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I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:
I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>
CHAPEL HILL, NC—Responding to concern about the Trump administration accusing hundreds of Hispanic people living near the U.S.–Mexico border of having fraudulent birth certificates and revoking their passports, political scientists reassured Americans Thursday that stripping minority groups of their citizenship is usually where the descent into fascism peters out. “I know people might be worried that a targeted effort by a country’s leaders to erode the civil liberties and question the citizenship of a specific minority group is some ominous sign of even worse things to come, but in nearly all cases, this actually represents the low-water mark for fascism,” said Brian Snelling, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, echoing the sentiments of political scientists around the country in explaining that the Trump administration’s accelerating use of white supremacist beliefs, discrimination, and violence to guide policy-making was actually a sure sign that egalitarian democracy was just around the corner. “This is a classic historical trend—an increasingly authoritarian ruler repeatedly demonizes a minority group with false accusations, increases the illegal imprisonment and deportation of members of that minority group who don’t have proper documentation in an effort to get people accustomed to the idea that something about this minority group is inherently criminal, starts essentially just questioning those minorities’ rights to exist at all, and then everything goes back to normal in six months or so. In virtually every fascist regime throughout history, the creation of detention centers for a minority group is simply the first sign that those detention centers are about to go away. So we urge you not to judge the Trump administration for denying citizens passports based on race, as that’s the sign that fascism is about to come to an end.” Political scientists also reassured Americans that since a country’s descent into fascism virtually always just goes away on its own, there was absolutely no need for anyone to do anything.
Wenig hat meinen Optimismus dahingehend, dass wir als Gesellschaft nochmal hinbekommen, irgendwas grundsaetzlich zu verbessern, nachhaltiger zerstoert, als zu sehen, wie mit meinen behinderten Mitmenschen umgengangen (bzw. auch einfach nicht-umgegangen) wird: Fast sicher erwirbt jede*r im Laufe des Lebens eine Behinderung, dennoch wird so geplant, als seien behinderte Menschen eine absolute Ausnahme, denn es darf nicht sein, was nicht soll
Fantastic post by @fimion.
At first I was like: Oh no, I guess I have to clean up my RSS reader because I certainly never subscribed to AI shilling blogs. Then I opened the post and had to laugh out loud.
https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/
As you all know, the easiest way to set the time on a microwave oven is to plug it in at the right moment.
(Reference: https://chaos.social/@ant/109265527654254544)
Tired of doing this every few weeks to keep up with the drift of the shitty RTC?
Just add NTP to your microwave oven. The home appliance industry does not want you to know this simple trick:
Smart Plug + Home Automation
@fionafokus Both!
Absurd because they’re required (just allow us to turn off the clock!), but genius because it removes an annoying thing from the mental task list.
@IngaLovinde @snaki @fionafokus what... what? Whaaaat?
I turn off the oven when I don't use it (using the switch at the power plug). This behaviour would be absolutely infuriating to me.
@snaki @IngaLovinde @fionafokus ah, no. The power switch is on the socket on the wall (UK style plug), not on the microwave.
I do it because I use the oven maybe once every two months, so there is no reason to keep it on.
@deuchnord @fionafokus two time a year microwave doesn’t have the real time
Not a big deal I think 😄
@fionafokus Every microwave I ever had starts up with the clock in an unset state where it simply doesn't keep time until it is set. It also doesn't run until it's set... It just sits there blinking 12:00 until I manually hit cancel or set something.
This is... an interesting solution to the issue though. It... actually would work on any that actually run the time on startup.
@fionafokus
Smart hack.
Maybe use a switch with power measurement to make sure the microwave isn't running.
If it has an oven function, you can also use the power measurement to get a notification when preheat is done.
Lol my solution is to never never never ever set the time. Most devices display nothing at all, once you run a cycle.
I absolutely hate clocks in all things, cars, microwaves, whatever. What's the cultural obsession with clocks?
@fionafokus I had been doing this for many years with a zigbee plug until my old microwave died.
The new one resets to 00:00, but the clock doesn't start ticking until you manually set the time, so I removed it. ;(
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