truh

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the architecture of the fediverse is optimized to increase engagement by having people's replies to your post just not show up for others, which encourages them to also reply saying exactly the same thing that all the other people have been saying in their replies

It can be hard for those that don't do a lot of programming to understand, but programmers do not think in Plain English (or whatever their native tongue is). They do not, for the most part, spend their time wrangling & getting frustrated at their tools.

Instead, programmers think in abstractions that sit beyond the realm of natural language, and those abstractions are carved through dialect with the machine. The machine pushes back, the chisel strikes the marble, and the abstraction evolves.

OMG

(several other gems in "Git Koans" here: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/#s4-the-hobgoblin)

Git Koans / Steve Losh

CAT INSPECTION

please present your cat
I laughed out loud.
Expansion Card Functionality on Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)

The Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series

Let's talk about xPal, which purports to be an encrypted messaging app. https://xpal.com

Anyone that reads my blog probably already knows where this is going.

If this post accidentally reaches escape velocity and people that don't know me find it: Hi, I'm a furry cryptography nerd. Usually when I talk about so-called private apps, it's to disclose vulnerabilities in them.

(Today, I just don't have the damn energy to do a formal write-up.)

Let's start with how they market their app.

Ultra Secure Messenger. Stay Anonymous

xPal is a Ultra Secure Messenger App that ensures secure communication and privacy protection for its users.It is Trusted by Millions of Users.

xpal.com
Hello all. I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old. I'm blind. I'm autistic. RFK Junior has been spreading outright lies about autism in the eye of the public recently.
Now I understand my form of autism may be what some call "High functioning" which is in and of itself another whole debate to have, but primarily I'm focusing on the misinformation spread by a man of power, a man who has the ear of the president and is in the position of head of health and human services.
This man claims that it is environmental exposure that causes autism... as if suddenly at age two those with autism have a sudden sharp regression do to "Environmental factors." he's a well known antivax advocate... so you can draw your own conclusions as to what he means by, "environmental exposures."
This man claims, incorrectly, "These are kids who will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, never go out on a date, and many of us will apparently never use a toilet unassisted."
I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old, Blind! and autistic. I have:
payed taxes, with sighted assistance.
I (currently!* hold a contract job at the texas school for the blind as a music and technology instructor*.
I have played baseball with the help of assistive devices with other blind individuals, (look up beep baseball.)
I write music for a living as I am a professional musician, and many will agree music is a poem set to a rhythm and notes.
I currently have a long term relationship... and I live alone, with the occasional help of an attendant, and I just got up off the toilet a few minutes ago after completing my business in a non-abnormal fassion.
This isn't about who you voted for. this isn't about politics. this is a hateful attack on those of us who just happen to think differently.
Please! Boost this for me and help stop the spread of hateful mis and dis information today.
I'm risking the Ire of the president just by writing this post, and he has already said he has no qualms about potentially deporting actually american born citizens to nightmare camps in El Salvador. I don't care. this isn't about politics at all. this is about me fighting for my right to exist as a disabled person!
#PleaseBoost
Whoever did this I want to be your best friend!!