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by robobro 1y ago
The initial leaker is most likely not the same parties as the ones tying email addresses and usernames to people's "real identities", if you look at the thread where the leak was announced. Say what you will about 4chan but I
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by robobro 2y ago
No need for racism...
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by robobro 2y ago
The first line of text after the title: > multinyms are examples of triple/quadruple/quintuple/sextuple homonyms. > According to some definitions, a homonym is a word with the same pronunciation as, but different meani
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by robobro 2y ago
how is public school teaching kids to take collective ownership of the private means of production? must have slept through those classes. My public schools in Oregon had a lot of anti-communism elements and I got a brief suspension for wri
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by robobro 2y ago
DBAN for a new generation. This is pretty cool. So far DBAN is still getting the job done for me, but this looks like a solid replacement.
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by robobro 2y ago
Why can't an anti capitalist eat at McDonald's? There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
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by robobro 2y ago
no
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by robobro 2y ago
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by robobro 2y ago
I agree that what the IDF is doing to Palestinians, now and for a long time is very tragic, and it's also tragic how many of their own people and fellow soldiers they (IDF) killed on Oct 7th.
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by robobro 2y ago
Boooo.
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by robobro 2y ago
From what I understand, IRC doesn't hold messages for extended periods of time or allow media uploads, while fediverse does, so that's one big difference.
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by robobro 2y ago
Why would they need to steal the lock? I don't think it's uncommon knowledge that most locks are pretty easy to pick quickly :/
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by robobro 2y ago
How shocking!
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by robobro 2y ago
Works thanks
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by robobro 2y ago
Open license #666: the goatse license, which is absolutely not rubbish https://github.com/153/goatse-license
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by robobro 2y ago
Similar case for me! I was never trained in typing, but after years of "hunt and peck" typing, I just intuitively learned where keys are and started instinctively learning patterns for how to type words after lots and lots of IRC
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by robobro 2y ago
The sum of numbers on a roulette wheel! (0-36)
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by robobro 2y ago
Whoa, workers have controlled the means of production for the past decade? Awesome!
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by robobro 2y ago
This is one reason among many that I have vpn/vps/etc. At least duckduckgo is only blocked at the dns level!
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by robobro 2y ago
Emacs Lisp
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by robobro 2y ago
Goethe... his contemporary Schopenhauer has interesting notes on color theor, from an historical perspective Wittgenstein also wrote some interesting notes on color. Both are more interesting than this blog post.
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by robobro 2y ago
here you go lol https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm It's part of fediverse. Open source, decentralized software
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by robobro 2y ago
My schools had bans on cell phones, music players, game machines ~20 years back. Teachers would confiscate any gadgets or toys students used in class time, maybe sending them to the office to be reclaimed at the end of the day. When did thi
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by robobro 2y ago
you mean emacs/?
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by robobro 2y ago
The article said she briefly became a eugenicist, like other political radicals of the time, before going back on it. Not the "gotcha" you think it is. I think it's the bigger story that she was very left wing. I never learne
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by robobro 2y ago
Lockpicking is an obvious hacker hobby! Very zen...
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by robobro 3y ago
Every country, now and throughout history, has homelessness. Are all countries failed countries?
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by robobro 3y ago
Nerd communities, you mean reddit? Mastodon is like the Internet Explorer of Activitypub software. It's what a lot of people think is fediverse. But developers and power users prefer Firefox and have many valid reasons to dislike Inter
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by robobro 3y ago
One of the weirdest irc networks I've seen is a rizon adjacent one, irc.sageru.org - its basic premise is forced anonymity implemented serverside. It's a bit slow. It's not an entirely beautiful place. But it's a fun ide
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by robobro 3y ago
Mastodon? Do you mean Fediverse / Activitypub? No one should call IRC "mirc", email "outlook", or the web "chrome", come on bro.

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