Bryan (he/him/his) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@resplendent606@techhub.social
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Omnisexual cis-gendered man, happily married for 17 years with an intersex person, and I have a Bichon FrisΓ© who I adore. I believe in social justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, FOSS, consumer rights, the defense of Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦. I am a Democratic Socialist. I have deGoogled and I am anti-big-tech.I practice digital intentional-ism. I use Debian GNU/Linux   and GrapheneOS.

I have been in the process of deGoogling and removing big-tech from my life.

#LGBTQIA #Socialism #Debian #deGoogle

Websitehttps://resplendent.neocities.org
PieFedhttps://piefed.social/u/Resplendent606
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And just because I love ABBA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

YouTube

I think this meme needs more love.

Full credit goes to William Papadin at https://www.youtube.com/@nobleknightadventures who made the original video. Not my edit, just found it on a shady site. Original video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Z7st2AeaM

#endof10 #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11 #nobleknightadventures #WilliamPapadin #YouTube #meme #Arch #Fedora #Manjaro #openSUSE #PopOS #Pop_OS #RedHat #Steam #Valve #SteamOS #Debian #Abba #Gimme #GimmeGimmeGimme

Not my image (I don't use #Twitter at all), but it's really funny seeing Collective Shout has made their account private there, after their efforts to get banks to refuse payment to Steam and itch.io when they're selling NSFW games that Collective Shout deems inappropriate.

A new victim of the mass censorship of art. itch.io is now taking down their "NSFW" content.

Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/itch-io-latest-in-platforms-pressured-by-credit-card-companies-as-well-as-activist-group-collective-shout-which-has-successfully-caught-an-award-winning-indie-and-more-in-the-crossfire/

#itchio #Steam #censorship #videogames #gaming #Linuxgaming #CollectiveShout #Visa #Mastercard #AmericanExpress #AMX #money #consumerrights

Itch.io latest in platforms pressured by credit card companies, as well as activist group Collective Shoutβ€”which has successfully caught an award-winning indie (and more) in the crossfire

Finally, we're safe from… uh, award-winning indies about girlhood and games that discuss the historic oppression of queer people.

PC Gamer
Steam Users Are Mad At Valve for Banning Adult-Only Games Off Its Platform

Many Steam users claim that Valve has set a "dangerous precedent" following its sweeping adult-only games ban policy update.

VICE

This article was taken down shortly after posting on @VICE - It explores who was really behind Steam taking down all of those NSFW games.

I am not a fan of that kind of content and will never be a customer of those game creators, but I do believe people should be able to do what they wish, whenever they wish, especially with their own money.

It sure would be terrible if we all shared what was censored.

Here is an archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250719204151/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/

#Steam #videogames #Vice #gaming #Linuxgaming #CollectiveShout #Visa #Mastercard #AmericanExpress #AMX #money #censorship #consumerrights #StopKillingGames #HuniePop #GTA #GTA6

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies β€” And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims

The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

VICE

I made a new blog post!

In this update, I write about bereavement and dealing with insurance companies, my ongoing auto-immune flare (Lupus), moving, my new phone and switching to GrapheneOS, returning to Debian, setting up a homelab server, and things that I found interesting over the past couple of weeks.

Two-Week Update

https://resplendent.neocities.org/blog/blog-post-2

#blog #blogpost #personal #website #html #Debian #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #GrapheneOS #bereavement #death #Kentucky #Tennessee #healthinsurance

Hi, I'm Bryan!

The maintainer of XeroLinux (an Arch-based distro) is stuck in a country without many options, and he is asking for your help. He can barely upload ISOs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlk_NLJO3lM

#arch #archlinux #linux #opensource #fundraiser #foss #xerolinux

Video 01 - The Struggles

YouTube

The modern web is incredibly invasive. It sucks.

The best way to get me to not use your website is to have a popup that asks how I want to accept cookies and not give an option to or make it difficult to reject all cookies. Also, I hate those popups that ask for my email when I first visit a site. Secondly, if your site complains that I block ads because you will not receive fractions of a cent by bombarding me with your site tracking irrelevant ads, maybe I should go elsewhere.

Luckily, there are tools to make these sites less of a headache. For instance, I use an extension called "I still don't care about cookies" which is a debloated fork of another extension. It isn't perfect, but it makes a lot of those popups go away. I recommend checking it out. I use it on @librewolf in conjunction with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and "Terms of Service Didn't Read."

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

#Internet #ublockorigin #extensions #Librewolf #Firefox #PrivacyBadger #cookies #ads #browser #termsofservice #popup