I still hate asking, but another new month is coming up, rent is due, and I still haven't had any luck finding work. Savings are basically gone. If you could throw a couple bucks, it'd really help. If not, also cool, but maybe give a 🔁 boost?
Thanks!
People who study corvids are really just murder investigators.
"Tens of thousands braved the scorching temperatures to celebrate the Budapest Pride parade on Saturday, the first since the election defeat of Viktor Orban, who tried to ban the event last year.
'I think the situation is getting better and better, mainly because of the change in government', 18-year-old Petra Toth, who was attending her first Pride with her girlfriend, told AFP."
Fuck yeah! :progresspride_i_flag:
https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-holds-first-post-orban-budapest-pride-march/a-77736596
Back during COVID (2020) I looked into starting either a #DEFCON #VPN service, or a private email service.
Both VPN and email are well understood services, there is no shortage of people with expertise, it is not a big technical challenge to set up and operate...
Each became impossible or unattractive after talking to people who have operated them at deep levels over time. Here is why:
#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub 🤷🏼♀️
¹ and furry
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116822298774606923
If buying isn’t owning, then downloading isn’t stealing.
@inquiline Historian John Barry wrote an excellent history of the 1918 flu pandemic and one of the strangest observations he makes in that book is that there’s almost no cultural trace of the disease. Where are the songs, poems, films, and novels portraying the days when people died in scores?
There’s almost no trace.
That seemed bizarre to me, but it’s pretty much what we’ve done with Covid
1) people who dispersed when ordered to disperse were still convicted of terrorism. Free speech and freedom of assembly be damned. If I'm reading this correctly they were charged with (but not convicted of) attempted murder.
2) a person who did not attend the protest was convicted for "corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents"
The documents in question were all entirely legal, as far as I can tell (again, free speech, freedom of the press be damned) and it does not appear that they were in any way considered evidence of a crime.
I can't find a reading of this that isn't "we'll come for your family too."
Texas, as far as I can tell, is fully and openly embracing fascism.
JUNE 27, 2015: BREE NEWSOME REMOVES CONFEDERATE FLAG
While politicians debated the implications of taking down the Confederate flag after the white supremacist murder of nine African Americans at Emmanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled the South Carolina state flag pole and took the flag down.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bree-newsome-removes-confederate-flag/
@mozilla Are you aware that MullvadVPN, the backend providers of Mozilla VPN, one of their founders is using the money from Mullvad to back Swedish facists?
you uh, should reconsider your dealings with them
https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/
RE: https://social.nlnetlabs.nl/@nlnetlabs/116816697794903207
Expect more of this from projects that care about the long term quality and maintainability of software. Also expect more whining from LLM-dependent developers that this is not fair to them.
If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately
that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to
EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.
If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.
archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260627172939/https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681
@lostgen @mullvadnet coincidentally, mozilla vpn is mullvad with a skin and a markup.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services/
Can't wait for this new release. 🎮
Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them.
COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug)
🧵
increasingly frustrated by takes that insist a VPN ban would be unworkable because too many companies need them. they will just make it illegal unless you're a company. like are you not following the exemptions every gov is carving out to make copyright infringement fine as long as you're an AI startup
:sukusuku_inoti::blobcat_daisuki: