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I've been playing around with what I can achieve with #Blender. I'm truly amazed at what my 10yo laptop can handle.
This is made from a ready-made assets, including the mother and child, the grass, and the textures. The landscapes, and trees I made myself. I think the trees still need work, but it's a better start than I hoped.
Of course, this image is still a work-in-progress.
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PSA for my friends …
And those of you who have been encountering “Nicole, but you can call me Fediverse Chick …”
aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/wha…
“Pig Butchering” is an exponentially growing scam model, being carried out by trafficked people. It rolls a whole psych warfare + romance + free crypto money scam together with some sort of grandpa-scam entree, and they’re in for a long game.
Mastodon Admins are trying to get rid of “Nicole”, but its a hydra.
DO NOT ENGAGE.
'Pig Butchering’ Scams Lure Victims Into Fake Investments
In the financial grooming scam known as "pig butchering," scammers takes weeks or months to establish trust. Here's what to know to protect yourself.Ken Budd (AARP)
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Re: Nicole ~ This alleged Polish student in Toronto attending George Brown U. for pre -med sent me an unsolicited private message. I didn't engage, but curiously got some scam phone call from London, England today. Did not answer or engage with that either. Then, I got a scam email with a bill attached, also, did not open or engage. I must be on some geezer hot list in Scamatopia. Feel like I'm fending off cyber predators with a feather duster. 🙄
oh is -that- where that came from! I got a DM out of the blue from one of those and thought it was a scambot or something.
For a real-world example of a crypto-centric pig butchering scam which made its way into the national news recently, the "Heartland Tri-State Bank", which went under in 2023, shows a lot of the steps. The mark even went so far as to steal from family and friends -- and an entire community -- in order to try and recoup his losses before they all came down on him.
NBC link: cnbc.com/2024/08/21/cryptocurr…
Archived NYT link, which has a somewhat more personal vibe to it: archive.ph/Yyxim
These are just semi-useful pieces of information for anyone who might get targeted: sounds like this "Nicole" is exactly this sort of hook.
Cryptocurrency 'pig butchering' scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell ~ Thank you. I kind of deduced that it was related tangentially to DOGEphiles because now that everyone knows everything about my sorry self, that I made it onto some spreadsheet of lovable suckers. Have at it kleptocrats, can't wring blood from a stone. Already living hand-to-mouth but I need to get to bed now and up in the morning for my job. Mother of Zod. ⛔
we've seen her /it too eh @jonny
FWIW: Do you think the spamer will be using the name "Nicole" much longer? I doubt it.
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Ah. My scamdar was right. Thanks for the explanation.
And it happens all over the place 🙁
I like the show 'Catfish' (MTV), and while most stories are about younger people, some stories are heartbreaking; people who really believe the person is real, and who keep sending money.
I like that the show, which really evolved, is so well done, with respect, and fun. I really enjoy watching Kamie and Nev helping out.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was in the middle of one of these scams and partially blinded. Heck of a wake-up call, and rather disappointing that I didn't spot it sooner.
Fortunately, I hadn't got to the stage of handing any money over, and I blocked the person as soon as I read this.
So thank you for saving me from scammers. Lesson learnt: if they look too pretty, it's probably a scam.
we are in the process of destroying whatever is left of the word trust. I guess we'll just have to build it back up again from scratch once the levee breaks.
@coppercrush Indeed. Time was (in the Olden Days…. ) I used to tell people to remember, every post you see on the internet has a person at the other end of it.
Ah, those long, lazy long-ago summer days … it was true at the time!
ah the olden days 😀 We are inside Blade Runner...
I've recieved (and reported) a few of these myself.
Being a furry on a furry-forward instance: this was an obvious scam attempt. If your profile picture isn't an anthromoporphic animal, and you're following me without interacting with any of my posts, AND your profile/posts don't feature *something* that matches the things I talk about, well, I have to wonder why you're even here.
This of course works for everyone (well, except fpr the anthromoporphic animal part, heh)
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @SecondStix last year, I started getting scam calls for the first time ever, after ten+ years of having a spam-free phone numbers 😬 WhatsApp calls from India, robot voices from the UK, SMS about "you need to update your bank details" for a bank I'm not even with, and "your package has been held at customs, please visit (definitely not the legit postal service's website)" SMS.
Sigh.
@amberage Re: Scam calls/texts Mine weren't too bad until recently. For a few years I had some guy asking for Mohammad and promoting a local mosque. ( Long lapsed RC here currently an agnostic) We spoke courteously and I got off that spreadsheet call list. But recently it's a several times a week thing for fake deliveries, toll roads, bills for no services rendered. I smack them down and report all of them. It's exhausting and I'm pretty sure it's age and gender related. You have my empathy. 🤝
for a while, I reported every one to the Bundesnetzagentur (German FTC equivalent, I guess?), in the naive hopes they could, idk, get phone companies to block the numbers or smth. But they wrote back they can only act against German phone numbers, and my phone provider doesn't seem to offer any means of reporting malicious numbers.
I kind of expected there would be shared blocklists, like there are in email.
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@amberage Re: Block lists. Sadly here, I think we're on our own. Have to block each number as they come in on our phones because in 2 days, they'll have a new number. What's perplexing me are the recent spam calls to the US Midwest (me) from the UK? What's that about? ❓
@SecondStix no idea. I got one from the UK too, with a bad robot voice (think Windows XP TTS!) saying in German: "we would like to talk to you about work—"
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Oy vey iz mir ! That's it! I have a resume posted on a common employment site. They probably scraped the site and got my phone number, which is of course, on my resume. So glad you shared that with me. Thank you. 🙃
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Question for chicken owners, out of curiosity: what do you think the ACTUAL price of a dozen eggs is from the backyard chickens?
