And now for something COMPLETELY different:
Linux booting *inside* a PDF file. (Uses embedded JS to run a RISCV emulator and boot Linux to a command line prompt):
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What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV?Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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Bookshop.org launched a new platform that allows independent bookstores to sell e-books to readers. Here's a look inside., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
I have mix feelings about this, as while there are some DRM-free books, most are locked to the application.
Meaning: you can't give your book to someone after you're done and if the app stops working in the future, your book won't be available.
I'll rather have them call it renting than buying.
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Basically anything that sells ePub, so Kobo.com, ebooks.com (this one has a drm free category), etc. DRM is decided by the publisher not the store so not everything will be available without protection.
If the book you want has DRM there's a Calibre plugin that is usually able to remove it.
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Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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Reddit might have some room to eat into Patreon’s model, allowing creators to put certain content behind paywalls. Lots of creators have their own subreddits already meant to facilitate community conversation in a way that comments on Patreon posts don’t totally allow for. So perhaps there’s some room for Reddit to sneak into that space.
That might actually work.
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No, they just want to control the distribution. If they do, they can insert their ads and monetize directly.
And it's not just Patreon, it's onlyfans too. We all know reddit has plenty of porn, and by that I mean onlyfans spammers. So, since reddit already has the content creators and the content consumer userbase, why not cut out the middleman and monetize it themselves?
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I recall their TOS having a clause like that years and years ago. And usually it's not a problem for the users or the creators, since everyone gets a cut.
I don't think the creators mind too much. Even if reddit takes a cut, the net profit is still much greater due to the size of the audience.
But why would they do this through Reddit and not Patreon?
You can already make private subreddits.
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I bet they figure paywalled areas will produce more consistent, high quality comments for selling to LLMs too.
It’s probally partly a data farming move.
New argument is coming soon:
"Lemmy - FREE alternative to Reddit"
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Its not economically beneficial to save the economic system
Economic system = our planet
Tbh, my outlook on the planet in the next 50~60 years is similar to what was shown in the movie with Tom Hanks Finch (2021). Vast part of the planet probably becoming uninhabitable with a few habitable patches here or there.
It always amazes me how well Cage's classics age, particularly his album 'Hell's Winter'... while this isn't from that album, this was a bit before. But Cage brought those emo hip hop vibes well before it was a common place. I wish bro got more love... and shout out to the homie that chose the visuals perfectly for this song...
#hiphop @HipHopHeads @HipHopHeads #music @music @Music
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Popcorn !!!
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"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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They never expected anything else from the lower courts. The whole goal is to get these things in front of what they perceive is a receptive SCOTUS.
They'll walk a knife edge line of noncompliance until they get there, in order to keep the real threat of not complying with SCOTUS as a possibility because that will likely influence how hard that court pushes back. SCOTUS will try to find a way to rule how it wants but in a way that doesn't invite such a confrontation.
It's not staying this way for long. Either the courts will fold, or they'll start disregarding the courts.
And no, I don't know what to do about it either.
#Bookface, a custom #Friendica UI, just got a big update!
This vastly improves the experience on #Friendica and is a big time improvement for web mobile users.
If you’re running a Friendica server, or are thinking of running one, I highly recommend using Bookface as the default UI. A look at this screenshot will show you exactly why.
Further release notes can be found here:
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BOOKFACE BIG UPDATE!
First of all thank you for all the interest in this “Frio” theme scheme. I was concerned that people might have so much animosity toward Meta that a scheme to make Friendica look more like Facebook would be ill received. I originally made “Bookface” as a user content script just so I would feel more “at home” on Friendica. And I’m still using it that way myself because the instance I’m on does not offer this scheme as an option yet.
Version 1.3 represents a massive rewrite with the introduction of new features, like support for Profile Cover Photos and an “Auto” version that can detect if your operating system is set to Light Mode or Dark Mode and automatically apply the correct mode to Friendica, plus a completely New Mobile View for phones and tablets that aims to make it look and function a lot more like an mobile app. The user content stylesheets for client-side use have also been updated with the same changes, if that’s how you use Bookface. I have incorporated a ton of your feedback into this update, which I thank you for! There are also over 30 tweaks and fixes in this update.
