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by jtode 3y ago
The not having work on my personal phone was a big gamechanger for me as well, even before I worked from home. Not sure when or why I made the decision but very glad I did.
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by jtode 3y ago
If disturbingly realistic nuclear war movies are your jam, check out an older UK production from the 50s called The War Game. Threads actually lifts a number of images from it and it was equally terrifying in its time. The same director did
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by jtode 3y ago
I can't even anymore he's just too ridiculous
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by jtode 3y ago
This reminds me a lot of an article I read many years ago, I wish I was better at keeping archives. The article laid out how, while the EU was being formed, Greece wanted in, and basically, Germany wanted Greece to change their financial la
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by jtode 3y ago
K&R. Simple, clear writing about very basic and fundamental operations. Short, but contains enough information to run the entire digital world with one kernel. It frankly is one of the best and most important books in human history.
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by jtode 3y ago
I think, though, that they - like most of us I'm pretty sure - were assuming that Twitter would not hollow out quite as fast it appears to be, though, I'm taking everything I read with a big ol' shake of salt these days, an
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by jtode 3y ago
I run pi-hole, not sure why it's failing to deal with that. Probably I ain't configured it right. Networks not my strong suit. But FFS do we really have to exist in perpetual war with our sources of information for the rest of our
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by jtode 3y ago
I was so up for reading that but holy crap the interface on my phone browser. Like I don't actually mind ads at all, if they're streamed in like the other content and offered as an option. I don't even mind flashy graphics th
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by jtode 3y ago
Yep, my local shop's got plenty in stock. Nice to see.
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by jtode 3y ago
I was a fairly satisfied Reddit user until I got arbitrarily shadowbanned in my home city's sub, the irony there being, I am fully in line with the echo chamber rules, someone just straight up didn't like my tone and instead of wa
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by jtode 3y ago
I closed my main instance account this week after realizing I was on Twitter. It didn't seem to start that way, I was doing a lot of great connecting with people who garden and do other things I do, but I got into a couple of very poin
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by jtode 3y ago
Watching these guys twist in the harsh reality that nobody actually wants to hear from them is rather gratifying. "It's not a free speech platform!" Gab is a free speech platform, and truth.social, right? If simple free speec
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by jtode 3y ago
"But it was us who scorched the sky..."
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This article repeats a lie about black people's lives requiring CWs; the circulating "rules" (that is to say, the only tweet I have seen which advises use of them) I saw a couple days ago specifically say that there are certa
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by jtode 3y ago
Fascism is a symptom of a specific set of conditions, and also a modus operandi of its practitioners. By the definition of the word, Bush is not (just barely, but he wasn't), but Trump absolutely is.
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Ask HN: Mastodoners: is there anywhere \[reliably\] reporting on the schism?
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by jtode 3y ago
Welp that's it for my phone it's going in the fuckin lake right n
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by jtode 3y ago
It was the road tiles and the roof tiles for me. I did not know about him before hearing about those. I remember when Tesla started out, before him. I used to use their car as an answer to smug Hummer owners. Then suddenly I hear that this
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by jtode 3y ago
At this point there needs to be a very big and popular anti-capitalist push before anything good comes back. I'm all about the human rights as my first concern so any fellow SJWs reading can rest assured they don't need to interro
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by jtode 3y ago
What about people like me, who have considered him a toxic moron the whole time?
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Don't. Live as though you are poor and lay in stores for the long coming winter.
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by jtode 3y ago
The term "open source" was invented by capital in an attempt to use the products of Free Software's ideology while erasing the parts that are not amenable to capitalist exploitation. It means whatever capital needs it to mean
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by jtode 3y ago
This sounds about right to my dilletante's cognition.
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I am pretty sure the released product represents an extreme rush to market, and an incomplete representation of their intentions for it. Reason: Meta has been having NDA'd meetings with admins of the larger Mastodon instances, and it&#
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by jtode 3y ago
It would be more accurate to say that after a few years, you have forgotten what real ice cream is like and subsist on the metaphorical one.
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by jtode 3y ago
This thing where people basically say "I know they are only doing this for right now to get me roped in, but it's sure nice to not have to look at ads" is frankly quite disturbing. A bit like celebrating when the guy who does
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by jtode 3y ago
O noes, politicians being hypocrites!
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by jtode 3y ago
Many instances have promised a schism from Meta, and if they do, they will be a smaller, and much more enjoyable federation. Most people are gonna want Meta, is the general concensus, and I do not disagree. I want Mastodon how it was two mo
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That's some "Shores Of Tripoli" type shit right there.
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I wish you were right. People talk about it "failing" because it fails to meet the expectations set by capitalist platforms, and you are exactly correct - Mastodon is a throwback to the time before these beasts inundated the earth

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