Include: feed, enclosure/repairs, lost chickens from predators, vet visits, chicken retirement lodge, chicken sweaters and hats, etc etc? #chickens
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my folks have ~15-20 chickens at any given time. (they don't butcher, but there are coyotes, foxes, raccoons, hawks, eagles, etc. around, and the weather is harsh, so there's an attrition rate). they got the chicken coop for the price of hauling it away and mostly added on to it with salvaged lumber, spent some on fencing... just spitballing, i'm guessing they might have gotten it down to a dollar an egg after ~10 years or so.
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@brennen Thanks, definitely seems like a pretty big learning curve/investment LOL.
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yeah, i mean, like i said - just spitballing on the specific costs - but it's firmly in the range of "worth it, but you couldn't justify it on paper in pure dollar terms".
I haven't had backyard chickens.
Yesterday Jess Piper weighed in,
"If you want to eat the most expensive eggs you’ve ever had in your life, you should have backyard chickens.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them and have raised them, but they are an expensive hobby."
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I sell mine for $6/doz (CAD), and when I'm pretty regular about it (which is...definitely not always, depends on time constraints), that pretty much exactly covers feed.
But, that is not counting the benefits I get from chicks for future chickens, occasionally getting to eat a few mean roosters (so, meat), fertilizer, + all the eggs my family eats.
So, in my particular situation, with my setup (self-sustaining, minimal work, free-ranging flock), I think that's a fair price.
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@sundogplanets @sarahtaber might have some insights here.
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I should add that I had farm buildings already on this property when I bought it, and I'm very aware that my lovely setup could come crashing down at any moment due to a predator or bird flu. So, I'm grateful for what I have right now.
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Sweater wearing chicken
This hen (I don't know her name!) came to Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary fairly recently. She's missing a lot of feathers (typical when chickens are rescued from situations where they were living in cages), which will grow now that she has plenty of …Flickr
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I'm trying to envision how the chicken dressing process happens without catastrophic blood and/or eye loss for the humans involved. Full suit of armor, or are they pretty chill about it?
I'm trying to envision how the chicken dressing process happens without catastrophic blood and/or eye loss for the humans involved. Full suit of armor, or are they pretty chill about it?
@me_valentijn maybe they do chicken yoga first to relax?
CHICKEN YOGA
Tampa Bay Times: Chicken Yoga comes to Ybor City, and of course the chickens wear diapers
Once diapered, the chickens are “ready for some crescent lunges and warrior poses.”
"So, of course Ybor now offers Chicken Yoga, a unique take on the animal yoga craze that has predominately centered around goats but has included creatures such as dogs, cats and even sloths."
@tiamat271 @me_valentijn Now googling "chicken diapers"
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@tiamat271 @me_valentijn LOOK! FREE NAME EMBROIDERY FOR YOUR CHICKEN/DUCK DIAPER!
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OMG. I don’t care about the eggs, I just need chickens in sweaters in my life.
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Personally, I am more excited to learn about CHICKEN RETIREMENT LODGES
Personally, I am more excited to learn about CHICKEN RETIREMENT LODGES
@joy Do they play CHICKEN BINGO there? I must know
Chicken retirement homes are a real thing. The US egg industry just kills the chickens when they are no longer productive (probably goes into canned chicken soup?).
I don't think most chicken owners have the heart to kill the chickens who have been laying eggs for them, but instead they just hang out with the flock.
Home | Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary is one of the largest farm animal sanctuaries in California. We have a full time-time veterinarian and onsite clinic which allows us to take in animals in the greatest need of care and rehabilitation.Happy Hen Sanctuary
Still better than the price of meat after relatively recently taking up hunting as an adult, which currently stands at several thousand dollars per pound 😛
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@TonyYarusso I'm still at about, $2000 a pound. But it would fall quite a bit if I got off my ass and went hunting more:-) There is an economy of scale thing going on:-)
@stalbaum Yeah, whenever the first deer falls the numbers will improve significantly. So far the count is one grouse and two squirrels, which is not great math.
@TonyYarusso @stalbaum LOL... You can't hunt here in city limits, but there are many gardeners who would gladly have you take their squirrels.
@TonyYarusso Ah, but a proper license, a $40 live animal cage trap and a pellet gun (maybe a YouTube video which I how I learned to dress a rabbit) and you are adding protein to the table. And nobody will complain about the most expensive part - the hunting licence - during the coming depression so there that. Plus Americans can always eat their young, but I am afraid we are running out of that resource by now...
@stalbaum You can’t hunt in my suburban yard here either, but you would be allowed to trap. I haven’t tried that yet, but may next year, for rabbits.
@TonyYarusso mine is two quail and a rabbit. One flushed so close to me it "blowed up" and the other, left it on a cliff and could not get to it. But rabbits are good protein. Well, rabbit was protein. I'm not a good hunter. But I can get a blacktail or a cottontail anytime I am hungry enough*, so there is that.
* Not because I am a good hunter but because there are 100 blacktail hares and 200 cottontails in my yard ...
I had chickens for many years, and have many family members with chickens. My summary would be that in general, backyard chickens are cheap pets but pricy(ish) eggs. However, this is a tough question, as there is a price range on grocery eggs, and also different ways to own chickens, with wildly different costs (and egg production). The biggest single cost for owning chickens is the coop (and run). If you can build that yourself, it helps a lot.
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and of course, the breed of chicken matters too - some lay occasional eggs, others reliably produce 1 egg/day most months (when daylight hours dip, to get eggs you need to supplement light). Do you want cute chickens? Friendly chickens? Egg laying champs? Chickens that forage?
well my co-worker just 5 minutes ago gave me a dozen for free from their home-raised chickens, so that's a pretty good price for me
tangential - this video and channel are the best source i've seen that actually breaks down costs, both including bought feed and grown feed, comparing breeds from ancestral to current ones, diet variety, and on and on.
