jpsa let me briefly plug my own https://misfitloserzealot.club/

2025-09-29 19:25:33 UTC

"Who cares that participating in society requires a smartphone? There are so many options, and they're so cheap now."
"If you don't like Apple's locked down system, just buy an Android phone."
"If you don't like what Google is doing to Android, just fork the OS; it's open source!"
"It doesn't matter that banking and payment apps require a verified device. No real users have custom ROMs; just zealots and hackers."
"No, you can't just install whatever you want on your own device. What if someone gets tricked into disabling the four layers of protection and installing spyware? We have to protect them."
"Oh wow, I have to buy an expensive approved device that spies on me and doesn't let me run the software I want, in order to pay my rent? Who could have seen this coming?"
Do you understand why we get upset when people don't take our concerns seriously?

2025-02-24 18:15:11 UTC

Yknow, I knew that Jeff Geerling was anti-choice - he's talked about it a few times - but I was recently prompted to look into it further and oh my goodness is it bad. It used to be almost all he blogged about, aside from whining about how "anti-Catholic" the mainstream media is, not because they're pro-Protestant or something, but because they report on bad things the Church has done. He ran fundraisers and sold silicone wristbands reading "PROLIFE". It's not speculation; go to his blog and click "last page."
If constantly shilling for the Raspberry Pi cop-lovers wasn't enough, I hope folks can understand why I don't enjoy or boost his content.

2023-10-17 19:18:45 UTC

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2023-09-11 12:17:48 UTC

Let's do an experiment! If you're *not* a professional or habitual programmer, I'd love to hear what you know about what happens between typing a web address like "example.com" into your web browser and actually seeing the page show up. Whatever level of abstraction and verbosity you're comfortable with.
Tech folks: absolutely no making fun of people for being wrong, okay? People are allowed to not know stuff!
Boosts appreciated, but only if you're interested in frivolity 💜

2023-08-09 15:50:02 UTC

I can't believe i'm going to be the Git Apologist today but git is absolutely not the worst possible tool for source code management
many other modern tools are much better but Git is the industry standard for historical reasons, just like everything else (Docker, JSON, even bytes!) because, when Git came around, other options were less flexible, not distributed, and often proprietary and quite expensive!
the first time I learned about source control was from my father, who told me about how the SAS Institute had a literal whiteboard covered in sticky notes with filenames written on them; you could only edit files whose sticky notes were at your desk!