While this is still a work-in-progress (but what on the web isn’t?) Bookface is already being used in production on some Friendica instances so I’d say it’s generally probably safe to use, but there could be issues I haven't anticipated, particularly with whatever add-ons are enabled on any given server.
Keep in mind “Bookface” is intended for recent browsers. By which I mean those that were released in the last year or two. Because I want to leverage some of the more advanced things CSS can now do. But if you have a mobile device that’s stuck running an old browser I’ve added some fallbacks so it’s still at least usable, but I’ve intentionally ignored any browser that nobody should really be using anymore for anything (like Internet Explorer). Presumably if you choose to roll with retro gear you probably don’t care about making Friendica look modern anyway.
I’ll do more detailed posts about each of these new features, but here’s an overview:
BETTER MOBILE MODE!
You may have noticed there isn’t an “official” Friendica mobile app and the webapp feels pretty clunky and outdated. You could, of course, use Relatica or Raccoon for an actual native mobile app experience, but I’ve notice a lot of people (myself included) are trying to use the webapp. And it needs improvement.
I redesigned the mobile view to look and function a lot more like people expect a mobile app to work these days. One specific thing that was asked for was a way to get the toolbars out of the way in landscape mode, particularly on phones with small screens. The mobile landscape view now hides the toolbars and presents you with a limited set of buttons down the left and right sides of the screen if, in landscape orientation, the viewport is less than 400 pixels high. That’s going to be the majority of phones on the market today. Need more controls? Just rotate your phone back to portrait.
I’ve extensively tested this new UI on more than a half a dozen actual mobile devices, including an iPhone 5s, iPhone 8, two different recent Samsung phones, and older iPad Mini, two Android tablets, and two old Android phones.
EDIT: Post with more details about the new Mobile UI
AUTO VERSION!
More than one of you specifically asked for a version that would automatically switch between Light or Dark depending on which mode you have set on your device. It was tricky to implement given all the colors that are set server-side in PHP variables, but I came up with a pure-CSS way of doing it. It doesn’t even need to set a browser cookie. Enjoy going over to the Dark Side. Or Light Side. Whichever.
Unfortunately there is no auto version of the user content stylesheets for the client-side. The client-side styles require the underlying “Frio” theme be set to Light, Dark, Black, or Custom (which is based on Light). There is no way for a client-side stylesheet to automatically switch the server-side theme scheme, so there will never be an auto version of the user stylesheets.
LOCALIZATION & CUSTOMIZATION
Under the Settings > Display > Theme Customization options you could previously only set the Accent Colors. There was a "Link Color" box below that but it didn't do anything. Well, now it does. You can set almost any color you please ("almost" because it does error-catching to make sure you don't set it to the same color as the background).
I’ve moved as much as possible into CSS variables at the top of the stylesheets, so modifying Bookface to your liking is easier than ever. Just change the variable in that one place and everything else follows suit.
One thing in particular I’ve noticed from people’s screenshots is the engagement counts on Action Buttons being changed to match the button color or made black, etc., to make them less distracting. Personally I like them being in my Accent Color so I can quickly see which posts/comments are getting engagement and check them out. But I can also understand that all those colored “dots” could be distracting while scrolling. So I added CSS variables for “count-color” and "count-bg" that let you change the engagement count tex and background color to whatever you want.
But I took it beyond just the colors. Bookface sets a bunch of labels as pseudo-elements, and they are in English because that’s the only language I know. I saw a comment the other day from a German user on a German server that has implemented Bookface note that the labels were in English and thought they should be localized. Well, yes, they *should* and now I made it super easy for server admins to do that!
Just change the CSS variables for the labels at the top of the stylesheets to your language!
Bookface Action Button labels localized (if the translation is laughably wrong blame Google Translate, I don't know any other languages)COVER PHOTOS!