Total Cost to Grow Feed [for] Your Chickens?
$37.61 FOR 10 LAYING CHICKENS
$324 FOR 52 CORNISH CROSSES
$471.51 FOR 52 HERITAGE BREED MEAT BIRDS1,350 to 3,240 eggs/year, about two to five dozen a week
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I got my first house/coop 11 years ago for Xmas (expensive). Purchased my second house/coop with a stimulus check during the early part of the pandemic. I don't put a lot of effort into my miniature velociraptors, they really don't care about anything except free-ranging. Not including the houses/coops, my eggs run about $4/dozen, depending on how well they are laying. Have to have a rooster though for free replacements every other year, and be willing to cull unwanted roosters.
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it's been a decade since I had a flock but in 2015 prices it would be about $2-3/dozen in Oregon with a flock of 30-50 birds. So with inflation, I would hazard a guess at $4-6/dozen.
The main thing that I see drive up the costs of people I know with small flocks is they don't know what they're doing and they make mistakes that cost money.
Like our neighbors can't figure out how to keep their birds safe from the neighborhood bobcat 🙄
There are intangible benefits beyond the eggs, of course...the gentle background noise a small flock makes is one of the most peaceful and therapeutic sounds I know of.
When my neighbors moved to Texas last year their flock went with them, and I seriously miss them.
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They have quite an ordered social structure if you can sit quietly and watch them for a while.
You will not have a grasshopper problem, and you won't have to weed the garden or flower beds. Because they will destroy those with their constant scratching in the diet, looking for food.
They have quite an ordered social structure if you can sit quietly and watch them for a while.
You will not have a grasshopper problem, and you won't have to weed the garden or flower beds. Because they will destroy those with their constant scratching in the diet, looking for food.
@SandHillThicket @W6KME ooh, and the "song of victory" once they do lay that egg, lol!
It's been a few years, but when we had a flock of around 100 laying hens, feed to supplement what they ate as free range worked out to $5 per dozen.
That includes the cost of feeding those cute little cheepers you get from the feed store or from a hatchery like Murry McMurry for six months before they start laying eggs.
That does not include the cost of raccoon-proof coops. Raccoons will find any weakness in your enclosure. Skunks will dig their way into possible.
That includes the cost of feeding those cute little cheepers you get from the feed store or from a hatchery like Murry McMurry for six months before they start laying eggs.
That does not include the cost of raccoon-proof coops. Raccoons will find any weakness in your enclosure. Skunks will dig their way into possible.
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You need around 1/4 pound of chicken feed per chicken, per day and the cheap runs around $8-$10 for 50 pounds in the US, before they start raising the prices because there is a run on the backyard chicken market. You're looking at around 5 cents a day in chicken feed.
There is more, but the feed is a good starter
I think the solution will be local egg co-ops, where feasible.
Small egg farms, free-range.
At peak, I had 16 hens & had a combo of sex-link brown extralarge & fancy colors hen flock only. Fed organic & they ate scraps. Sold at $5 a dozen or $8 for 2 dozen. Gave a $1 discount for reusing the cartons. That covered their feed, wormer & bedding. I couldn't sell them fast enough to keep up.
I have 7 now. We have enough eggs to glass for the winter & all we can use. They're older and balanced by summer layers & winter layers. None are daily layers by design.
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Two coops, $300 each for materials. We hired a homeless guy to build them, let him camp with us & fed him. Add another $400.
The yard is already stockade fenced.
My husband built the runs, 8' high wire interior fences, and netting (Hawk issues). We added solar powered doors (raccoon issues). Add another $1000.
I have a brooding set-up & raised all my friends' birds for veggies. Another $100?
My birds lay for 5-7 yrs & I raise peeps every 3-4 years.
Two coops, $300 each for materials. We hired a homeless guy to build them, let him camp with us & fed him. Add another $400.
The yard is already stockade fenced.
My husband built the runs, 8' high wire interior fences, and netting (Hawk issues). We added solar powered doors (raccoon issues). Add another $1000.
I have a brooding set-up & raised all my friends' birds for veggies. Another $100?
My birds lay for 5-7 yrs & I raise peeps every 3-4 years.
maybe $12 per dozen? I actually don't know what we spend on feed these days.
In summer it's probably half that, because of higher production.
In summer it's probably half that, because of higher production.
we run 25-30 chooks in our village and we try to make sure feed medicine and infrastructure is rolled up in the cost we pay NZD$0.80 an egg
its possible that we are still subsidising the per egg cost in terms of free labour, and maintenance, repairs and expansions of the habitat have sometimes come from different funds
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I speak for the runner ducks. We have a flock of a dozen runner ducks. They are members of the gardening team. They are priceless contributors. They do pest control from caterpillars that eat the garden greens to mice in the coop. They are responsible for converting bedding to fertilized bedding. They also lay eggs. The duck chores keep us healthy. Laughing with the ducks is wonderful. The flock is all female. #compost, #ducksofmastoson, #minnesota, #growyourown.
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@Pollinators How long do runner ducks lay/live? That's the one problem with chickens, they do great at rototiller duties off- season but not so much with veggie pests!
@ArtseaGardener Good afternoon runner duck curious Artsea. The book says eight to twelve years. They are a team. They are upset if a duck is out of sight. They do not scratch for food so the foraging is looking for caterpillars on plants and rooting in the garden bedding for slugs, etc. #ducksofmastoson.
@ArtseaGardener The book says they lay eggs for a few years. We are at year three with breaks in the coldest of winter and during the annual molt. #minnesota.
@Pollinators thank you for the info! I know duck eggs are larger & considered superior for baking. I never met anyone with them to ask questions!
@ArtseaGardener. The runner duck egg yolks are a bigger proportion of the egg.
@Pollinators used to raise ducks as well. Hardier than chickens, but messier too 😀. We were okay with that.
