I spend far too much time thinking about power relationships in the abstract, overthinking the forest and missing the trees completely.
I really struggle to connect with people, I don't know why.
Chronic depression and mild autism probably don't help.
Avatar is me, with goggles and bandana, hanging upside down in a park.
Here to learn more about different life experiences, improve my behavior and keep my opinions in check.
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"where were all the trans people before?"
We hid. And if we didn't hide, we died.
- we were deemed clinically insane.
- we we imprisoned.
- we were put in institutions.
- we were forcibly medically castrated.
- we were tortured with electric shocks.
- we were hunted down and killed.
- our murderers claimed "panic" and were set free.
- many of us chose the "easy way out" instead.
Helping trans people exist is good, actually.
@mullvadnet It's almost as if what we the people tell them, over and over again, doesn't matter squat.
We lost control of our governments.
We are not democracies any more.
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.
The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to āenable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful mannerā. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.
@mullvadnet They will never stop either. The yearning to control āfor safetyā is a built-in bug of the authoritarian mind.
The other side of the desire to rule is the yearning to submit.
How do I keep a WebSocket connection alive in a Progressive Web App?
My PWA is playing audio.
Every now end then the server must tell the PWA to switch to a new sound.
How do I make the connection stay up even if the mobile screen is locked?
What are the minimum requirements to convince Android/iOS to keep the WebSocket alive while the screen is locked (assuming there is a way)?
@PhoenixSerenity if you enjoyed glory hammer check out nanowar of steel: https://youtu.be/S9WWz95ripA
The singer of glory hammer shows up as Thor in the music video and it's appropriate for the season, especially if you are sick of Christmas music and want to hear some talented spoof of the genre.
Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.
the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). Itās distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). Itās the worldās first āpreservation archiveā for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
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