Every other social media platform seems to have a “Cover Photo/Header Picture” for your profile page. But not Friendica. 🙁 Until now! You can add images to your profile description and/or custom profile fields. You can also put things inside “class” containers. So I coded Bookface to detect a class container named “coverphoto” and treat whatever image(s) are in it as your big, bold cover picture.
You can also decide, depending on where you place it, whether it’s only visible on your actual “Profile” page or if it’s visible on all your profile pages, or if you want to show different cover photos on your profile and the other profile pages. If you’re really indecisive you can place up to 4 images in the container and Bookface will turn them into a striped collage.
As for what that looks like to other people who aren’t using Bookface? Well, they still see a thumbnail of your image(s) in your profile, it just won’t look really cool to them.
EDIT: Post with more details about Cover Photos
PRETTY TAGS!
What is social media without hashtags right? And it’s cool that in the Fediverse you can follow a hashtag like you follow a person. But Friendica’s tags look...kinda bad. A bit distracting. Too small. Too hard to read. And some people really go wild with a wall of tags in their posts. I’m apparently not the only one who thinks they could use some improvements. There are discussions about this in Friendica’s GitHub issues going back several years.
First of all, I don’t think we need the little lightning bolt or person icons on them anymore. It’s 2025, people know what a tag and a mention are. I also replaced the “(x)” on categories with an “X” icon. Next I made the tags the same size they are on Mastodon, which is also makes much better touch-targets on mobile devices. To make them less distracting I gave them an “open” design, and recoded them so only the tag you are hovering/focused on switches to a “filled” design. For consistency I kept similar colors to the existing “Frio” tags, but adjusted them for better contrast against either the Light or Dark mode versions.
The image shows how the tags appear in both Light and Dark modes and against the different background colors for posts and comments. The first row for each background color is how they normally appear, the second is the rollover effect when you hover on them.
GO GET IT!
12 Feb 25: LINKS BELOW UPDATED FOR VERSION 1.4
Server-side: If you run a Friendica instance.
Bookface v1.4 Scheme Files (gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf…)Client-side: If the Friendica instance you're on doesn't offer Bookface.
Bookface v1.4 Userstyless (gitlab.com/randompenguin/users…)Everything is well-documented in the README files.
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I'm all for it, and have been for years. @willbunch has called for this in multiple columns, and yet it got nowhere.
Let's hope this time it takes hold.
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@FediWouter We don't need them. This clearly isn't targeting Trump supporters.
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@avuko This is why I'm on a permanent #SpendingStrike in which, as far as possible, I avoid, redirect or postpone any spending that goes to the corporations that are killing us all.
I've also seen a call for a #BuyNothingDay on Feb 28. There's room for all sorts of different plans.
Things like this offer individual side benefits (e.g. delicious homegrown food, or money spent on a beautiful piece of local art instead of on an over-engineered appliance) that exist independently of the core objective.
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Exactly!
If we learned anything from Greta and the various Eastern Europe protests, it takes sustain and regular protests to keep from being ignored.
A shutdown every two weeks until the #AmericanClownEmperor resigns, or at least behaves normally, could work ...over about a year.
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@JoanneKlein
ECONOMIC BLACKOUT ON FEBRUARY 28, 2025
TAKE PART & SHARE THE NEWS
If you haven't heard, there will be an economic blackout Febuary 28th, nationwide. This means don't buy ANYTHING unless it's from a small business: No gas, no fast food, and definitely nothing from places like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out!
We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies until our message is heard.
Please spread the word!
Thank you!
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@wjd @Remittancegirl Sigh. No. And you failed to read my other replies.
I shamed nobody. But you are right now.
Geez.
You clearly don't follow me or read my posts.
I followed up by saying, if it's impossible to miss a day, then of course, but most can miss a day. This is our entire existence/democracy we're talking about here. Sadly, we need to take risks we'd never take. & clearly I'm not asking anyone who can't to do f'ing anything. BACK OFF.