@dasparky The runner ducks still love to make a puddle bigger.
The error is in treating the chickens in isolation. Consider them as a component in a system and the payoffs come from many angles: waste reduction (they eat food scraps and weeds), pest control, soil improvement, and intangibles like entertainment and companionship.
Reducing everything to a narrow set of inputs and outputs is the same sort of mistake that commercial agriculture has made in promoting swathes of monoculture dependent on fossil inputs.
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it depends a lot on the coop you get, the feed, if you buy chicks or pullets, etc. I might guess like, $8-10 with a nice coop starting from pullets to 3 years out. Maybe more... But you also get amazing fertilizer, eggs to give away to friends, and cool chickens to hang out with, so yeah, maybe you would almost break even before. Probably better than break even now and over the next few years.
Edit: coops can range from a under $100 in scavenged materials to $20k+ for crazy luxury coops. I think "very nice" is towards the low end of that, and "completely absurd" is maybe half way up. We had a nice one, but that also meant that it was built for us and assembled on site by the builder. We never had racoons or rats.
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I would also recommend the deep litter method.
We went a little overboard with ours but our coop didn't ever stink. We dug out about 2 feet down under the coop, built a base from cinder blocks, and filled it with sand. The base of the coop was raised up, so the litter was always dry. We used wood shavings for litter (iirc, pine... Which wood is important because chickens have delicate respirator systems). When it was time to clean, we'd scoop shavings out to the yard and let them decompose. After a year or so we could dig down and get the best compost ever.
We also made PVC feeder and waterer so daily we'd open and close the coop, and weekly we'd clean and refill food.
So yeah, also important to consider the work involved but I feel like that was nice and it helped order our lives. Also the kids loved the chickens.
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When I was younger, my mother had a few dozen of backyard hens and a handful of roosters. Feed is pretty cheap, and leghorn layers (the cheapest and most productive breed) are also pretty cheap as chicks ( which they send to the post office rather hilariously)
A coop, heaters, water and food dispensers, and, most of all, your own labor, otoh aren't cheap.
It isn't a good investment, but can be a hobby that helps pay for it's self. You're MUCH better off growing expensive "fruits" like peppers and tomatoes if you want to reduce your grocery bill. IME
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This is an awesome thread.
Sadly I think we are very close to our government saying poor people should eat grubs.
Maybe farmers can let them pick insects off crops.
Sadly I think we are very close to our government saying poor people should eat grubs.
Maybe farmers can let them pick insects off crops.
The big picture cost depends totally upon how crazy you go with chicken housing and accessories, and how much ground they have access to.
Our flock has the luxury of roaming our acre in the summer, so food costs go to basically zero since they eat all the bugs, seeds, and plants they can find. Electricity for heating their coop/water in the winter is a factor to consider depending on your climate. Food pellets are a negligible cost.
hot take: the cost depends about 90% on where you live.
If you live in a place where chickens are comfortable in the climate year round, you already have running water through a nearby paddock, you have a place to put the waste and you have plenty of excess scrap fruit/veg being produced on site, then chickens are probably free. In fact they are unpaid workers. Maybe they pay you.
If you live in an apartment, all those ecological services (temperature control, water provision, waste disposal) are provided by you/the grid and a chicken becomes extremely expensive.
In suberbia, small towns and rural fringes it's much harder to decide if it's economical, because you have a mix of ecological services and human provisioning.
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Why do chickens wear sweaters? Wait, that ssounds like a joke.
The coop is the biggest expense and varies quite a bit depending on size, materials, etc.
Not including the coop, I figure my eggs cost about $1.50/dozen.
I am allowed to keep chickens here in my yard in Brooklyn. But I’m vegan. So it’s just Fantasy Chickens.
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probably up there with my $100 salads I can harvest maybe once a week during the summer
I couldn't even begin to make an accurate guess, but it's definitely not cheaper. A buck an egg or maybe even more.
If people think it's about cheap eggs, they're way off - it's about self-sufficiency and getting healthy eggs from healthy birds that aren't abused in a factory farm.
We always joke that it's only a money saving proposition if they start laying jewel-encrusted eggs😀
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Exactly this. I have never calculated the cost of the birds, set up, the building, fencing, straw, maintenance etc. I only want to make back the cost of feed as I go along. It was a few years ago that I raised my price to $7 because I was feeding organic feeds. It's not that I think organic is better for the birds or the eggs, but more that I wanted to support organic agricultural methods. Now since the price of organic feed is twice that of conventional, (and conventional is the price that organic was only 5 years ago) I feed conventional and charge the $7 per dozen. My wee hens are happy and, so far, healthy. (seriously fuck bird flu) I could sell any number of eggs I could produce but I'm keeping my flock small and only sell 3 dozen a week on top of what we use.
Exactly this. I have never calculated the cost of the birds, set up, the building, fencing, straw, maintenance etc. I only want to make back the cost of feed as I go along. It was a few years ago that I raised my price to $7 because I was feeding organic feeds. It's not that I think organic is better for the birds or the eggs, but more that I wanted to support organic agricultural methods. Now since the price of organic feed is twice that of conventional, (and conventional is the price that organic was only 5 years ago) I feed conventional and charge the $7 per dozen. My wee hens are happy and, so far, healthy. (seriously fuck bird flu) I could sell any number of eggs I could produce but I'm keeping my flock small and only sell 3 dozen a week on top of what we use.
The price of feed and straw divided by how many hens are laying.
@douglasvb I told my husband about chicken helpers but he said we don't have any ticks in our small yard. Barely related: Sy Montgomery has a new book:
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@Laplantgenetics Poultry poop is good for the soil. It’s part of the rationale of home poultry. The microbiology in the poultry poop improves the compost. #compost.
we sell $5 USD per dozen chicken eggs, sized large, CA complaint, local mom-and-pop grocers. Feed cost is always a concern, but it's the hours in labor that gets you (people misunderstand that it is farming). We cover costs but profit isn't there; we think of it more as good thing to do for folks around us.
