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by riffic 3y ago
there are really strong federal laws about what you can send through the mail.
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by riffic 3y ago
is this the dude that is known for blocking a lot of randos on Twitter? edit: ah yeah he is lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641557
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by riffic 3y ago
yes
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by riffic 3y ago
it was always appropriate to lie and make up a fake age / date of birth on those signup pages.
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by riffic 3y ago
centralization/decentralization pendulum
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by riffic 3y ago
is there supposed to be any context for this post?
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by riffic 3y ago
prototype Lament Configuration
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by riffic 3y ago
what do you do with an AWS Root account?
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by riffic 3y ago
the genie that is the Fediverse (based on interoperable and open web protocols) is impossible to place back into its bottle.
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by riffic 3y ago
defunct social networking services, a list from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
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by riffic 3y ago
it varies but after 1906, yes (I think this is what you're asking, apologies if it isn't) https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Naturaliz... > After 1906 an immigrant was required to subm
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by riffic 3y ago
well having done a bit of genealogy the last couple years yes a lot of people have had names either incorrectly written down on a passenger manifest or incorrectly indexed by someone reading it, often decades later from microfilmed document
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by riffic 3y ago
this is effectively a very geeked out zettelkasten method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
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by riffic 3y ago
I would love to know why it's based on Fedora instead of Debian since it seems to be highly influenced by Ubuntu. EDIT a few minutes of reading and I seem to get it now. this project and some of the others (Silverblue specifically but
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by riffic 3y ago
that's not necessarily true
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by riffic 3y ago
the legal system is more than willing to prosecute a John or Jane Doe
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by riffic 3y ago
the medical field has a corresponding term ( Never event ): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_event
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by riffic 3y ago
Most of the time I pity the people who lack an inner voice but sometimes, rarely, I envy them.
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by riffic 3y ago
lol didn't take long either
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by riffic 3y ago
maybe Microsoft shouldn't have overloaded a generic word as a brand then.
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by riffic 3y ago
even more importantly you need people. Servers help too but fundamentally this speaks to a people problem.
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by riffic 3y ago
there's prior art for a government gazette (the federal register or whatever equivalent in your own country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_gazette going back even further in time you had the town crier
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by riffic 3y ago
tell your congress critters to write laws requiring public infrastructure (public sector adoption of ActivityPub is an awesome use-case here)
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by riffic 3y ago
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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by riffic 3y ago
heavy JavaScript usage would be my best guess
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by riffic 3y ago
orange site needs a standing rule to avoid linking directly to Mastodon instances unless we know they can handle the hug of death.
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by riffic 3y ago
Los Angeles city hall is an icon and this is a local paper.
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by riffic 3y ago
it's all Lindy and not going anywhere anytime soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by riffic 3y ago
The List of Defunct Social Networking Services page on Wikipedia will be there for its time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
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by riffic 3y ago
look what's three days away

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