@wjd I didn't mention you. I wasn't even thinking of you.
And that's it. Last straw.
Now I'm blocking you.
@stib Americans do not say, "Let's have our election on a Tuesday." Most would rather there be a holiday or a weekend vote.
This was a law passed ages ago for reasons that made sense then. Not now.
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As for Saturday, guessing they thought it would be a safer choice for the first effort at a general strike. Fewer people w/ jobs at risk. I see nothing wrong with that.
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@bbelton @MisuseCase @darylgibson
? The logos are different from what I can see. And they left out the THE. I think they were being original and didn't realize there even was a "The People's Voice"
@Remittancegirl @AbiNormal Are you sure it’s not a plant?
It would also get people to think they’ve done enough and not do more?
You should think you’re dealing with nazi trolls behind every corner now, with the techniques of oldtime soviet spies.🤔
@RADman11 Uh, because of what you said? “Doesn’t sound serious” 🤦🏻♀️
I don’t care which weekday you think is right or wrong, this is already underway. We need to support it, not bash it.
NO day is a “lame choice.” EVERY action is a good one.
If you’re not happy with it, like I said, organize another one. We need it. We need a lot more of it.
And speaking of attitude, maybe rethink your own choice of words.
See ya.
question from abroad: do you have goals?
Do you just want D. gone?
Or do you want other stuff?
Like reforming your voting system?
@fuchsi It’s not just him. It’s Republicans. Should he leave office, MAGA still exists, his entire Cabinet still exists.
No, we have to fight fascism, not a man. Voting rights are only one of their targets.
@fuchsi ? I don’t understand why you’re asking me this.
If you continue to disable and w/hold, it gives us leverage as a people.
Please look up “general strikes”
I thought there was some agenda I wasn't aware of yet. It sounded fancy.
Yes, a general strike is a good idea.
(Just make sure there is a plan for afterwards. Or if it fails.)
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@gimulnautti How is it a plant to call for a general strike on ANY day.
If people want a different day, then organize a second one.
Take the win, people. General strike is a win.
Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury
It has been a while since we released our last ISO, Endeavour Neo, and even though this new ISO comes with many improvements and technical challenges we had to tackle, like resolving issues that came with Linux kernel 6.13, the Xfce 4.20 update, sfdisk and Calamares' kpmcore, those challenges weren't the main reason for the long hiatus between Endeavour Neo and Me
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It has been a while since we released our last ISO, Endeavour Neo, and even though this new ISO comes...Bryanpwo (EndeavourOS)
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I forgot to celebrate #DillaDay on #Mastodon 😭
Let us rectify that, and this video. Dilla never had a pop hit? How about Eryka Badus "Didn't Cha know"? Or how about Q-Tips "Breathe and stop"? Well, maybe not pop hits...
Ofc he was the producer of The Pharcyde, did De La Souls "Breakadawn" and a fair deal of Slum Village...
In any case, few modern composers revolutionized modern music like he did - and you probably didn't even know how important he was.
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#sports #channel5 @Videos @Videos #baseball
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
This sweater is inspired by the amazing and brave Lilli Elbe. Lili Elbe was a Danish artist and one of the first transgender women to undergo gender reassignment surgery.en.filcolana.dk
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Irv Gotti, hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder, Inc., dead at 54
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I'm at the "wow, seriously they did that!" Stage ... Giggles
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But getting a new update on my 2019 #nvidia #sheildtv was not on my bingo card this year. I'll wait a few day to see potential bug reports, but that's pretty awesome to receive updates and features this late in the a game. The 2015 model also received an update! That's TEN YEARS!
I really wish there as a good #androidtv replacement though. I've actually just started thinking about it given it's starting to show it's age.
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Man, every time I see this on my feed... I can't help but share it. classics only. And let's be real... if you were into DBZ and haven't tried this... are you really into DBZ?