Backyard chickens is a whole other thing; I had calc'ed cost at $1.04 a dozen for 6 hens (the max we before the farm back in 2010).
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@Laplantgenetics @me_valentijn can they reach the handle to flush or do they need help with that part?
I spend about $6/week in food for 8 hens and get 2-6 eggs a day. Add treats like mealworms and it could cost more, maybe $10. Ditto on them being great for pest and weed control, and adding great nutrients to the soil if you've got a proper compost set up.
Farmers markets are a good resource for extra food scraps, & no food goes to waste.
We're in the city & built a strong, enclosed coop (dug down 2 feet and laid wire underneath their run cuz of critters and haven't had any problems).
Farmers markets are a good resource for extra food scraps, & no food goes to waste.
We're in the city & built a strong, enclosed coop (dug down 2 feet and laid wire underneath their run cuz of critters and haven't had any problems).
@Laplantgenetics Cheers to healthy fruits and vegetables without chemical applications. As someone noted, the poultry works for you with multi season green beetle control.
No idea. They’re pets.
@womble I understand there are lots of free chickens here, from people who got in too deep before they realized how much work they are, LOL.
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the command should be called "manifest"
annoyingly, to me, > newfile, doesn't work in zsh. at least not zsh as supplied and configured on macOS. I assume there are options, but, ya know.
Awesome! I wouldn’t have guessed, that redirecting nothing would work.
(If your not using Bash, you might also need to press CTRL-C.)
original syntax would be `touch file`, hence the name.
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Also useful if you want to change the date stamp on an existing file, helpful for date sorting etc.
touch the right file and you can finger it later
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Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
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Ahah bad timing for this 😂.
FYI, Sylvestre from Mozilla replied on HN:
"Please don't read too much into this ;) We moved from self-hosted Discourse to hosted Discourse. The transfer was initiated late from the Mozilla side (my bad) and the automatic system from Discourse kicked in." (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…)
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@dannycolin thank you for the heads up! regardless of that they are pushing AI and selling data et all are bad move.
@dannycolin Ai in itself is fine. Local LLM translation in Firefox is really good and I'd take it over Google Translate any time. If Mozilla is planning on adding local LLM summary of webpages, fine. If they train it on their own systems and not on user's I'm fine with it.
Firefox is the only browser that still gives us flexibility with about:config. Don't like the Labs panel? You can turn it off. Don't like this or that? You can turn it off. They just need to fix their communication.
The question now is what are the alternatives? A fork of Firefox not doing that crap would be very nice if it had all the same features. I really need the container tab function.
@GoatsLive LibreWolf has all that:
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A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
@itsmeholland No, I've been using keepass for years. I'm talking about being able to have two tabs open with a different X account or Google round open in each. Something other browsers don't seem to have that I can tell.
@GoatsLive @itsmeholland you mean profiles?
That is in all the other browsers and annoyingly difficult in FF - edge even has built in automation rules so you can for example open outlook in your own profile and admin portal in a separate profile, maintaining separation but allowing links to work.
That is in all the other browsers and annoyingly difficult in FF - edge even has built in automation rules so you can for example open outlook in your own profile and admin portal in a separate profile, maintaining separation but allowing links to work.
@ketumbra @GoatsLive I did this in Firefox with private tabs. Is it even easier in Waterfox or other browsers??
For me part of it is that in my efforts to engage as little identifying usage information as possible with any one piece of software, I typicaly don't make full use of all available features, even ones that might be useful or convenient. I'm likely to dismiss something called "profiles" as an extraneous feature that would likely turn out to be siphoning data at astonishing rates LOL 😅
@itsmeholland @GoatsLive I sympathise. I just switched to Vivaldi and have no idea what 'workspaces' are for when profiles already exist. 
But the profiles should help you - distinct cookie jars and history to keep your work/personal/underworld lives separate ;)
But the profiles should help you - distinct cookie jars and history to keep your work/personal/underworld lives separate ;)
@GoatsLive @itsmeholland Eso se puede hacer en Firefox, Librewolf, waterfox y otros derivados de Firefox con la extensión ”Multi-acount containers"
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@itsmeholland @rice @GoatsLive I do have keepass and is great, but I'm talking about not having to do that.
If I'm browsing shit and want to go into, let's say, check my mail, I don't want to put the credentials there.
I'm already securing the computer enough that you need physical access to it, but that's why it is important to me to have a secure browser that won't do shit with my data, just letting me doing daily stuff without a hassle.
@GoatsLive I went to look earlier for alternatives based on Firefox - seems Waterfox does it all. Not had a chance to test yet, though
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I’m with you wrt looking for a solid fully functional #Firefox fork that “just works” 😉 with little or no tweaking. I also can’t imagine living without multi-account containers.
From the initial replies it sounds as if #LibreWolf or #WaterFox are good choices. Anyone want to offer pros cons or comparison of those?
@steve_zeke @GoatsLive waterfox is not reliable.
@steve_zeke @GoatsLive Switched to LibreWolf for my daily driver over a year ago, minimal fuss and no regrets
Now FireFox feels like unusable adware in comparison
@GoatsLive I am trying LibreWolf. It has containers in the config options. I also installed Temporary Containers and they work too.
Can't forget about their big Mozilla.AI push either! 
@MozillaAI
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when your CEO's experience comes from for-profit bay area tech companies, what can you expect? "i need money to hire people to build features... how can i demonstrate something valuable for new investments? oh, i can sell user data."
Any advice on a new browser with useful add-ons?
Easy explanation: Once Chrome became good enough, the Google contract changed to "here's $$$$$, make Firefox irrelevant".
