"This is a man who is a white nationalist. And he is in sole control of #Rails, this framework we all love."
https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchWas a geek and fitness enthusiast, then a brain haemorrhage kinda ruined my day. Now I'm trying to get back on my feet and figure out who I am.
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"When people get to do what they love most, rather than being forced to squander their lives on tasks that they do not care about, it takes a lot less to feel prosperous. By contrast, those who seek to profit at others’ expense find that no amount of material wealth is enough to satisfy them."
#MutualAid #Commons #GiftEconomyhttps://crimethinc.com/2025/06/06/mutual-aid-the-commons-and-the-revolutionary-abolition-of-capitalism-revisiting-the-difference-between-mutual-aid-and-charity
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@KathyReid I feel like Facebook is a good marker for 'oops, too late', but I'm not as confident of what the early warning sign might have been.
I usually like to follow Bill Hicks in blaming most of society's ills on 'marketing'... or more specifically, in the context of the Internet, advertising-driven surveillance capitalism. So maybe when Google Ads launched?
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@Edent@mastodon.social Cheers, have passed that on to a few specific friends who have a terrible time every Nov 5th, as well as sharing it.
Westley watches them from the window with apparent fascination, but know others aren't so lucky.
Somewhere between 50,000 and 500,000 people are marching in #London today in a demonstration against the far-right.
"'Security through obscurity’ has been debunked as a security measure for a long time.”
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@christineburns Don't know if you already know of it, but this site (built by @katemorley) is a really nice presentation of the live generation (and import/export) data from the national grid:
https://grid.iamkate.com/
" #Hackney is a borough of deep and worsening inequality, and one which far too often has been left behind by a political elite who are more interested in serving the interests of private corporations than of the people that call our borough home."
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@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com I am a long way from California (!) but at a quick search I see that Katie has pledged not to take money from corporate PACs, so my theoretical vote would go to her.
Plus there are too many guys in politics, so in the absence of any other criteria I would have picked her anyway.
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@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org Advogato was an interesting trust metric thingy. But to prove your point, that was a past tense sentence.
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party Huh. I removed the kitchen door when I moved in, because I didn't see any point in having one - I never cook anyway, so it just got in the way of fridge snack raids.
But I have an absent-minded flatmate now, and disabilities, and a very stupid cat. Maybe I should put that door back on this year. Thanks for the prompt to think about it.
I hope you're as okay as you can be when such a difficult date comes up in the calendar.
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@riley@toot.cat Entertainingly (?) vapes are bringing heavy metals brain damage back for Gen Z. So that should be fun, another batch of people with severely limited empathy etc.
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@Edent@mastodon.social I've always assumed it had something to do with how fat your slice of meat/cake/$foodstuff could be under good/bad circumstances, but never bothered to check. I hope you'll enlighten us when the poll closes!
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@chris_bloke I can see how grumpy old men might be a valuable source of thinking on simple time-saving techniques and tricks.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run My ex seems to love hers so far. She's not very techie but she is a frequent early adopter of shiny gadgets. I'll see what she thinks in six months time 🙂
"A woman denied a permanent form of birth control on the NHS over fears she might regret it, while men were allowed contraceptive procedures, has won her case with the health ombudsman."
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@ScottishGreens Weird headline premise, isn't it? The Greens and SNP are both liberal centre-left parties, while Labour is way over on the authoritarian right these days... why would anybody who supports the Greens be choosing between voting for them and Labour, instead of between Greens and SNP?
(I'm in London, so maybe I'm missing something here.)
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The economics joke (which I stole from a Facebook group, obviously) is proving Very Popular. If you sent me an interesting reply, it might take me a while to read it, and not just because I'm a bit slow. 🙂
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@Hex I constantly underestimated how stupid the average person was for the first 48 years of my life.
Then I had a massive brain haemorrhage and lost 1/4 of my IQ, which puts me a whisker above 'average' now, and it's all a bit clearer. I'm kind of surprised we didn't blow ourselves up sooner to be honest. We are apparently a very stupid species. On average.
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@dave As I understand it, Rust is probably the skill to acquire then, because it's memory-safe and hence becoming increasingly popular. Although I think it's mostly being used at the kernel driver level in Linux currently rather than app level, but I guess take a look and see what you find that looks interesting to you 🙂
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@pheeef@chaos.social There's something particularly pleasing about the mobile ones @kevlin@mastodon.social 😉
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@rabble@mastodon.social Wasn't Dorsey one of the people most responsible for turning Twitter from an amazing egalitarian interpersonal comms platform into an algorithmically-driven broadcast cesspit? Not a great pedigree.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Staffordshire Bull Terriers are the most extreme example of this I have personally encountered. Flip-top heads!
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@Deestevens@mastodon.ie I don't know what that rule is, but I almost certainly agree with it wholeheartedly. <3
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@grepe@ieji.de I'm sure I saw an article a year or two ago that said CEOs were the most valuable role to automate, given how few of them achieve long-term results better than random choice, and how much they get paid for it.
"A wave of fires has swept over France and Spain, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing. Firefighters on the front lines are facing what a spokesperson for the French firefighter association told AFP was an “operational impossibility”—in other words, a “natural force beyond our control”."
"Forty years on from the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl is still contaminated with almost half the caesium-137 that exploded from the Unit 4 reactor in 1986, as well as much longer-lived hazards such as plutonium, tritium and americium. But according to some experts, the long-term effects on nature may be less than if the area had been left to humans..."
“The ecosystem in the exclusion zone is much better than it was before the accident,” Smith said. “It’s been a very powerful demonstration of the relative impact of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which is not so big, and the impact of human habitation, which is devastating.”
"The economics of rapidly deploying AI coding tools across companies are looking more questionable than ever."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-churn-code
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@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold @BBCRD@social.bbc Seconded! I'm surprised mirroring the Xitter news accounts onto here (officially) wasn't the first step really, just to get some feel for daily reach and engagement.
"There is something uniquely deflating about watching a figure once synonymous with sharp, absurdist brilliance slip into reactionary cliché."
https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/24/john-cleese-a-comedy-icon-ruining-legacy-27642291/
"Just figured out what the HH in DHH stands for."
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
"#Musk is communicating in subterranean tropes that his far-right global audience will instantly find intelligible: He’s advancing the generalized sentiment that due to #DOGE cuts, nobody died for whom we need to feel any passing responsibility. Nobody died who’s worthy of our concern."
https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children
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@SpencerWolfe@mastodon.social I have had uniformly good experiences with running Linux on older Thinkpads.
Ubuntu MATE for the last few years, Ubuntu for 10+ years before that, and Debian and Red Hat before that. Started on Slackware a VERY long time ago 🙂 but wouldn't recommend that these days!
https://linuxblog.io/thinkpad-laptops-linux-guide/ has some advice on which models might work best, but I've had over a dozen over the years and the only one I ever had trouble with was a brand new flagship model, that the drivers hadn't quite caught up with yet. The older stuff should all have really solid support, in my experience.
"Organic eggs are twice as bad for the climate as eggs from chickens living in cages" 😢