@All things Dragon Ball 🐉 @Dragon Ball @Dragon Ball Z @Anime #anime #dragonball #dbz #supersaiyan #ssj #memes #shitposting
Watch "The First Super Saiyan was Black - Only the OGs know about this one" on Streamable.Streamable
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Biblical humour.
But also #CdnPoli #CanPoli #DavidVsGoliath
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during Brexit one of its leaders said something along the lines of "like Icarus, we shall fly away"
Their posh education didnt teach the ending of that ancient tale then?
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Old men die don't they ....
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aye, bro went from memes to dank
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An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.Internet Archive
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Yep.
I wish they also could implement a decentralised hosting protocol, though I know currently that technology is in it’s infancy.
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Actual image of DOGE employee deleting CDC data
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It's funny because the Nazis themselves (the 1930s ones, not the 2020s ones) also started their book burning on literally the exact same topic.
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And by "funny" I mean "not funny at all in the slightest, holy fucking shit!"
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It's kinda neat that you can nest spoiler tags, by the way.
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We are screwed if the Internet Archive goes down, right?
Seems like a huge point of failure for one entity.
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IPFS is the way to go IMO, it's so perfect for archival that it pains me that it's still pretty unknown
the fact that you don't need any sort of central organization for everyone to help seed data is amazing, no more duplicate torrents splitting seeders, so long as you have identical data the network just figures it out.
If you have the hash for a piece of data you can just set a computer to watch for someone to start seeding it, even if the last time anyone saw the data was decades ago and a dude just found a CD in their recently passed dad's basement, if that dude seeds it overnight and then their computer explodes, you've now downloaded it and it'll remain available. It's so fucking good.
So about 104,857,600 GB? You'd need 105,000 people with 1 TB each to save that. Or...
Assuming you bought 30 TB SSDs, you'd need about 3,500 of those, costing €80 each.
That'd be €280k, but let's round it to €300k.
If every person spent €960 (or €80 per month), then each person could get 12 of those SSDs. You'd need 8,750 people to do that.
Should be doable if crowdfunded by a community, or if you had some big donor. Then you'd need to connect it.
Looking at diskprices.com, lowest prices for storage are around $8 (used) or $15 (new). I didn't look too hard, but a 30TB SSD for $80 (~$2.5/TB) seems wrong?
100K TB * $15/TB = $1.5 million
Assuming 100PB is the amount of data, we'd also need redundancy. Idk what best practices would be, but I'll say 3ish copies, so 300PB total.
So a grand total of ~$5 million.
Which is crazy cheap, all things considered. Like, it would be no problem for a single rich person to handle that.
Hell, subsidize/give away cheap little computers that you just plug power and an Ethernet cable into. Raspberry pi + 4TB drive ($60) + casing would be like... $100? Though I guess you'd need 75K of them, and the cost per TB is pretty bad.
This guy is 20TB for $280: https://a.co/d/17UOtFi
If we stick with $40 of overhead for rpi etc, that's $320 for 20TB ($16/TB), and we'd need 300PB/(20TB/unit) = 15K units. And at $320 each, all in would be $4.8 million.
The software seems to exist for connecting them all... So idk seems like it would be absolutely feasible? Would be interested to learn if I'm missing a major cost.
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Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
hi spujb. Only 98gb? I can mirror that 🤷♀️
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A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.Academic Torrents
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Use his original last name. ~~Drumph~~ Drumpf. It pisses him off as much as being told that he has baby hands.
His father or grandfather changed it.
I'm gonna download it when I get home and put on a few USBs. They won't be connected to any device and will be stored in safes.
Can't remote wipe data that's not connected.
The more backups of important information we have the better.
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.annas-archive.org
Not sure if it's the same leak, but if it's PatriotFail, it's even got videos.
Watch the marching drill one for a good laugh. xcancel.com/alt_uscis/status/1…
Here's the Patriot Front link that I've been sharing:
Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns
You can download it at the following torrent address:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2c87816e4c81990fb25bbca43dd8d578eaa55886&dn=patriotfront&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969
The detailed inner workings and operations of neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front have come to light after a massive leak from their chat servers.unicornriotuser (UNICORN RIOT)
Shit good idea, didn't even know you could do this.