It's mediocre thinkers of the sort you see embedded in the bowels of every large enterprise elevated into the stewardship of something they don't understand.
They're the sort of people locked into the orthodoxy of what others are doing — not looking for the best, simplest, or easiest routes forward but rather the *safest* routes forward — the same ones everyone else is pursuing.
They squandered Mozilla's unique position and can't fathom why they're locked into this perpetual decline.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s razor
@RobertoOtarola
Malice as fulcrum and stupidity as lever.
Malice as fulcrum and stupidity as lever.
Think of it as "The precession of the perihelion of marketing." Leadership inexplicably is never where the (classic) theory says it's supposed to be...
@mozillaofficial and other social/capital hybrids making big wonky loops again and again in plain sight reveal something more general that's too low-level to be seen with the naked eye...
...That our theories of value, incentive, growth, and wealth need fundamental, alienating rewriting. That's happening, though we forget today's store-brand Relativity took many decades of uncertainty, this will too.
It reminds me of what happened with Unity 3D some years ago.
"It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?"
I think ruining projects is a side-effect, not the purple/goal. Management/CEOs want to wring the most short-term profit they can out of an organization while they are running it. That usually means damaging the product/reputation in the long run, but they'll be retired by the time their greed becomes a problem.
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@distrowatch Are you talking about the US government?
@distrowatch I still think one should not attribute actions to malice when they can be attributed to stupidity, but it's quite clear that an action can be both stupid and evil at the same time ...
I mean, chaotic evil is fun if done right, but it's a hard class to play properly.
@CubeRootOfTrue That's often true. But it only looks "stupid" from the user's point of view, not the CEO's point of view. From the CEO's point of view they are doing something very smart - getting a big pay day and getting out.
When something looks both smart and evil, then it's usually malicious.
@distrowatch It's like nobody has watched the Mandalorian ... Do you not see Moff Gideon!? Musk has a secret cloning lab, mark my words he is busy making copies of himself
Firefox lost a long time ago, but had guaranteed income from the default search engine deals. They tried many things over the years to create another revenue source but failed.
I heard from a Mozilla insider that upcoming fallout from court cases (from even before the current administration) will make those default search engine deals illegal. Which is kind of a good thing but now the org is facing its end and dissolving in predictable ways
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I got librewolf yestrtday
Good bye Firefox. Switching to Brave.
Billion dollars from google, being funded 90% by google.
@kevinrns Yes, but... That doesn't make an obvious case for napalming their brand image.
@kevinrns The situation they seem to be in now is that they're actively destroying their product reputation.
They won't continue making money on the brand they torched, Google or not.
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Sorry for my slowness, of course.
I don't understand the many groups of decisions Mozilla has been making.
I prefer to think its group think, "oh they will accept this, its no too bad, everyone's doing it" and not malfeasance, dishonesty.
I still think appropriate coders, orgs of privacy, online rights, democracy and the intertubes 👉 hold a conference 👈 on enforcing standards, transparency and control to the user.
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I wondered too whether this was a ploy to intentionally destroy their browser. I'm at a loss for better explanations why they'd destroy their reputation so meticulously.
friggin a. How can we incentivize suits and shareholders to care about long term health and sustainability instead of short term gains?
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If the #CEO position had a term limit and had to be a worker before and after being ceo and the employees all voted for a president each year or two... Oh wait that's a #coop not a #corp
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If the #CEO position had a term limit and had to be a worker before and after being ceo and the employees all voted for a president each year or two... Oh wait that's a #coop not a #corp
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@hobs hey thanks for replying!
so basically it’s like if companies were incentivized to be more democratic. Imagine!
Follow up: do you think coops are more democratic than unions ? Or is it apples and oranges
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Good question. Both have internal democratic processes, but with coops that process encompasses the entire organization hierarchy, all the way up to owners and executives. With unions its more of a competition thing. And union management's interests aren't always 100% aligned internally.
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Good question. Both have internal democratic processes, but with coops that process encompasses the entire organization hierarchy, all the way up to owners and executives. With unions its more of a competition thing. And union management's interests aren't always 100% aligned internally.
@nixCraft
Quite absurd how a CEO can broker a deal, working for an organization like Mozilla in this manner
#CEO #Mozilla #Firefox #Thunder #Thunderbird
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When the Mozilla Corporation was spun up and Firefox was transferred under it, the writing was on the wall: Mozilla had been captured by VC techbros whose long-term mission will be enshitification. Freemium services, acquisitions, data collection. It's the only formula for value these VC types know.
All C-levels and Board members need to be purged, Pocket and VPN and the other nonsense needs to go, and Mozilla needs to only create a browser. Only a browser.
I'm just hoping that #ZenBrowser stays viable until #ladybirdbrowser can take over.
#firefox was already too dependent on kickbacks from G...
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Only a sociopath can take millions from unpaid open source contributors and security researchers. When your wealth is derived from others' poverty it creates sociopathy in those that scramble over their fellow workers to climb to the top. Even the university tenure process trains teachers and students to exploit anyone beneath them. Survival of the greediest.
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Librewolf and Mullvad/Tor Browser for me then I guess.
I think @mozillaofficial should hand over #Firefox to @torproject and let #TorBrowser become the new #upstream!
I mean, @thunderbird / #Thunderbird got taken over by it's community as well. Not shure if they have any relations beyond #Trademark and some #Hosting infra at #Mozilla...
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Does that mean that the changes at #mozilla won't reach #thunderbird and emails stored in it?
Does that mean that the changes at #mozilla won't reach #thunderbird and emails stored in it?
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@0xF21D YES!
I'd say @thunderbird is hands-down the better alternative to #Outlook in every shape or form!
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I agree but, at the same time, what they did to K9 Mail absolutely sickens me and genuinely makes me question if they have some nefarious motive.
