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@stefan or self-host a searx meta search engine.

Successfully relocated the server 💪

#mastoAdmin #sysAdmin

Hey I rebooted the server and the mastodon database didn't get deleted! Lucky me!

Still wish I could understand why that periodically happens, but at least I have regular backups to recover when it does....

#mastoAdmin #mastodon

A small section of a leather strap which is in the process of being reinforced with a thick thread. The strap sits on a 2x4 with a bunch of holes in it from the awl poking holes through the leather on it. The board sits on a black table with stone-like texture.

Progress pic

This belt is long (something like 5 feet after it's been stretched from not having this done earlier) so it's taking quite a while.

#diy #leather

@dmarti @yoasif @diazona I feel like this whole discussion sidesteps a big part of the point. I don't ONLY object to ads because they're privacy-invading. Advertising is propaganda, a ritual product of an industry created not to sell individual products, but to sell the idea that consumerism is […]

@dmarti @diazona I mean I've already had to have Falkon open a lot of the time for pages that wouldn't render in Firefox so now Falkon is my primary browser instead. They ain't gonna pull this shit over there.

@diazona this firefox suggest thing is definitely new. I would have noticed ads being in my fucking search results.

@yoasif that explains it, but that doesn't explain why they added a bunch of new default-on settings that weren't there before that show ads in my address bar. This was a choice to shove ads in my face and I will not have this kind of bullshit in my web browser. I'm fucking done.

seriously I'm gonna quit using firefox right now. I'm done. Fuck you.

Firefox search bar showing an ad as the top result for "color"

What the ACTUAL FUCK Mozilla?

Are you TRYING to alienate your users? Fuck this shit!

#firefox #mozilla #ads

Tweet from @cowboy_postbop@twitter.com reads: being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot. Attached photo is screenshot from office space where Samir says to Peter "no way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks"

Alright, this took way longer to make than I am willing to admit. But the fact it didn't exist bugged me.
#shitpost #meme #EatTheRich #NoBillionaires

@ai6yr I found something like that of a thrift store one time. First time I went to seriously use it the insides blew up.

I found a lamp-table on the side of the road yesterday way out in the countryside where you don't have to worry about bedbugs so I grabbed it. Turns out it was busted (bad switch) but I had the spare part on hand so now I have a nice new lamp-table. :)

#DIY

Random thought: if you have a wildcat strike, you don't have a union. Or rather, the people who were negotiating with management weren't your union, your union is the folks who organized together to form the wildcat strike.

From #Trump's address on the #Iran attacks last night.

#JDVance #netanyahu

ChatCBT

#CursedWebsites
#HashTagGames

'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil #4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. This restaurant scene “…where waiters serve piles of money to a soldier, labeled ‘War’. Judging from the types of money they serve, the four waiters represent four Western countries. The man with the knife slices U.S. dollars, hinting that he is an American, perhaps former U.S. President Harry S. Truman (who was already succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower by the time this cartoon was printed in Krokodil). The obese man with monocle serves British pounds and could either be then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill or the British national personification John Bull. The man with a whole plate with money, decorated with smelly cheese, is a Frenchman, possibly French Prime Minister Antoine Pinay. The wrinkly green man with swastika badge is West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who ironically was active in the German resistance movement during World War II). While 'War' is fed with delicious Western financial nutrition, four other customers wait in vain for service. Their tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'” - https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/ganf_yuliy.htm

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.

'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education' […]

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When you're a "good cop" and it's your first day on the force: [Picture of one good apple in a basket full of rotten apples]

It won't be long before that apple starts to rot

#acab #allcopsarebastards #activism #apples #police

Tests fail? Delete 'em!!

#programming

A social media post by user “quillmatiq” reads: “I dunno, man – if you’re going to do a tariff on Apple, at least have the poetic justice to make it 30%”.

Oof and 🤣

I just swapped out the #filesystem out from under my current #Linux installation on my laptop

#zfs #btrfs #archLinux

How the fuck is it so exhausting to use a #chainsaw

I just swapped out the #filesystem out from under my current #Linux installation on my laptop

#zfs #btrfs #archLinux

Often people say "we couldn't possibly have the modern world under anarchism". And of course they're right. But I got two responses to that...

We can't have the modern world anyway. Not for long. The modern world is already crumbling, energy consumption **will** stop growing, and then turn […]

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I conclusion... lazy, hopeless, sad writing. And I think it's the underlying hopelessness that bothers me. Like, this isn't "the characters are hopeless because of the war", it's "the writers' hopelessness is leaking into the story".

#starTrek #StarTrekDiscovery

3. Of course they count on the viewers (unlike me) not being able to tell that all the uniforms are polyester & elastane (which is a polyester) with maybe some nylon woven in but this is shot in 4k at least and you just said the words "polyester allergy" in a show that a lot of neurodivergent […]

2. of course they couldn't provide Tilly with 100% cotton sheets and had to go with "a visco-elastic polyeurathane film"? Y'all have replicators, why do you need stretchy plastic bedsheets? Just replicate some fine cotton thread weave? Has it been so goddamn long since humanity drove cotton to […]

1. it really pisses me off that they would canonicalize that the solution to polyester allergy is still "just avoid contact" in the goddamn 23rd century when fucking cancer is a joke.