What else should we seed? I've got a homelab and am eager to put some storage to use for something like this.
🚨 BIG NEWS Y'ALL! 🚨
Someone just saved ALL the CDC's public data before it could disappear! 🦅
Some mystery hero downloaded everything from the CDC's website (that's 98 GIGABYTES of health info!) and uploaded it to the Internet Archive on Jan 28th. Think of it like making a backup copy of your phone before it breaks!
Smart folks at places like Harvard are making sure this data stays safe by keeping copies. It's like having multiple backups of your family photos - can't be too careful!
Remember folks: Knowledge is power, and someone just made sure we didn't lose a whole bunch of it! 🎯
#SaveTheData #PublicHealth #AmericanRight2Know
Source: Internet Archive upload by anonymous user on Jan 28, 2025
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Please be aware of the rule in the sidebar. One of the better attributes of 196 is that this kind of LLM content is disallowed. Please avoid posting content like this in the future, thanks!
Avoid AI generated content.
As a reminder, AI generated content is against the rules in this community—see the sidebar. I appreciate your instinct to bring some quality content to this space, but let’s please keep in mind that genuine interaction with diverse voices is what makes this community beautiful. 😀
My reasoning:
Any single one of these facts would not lead me to comment, but with all of it combined it makes a pretty strong case. Thank you for your contribution to this community but please let’s keep it genuine in the future! We love and appreciate the real you 😀
Wait! So Trump is resigning?"We’re not going to be the 'Stupid Country' any longer": Trump fumes at WSJ op-ed bashing tariffs
salon.com/2025/02/02/were-not-…#StopTrumpNow #Tariffs #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
"We’re not going to be the 'Stupid Country' any longer": Donald Trump fumes at WSJ op-ed bashing tariffs
Donald Trump let loose on the Wall Street Journal after the paper bashed his tariffs on Canada and Mexico.Salon.com
I remember a time (albeit a splash a naivety and a dash of ignorance) when the #unitedstates was considered the beacon of #freespeach ... wild times. And frankly, we deserve it... #Eisenhower was right to warn us, we were just too dumb to listen. #fucktrumpsamerica
A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility.
GitHub - anitwek/alternatives-to-us: A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility.
A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility. - anitwek/alternatives-to-usGitHub
I went to a local Latino restaurant yesterday to get some takeout and saw a bunch of handwritten signs saying they were going to be closed on Monday to support the community.
The waitress said there was a movement to skip work and not spend money this Monday Feb 3 to protest the attacks on Latinos. I hadn't heard of that and didn't find much mention online. I think it's the idea by some random person in DC? I found the image above on facebook or somewhere equally horrible. Anyway I'm just posting bc this is the only protest I've seen in my area, the Democrats have been completely silent so all that's left is some rando on the other side of the country.
Una iniciativa que comenzó localmente y en las redes sociales tiene como meta demostrar lo escencial que son los inmigrantes para la economía de EEUU.Freixys Casado (Telemundo 44 Washington DC)
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Do it. It's the beginnings of people understanding that a General Strike WILL WORK.
During COVID, it took two weeks of the economy being "shut down" before multibillion dollar corporations were asking for bailouts.
A general strike is going to hurt, but not as much as fascism.
It's gonna be a tough road, on reddit people are bitching about the idea of organizing a protest on a Wednesday because "they have to work."
Look, this system is going to try to fucking kill us so maybe showing up to work like nothing is wrong is missing the point entirely.
Dying of starvation takes almost a month, dying of thirst takes a few days to a week.
It's not impossible to weather this storm.
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Livestream Q&A: Transgender Unity Coalition 1pm-5pm EST Sat. Feb 1 Transgender Unity Rally: Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 1, 2025 Want to volunteer?Transgender Unity Coalition
Shops and businesses across the U.S. are closed for a day to show support for communities impacted by Trump's immigration policies., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Another plane crash in the US. This time a Lear Jet crashing on a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia. Quick, Donald! Blame DEI!