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The account drawer was the straw that broke my back but for me it's more about bloat. Before Thunderbird's involvement K-9 was one of the quickest apps on my phone and it just did it's job. I don't need my mobile to sync with my laptop because that's exactly what IMAP is for. If I need something powerful I'll go to my laptop but on mobile I just want it to be quick and painless. Nothing wrong with forking K-9 and creating Thunderbird for Android on top of K-9 for those that want extra features but the majority that were using K-9 were doing so *because* of it's simplicity. Telling us K-9 would continue to exist and then essentially just building Thunderbird and releasing a "branded" version was the wrong thing to do. I miss when K-9 ran on old and under-powered phones - it no longer does that.
Maybe you don't have a nefarious motive but forcing features onto people who don't want them isn't a good look... And is kinda exactly what Mozilla is self destructing over.
@kkarhan @0xF21D @nixCraft
Yesterday, I tried to help a friend by looking up a kitchen appliance on the Sur La Table web site to see if they carried the product. A few minutes later, I got some spam from some nonentity calling itself surlatable@safeopt.com thanking me for "checking us out." I had not logged in and Firefox was configure to delete cookies when it closes.
I put both on my shit list: what would you do if visited a store and they had someone follow you home and put trash in your mailbox?
FLOSS foundations must be as minimalist as possible, especially in terms of budget.
$7M, seriously? What's source for this? If true, then beyond outrageous.
There is pressure to make it die, zero doubt.
wait what. What about net neutrality?
man with (a lot of ) money turns bad
CEO isn't "ruining Firefox on purpose" - the (current) purpose of Firefox is simply to protect Google from an anti-trust monopoly case, for Chrome. [Evidence? Mozilla's funding]
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Should we make the Bookface theme the site's default for friendica.world?
Or should we leave it at the standard 'frio' theme and let users decide for themselves.
I'm just thinking users might not know about the Bookface theme. And in my opinion it makes the site more user-friendly.
Reply with your thoughts!
(In the screenshots, you'll see I chose green as today's accent color for the theme.. don't worry, that's not the default 😀 )
Default:
Bookface:
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Bookface appears to run faster for me. That's a bonus, if it's universal. However, it looks less like FB, which some might find off-putting. My opinion is to try it and see how it goes. We can always change back.
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#bookface confuses me. Is it a #theme or a theme #customisation? When I go to Settings, Display Settings, Themes I only find the themes #Frio and #Vier. Theme Customisation is the only place afaik where bookface is mentioned. It offers a choice between three bookface appearances; auto color mode, dark, and light. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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Bookface is a customisation of the Frio theme. So yes, you find it under the Theme Customisation.
@Ruud from my five seconds of testing: it looks much nicer on mobile and fixes Frio's weird tag spacing issues. I'd like to give it a go on desktop before I make a determination for myself, but it's looking good so far.
Edit: I do wonder why the logo is upside down though
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Haha, I also have the impression the logo is upside down but actually it's still the same. The coloured space and the white space/yellow space both form an "f", one the right way round and one upside down. I never noticed, until I changed the theme.
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@Ruud There's obviously some personal preference at work here but I think that making BookFace the default theme (err.. style) is a good idea. For me, it definitely was part of the reason I went from playing around with Friendica to moving here. It really just looks much more modern than the stock Frio theme.
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I've switched to Bookface and once you are used to it it feels better and cleaner so I'd put my vote for it as the default theme.
It can be a nice idea to get closer to those people that still use just Facebook, it could be nice to do A/B tests and see how people react
I put my vote for it as the default theme. I've switched to Bookface auto color mode right after your posted your question. It does indeed feel better and cleaner. I especially like the bigger counters for the comments, shares, quotes, likes and dislikes.
@ruud user-friendly should always be default. Us tech nerds will find out how to change things to our liking.
Do you know if any development is on a official Friendica app on android like Pixelfed has a app?
I tried Raccoon, which is fine but if it replaces facebook it needs facebook features which imo is events and big groups. I can't seem to find out how to make a event on raccoon, may not be supported.
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Improvement
Looks like friendica.world has been more stable for the last few days. That's good.
Now there's time for some other improvements. Let me start by upgrading the Bookface theme to the latest version 😀
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It's a bit hidden in the settings, but yes, you can change to Bookface in the Custom Theme Settings.
Settings > Display > Custom Theme Setting > Appearance
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Yeah, that's what I meant by it's a bit hidden. 😉
But... If you are currently using the standard theme (and are on the account settings page) you can click ">>" in the top left corner to get to other settings.
After you've changed to Bookface it will be the bottom left button that does the same thing.
You should also be able to click here:
Settings > Display
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The >> take me to different things depending on whether I'm in the NEW or CONVERSATIONS or COMMUNITIES tab, but there's never any settings! Your link works, though, thank you!
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Yeah, the ">>" will show different things depending what tab / page you're on.
You need to be on the settings page (the account settings) for ">>" to show other settings.
Glad the link worked though!
Ah, now I read your instructions again, I need to be in the account settings... That is well hidden, indeed!
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@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.4.1 has been finally released! I was waiting to fix a couple of old issues but I realized I was keeping people waiting too much since almost 2 months had passed since the previous stable version.
If you were on the latest beta, the only new feature is the possibility to see in every timeline the "source platform" each post is coming from (Friendica, Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey/Sharkey, Pleroma/Akkoma, Kbin/Mbin, WordPress, GNU Social, Pixelfed, Peertube, GoToSocial, Diaspora, generic ActivityPub and more are coming).
If you were using 0.4.0 there are a ton of improvements, the most important of which are:
- feat: add per-user rate limits;
- feat: suggest hashtags while typing;
- feat: swipe navigation between posts;
- feat: exclude stop words from timelines;
- feat: add shortcuts to other instances ("guest mode");
- feat: open post detail as thread;
- feat: post translation;
- feat: followed hashtag indication;
- feat: show source protocol for posts;
- enhancement: support for embedded images.
