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Proud Retired Submarine/IUSS Navy CPO. Blue to the core! Background in electronics and some IT. Spend my free time, dabbling with computers and laptops and drinking beer at various local craft breweries!
London! 😍
trying to hide malware by changing the file extension

The only digital subscription service I want is a subscription to a real-life IT person in my real-life local community who will go into my phone and computer once a month to remove all the new AI features and other enshittifying features that companies have sneaked onto my devices against my will since the last time.

Seriously. If AI is so fanbloodytastic, why do they have to sneak it in and hide any off-switches?

International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Hamas Officials

The practical implications could be limited though since Israel and the United States are not members of the court and several of the Hamas officials have been killed.

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Are there plans to have translator options for posts or am I missing something.? Thanks.

What is "potentially harmful" about (let's call it) Muskodon? Except competitively.

When did "free speech absolutism" come to include the "unless it hurts you competitively" exception?

RT @[email protected]

I have so much free speech here that I can’t even post links to my posts on mastodon.

I tried using two url shortening services, they are both banned.

Fascist swines.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1603739530145812483

Miguel de Icaza on Twitter

“I have so much free speech here that I can’t even post links to my posts on mastodon. I tried using two url shortening services, they are both banned. Fascist swines.”

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Here's something that doesn't happen every day! Thanks very much, @[email protected] and @[email protected]. And you definitely should check out Rachel's new podcast, "Ultra." It's a mind-blowing (and true) story, beautifully presented.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854

RT @[email protected]

WATCH: @[email protected] recounts how the @[email protected] and @[email protected] shout-out during All In made her make-up cape buttons fly off!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1602485707024515072

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

History Podcast · Weekly Series · As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’…

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I've decided to make account creations by approval only, which may change to invite only. It's clear such a huge wave of people from Twitter has had an overall negative effect. It's not even about server performance, people just don't read the rules and they complain there's actual moderation here unlike the hellscape they came from. We're incredibly fair and balanced, but this isn't Grindr or FetLife, nor is it supposed to be a Twitter replacement.
Elon’s wife left him so he spent 44 billion dollars on a website so that he could have a million friends and no one could say no to being his friend…only to discover that money can’t buy you love.