6abc.com/post/northeast-philad…
An investigation is underway after a small plane crashed in the area of Northeast Philadelphia.6abc Digital Staff (6abc Philadelphia)
The FAA website has gone dark. It's just not there.
Update: I was wrong. It's no longer working without the www, but with it it's still online.
Per @AnneOfGreenCables, they may have tried to take the site down and botched it. They removed the DNS records for the non-www version.
Apparently Trump has said that "most" government websites are going to be shut down.
It's like the flashback scenes to the early days of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale.
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1. The rest of the FAA website is functioning.
faa.gov/about/office_org/headq…
2. I just phoned the FAA (202 267 3333) and they seem to be doing their job and said that's an IT issue.
Maybe read past the first sentence of a post before clutching your pearls and delivering a lecture? I corrected my post long before you commented.
@AnneOfGreenCables I just searched using *.gov to see what came back and was struck by the new header at state.gov. The previous home page had a simple “US Department of State” header with links to the “Results Delivered” video and other retrospectives.
The new homepage seems so possessive.
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
6 Fatalities on the plane.
Fatalities on the ground.
Dashcam video captures the Philadelphia plane crash, showing a massive fireball.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews
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"It's Friday - it's been one of 'those' weeks!
Congratulations, we survived the week!"
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I’ve seen these flying fish clips before and afraid I always suspect a member of the film crew has thrown it for effect. I don’t think the impact from a small fish would be enough to throw somebody to the ground.
But glad to see he had a lifejacket on before attempting the prank
Am I spoiling the fun?
Yes, probably. . 😳
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Thrown fish or not, the high-pitched scream as the icey wave hit and the delayed life-vest inflation make this giggle worthy.
I hope that there were some warm blankets and a car waiting, otherwise that would have been a chilly ride home.
Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan is complaining that mass deportation is harder than he thought it would be. In an interview on CNN, Homan whined thatSarah Fimm (The Mary Sue)
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This is very similar to the last time Trump was president. People worked against his policy, making it harder for ICE to do their job, wich is a good thing.
Last time it was prisons, talking down their tv's advertising who had recently been incarcerated. This simple action reduced ICE numbers considerably.
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I still can't get over the fact there's a fucking quota...
DEI bad: all quota, no merit!
Deportation quota good: all quota, who cares!? Got arrested as an American citizen? Well you shouldn't have been brown now should you?
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These are the ones ive seen
Here's a link to the flyers as pdfs in different languages and they also include examples of what a court order looks like vs other immigration paperwork:
edit: another resource:
aclu.org/know-your-rights/immi…
Know Your Rights with ICE Flyer These flyers explain what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) comes to your door or you have an encounter with immigration officials, what to do if you witness immi…Silvia Leija (WAISN)
It's worth remembering that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens and are more economically productive.
Not only should we act against these ICE raids because they're inhuman fascist theatre, but because the make the country less safe and poorer.
Aggressive quotas for arrest are a notable element of the the NKVD during the Soviet purges under Stalin.
The goal of it was to create pressure on low levels to find reasons to arrest people. To cut corners and make up nonsense reasons. To create a sense of terror that scared the target population. Even those who had no good reason to be scared found them selves taking precautions and acting overly loyal.
There is a strong argument to be made that the goal was less to arrest dissenter but to increase the number of people being sent to labor camps to do free labor for the state.
eyes prison industrial complex and prison labor system of the US
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Its worth remembering that ICE continues to exist even when republicans are not in the white house.
You can and should oppose ICE all the time. Less deportations happen when people resist. Direct action is more effective than voting. The work doesn't stop when your pick is in the office.
This is a huge thing the Democratic Party needs to internalize unless they want to keep losing.
Support and work with local groups doing actual good on the ground outside of election season, maybe, like, I dunno, fund them a little with that massive fucking warchest? Be a much better use of the money than a deluge of YouTube ads.