This version is also available in the production track on Google Play, so you don't have to participate in the beta program any more to get it.
Let me know what you think about it, enjoy your weekend and as always #livefasteattrash
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@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 @RaccoonForFriendica Yeah, filters! 👍
Btw, is it intended that Raccoon is not restorable with Neo Backup?
After restore it crashes after launch. Not sure why, didn't have time to have a look at logcat.
Btw, is it intended that Raccoon is not restorable with Neo Backup?
After restore it crashes after launch. Not sure why, didn't have time to have a look at logcat.
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@Jonas ✅ no, not intended... I think you discovered a "feature" 🙈🙈🙈 if you manage to read the logcat it would be helpful. Since it crashes at startup I don't think enabling bug reports with Sentry will produce anything beneficial, because it may happen before SDK initialization.
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@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 Alright, I'll have a look at the logs when I find time.
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@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 There it is: johnassel.de/temp/crash-com-li…
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@Jonas ✅ Ok seen it. It is due to encrypted shared preferences (used to store on device your auth token). It fails to open after you restore the app, probably due to failure to decrypt them because the key changes when you reinstall it. I'll investigate more to see if there are workarounds.
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@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 Maybe something like a check if the token is decryptable before using them. If not, one has to login again.
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Went to the vet today. Happy to say all the cats from Neko Atsume are in fine health.
Well, except for Lexy. He still has that 'thing' for the golden fish statue.
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i'm still settling in and getting comfy here. expect posts about gaming, casual thoughts, art, writing, and whatever randomness sparks my curiosity along the way! 💕
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I’m not really much of a comic reader. I like comics, in general, but my standards are very high, especially for graphic novels. Although I had read Phantom, Captain America, and a few other comics before, my first graphic novel was Watchmen. When you sta
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I’m not really much of a comic reader. I like comics, in general, but my standards are very high, especially for graphic novels. Although I had read Phantom, Captain America, and a few other comics before, my first graphic novel was Watchmen. When you start with the best, it’s hard not to feel that everything else is a let down. So it was unsurprising to me that I found Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow lacking. What was surprising was just how lacking it was.
The story is simple. It’s a linear quest. So linear you could use it as a plumb-line. Our narrator, Ruthye, finds her father murdered and desires revenge. She tracks the killer, Krem, which leads her to meet Supergirl. The two women ultimately team up (because reasons) to hunt Krem as he reeks havoc across several galaxies. That’s it!
There’s no twists. We’re told that they succeed in their quest in the very first chapter. The story unfolds in a rather banal fashion. I found myself with no motivation to find out what happens. There’s also little to no character development. The characters end the same way they started (it is a superhero comic, after all). Effectively, you could read the first chapter, and the last chapter, and save yourself a lot of time. Time you could spend reading another book, watching a movie, or staring at paint drying.
This is the second Tom King comic I’ve read and unfortunately I’ve noticed a trend. He has a touch of JJ Abrams about him. He grabs you with an intriguing beginning, only to allow it to wither away into mediocrity because he doesn’t know how to end it, or middle it (in this case).
The comic tries to end with a hand-wavy, but…but…the subtext, as if the entire story is a morality play. However, it falls flat and comes from nowhere. If I was going to make a sub-textual reading, I would say it’s about an impoverished girl being lectured by a nepobaby. Don’t do the things I just spend the entire comic doing. It’s bad.
I can’t recommend this book. It’s truly awful. BTW, there’s a movie scheduled for release in 2026. Ughh!
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Rating: 1.5 out of 5.
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Concerned about Microsoft Windows 11 Recall? You should be.
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For others, it's not about which distribution to try. It's about which is accessible with Orca. This screen reader is not installed on all, and even when it is, it's not always set up to either start during installation or to be started with a hotkey. If someone sighted is required to install or start a screen reader, a system is not accessible. And many programs don't work as smoothly with Orca as they do on Windows and NVDA or even Narrator either. As for this web browser experience, it sounds wonderful, but again, is it accessible/ Many simulators, etc. aren't.
I just went to the page and chose Debian Mate, which I know, as a fact, does work with Orca. I couldn't get it started with the hotkey, nor did it start upon launching the system.
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@Cotopaxi For almost all new Linux users, Linux Mint (Xfce edition for older computers) is the way to go. It's what I give all of my non-techie friends and family members who want to switch platforms. Tech support calls have reduced to almost zero over the past decade.
@distrowatch @Cotopaxi I also recommend #LinuxMint to non-techie friends and family. It has been a really great user experience for them. @linuxmint
@Cotopaxi Really a preference for what /you/ want. But, if you want a familiar interface and easy to get along, Linux Mint is one I would recommend. It is based off from Ubuntu, but uses the Cinnamon Desktop Interface.
That would be my recommendation; please do look more into it before making the leap of faith.
Good luck in your experience, and have patience as you learn or if things go as pleasantly.
@Baltergeist @DistroWatch @AwattoAnalog If you want another endorsement, I've been using Linux for more than thirty years, and I prefer mint for my main machine.
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I've dis-engaged replying to this person, because every time I reply with evidence, I'm met with a bad faith counter-argument. There is no discussion here, only an agenda.
Isn't that exactly what recall was intended for? So someone would never lose a detail? I don't know what your desktop looks like, but if it's anything like mine being able to use a vocal search to find some half remembered reference or what I did with the document or program or webpage or downloaded picture is pretty fucking useful, especially as I grow older.
“an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots...” is how this is branded.
However, it will be used to capture screenshots of emails or messages you may have deleted, as well as messages that disappear on platforms like Signal. Banking information, passwords, and medical records put on the screen will be recorded.
The feature that stores data in a database is done in plain text, attackers can use malware to extract the database and its contents.
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