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expecting activism from the party is a fools errand. That is not a thing the democratic party would consider, nor is it the role of political parties in most countries.
We need to do the activism. We need to pressure governments and individuals to do the right things, and make it more difficult to do the wrong things. That is our power. You cannot rely on someone else or some organization to do it for you.
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These keep coming in. Seems to be happening a lot now.
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Speak Truth to Power?: 32 Photos Of Real Talk Graffiti: streetartutopia.com/2025/01/20…
Speak Truth to Power?: 32 Photos Of Real Talk Graffiti
Graffiti has long been a voice for the voiceless, a way for people to reclaim space and share unfiltered truths with the world.
In this collection, we dive into the raw and impactful world of “Real Talk Graffiti” – art that doesn’t hold back. These pieces go beyond aesthetics, delivering sharp commentary on society, politics, and the human experience.More: Banksy on Capitalism: Challenging Inequality and Consumerism Through Art (11 Artworks)
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i too tire of this doom posting...
#actlocalthinkglobal #video #youtube #hopePosting #dontgiveup #funny #standup
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •The obvious next step is to run Doom.
Whoops, never mind: they've got that covered, too.
github.com/ading2210/doompdf
GitHub - ading2210/doompdf: A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file
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What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? 🤣
GitHub - ading2210/doompdf: A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Also, I’ll bet there are many packages out there to do cross-compilation from #RISC-V to other machines. Remind me never to use Adobe Acrobat.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Yet another reason to add to the list of why friends don’t let friends open PDFs…
Crazy impressive and absolutely mind boggling though. 😅
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •When I last worked with laser printers, there was a PostScript program that would run Doom - about 15 yrs ago. We never had the time to actually test it, but had to do some extra work to disable the ability to do arbitrary IO.
That said, amazing job and I'm wondering if I should replace my PC with a good printer!
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •This reminds me of the guy who stuck an LLM inside a font. Actually, there is more than one guy who has done this.
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(this explains how he uses the LLM to rewrite your text using synonyms so as to achieve pleasing justified text without use of hyphenation).
fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
(this does more conventional predictive text stuff as you type.
I'm not sure what happens when you typeset your PDF-containing-Linux in a typeface-containing-an-LLM, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be there when it happens.
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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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in reply to jgeorge • • •@jgeorge @bsdphk Blame Adobe for adding JavaScript to PDF, back in the days when everyone wanted to slather world wide web special sauce on their products—like LLMs and "artificial intelligence" today or "crypto/blockchain" a decade ago.
It's a repeating dark pattern, dictated mostly by managers desperate to make Line Go Up by being latest-buzzword-compatible.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •@jgeorge @bsdphk There is a big advantage to adding (limited) javascript to a PDF: you can use it as a form, and control input and provide help.
Think of a 3720 terminal.
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Seriously ?
JavaScript and 3270 in the same toot ?
Are you trying to traumatize people like me ?
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One of the events in computing that I have yet to see credibly researched and documented is what I call "The deluge":
How much did "The IT industry" grow during the 1990'ies in terms of persons, and what skills did they come in with ?
My guess is a factor of more than 1000, (ie: 100000+%) and that none of those people (-epsilon) had any professional IT experience, and knew nothing about the skill&craft of IT.
(Add the "Make Money Fast" incentive and...)
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in reply to Poul-Henning Kamp • • •@bsdphk @jgeorge You can almost certainly chart it by graphing cumulative sales of personal computers, minus machines retired as broken/obsolete, which lags by a time period … and it was undergoing exponential growth throughout this period, so the retired cohort lagged new installs by a huge distance.
Computer use in business implies support personnel numbers (IIRC in the 90s it was 1 PC tech support per 40 installed base).
Since 2007 include smartphones/tablets as well. Different ratio, OFC.
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That's pretty much how I arrived at "a factor 1000".
But having somebody who know what they're doing, do the math with actual data would be better 😀
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